Transitions

When we were editing on Friday, we decided to add some fading transitions because we had watched another media film that looked good when they used it. Jess was just practising with the transitions, and then she showed it to us and we thought it looked really good and now we are going to use it in our film. It is a part where we have a close up of eyes and newspapers and we have put them together and it is really effective because it looks like he is looking at the newspaper clippings but also at the woman (Michaela) as well. Here is our film with added transitions:

Examples of credits to use

On Friday we were concentrating on our credits because we thought they needed a bit more work doing to them. We downloaded some other fonts because we were limited to the ones on imovie because of the time era of our film. Most of the fonts are too contemporary for our film because ours is set in 1888 so we needed to find some old looking writing. We came across a variety of different fonts that looked handwritten but like I said before most of them were too contemporary...here are some examples:

This font is good, but when we applied it to our credits it didn't look so good and it was quite hard to read but other than that it worked well with the story of our film because we wanted our credits to look as if 'Jack the Ripper' wrote them.

This was our original font and now looking at it, it looks too modern and there are other fonts that were better. This also doesn't look like it could be his handwriting either.

We did like this font at one point because the dots around it we thought could look like blood when we changed the colour. But then, again when we tried it with our credits, it didn't look very good at all.

We thought this was a good font also because it looked as though he might have gotten a knife and written the credits but when we tried it again it looked like graffiti and just didn't work.

This font that we came across was quite good and it even looked good when we added it to our credits because it looked like handwriting. It also looked really good when it was red so at the moment this font looks quite promising but we are still deciding.

Church bell sound

I think our music could have the sound of church bells in the background because they are quite haunting and add an eerie effect to the film. It could start of loud and then fade as she walks down the alley way to show she is walking away from it. It could also be the 'white chapel church' because this was the church at the time and the women would also wait outside to get some work.

The lovely bones

I have read the book to this, and I thought it was really good and the film is even better, I thought it was brilliant, it had me crying at some parts. It is definitely a sad film, but it is worth seeing, and it was acted brilliantly. The film has lots of really good camera shots and it is really gripping. At some parts I was really scared because the suspense was built very well, with music in some parts, and then other parts it was completely silent, so the slightest noise made me jump. There is one part when the sister is looking for something in the man's house, and I was completely on edge, it made me really nervous for her, I was so scared, probably because I could guess what was going to happen next, but I am not going to ruin it for anyone who wants to see it. The film is very creative, and I imagined it to be like that in some ways from reading the book, but it was even more imaginative. A very gripping storyline and definitely one to watch.

This film is a thriller and is a 12a bur it was not really explicit so it wasn't given anything higher. I still think that our film should be a 15 because it implies a lot of horror and shows the bloody knife and the girl being dead on the floor. I think what makes lovely bones less scary is the heaven that the girl is in where everything she imagines comes true.

Creepy Music

I found this music on youtube and I played it with our film, and I thought it went quite well with it so I think our music should sound a bit like this because it is quite dramatic sounding.

Prom Night

This is the trailer to the film, Prom Night, the quick flashes of scary clips from the film really make you jump and when there is a shot of a knife flicking out there is a sound of it and this adds to the scary effect of the film. There was also a lot of point of view shots in this film and it was the point of view of the killer. This really worked well because it had me shouting at the TV for the girl to run, because the music added to the shot to bulid suspense, as the audience can guess what is going to happen next. There is also a shot when she is looking in a mirror, which is a door of a cabinet and as she opens it there is no one behind her, and then when she closes it the killer is behind her. This shot was really effective because it was really scary and I now hate mirrors that are cupboard doors.

Daybreakers trailer

This is the trailer for the Daybreakers trailer and the credits that come up are really good because they appear and they are shaky to show fear and then they shake and disappear. The shots are obviously quick because it is a trailer but I think this also adds to the tension of the trailer because it is a thriller and it makes you want to watch it because it looks scary and makes you almost jump. From watching this trailer alone I really want to watch the film and I think it will be interesting to see how they do their credits and if it is similar to how they appear in the trailer because I think these credits are dramatic and intense.

Silent Hill

I think these credits for Silent Hill are really creepy along with the slow pace editing and then the jump cut editing of the pictures appearing. The writing is quite creepy as well because it is quite small and it looks handwritten. The camera is quite shaky as well so it looks like a hand held camera has been used which makes it more creepy because it is as if someone is shaking because they are scared. I have never watched this film but already by watching the credits it looks really good and quite scary.

Information on end credits

I found this information on wikapedia about the different ways of how end credits may appear in a film:

Closing credits or end credits are added at the end of a motion picture, television program, or video game to list the cast and crew involved in the production. They usually appear as a list of names in small type, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or move smoothly across the background or a black screen. Credits may crawl either right-to-left (common in U.K. television programs) or bottom-to-top (common in films and U.S. television). The term credit roll comes from the early production days when the names were literally printed on a roll of paper and wound past the camera lens. Sometimes, post-credits scenes or bloopers are added to the end of films along with the closing credits.

Classification Guidelines

Classification Guidelines

Student Guide to Bbfc

Student Guide to Bbfc

These are the scenes that we have cut out of our film because we thought they were too explicit and we thought it was better to have everything implied because it makes the film scarier.

Certificates

From hell has a certificate of 18 and I think because this is more gory than our film, our film should be a 15. Our film is more implied than From Hell so it is not as scary which is why I think it is suitable for a 15 year old to watch. It also doesn't show too much gore and the only thing it shows that is the most gory is the knife with the blood.

From Hell

Last night I watched the film From Hell starring Johnny Depp as Inspector Frederick Abberline. I thought this film was absolutely fantastic because it portrayed Jack the Ripper as I imagined him to be. Although most of the horror in the film was implied there were some parts that had me covering my eyes and left me feeling a bit squeamish. I thought the editing was really effective with some flash images when the Inspector was having his "visions." They also used lighting to portray how evil this man really was, such as red lighting to show blood and death. There is a fantastic shot which is fast edited but has just the right speed in my opinion and this is when there is an image of a knife covered in blood which drops into a pool of blood and it is really effective. They even added in the sound of the blood dripping just to emphasise the fact that there was yet another killing. Watching this film had me on the edge of my seat because I knew the story I was wondering how they would show it and they did it so well that I was still scared of what was going to happen next.

The credits at the end of the film were really good as well because they had the characters names in handwriting like what was seen on the Jack the Ripper letter and then they had the actors names in capital letters so that the audience can see what was what. The credits were also in red which was also effective again portraying blood and death. It could also represent Mary Kelly's and Inspector Frederick's love for one another. The writing at the beginning of the film had a good effect because it stuck in my mind throughout the film and it was then said by Sir William Gull. I would definitely watch this film again and I think it has really helped me with my groups own film because some of the shots are similar to what we have done.

Film classifications

I think our film would need to have a certificate of 15 because although it is implied it still implies violence and we also show a knife that had blood on it and a man taking a woman who he is about to kill. Below is the film classifications:

U-Universal – Suitable for all

PG-Parental Guidance – General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children

12-Suitable for 12 years and over. No-one younger than 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult. Responsibility for allowing under-12s to view lies with the accompanying or supervising adult.

15-Suitable only for 15 years and over. No-one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema.

18-Suitable only for adults. No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema.