The Life of David Gale

Jess and I watched The Life of David Gale yesterday and we thought it was really sad. However it had a very gripping storyline and contained a lot of dramatic tension throughout the film. We did not really like the music because we wouldn't have picked it for that particular genre because it is not really scary. However there were some parts to the film where there was scary music used to create suspense, but I did not really like the main music.

When David Gale was telling the journalist Bitsey Bloom about his life and his side to the story there was a use of flashbacks. This was shown through the camera spinning around and then back in time to his life. There was also a quick shot like a flash of words to emphasise his feelings at the time which I thought was effective. I also thought that the fact that the film began with the ending was really good and made the audience want to carry on watching to find out what the woman was running for. At first I thought she was running from someone but it all became clear at the end that she was running for someone.

Shutter Island

Last night Jess, Dom and I went to see Shutter Island and we all thought it was fantastic. I must admit I was scared to go and see it and there were some parts that had me jumping out of my seat, but the storyline was really good. Some parts really confused me to do with continuity and I didn't know if I was imagining it or not which scared me, but I think this was on purpose to make the audience think about the storyline because there was obviously something weird happening but the storyline did take me by surprise. It is by far one of the best psychological films I have seen. The credits were on a black background and slightly zoomed out which makes me want to do our credits on a black background because I think it looks better and more professional. The music was even scary because it would be quiet and then suddenly screech and it made me jump, it was really creepy music. The ending was really sad as well. I would definitely watch this film again and I have recommended it to my parents.

The Strangers

This film begins with the ending and this really works because it introduces the genre. As for the credits, again they are quite simple, they are yellow on a black background, but there is a white flash like lightning which makes it more scary.

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Vacancy

I really like the opening credits to this film I think they are really effective and the way the line of some of the letters move down, it looks like blood is dripping which introduces the genre. We wanted to do our credits similar to this but we could not find the right font. The music also begins straight away when the production name appears so we could do our film like this or we could just leave the production name silent.

Gothika

This opening is quite simple because the credits are on a black background and they zoom away. The name of the actor just appears on its own so we could still do ours like that but the majority of films do say something before the name. Then the opening begins with an interview and after a minute or so, more names appear of directors and editors and so on.

Departed

Last night I watched part of a film called Departed even though I thought it was quite boring. However the film title appeared two minutes into the film which I thought was good research for our film seeing as our title appears at the end of the opening. This is the first 4 minutes or so of the film and as you can see the title of the film has still not appeared and doesn't appear until the first 10-20 minutes of the film. So this shows that some films do not introduce the title until halfway through so we could do the same if we wanted to. I like our film title where it is because it fits in well with the music and it also builds suspense to the point where the title is introduced.


By watching this film I had forgotten that the title had not come up yet and I was surprised that it was a good few minutes into the film before the title appeared. However I do think it worked well with this film because it sort of introduced what the genre was and then the title appeared suddenly and it took me by surprise. So I think we could leave our title in the same place but I think we should only put the title once because it is unnecessary to have it there twice.

Film title

This is our film with our production name included in it. It does still have a silent bit but it is not as long and it works well with the film because it adds tension. It also has a bit of added background sound which was not intended so we still need to edit that. This is still a rough copy because we still don't know whether we are using the picture in the background. We are also unsure of where to put the title. This is because in most films the title appears at the beginning of the film whereas ours appears at the end of the opening. So we now have to decide where we actually want to put it. The other problem is whether or not to add the part at the end where 'Jack the Ripper' is circling his next victim. We think it does not fit because it weakens the dramatic tension because it has a lot of suspense until that part. But then again the circling at the end shows that the opening carries on otherwise it looks like the film is finished and it does not seem like an opening then.

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Film with added music

This is our film which we have now added music too. We have not muted some of the background sounds so this still needs to be done and there is a bit where the music goes silent and we are yet to decide whether to change this or not. We have made the credits bigger and longer but we forgot to add my name with all the excitement. I am proud of what we have done with this and the music added has now made the film much scarier. I think there are still come changes to be made but we are almost there and I can't wait for the finished product.

The Crazies

Last night I went to see The Crazies and I thought it was really good, especially how the credits appeared. The sound really made the film scary, because it would build the tension by being silent, then all of the sudden a loud screech noise would suddenly sound, and I lost count of how many times I jumped. The camera angles were also quite quick which made me jump also.