Techniques

I have used many different techniques in order to capture the attention and the emotion of the audience, as well as to portray certain key themes.

In final cut, using certain video filters such as "Day for night" and Gamma correction, in order to get the right amount of light in the shot at any one time and also to create a setting fit for the mood. Transitions such as fadeout and whiteout are also useful when trying to set a good transition between two shots of varying brightness or mood.

Titles

When it came to the creation of titles, I decided to almost randomly generate names of people, however, the company names I tried to seem more related to the feel of the film itself (after watching a horror myself and making note of the production company as "Dark Castle").
I tried to keep a fairly serious sounding company name- in this case "Goliath"- which suggests power and to a degree large size. This is supposed to represent the power and the wealth of the company (whether or not that is the case).

When it came to the font of the title sequence, I had previously thought that Perhaps having a scrawled handwritten and slightly dirty font, so as to resemble the handwritten work that the killer would do.
Unfortunately, this became somewhat of a pipe-dream as i hadn't the time nor the expertise in order to produce convincing handwriting via mouse.

So, feeling as though the "handwritten font" in final cut, or indeed any other application i found wasn't nearly convincing enough.
Working around this, I decided to go on a fairly formal font which i would then distort (via exchanging letters for numbers), so as to fit the theme of "Unlucky Numbers".
As the font goes farther and farther through the title sequence, it can be observed that they become changed more and more. This is to symbolize the storyline- as the story progresses, so the evidence, the killings and the scenario becomes more and more distorted to the will of the killer (as the titles progress, it takes less and less time for the names of the staff to become letters and numbers).
But, the final name (the name of the director) is left completely normal and is indeed slightly larger than the rest.

As many people would agree this is somewhat confusing and goes against the theme that had been previously set up.
The director of the movie is supposed to represent the role of the killer; as the killer is the one who is pulling all the strings and is in control, his existence is the only one that is not represented by a number. The other members of the cast are meant to represent the other characters, who are almost totally playing to the tune of the killer.
Naturally, as this would be the case, the director would be the only one who, at the end, would be completely in control, and not be distorted.
I agree this is not very obvious, but it has some meaning none the less.

Final Cut Feedback II

For this second piece of feedback, our thriller opening was shown to the class. we recieved mixed feedback about our project. However, there are some aspects of the

Final Cut

Here is the final cut.

final cut feedback

there has been a mixed response in accordance to our final cut sequence, many people have felt that the contrast between the two halves of our opening has been too large.

some of our feedback tells us that we have a good first section- good music, well portrayed, good camera-work, etc- but that the second half was too different and it somewhat ruined the feeling of the sequence. Whilst the other reviews have stated that the opening is far too boring and that the second half (with the fast paced beat music) was far more engaging- Interesting camera angles/ titles.