Friday, 30 March 2012

Final Video



This is the completely edited opening sequence that we did, and the difference between this and our first draft was the titles. After doing a little bit of research on a few thriller movies we thought that it would be best to have the cast and crew's names on-screen, and that is exactly what we did. To make sure this was the right thing to do we even asked a few people, and they agreed that what we did makes it look more 'professional' overall.

And here is the opening sequence from Insomnia, which was our main inspiration:

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Evaluation


Saturday, 24 March 2012

Timeline

This is a timeline I made that follows the process of our journey into making our final media product. Looking back it now occurs to me that we could have finished edited a lot quicker, but we were new to iMovie and we were trying our best to understand how everything works. The timeline is below:

Plot

In Hounslow Amritpal Theliwali is a young hardworking school boy however unlike most school boys in London Amritpal lives a hard life. His dad is a drug dealer who is now wanted by a lot of gangs in Hounslow. Amritpal’s mother suffered from domestic violence she was then thrown down the stairs she was then in a coma, Amritpal cared for her up until he was 8 when she passed away. Amritpal’s dad has escaped and is now hiding in Canada. Amritpal is now in Hounslow all alone with a high chance of him being killed. Amritpal didn’t understand the severity of the situation as he didn’t know what his father had been up too. Amritpal discovered a letter that had been left by his dad which told him about what is going on, it said him that people may not know that he is his son, it also stated that there was 100k hidden in the attic and a further 200k buried under the lawn. At the start of the film Amritpal has not yet discovered the letter and so just like any other day he starts his long journey to school, he lives far away from school as there was too much threat living in the Hounslow area, he gets to school, completes his school day and starts his long journey back. On his way home, Amritpal gets stalked and chased by a hit man that was ordered by some gang members luckily he manages to escape him and gets onto the train and goes home, the gang hit man’s name is Amir Jaffer he is now waiting at Amritpal’s at the top of Amritpal's road Amritpal is chased and hit with the bat, this was nightmare. Amritpal then sees the letter that his dad left and over the next few days Amritpal has a blast as he sees the money; however the next day he relives his nightmare he gets captured and tortured. And Amritpal's best friend Harvey, who is like a brother, gets shot in front of his own eyes by Amir. He finds the next few days hard and stays at his other best friend Tanya’s house. Now he sets off to look for Amir, when he finds him he talks to him and finds out the reason for his death he is told that his dad killed there dad and so they wanted payback, amrit chocked him to death. At night Amritpal lies and reminisces about how horrible his dad was and how many families’s he destroyed. He decided to go and find his dad to confront him about why he was so horrible to people. He and Tanya have sexual intercourse the night before leaves. The next day he goes to Heathrow airport straight to Vancouver, he stays and looks for his dad and whilst searching receives a firearm for an old friend of his. On the 3rd day he receives a voice mail form he uncle saying that his father is living with him and don’t be afraid to give him a call. Amritpal gets a call from Tanya and finds out that she’s pregnant he then finds out his address and visits them the next day. He then tries to sympathise with his dad and tells him that he is going to be a grandfather, as he is intoxicated with drugs and alcohol he reacts in a different manner as to what Amritpal would of expected and calls this baby a mistake and a burden to this family, Amritpal out of rage and anxiety reacts in hitting his dad. His dad then starts to laugh and exclaims about how he was a mistake and how great it was for him to throw his mother down the stair for a fatal coma, Amritpal’s uncle, over hears this conversation. However, Amritpal reacts in a manner, in which the rage he built up had finally come out, he stood his dad up; and put in a fire arm into his mouth. His eyes flickered with rage and as his father cried for help, his uncle tried rebelling against Amritpal, but it was too late Amritpal had killed his father Amritpal spent the rest of his life living in Canada raising his family.

Friday, 23 March 2012

Finished Video

Here is the our final media product:



It did take a long time to edit, however I feel that it was all necessary and part of the learning process. The filming was mainly done by Balkaran and Tanveer, the music and sound was done by Amir, and the editing was done by Tanveer and I. Overall I think we have come a long way from the start, and we did try and use as many conventions as we could.

Sunday, 18 March 2012

Evidence

Here is a screenshot of the music being made:


And here is a screenshot of the editing process:


This is just to track our progress, although no other screen shots have been taken or are going to be taken in the future.

Friday, 16 March 2012

Visual Mind Map

This is a visual mind map just to show the conventions of a thriller film. The images in them are stills from the movies that I researched when choosing the cast. It basically summarises what thriller movies are expected to be like, and they