1. The document discusses the process of creating a group blog and thriller film opening for a class project. This included researching techniques like camera shots and editing software, filming test scenes, and analyzing thriller openings. 2. Field research was conducted on thriller conventions and production details from websites. This informed the filming and editing process. Shots were carefully planned and reviewed. 3. Audience feedback was gathered during and after production to improve the project. Lighting and filters were adjusted in editing for the best thriller effect.

1. Use of Digital
Technology
Felicity Bearfoot-Fallon

2. Pre-Production
Next, my group and I did a preliminary task of a simple teacher-pupil conference for our blogs. This
allowed us to experiment with different camera shots and angles, lighting, and correct camera settings.
It also gave us all a chance to use what we learnt from our 1 minute film and put it into practice,
including what we learnt on final cut pro. It also developed our filming and editing skills further.
The first thing we did for our blog was a 1 minute film. We filmed a few short scenes on top of a
shopping center, and then later used final cut pro to edit the footage. This task allowed me to learn
and understand the cameras and equipment that was used and to also experiment with the different
tools on final cut pro and learn about continuity editing. This would prepare me for when we were
going to film and edit our thriller opening later on.
Our group used a website called ‘Blogger’ where we posted our work onto our group blog, including our
one minute film, preliminary task, and thriller opening, as well as our evaluations and other pieces of
research.
I also did a post on The Rule of Thirds for our blog.
This help to portray that we were showing how to
frame a shot, and what conforms and deliberately
breaks the rule of thirds. This allowed us to learn
more about the rule of thirds and how to apply it
to our own filming.

3. Pre-ProductionInstitutional Research:
I went onto a website called ‘The Art
of the Title’ where hundreds of
TV/film credits and opening trailers
are available to see. I picked the TV
show ‘The Walking Dead’ to analyze.
With this, I created a timeline of
when certain credits, visuals and
sounds entered the clip. The opening
trailer/clip of a TV show or film is
supposed to give the audience an
insight to the genre of what they're
about to watch, as well as the
opening credits of producers,
directors, actors etc. This activity
helped my to understand the
conventions of opening credits and
how to use them in my own thriller
opening.
Conventions of a Thriller:
I created a blog post on ‘Conventions of a Thriller’. This is where I explained what a typical thriller
includes and what elements are found in the thriller genre; for example, tension, cliffhangers,
suspense, antagonist, protagonist, etc.
My group and I started to do more research on thrillers. We went
on the site IMDB and found out the figures and budget for
certain thrillers. Some of the thrillers we found show that the
opening weekend is very large and shows the film will most likely
be successful as a lot of people have seen in it the opening
weekend.
Research: IMDB

4. Pre-Production
A massive part of our research was finding different websites and social networks, and finding
out a lot of different information from them. For example, there are the official websites for a
film (e.g. thehobbit.com), where the official trailer and merchandise can be found, but there are
also fansites/pages as well (e.g. thehobbitfancontests.com).
We also researched into different production and distribution companies of thriller films, so we could have ideas for when we were
designing our own logo.

5. Production
During the filming process
we had a shot list where
we took note of the shot,
scene and take, to keep
track of what we had
filmed and what still
needed filming.
Part of our thriller opening features a security
camera scene. This is where the shot list came in
handy as we could keep track of how many shots
and takes there were, and also the filming of
different parts of the scene such as Shannon
walking into the shop and the security camera
footage itself.
We also has a scene prior to this one, which was a
completely different environment compared to the
shop. That cross-cut we felt gave variety to the
thriller opening as we wanted to try something
different to typical thrillers.

6. Post-Production
(EditingProcess)
For the editing process, this is where our research
from Art of the Title was useful as we had an idea of
where to put our opening titles and credits. We also
added sound and music as we found from our
thriller opening research that this was common.
For the visuals, we had discovered that the lighting was slightly
off, and experimented with different filters, tones and highlights.
Originally we were going to make the whole opening in black and
white, as this made the picture quality better and more of a
sinister feel. However, we thought it would be best for the
security camera parts to be in black and white and the rest in
colour, so this defines and notifies clearly to the audience when
the main character is being watched through the security camera.

7. Post-Production
Also, as part of the production process, we got audience feedback from teachers and pupils. We
put the videos on YouTube and they told us what they liked, disliked, and what they would change if
it was their project. This allowed us to have different view points of our project, and allowed us to
praise and criticize our own work.
During our filming, from the images above we can see that we filmed in two different places, due to
the lighting, we first filmed with more light which is the images at the top, however we thought that
there was too much light, we tried to trap light from coming in however, it was too difficult do we
shot that scene in another area at the back were there was hardly any light coming through, with
the use of the LED light that we had, we managed to use this to as extra light. We thought that to
make it more thriller like, we thought of using a dark area instead of filming where there was a lot
of light.