Blink Murder

The Main Task

Blink Murder is the name we gave to the film that we made the opening sequence for as part of our main task. The brief was to create a 2 minute opening sequence for a film of any genre, including titles and a soundtrack, with no copyrighted materials. Please click the HQ option at the side to view in high quality and improve your viewing experience! Enjoy : )

The Prelim - Ugliest Jumper Ever

The Preliminary Exercise

This is our preliminary exercise, which we called Ugliest Jumper Ever. The aim was to create a sequence demonstrating good continuity techniques, and had to show match on action, shot/reverse-shot, and the 180-degree rule. The brief stated that it had to be 30 seconds long, and comprise of a character opening a door, crossing a room, and sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom s/he exchanges a few lines of dialogue. Again, please click the HQ option for a better viewing experience!

Monday, January 5, 2009

First Lesson Back & Review

One of our issues with our production so far is that it's too short, so I suggested having the cutting speed between shots increasing and the shots themselves becoming shorter - real proper 'suddens'. Accompanying this would be that typical creepy sort of music where it's like really dissonant, atonal strings - rising in pitch and tone but not at all in synch, and a crescendo as it gets higher and then it would be like a sudden sort of SLAM of a last shot, like the one of the killer's face at the climax. Then we would cross-cut to the housemate turning off the light and going upstairs. Ok, so I've not really described it particularly well... but if I find the right music it'll be a lot clearer, so that's one of the things we can do.
Also, we have to reshoot my half of the dialogue scene, as the framing is terrible and the eyeline-matching is pretty non-existant! As we have to do this, we're also going to do the knife pan in the drawer and make the bit where the killer picks up the knife work properly. We've decided to shoot on Friday, but I'm worried this won't leave us enough time for editing it, so if we can make it an earlier day we definitely will.

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