Titles: Fonts

Yesterday Imogen and Charlee began to look at fonts to use for the titles. As we're making a horror-thriller we decided that it would be smart if we use a font which is fits in with this. 

This was the first font they considered. Personally I think this this would be a safe choice as this font is a font that was specifically designed to look imposing and strong. It would suit our films titles although the font is kind of cheesy, the decaying letters and tall letters is something i feel has been used a ton before and I personally think a different font would be better.

The second font that was looked at is also quite spooky and I like the way they letters are thin and creepy, unfortunately it doesn't really fit in with the theme of our film. The thin letters and curves make the letters seem almost quite feminine which isn't conventional for a thriller film, especially ours when our protagonist is a male. Fonts in thrillers tend to be sans serif and quite bold and bright which this one isn't. This font is one we most probably will not be used in our title sequence.

The third font which they proposed was this, it's very similar to the first one however we have agreed that we prefer it as it's big, bold and a conventional style of font for a thriller. This along with the slight difference in height between the letters which we think look quite creepy is wy we will be using this font in our title sequence.

This font is called 'Dirty Headline'.

Filming: Dialogue

This is the script that Beth wrote and we agreed on for Archbishop Hartley (Luis) and Our news annoumcer (Finley):

Announcer:

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to Spotlight. Here today to explain to us the dramatic resigning of Pope Benedict due to the Saint sinner killings. The Lords messenger Arch Bishop Hartley.

Hartley:

May our lord bless you and keep you citizens of God we have received information about the dead sinners who whilst their sin was great their souls were redeemable without this violence.

Announcer:

What is the church doing about this situation?

Hartley:

Well we are obviously working with the police on these so called Saint Sinner murders and are trying to solve this as quickly as possible. There will not be a government enquiry but these murders are in no way connected to the resignation of the Pope.

Announcer:

I think the public will refuse to believe that, we all know what’s going on in the Vatican and no one here would be surprised if one of your alter boys turned and did the killings. We all know the treatment they get.

Hartley:

Obviously this has nothing to…The Vatican is in no way implicated, no minister or vicar is involved this is obviously a fanatic carrying out God’s work.

Announcer:

Are you saying you agree with the killings?

Hartley:

Obviously this is an observation upon the prophecy and the true Christians are being tested. I assure you everything is being done to persecute them but…

Announcer:

That wasn't an answer to my question

Hartley:

Well obviously I don’t agree but in principle Satan and his hoards must be punished.

Announcer:

Final question then your Holiness.

Hartley:

Yes, fire away

Announcer:

Where is your God now?


We will film the two characters separately reading the script to camera using a green screen backdrop. This way we can give the backgrounds of the shots the appearance of a news studio and a church as well as graphics that news reports give such as times, location and the 'Live' symbol, giving the interview a better sense of verisimilitude. 

REVELATIONS: Second Draft

This is our second draft, this is completely different to our first draft as we didn't use any of the same footage as the footage that we previously used we felt needed to be changed. I think this this has improved so much and is a lot better than our first draft.

At the start of the second draft, the TV has nothing playing on it and this is something that will be done for our final as we have not yet been able to film the section that will be placed in this part of the film.

There is also no non-diegetic sound or music and this is also something that will be rectified in our next and hopefully final draft. We hope to not need to change to much in order to finish but we will change and re-shoot any segments we feel is necessary. 

Editing

Since we went out and did a re-shoot we now have to work on the re-edit. In our second draft we agreed as a team that we thought there were a few too many fades in between cuts. This time we are going to need to do some more jump cuts and try some different transitions to create more of a pace as the scene in the second draft seemed very slow and this did not cause tension as we want to. We've now started use cuts to the room where the torture victims are, so when the protagonist gets up and starts walking it cuts to the garage showing the victims current state as the protagonist approaches them. We've done these sections in with added effects such as black and white toggle, Gaussian blurs, find edges and the brightness and contrast sliders and have used these effects for each cut and each transition to the the separate room. The use of the black and white filter was an idea that we have had since the beginning and we are really happy that we have kept this plan throughout our coursework. The black and white is useful to us as its a connotation that the room shown in black and white is a dark and dangerous place that is separated from the safe colourful rest of the house. At first we were worried that this would look like a flash back opposed to something happening in a different room parallel two the main scene, but after showing a few people they assured us that they understood what was happening. 

Filming: Actors, Actresses and Locations

Protagonist- Aidan Lever 
Woman Tied up- Lucy Wise
Child- Angelo Gizzi
Dead Male- Reece Collins
Dead Female 1- Cindy Sidhu
Dead Female 2- Melissa Kerrison

Locations-
Scene 1 - Living room
Scene 2 - Kitchen
Scene 3 - Garage
TV footage for scene 1 - Outside Church 






Reece- Torture victim                                                                  Angelo- Protagonists child





Melissa- Torture victim                                                                  Aidan- Protagonist



Lucy- Main torture victim                                   Cindy- Torture victim

Filming: Re-Shoot

Myself and Imogen deciding on
 the panning shot in the kitchen

 
Myself and Imogen filmed again as we needed more footage as the dialogue  actors, location and shots needed to be adjusted and changed. Unfortunately only myself and Imogen were present as Charlee was away and Bethany was unable to attend.


We first filmed the opening scene in the living room in which the protagonist, Aidan Lever, was placed on the sofa watching the news report (which we will add in later) and our child, Angelo, on the floor playing with a dog. We experimented with a few different shots and angles so we could decide on which ones would most closely follow our storyboard.

Cindy, Melissa and Reece (Torture Victims)

Next was the kitchen where there would be a fast pan that followed protagonist while he walked from the living room and through the kitchen.  I  did most of the filming whilst Imogen decided which angles to film at and what the actors would do as these are the technical areas we both felt comfortable doing, although I did have in input into Imogen's decision and vice versa. 

Next we filmed in the garage. There was a 
lot more dialogue involved in the scene this time as last time
we had more footage of the protagonist walking towards
the garage and in this edit we wanted there to be confrontation between the protagonist and torture victim. This would create a more gritty, intimating scene which is something we wanted have so that we could combine it with the suspense that is built up prior to the confrontations.

In all the the filming session went very well. The actors and actresses performed strongly, I feel as if the shots we got were ones that we can work with and that will look and although we did not have Bethany and Charlee present I feel we overcame this and completed the task in hand confidently and with skill.

Myself lining up a close-up shot.

REVELATIONS: First Draft