Eradication final film and improvements.

Here is the final cut of our thriller opening "Eradication". There wasn't much to improve about the rough cut except some feedback said the music should match the footage on screen for example making a title credit come up when the hard distorted violin note strikes. So we took the advice and did that, we also fixed some colour correction that was not constant with the rest of the film. It now has fluid colour throughout in a blue tone but still keeping a realistic look.

Thriller Improvement - Colour Correction

These screenshots show the stages we went through when colour correcting the thriller opening. When watching the thriller opening, the colour is light and doesn't fit well with the style and genre of the story, to change this and make it look more erie and darker. To do this we decreased the saturation and whites and blacks. However the shot was then too dark and was hard to see some small aspects of the scene, so to fix this we focused more on the saturation and the colours on blue. I think the it looked nice to finish with and the last screenshot shows the final choice for the colour correction.

Credits - Thriller Improvement

We decided to add to the credits: "From the book 'Path to Eradication' by Charles L Jacobs" and "and New Line Cinema present" to follow the conventions of a thriller movie more so than we had previously. We also added executive producers in the credits and ordered all the credits correctly. Below is the final list of credits for our thriller opening we also removed a couple to make the credits work with this new order. The credits now are true to the conventions of any thriller opening.

Hard Winter Studios

and New Line Cinema present

a Lord Tiberius II Production

Abby Peake

John Nicholas

Alec Thomas

Music by Sam Garbett

Editor Jake Wootton 

Cinematography Kalvin McTavish

Executive Producers Martin Price, David Hart

From the book 'Path to Eradication' by Charles L Jacobs

Directed by Sam Graves

Eradication

Font and Cuts - Thriller Improvement

We decided to improve upon our thriller movie by changing the font we are using for the credits, we also are cutting the running sequence to make it a more dramatic thriller. We also decided to add narration to the thriller to add to the dramatic aspect of it.

 Here is the new font:

New Production Company Logo - Thriller Improvement

This is the improvement we made to the company logo, we made it look more professional and artistic. This ties more with the conventions of a production companies logo that produce thrillers.

Eradication Rough Cut.

Delicatessen Soundtrack.

We had to use the opening to the film 'Delicatessen' which is a thriller film and create our own soundtrack for it using garage band, first we watched the clip a few times to see what type of soundtrack would fit best, then put the video in GarageBand and created the soundtrack. The final video with our soundtrack can be seen here:


Firstly we made a video track and put the Delicatessen video in, this made it easier when getting the timings for each of the sound clips and where we want them to go.

We then added sound clips to the start of the clip to emphasise the knife being swung and the main title appearing. We made sure the sounds were perfectly in line with the video and they fitted in well with what was happening. We used pre made clips for the knife and title and added a preset effect called 'deeper vocals' which gave a horror/thriller effect to the sounds and made them more gritty.

A loud sharp piece of audio is used to emphasise the main bits of action, but when the main sequence started there wasn't much action. To solve this issue we added two harmonised loops which added tension and they were in the minor key so they had connotations of; Freight, fear, sadness, suffering and suspense. The main loops were also orchestral which is common in most thrillers and it also gave a horror feeling to it with the "deeper vocals" effect. The loops also fit in well with the gliding camera which is what we wanted.

Overall the soundtrack works well with the Delicatessen video and runs smoothly throughout the entire clip. If we had more time I think more delicate sounds could have been added which would have improved the overall outcome.