In this video it shows the opening of the thriller film Catch me if you can, this opening is very effective because it gives an insight into what will happen in the film but also leaves the suspense as to what will happen in the movie. It tells you all the characters names and what their roles they play in the movie and this is also done while the story is being told. It is done in animation which gives more of a comedy feel to the movie, although it is a thriller movie. It uses many techniques without using dialogue, it changes from one place to the other very smoothly and it feels very compelling, you want to know what will happen next. They also use colour to show times of danger when one character may be in trouble and this is very exciting and catches the audiences attention to the clip it also builds the tension in areas of the clip. Overall i feel that this clip has been made in a very exciting way. We also went thorugh the brief and mark scheme for what exactly we had to ensure was in the video that we would make to get full marks. This gave us an idea of what we had to do and make sure was in the video.
After watching the clips we then had to set-up our blog accounts, we did this by logging onto blogspot.com and making an account. We then later had to learn how to edit using the software on the Mac computers. We each got into our groups and had to make our own video clips and edit them making them into our own short videos. We had to use things like transitions, music, colour, titles. These things made our videos very exciting to watch and we had fun making them. We then went around and watched every single groups and this gave us insight into what other things we could have done. This gave us the knowledge of how to edit video clips and use imovie.

Setting up Equiptment

We then had to make our groups, we did this by making a group of four people that we know that we could work with and also poeple that have a variety of skills. Then we were given our video cameras and had to learn how to set them up. We also got to use them and make still images of different types of camera angles. This taught us how to use cameras with a variety of shots. We then got to see all the groups different shots and this showed us the different interpretations of one shot.

Thriller Movies Research

For our AS coursework, we found out about the theme of what type of opening sequence we were going to make. This was thriller movies. We were assigned to do some research on this topic. For my research i watched some thriller movies such as The Dark knight and Psycho. This gave me more insight to what thriller movies were all about. I then researched it on google and found many intresting things such as Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villians.