Production: Bound by Blood

This is our production, the first 3 mintues of a thriller named 'Bound by Blood'.

The first part of our production was meant to show two different rooms with the same pictures. one room would have the pictures annotated in blue ink, and the other annotated in blue ink. This was supposed to show the killer planning his next kill-the room with the red ink, and the police investigating the murders-the room with the blue ink. If we were to do it again, I would put more emphasis on the fact that they were two seperate rooms to make the opening scene more effective. We chose the music used - Mad World from the Donnie Darko soundtrack. We chose this by uploading many songs onto iTunes, and playing a selection alongside the film in iMovie. Some of the songs we looked at were 'The Artifact and the Living', also from the Donnie Darko soundtrack, 'Cemistry' by Unkle, 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' by Metallica and of course 'Mad World'. We found that Chemistry was too fast paced and didn't quite fit it, and after the trouble we'd had with using Metallica on our continuity piece, we weren't going to use them again. The Artifact and the Living suited it quite well, but in the end we decided that Mad World was the most suited.

In the final scene at the coffee shop, we had to change some of our plans. We initially planned to do that scene at Caffe Nero, as there was a fairly run down road around the corner from it that we thought would look good for the film. However, after phoning them up we were told to ask their head office for permisssion. We did so, but got no reply, and so decided to look for a new location. We chose Costa Coffee, as this was positioned with an alleyway running alongside it. We called them up and were told we would have to ask the manager for permission, which we did and were allowed to film the scene there. This worked out quite well, as having Joe drinking his coffee outside allowed for him to follow Sam down the alleyway much easier.

Feedback
In the first version of our thriller, the police investigation room scene was much longer, featuering 2 more characters. However when we showed this version to people, they felt that this scene dragged on too long, and we recieved feedback such as,
"I think the police scene is too long. The start and end is good, but the middle drags on a little"
After watching it through a few times we decided that we all agreed with this feedback, and got to work editing that particular scene to help it flow more. We cut out approximately 30 seconds, and replaced certain shots with more close ups. The feedback we recieved afterwards was,
"I really liked it. The sound was really good and the editing was clever, and I think the story is good and I would want to see the rest if it was an actual film."
"I like it. I think it's really good and the ending's reminiscent of The Silence of the Lambs and good editing."
"It's much better now you've cut it down, it keeps my attention for longer. I'd want to see the rest of it."