We assembled a rough cut to give us an idea of which shot was going to be used where and whether we had to make changes to our sequence.
Here is our rough-cut:
Eye made the title opening which was then put together with the rest of the edits.
This was her process:
We chose the name "Primac" as the word Prima has a good meaning in multiple languages as well as being common in names of company.
The font used was Trajan Pro 3. We liked this font because it looked modern while looking elegant at the same time.
At first we chose the sound of a clock ticking as it signifies that time is running out as our character is getting older. This is the production title with the sound of the clock ticking.
The video clip we used for the sound:
Due to the changes in our actress the concept of the old women ageing was not as strong, as a result we decided to change the production title background music.
This is the sound clip we used:
We thought this sound clip worked better as it helps to set the thriller mood more effectively.
This is the final production title:
As we arrived at our filming location which we found a day in advanced we began to set up the lighting, adjusting our filming equipment and preparing Claire for her character as the woman.
Here is a time-lapse of Eye doing Claire's makeup as she has done SFX before as a hobby. I helped in applying fake stitches as Eye instructed me.
We decided that Claire would wear this green vintage looking dress as she already owned the item which meant that we did not have to spend any money on finding a dress. As the dress already looked vintage this fits perfectly with the character of the old lady we are trying to portray.
We filmed the peephole shot first (which we ended up not using), the desk panning shot, followed by Claire's back, her walking to the away and lastly the scene in the bathroom.
Our intentions in creating the film opening is to create suspense by gradually revealing information about the character. In doing so we made changes to our initial sequence due to the location we were at and the equipment we had at the time of our shoot.
Camera slowly zooms into a hallway, a swift turn to a room door.
In one lesson we discussed our choice of lighting for the opening scene. We chose a blue/cold lighting as it provided a better sense of discomfort when compared to yellow/warm lighting.
Here are some pictures that Eye found during our discussion.
Zooms into the peephole of the door where a glitch effect is used and a women working at her desk can be seen.
Camera pans her desk, on it the audience can see numerous beauty products. Camera continues to pan onto display where the audience can see a number of magazine cut outs. Diabetic sound of pencil scribbling and paper being cut.
The women walks to the bathroom (this is shown by multiple angles of the women walking). The lady stands in front of the mirror, parts of her face is shown by close up shots. This reveals cuts and wrinkled skin.
Cut to shot of her hands running through her white hair and she looks into the mirror. Her facial expression is shown in the reflection, an unsatisfied face can be seen.
An extreme close up shots her pulling a strand of white hair, this shows the tension of the skin being pulled. (provides a sense of disgust)
The lady walks out of the bathroom (this is shown by a wide shot). As she walks out of the bathroom a body/leg covered in blood is seen hanging out of a bath tub.
This is a video of us drawing the story board. However there were some difficulties with film which made the clip shorter than we would have liked.
On the 21st January we went location scouting around the Ari district (nearby Eye's house). At the start we had planned to film at Eye's old house, however the arrangements of the furniture in the room was not what we had in mind as well as the house being too new looking. Using a room at Eye's house also meant that we weren't able to film the peephole shot. As a result we looked for local hotels and decided to spread out filming and location scouting over two days as this would allow us to explore more location options.
Eye edited a vlog which I filmed during the day with my Gopro:
Here was one of the other hotels we looked at:
Pradipat hotel : 900 Baht/night
Elizabeth Hotel : 1000+ Baht/night
The hotel we filmed at:
Bangkok Condotel : 1000 Baht/night
We stumbled upon this hotel while we were on our way to Elizabeth Hotel. When we arrived by taxi the Elizabeth Hotel exterior looked newer than we had expected, we immediately realised that the interior would be new too meaning a higher price of stay which we didn't want. We decided to look nearby for smaller hotels and we found Bangkok Condotel.