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We received a number of criticisms for the rough cut of our thriller opening

One of them was that there was Paul saying unwanted dialog while filming, we have corrected this by muting the clip with the undesired language.

Another one was that the rough cut was too short, we have fixed this by putting in more shots we had filmed by not included in the rough cut because of time restrictions.

One issue we could not rectify was the criticism that it contained too much running and no way of breaking up the action. We could have fixed this with another filming session but we were unable to do this. So our thriller opening will be relentlessly fast paced.

Where are we now?

So far on 23/10/08 we have reached the deadline for our rough cut of the "Thriller Opening". However it is far from finished; it is yet to include "titles", and clean cuts between edits.

But more importantly we have not included all of our shots taken from the shoot, so the ending of the rough cut is a bit too open ended right now, but will be included for the "final cut"...

Preliminary Task

This is our groups preliminary task, to demonstrate our continuity editing skills. I feel this video has gone very well, the shot are well executed and the sound is passable, our only flaw I see is the shot where Nick leaves the bathroom and Jordan enters, we moved the camera and couldn't get it back into the same position. If our main thriller project goes as well as this little task, I will be very pleased.

Goldfinger Opening

This is the opening from one of my favourite James Bond film, Goldfinger. The 3rd of the now 22 films. At first glance there isnt much of a variety of shots, mostly close ups of the body parts of the golden woman. But in the body parts are reflections of lots of different shots of all parts of the film and the actors who star in it. Now this effect now looks very dated but this was 1964. My favourite thing about the opening though is the song, its well good.