As part of your Thriller film you need to create titles and show an awareness of the conventions surrounding use of titling at the start of films. In order to do this you need to do some research specifically on titles.
Using this website and this website you need to study how titles are used in at least three Thriller films. You could also look at the opening sequences to some recent TV programmes working in the Thriller genre like Dexter, True Detectives Hannibal and Sherlock
You need to work out what types of titles are used and also consider how the titles can be used to create meaning, suggest themes, mood etc. Think about how different font style suggests different things, think about what colours means, and how they might appear and disappear from the scene. You should also think about what background would be good for showing titles, slapping them on top of you actual film may not be the best thing. You need to think about them as a short (10sec) sequence.
Have a look at and comment on the way titles have been used in these student examples:
Missing
Revenge
Guilty
Consider what you might do for your titles. There are very basic titles in Final Cut Express but you can also create titles in Photoshop that you can import into Final Cut and there is a programme called Live Type on the Macs which does create very good titles. I am not an expert in Live Type but the internet has loads of tutorials.
Try to move away from doing text only posts at the moment so try Prezi or Glogster or another more exciting tool for this task. Both of these apps are very good ones that you will probably want to use for your evaluation so it is important to learn how to use them now.
