Toaster shot

The duration of our thriller opening has to be between 2-2 ½  minutes long, we found that just days before our thriller had  to be submitted it did not meet this criteria. We thoroughly analysed the thriller opening we had put together so far, and came to the conclusion that the easiest way to achieve this was by adding extra cut-scenes of our main character getting ready in the morning. In order to do this effectively without making the scenes uninteresting for the viewers we gathered extra ideas of clips from films which were already made. We looked at the waking up scenes of two very different films, ‘I-Robot’ and ‘Shaun of the Dead’. We looked at the type of things they included in their waking up sequences and took some of their ideas and interpreted it into our own thriller opening. We also looked at what kind of things we did in the morning, and also interpreted these ideas into our thriller opening. We included things such as getting out of bed, brushing your teeth, and going in the shower. In order to make these longer, we thought about other things that people did in the mornings, and what kind of things we could include to shape the identity of our main character for the audience. We decided to include a toast shot, where the character would toast the bread, put butter on it and cut it in half. When the toast was coming out of the toaster we used the rule of thirds. We placed the two pieces of bread in the middle slots of the toaster, and positioned the toaster in the middle of the shot so that when they ‘popped’ out of the toaster they would be directly in the middle of the shot. When we were buttering the bread, we used a Birdseye view shot. We used the knife and spread the butter on the toast vigorously to show a ‘darker’ side to the main character. We also emphasised this by cutting the toast in half once buttered in a rough and harsh way. In the end, we did not end up putting this clip on our final piece.