tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79267998517969489442024-03-05T16:49:16.472-08:00Yasmin's Thriller BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-48116643700407664722011-03-14T09:49:00.000-07:002011-03-14T13:13:35.354-07:00Goodbye!Dear Moderator, <br />
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I hope that you enjoy looking through my blog posts, prezi presentations and the final cut of my thriller opening sequence and evaluation tasks. I certainly enjoyed putting the whole project together! <br />
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Goodbye :)<br />
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Yasmin AmeyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-31025983987874411282011-03-14T05:54:00.001-07:002011-03-14T09:46:02.502-07:00Final Cut of our thriller opening sequence - Premonition<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FkrvEq-W_YE" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-9963729950862999732011-03-13T11:42:00.000-07:002011-04-12T10:59:43.267-07:00Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?<div align="center"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxnfG3hWiSRxppBUEn8nRnK0dvA-fy2dXu-xgcqBVkyfXRTfLFll9YEgN18tj9oJgYLIpnETRxWi-I0TCitJA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b></b></span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: white;">See post on my Preliminary Exercise with screengrabs and evaluation here: </span></u></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Preliminary%20Excerise"><span style="color: white;">http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Preliminary%20Excerise</span></a><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: white;">See post on my Continuity Exercise with a short evaluation here:</span></u></strong><br />
<a href="http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/continuity-taskexercise.html"><span style="color: white;">http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/continuity-taskexercise.html</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: white;">Here are the links to my previous relevant posts to illustrate how I planned better for my thriller film opening compared to my preliminary exercise. </span></u></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul><li><strong><span style="color: white;"><u>Shot List</u> = </span></strong><a href="http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/shot-list-for-untitled-by-yasmin.html"><span style="color: white;">http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/shot-list-for-untitled-by-yasmin.html</span></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: white;"><u>Shoot Schedule</u> = </span></strong><a href="http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/shoot-schedule-group-4-yasmin-khushel.html"><span style="color: white;">http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/shoot-schedule-group-4-yasmin-khushel.html</span></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: white;"><u>Group Meetings</u> = </span></strong><a href="http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/group-meetings.html"><span style="color: white;">http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/group-meetings.html</span></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: white;"><u>Certification of our Film</u> = </span></strong><a href="http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/certification-of-film.html"><span style="color: white;">http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/certification-of-film.html</span></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: white;"><u>Title Sequences</u> = </span></strong><a href="http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2011/01/title-sequences.html"><span style="color: white;">http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2011/01/title-sequences.html</span></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: white;"><u>Storyboard </u>= </span></strong><a href="http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2011/01/storyboard.html"><span style="color: white;">http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2011/01/storyboard.html</span></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: white;"><u>Audience Research</u> = </span></strong><a href="http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2011/01/audience-research-video.html"><span style="color: white;">http://mediathrillergroup.blogspot.com/2011/01/audience-research-video.html</span></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: white;"><u>Research/Planning</u> = </span></strong><a href="http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Research%2FPlanning"><span style="color: white;">http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Research%2FPlanning</span></a></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;">When it came to choosing a selection of people who would appear in our evaluation video, we decided that we would choose people who reflected our target audience, this being citizens aged 15+. We included a variety of college students and two teachers, one who is in their late 20s and one who is in their 40s into our evaluation task so that we would be provided with information and opinions from people who come from different ethnicity backgrounds and are different ages. Moreover, considering the fact that we did not create a film poster to promote and advertise our film to our target audience we decided to use other strategies to attract our audience, these being that we could send our DVD release of our thriller film to a variety of television companies for them to preview on their film review shows such as the BBC’s ‘Film 2011’ hosted by Claudia Winkleman, London Tonight and This Morning where film critics could review the film and explain to the audience’s their thoughts and opinions upon the film and whether it is a successful thriller. By allowing film critics to review the film on live TV, viewers will become interested in the film and will then decide to either research into the film by visiting official websites to read plot synopsis and watching trailers of the film before ordering and buying the film when it’s released in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">UK</place></country-region> stores. </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzsZGI1oDn6UhIvVaY9fN_U8k74e_yV9SoL-OT8CiDkIiXxVeZ7F1FSjUSpFVtYiAo6tyHnAFaWxBYszcOOCA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">When filming our fellow peers and teachers for our evaluation video the majority of them answered the questions correctly providing us with positive, optimistic answers that we had originally wanted to hear from our target audience. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">We asked our target audience, ‘Whether they believed our film was successful as an opening sequence.’ The older teacher out of the two answered saying “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Absolutely, it sets out the whole tone of what you can expect, whether it’s a trailer or a clip you saw before hand.</i>” This was a very encouraging comment for us to hear for the reason that it enabled us to realise that not only had our opening sequence interested and drawn in our younger audiences but it also branched out to our older audiences as they found it entertaining and dark. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Another question we asked was, ‘What are the successful features of conveying the genre of a thriller film?’ One of our fellow peers answered saying “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It was when you were in the bed and you were moving around that was successful because it presents psychiatric behaviour.</i>” On one hand, the youngest teacher out of the two claimed that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The music definitely and I thought that the set decoration was quite apt as well. It looked sleek and the colours were quite dark, you could tell it was meant to be a psychological thriller.</i>” On the other hand, the older teacher out of the two explained that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The clipping back from the actual real, the character waking up, talking to a potential boyfriend and then the vision in her head that she’s already dreaming.</i>” The evidence that we gained from our audience’s answers was that both the student and the youngest teacher spoke more about the scenes in the film and the successful features which enabled the film to become a successful psychological thriller. Whilst, the older teacher did sometimes speak about a couple of scenes from the film but mainly focused on the dreaming side of the narrative rather than the impact it had on allowing it to become a successful thriller film. Perhaps this is to do with audience’s age difference or whether they prefer to watch and observe different aspects of the film compared to one another. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">As a group, we wanted to find out whether, ‘The soundtrack fit the storyline and genre of the film’ so we asked our target audience what their thoughts and ideas were upon this subject. We asked only the students for their opinion on this question and they provided us with both positive and negative feedback explaining that:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes it made it creepy.</i>”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes the suspense throughout the movie lead up to that moment so it really did.</i>”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Personally I don’t think it did, it didn’t have enough tension. I think it was good but it could have changed later on. I think that it could have started one way and as the tension built up, the music could have become tenser as it went along.</i>”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It was intense but dreamy which went with the whole dreaming</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">idea.</i>”</li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Clearly, from the student’s answers the majority of them believed that the soundtrack was appropriate and fit into the psychological thriller exceptionally well as the melody delivered a dark, eerie, tense, atmospheric sound. However, one of the students believed that whilst the soundtrack was good and interesting, he thought that it could have started one way and perhaps the tempo or frequency of the melody could change to a different format so that it allowed more tension and anxiousness to build up throughout the opening sequence. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The final question we asked our target audience was that, ‘Did they understand the film.’ We questioned the youngest teacher out of the two and one of the students so that we could identify their answers and see whether there was any differences in their response. The teacher explained that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes, I basically think that it was a girl who was dreaming and she had a premonition that she was going to be killed by her partner.</i>” Whilst the student claimed that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes, the title of the film helped it and helped you understand the film a lot more.</i>” From both of these responses, it became noticeable that they both understood the narrative of our thriller opening sequence. Additionally, the fact that our title had such a bold meaning to it, our audience knew instantly when watching our opening sequence what the remainder of the film would consist of. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">All in all, we took on board both the positive and the negative feedback we gained from our audience research and if we were ever able to re-shoot or make changes to our thriller opening sequence we would have definitely made sure that we met the needs of our target audience. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Both Khushel and I decided to record a video of ourselves discussing who would be the audience for our media product, whether the film is open to any gender as well as discussing features that we incorporated from other films such as ‘Cape Fear, Premonition, What Lies Beneath and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,’ into our own thriller opening sequence. We decided that rather than typing our answers onto our thriller blogs, we thought that we’d act creatively and illustrate our excellent skills by using digital technology as part of our evaluation task. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">This is Sabeen Husain and Priyanka Ganatra, one is sixteen years old whilst the other is seventeen. Sabeen lives in <place w:st="on">Harrow</place>, whiles Priyanka lives in Hayes and they both attend college together. These girls like to dress casually if they are attending college. However, as soon as they are out of the school premises they enjoy dressing up a little smarter if it means that they are going to be attending a party or an event in the evening. They both enjoy going shopping whenever they have free time on their hands, and they especially take pleasure in shopping at New Look, <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">River</placetype> <placetype w:st="on">Island</placetype></place>, H&M and Topshop. Sabeen and Priyanka love to watch thriller films such as ‘The Orphan, the Strangers, Drag Me to Hell, and they definitely luxuriate in watching these films as soon as they hit the box office in their local cinema. Both of these girls enjoy watching television programs, for instance 90210, Gossip Girl, Friends, Eastenders, Hollyoaks and <street w:st="on"></street></div><address w:st="on">Waterloo Road</address>, either by themselves or with their friends for a night in. The channels that they would watch these programs on would be Channel 4, BBC 1, E4, MTV and ITV2. Each of these girls are definitely tuned in to the latest music varying from RnB, Hip Hop, Grime and Rock. Moreover, they enjoy listening to the likes of Rihanna, Beyonce, Avril Lavine, Enrique Iglesias, Trey Songz, Chris Brown and many more. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">This is Manan Vekaria, Roberto Caccaviello and Shyam Chandarana they are all seventeen years old, living in harrow and they each attend college. These boys like to dress casually whilst they are attending school but as soon as they are offsite, they enjoy dressing up a little smarter if it means that they are attending a party or an event in the evening. These boys enjoy watching television, playing football or tennis together, listening to music, going shopping, playing x-box and Shyam often enjoys spending his time undertaking flower picking! Manan, Roberto and Shyam especially love to watch thriller films such as ‘Dark Knight, Inception, Se7en, Terminator, Chucky, Paranormal Activity and the Omen which they definitely indulge in watching as soon as these films hit the box office in their local cinema. Each of these boys enjoy watching television programs, for example Friends, My Wife and Kids, Prison Break, Eastenders, Family Guy and Alan Carr - Chatty Man, either by themselves or with their friends. The channels that they would often watch these programs on would be Channel 4, BBC 1, BBC3, E4 and Sky 1. Clearly, the boys are undoubtedly tuned in to the latest releases in the music industry as they enjoy listening to the likes of Calvin Harris, Dizzee Rascal, 50 Cent, Ryan Leslie, Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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By making sure that we chose the correct classification rating for our thriller opening sequence, we visited the BBFC guidelines website so that we were able to identify what certificate our film deserved and to show our understanding of media industries and institutions. We already created a post on the group blog illustrating the reasons behind choosing a 15 certificate rating so here is the link to the relevant post. <br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">If we were given the opportunity to create movie trailers for our film, we would have definitely chosen to do this for the reason that movie trailers are the first chance to promote a movie to its target audience. We would be able to start it up a year in advance before the major release of the film would be sold onto DVD or Blu-Ray. The idea is to give ‘moviegoers’ a taste of the special effects and plot twists of the studios upcoming release. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Another thing that could be added to promote the film is that the movie studio could unveil an official website for the film so that it allows visitors to view trailers, watch behind the scenes, interviews with the cast, plot synopsis, play games and even pre-order tickets for events following and promoting the film. The websites are only the start of a much larger marketing campaign. <br />
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Another strategy that we could use is highly visible product tie-ins so that in the weeks heading up to the release of our film we could have images of the main characters in the film appear on either cans of coke/sprite or on biscuit packets and even beer boxes. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<u>Here are the trailers for two of the films that we got our inspiration from when it came to filming our own thriller opening sequence, What Lies Beneath and The Unborn. </u><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx02_hHTnff-ZfCk5LFFZ9j9IszePIbtd6ijWEiDEyAvscVstTvebe3VdGPN-L4L9vO6EMtNlvYSYUH8QX1Joy01dVP3ZMCivlIHJFzs2E1CRFG4XmfCXe_ZQBIUMKLT5Kie8KVHDg8JxP/s1600/nine+frame.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx02_hHTnff-ZfCk5LFFZ9j9IszePIbtd6ijWEiDEyAvscVstTvebe3VdGPN-L4L9vO6EMtNlvYSYUH8QX1Joy01dVP3ZMCivlIHJFzs2E1CRFG4XmfCXe_ZQBIUMKLT5Kie8KVHDg8JxP/s400/nine+frame.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><ul><li><div style="text-align: left;"><u><strong><span style="color: red;">Frame 1: Story and How the opening sets it up</span></strong></u></div></li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: white;">Frame 2: Camera Work and Editing</span></u></strong></div></li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: #38761d;">Frame 3: The title of the film</span></u></strong></div></li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: #bf9000;">Frame 4: How the characters are introduced</span></u></strong></div></li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: #741b47;">Frame 5: Lighting</span></u></strong></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: blue;">Frame 6: Setting and Location</span></u></strong></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: #a64d79;">Frame 7: Genre and how the opening suggests it</span></u></strong></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: #b45f06;">Frame 8: Special Effects</span></u></strong></div></li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: #45818e;">Frame 9: How the suspense is created</span></u></strong></div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: red;">Frame 1 - Story and How the opening sets it up: </span></u></strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCr7ksrtsJhbViqHxDzi0Jz496TU-BGMkJky4pezh9GYSOLw1y5-PcvUH24Z3LYQSaJ9o_-LQG2iQccaWDUnkd1XvsEMImazwdx1V2-BM64sBCRIgNge80nXTCoDqzsdNWcs2duxDFUlZ2/s1600/frame+1+new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; height: 194px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; width: 320px;"><img border="0" height="194" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCr7ksrtsJhbViqHxDzi0Jz496TU-BGMkJky4pezh9GYSOLw1y5-PcvUH24Z3LYQSaJ9o_-LQG2iQccaWDUnkd1XvsEMImazwdx1V2-BM64sBCRIgNge80nXTCoDqzsdNWcs2duxDFUlZ2/s320/frame+1+new.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: red;">We wanted to create <strong><u>suspense</u></strong> in the beginning of our thriller opening sequence so that we could grasp the audience's attentions within minutes of the opening scene, so they would be more inclined to watch the film. As a group, we decided to use a <strong><u>high angle shot</u></strong> for the reason that we wanted the main character to be portrayed as being vulnerable and powerless. Additionally, to add to the suspense of our thriller opening sequence, we decided that by using this particular shot in the film it would make the moment more dramatic and eventful. The first shot taken for our film was an <strong><u>establishing shot </u></strong>which involved the director using a <strong><u>slow pan</u></strong> to film the inside of the main characters bedroom, capturing the girl and her use of body language. By using this particular shot, it would give the audience the opportunity to understand the location and the surroundings that the character was in. The main character is showcased falling into a deep sleep, whilst the setting illustrates this in more detail as we decided to use <strong><u>low key lighting</u></strong> and we drew the curtains to create a dark, eerie atmosphere. Additionally, the fact that there is a bed located in the centre of the room helps to acknowledge the fact that it is late at night. Considering the fact that we used <strong><u>low key lighting</u></strong> and a variety of <strong><u>slow panning shots</u></strong>, we were able to create a successful thriller opening sequence as the scenes built up anticipation and fear, as well as encouraging the audience to believe that something unexpected could occur in the subsequent shot.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: white;">Frame 2 - Camera Work and Editing:</span></u></strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fJhTgSzShUl7Fc-Ne-yydU-uKEcsq512d6-oroyFxh2knCPqtF7T98EF8c4ZAA4t1xZoa4rn-fX_7nr7yQeQeJYGPwMo_H8LVOP3TVwYVDo23hGE0Bqhs_xA9a5SUTcZuwATzIaRC0aX/s1600/frame+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: white;"><img border="0" height="197" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fJhTgSzShUl7Fc-Ne-yydU-uKEcsq512d6-oroyFxh2knCPqtF7T98EF8c4ZAA4t1xZoa4rn-fX_7nr7yQeQeJYGPwMo_H8LVOP3TVwYVDo23hGE0Bqhs_xA9a5SUTcZuwATzIaRC0aX/s320/frame+2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="color: white;">The second frame in the storyboard provides the audience with valid information concerning the main characters in the film. It becomes noticeable that the female character had clearly been out a couple of hours earlier with a potential boyfriend. The shot depicts this is in a rather informal manner as the information is displayed in a text message which has been sent to the main character. We decided that it would be best if we used an <strong><u>extreme long shot</u></strong> so that the writing displayed in the text would be clear enough for the audience to read. What is more, is that by using <strong><u>low key lighting</u></strong> in this particular shot, all the audiences attention would be focused on the content of the text message, rather than them having to focus their attention on numerous amounts of things happening at one specific time. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: #38761d;">Frame 3 - The title of the film: </span></u></strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-OlM2KM9zSfJ7bVk0g-n75E75U5Sikorr7b7HppJ4nZN2qDBWFc5_QH7gNODvNQ-S7zvFcK6NI9e7qryNW8F-cQ0MR9XWNV44x5yoT3Uix-YSliOJ2OWCTQ1XAPtuDlzxOW4GZUsTntw/s1600/frame+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-OlM2KM9zSfJ7bVk0g-n75E75U5Sikorr7b7HppJ4nZN2qDBWFc5_QH7gNODvNQ-S7zvFcK6NI9e7qryNW8F-cQ0MR9XWNV44x5yoT3Uix-YSliOJ2OWCTQ1XAPtuDlzxOW4GZUsTntw/s320/frame+3.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #38761d;">The third frame in the storyboard illustrates the title of the film <strong><u>'Premonition,'</u></strong> which appears glistening against the bleak backdrop in a faint white typography. As each scene follows on to the next, the letters fade away from the frame leading into the subsequent shot. One of the main reasons for using a dark background, was because we believed that the simpler the backdrop is the more successful it would be creating a <strong><u>dark, eerie atmosphere</u></strong> which is a must when filming thriller films. By using capital letters throughout the title of the film, it adds boldness to it whilst capturing the audience’s attention, which was our main intention. By including a flickering animation to our text it clearly creates uncertainty and fear, as the audience are unaware as to what events might occur in the following scenes. Additionally, the text was depicted as looking slightly blurry which might be a <strong><u>connotation</u></strong> for the blurriness of the premonition itself. Evidently, this fits the connotation of a successful film opening as most credits are essential as they provide the audience with the names of the <strong><u>distribution companies, actors, producers, set designers, directors</u></strong> and so on. Often, the title of the film will provide the audience with a taster of the narrative in the film without revealing too much of the plot.</span></div><br />
<strong><u><span style="color: #bf9000;">Frame 4 - How the characters are introduced:</span></u></strong><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimD8Hjrib6rTsJx_iNPpD-WPjB7dmt8Rb8a5iIhK042deY-0kp6B2YnWuv3yWBI5rfQqSmRNoAQBhXVW2BpGnhHVdHxclLiNZrapY4SY14n-HfhvWoPCGUjpFNPM4D-2de3kvmIC-rpdMz/s1600/frame+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimD8Hjrib6rTsJx_iNPpD-WPjB7dmt8Rb8a5iIhK042deY-0kp6B2YnWuv3yWBI5rfQqSmRNoAQBhXVW2BpGnhHVdHxclLiNZrapY4SY14n-HfhvWoPCGUjpFNPM4D-2de3kvmIC-rpdMz/s320/frame+4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #bf9000;">To introduce the characters to our target audience, we decided that the first shot we would use to depict this would be a <strong><u>reflection shot</u></strong> which illustrates who the main characters are in the film and it helps to establish the relationship between the couple, due to the fact that the audience are provided with a brilliant camera shot that allows them to see how the characters feed off of each others energy, as well as understanding their actions which are portrayed through their <strong><u>body language</u></strong>. This particular frame highlights that there is clearly a loving relationship between the characters, as the male is seen standing behind the female whilst looking straight into her eyes and admiring her beauty, as she is getting ready to head out to a party. Evidently, the formal clothing worn by both characters, the black cocktail dress and suit and shirt show that they were about to go out together for the evening. This frame recognises the <strong><u>conventions of a thriller film</u></strong> as this is the point in the film where the storyline begins to unfold. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong><u><span style="color: #741b47;">Frame 5 - Lighting:</span></u></strong></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qMDMRhyphenhyphenTyyF-G_tiP40j4o_AJ16oV_djFVwsf2rl16YmxE3imz-dGXC72QYvVIon56f7WduPKINfkJkw0mgcWo4igal6cXkt-9d0SvsS3WAJl8zO3kepR4DUyNF3njA1Z-SVBjohZ4PM/s1600/frame+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qMDMRhyphenhyphenTyyF-G_tiP40j4o_AJ16oV_djFVwsf2rl16YmxE3imz-dGXC72QYvVIon56f7WduPKINfkJkw0mgcWo4igal6cXkt-9d0SvsS3WAJl8zO3kepR4DUyNF3njA1Z-SVBjohZ4PM/s320/frame+5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #741b47;">In the fifth frame in the storyboard lighting is a major feature which is used in this particular camera shot. Not only did we use an <strong><u>extreme long shot</u></strong>, we also used <strong><u>high key lighting</u></strong> to illustrate the intimacy between the characters, as this helps the audience to identify that there is strong chemistry between the couple. By using high key lighting in this frame it aims to reduce the lighting ratio presented in the scene. Additionally, it is an overall lighting design which uses both the <strong><u>fill light</u></strong> and <strong><u>backlight</u></strong> to create low contrasts between the brighter and darker areas in the scene. As well as having the high key lighting, it was important to show that there was a darker side to the story, hence the shadow cast across the centre of the couple's hand. By showing this we wanted the audience to realise that not everything is as it seems. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><u>Frame 6 - Setting and Location:</u></strong></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Em5qbbzEa8Yx6-d9yqTXwY5ZYT_EavM_O6MR_y_zvKuOAxrSces1VnOatFAkW54YznS1f5f6fYyf5icsAUwQqGELUaX05x8a4WZSpSq8HAms_Jo76-72co2hyFIErUjg-yuZFqHuqgkC/s1600/frame+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="172" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Em5qbbzEa8Yx6-d9yqTXwY5ZYT_EavM_O6MR_y_zvKuOAxrSces1VnOatFAkW54YznS1f5f6fYyf5icsAUwQqGELUaX05x8a4WZSpSq8HAms_Jo76-72co2hyFIErUjg-yuZFqHuqgkC/s320/frame+6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: blue;">In this frame the scene focuses on the couple's body language, especially the male as his mood slowly begins to change to an intense attitude. Whilst he is standing behind the female holding her tightly in his arms, as well as resting his head upon her neck, he begins to look up and glare into the mirror looking straight at his girlfriend as though he detests/loathes her. Additionally, the reason why we chose to film this particular scene in the bathroom was because it seemed like the most realistic setting where someone would begin to get ready and do their make up before heading out for the evening. Moreover, the audience might assume that something horrible and disturbing might occur in the next few minutes; as the <strong><u>eerie soundtrack, use of high and low key lighting and the realistic setting</u></strong> demonstrates that an unexpected event could occur between the characters at any moment in time. Perhaps the characters being located in the bathroom might be the perfect situation to carry out an alarming act of violence. </span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: #a64d79;">Frame 7 - Genre and how the opening suggests it:</span></u></strong><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94HpmPQCunYfWRxI0ncRB48ZpnQXZhEAFYBRe5CDqNI8FGdQ8IxNNW_fF8dn2wlsGFXq-PzcCoMP6-Pakm_vnjXCb66bvGs9Kc4_fuAZmLpNoX7_4otksSO3R8kgqjeb4rXfxaP2qocDY/s1600/frame+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94HpmPQCunYfWRxI0ncRB48ZpnQXZhEAFYBRe5CDqNI8FGdQ8IxNNW_fF8dn2wlsGFXq-PzcCoMP6-Pakm_vnjXCb66bvGs9Kc4_fuAZmLpNoX7_4otksSO3R8kgqjeb4rXfxaP2qocDY/s320/frame+7.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #a64d79;">The seventh frame in the storyboard clearly demonstrates that the <strong><u>genre</u></strong> of the film is a <u><strong>thriller</strong></u> for the reason that within minutes of the opening sequence, the male character grabs hold of the female, slamming her body against the bathroom door as he attempts to suffocate and kill her in her premonition which she has whilst she is asleep. This frame clearly conveys a successful <strong><u>film opening</u></strong> as the scenes create a series of questions which begin to run through the audience's mind, for instance what event might occur next? Why does the male want to murder his own girlfriend? Is the premonition about to become a reality? By allowing the audience to question what situations might occur in the subsequent shots this achieves the films goal as it begins to build up suspense and drama through the storyline in the film. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><u><span style="color: #b45f06;">Frame 8 - Special Effects:</span></u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOpMMzouytPiDr4AgWdt8bNRPhZLWFZaJ4MG0_CUhMCM2LVx0Jp7R33h_EvqEvoXyyyWB6c4stcD77-_38OB4cjj3JBRkFKDjgDJrZanHuPlkUz6IyR4seMxdKY5KwQChbH_J2ix9aa4U8/s1600/frame+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOpMMzouytPiDr4AgWdt8bNRPhZLWFZaJ4MG0_CUhMCM2LVx0Jp7R33h_EvqEvoXyyyWB6c4stcD77-_38OB4cjj3JBRkFKDjgDJrZanHuPlkUz6IyR4seMxdKY5KwQChbH_J2ix9aa4U8/s320/frame+8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">This frame illustrates the use of <strong><u>special effects</u></strong> that we tried to create in our thriller opening sequence. This particular scene in the film illustrates the moment when the female character began to stir and gently open and closes her eyes. By using <strong><u>final cut express</u></strong>, we were given the opportunity to use a variety of effects such as <strong><u>cross cutting</u></strong>, which is where we used an <strong><u>extreme long shot</u></strong> of the female’s eye and slowly moved the camera closer towards the female’s pupil. Afterwards, we used a transition known as <strong><u>fade in fade out</u></strong> which focused on a <strong><u>point of view shot</u></strong> of the female glancing up towards the ceiling in her bedroom blinking every now and again. We decided to make the ceiling images blurry due to the fact that it made the sequence look far more realistic. Additionally, by making the ceiling images blurry it allowed the audience to realise that the blurriness came from the female attempting to open her eyes as she began to come round from a deep sleep. The transition was exceedingly successful as we wanted it to be portrayed somewhat realistic, rather than it looking too cliché. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><strong><u>Frame 9 - How the suspense is created:</u></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBtLQCDlW7wPq9g8fy65SkmoIs6GjSmWFCt299gOJcyvLscDo6fkS_vXPB-S7CrHUQ5arZiUTNp3F5j8jHuAJQf5arvS6nxzS0v842B9ldu5sFwiISgdx46oQTWKvRQHewcCBDfXt9lg-K/s1600/frame+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBtLQCDlW7wPq9g8fy65SkmoIs6GjSmWFCt299gOJcyvLscDo6fkS_vXPB-S7CrHUQ5arZiUTNp3F5j8jHuAJQf5arvS6nxzS0v842B9ldu5sFwiISgdx46oQTWKvRQHewcCBDfXt9lg-K/s320/frame+9.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #45818e;">The final frame in the storyboard depicts a <strong><u>close up</u></strong> of the female character suddenly opening her eyes, staring straight into the camera as she wakes up from her premonition. This particular shot demonstrates how terrified the female is due to the scenario she has just witnessed. This frame is an excellent representation of how the final shot in a film opening should be conveyed as it definitely creates a <strong><u>cliff-hanger</u></strong>, allowing the audience to question what events could occur throughout the remainder of the film. This way it draws the audience's attention to the film and encourages them to continue watching it in order to see the outcome. The camera shot is remarkably peculiar and sinister as the female stares straight into the centre of the camera which undoubtedly builds up trepidation and fear before suddenly <strong><u>transitioning</u></strong> into a black out. In the final shot of the <strong><u>opening sequence</u></strong>, the scene creates a vast amount of suspense and apprehension which is a must when creating successful thriller films. Hopefully, we conveyed this in our own opening sequence in the correct way. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Here are 9 key frames taken from other thriller films which we have used as inspiration for our own </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">'Thriller opening sequence.' </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgagasnkHZw1u-lxOlmWGqiZPA9SU1hYQLzq8NtmgnBu44EPU8z1D5VtiGf90FznP5gZ32jYRFaPGqH7IYF0QB30GOgEyaJzAuoWGV-hw4qP5VCbc2njoOGi0pbvTDfuZ-KXN1I_68g6_/s1600/inspiration+storyboard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgagasnkHZw1u-lxOlmWGqiZPA9SU1hYQLzq8NtmgnBu44EPU8z1D5VtiGf90FznP5gZ32jYRFaPGqH7IYF0QB30GOgEyaJzAuoWGV-hw4qP5VCbc2njoOGi0pbvTDfuZ-KXN1I_68g6_/s400/inspiration+storyboard.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<strong><span style="color: red;"><u>Frame 1: The Title of the film</u></span></strong><br />
<strong><u>Frame 2: How the characters are introduced</u></strong><br />
<strong><u><span style="color: #38761d;">Frame 3: Location and Setting</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">Frame 4: Camera Work</span></u></strong><br />
<strong><u><span style="color: #741b47;">Frame 5: Understanding the characters</span></u></strong><br />
<strong><u><span style="color: blue;">Frame 6: Special Effects</span></u></strong><br />
<strong><u><span style="color: #a64d79;">Frame 7: Genre and how the opening suggests it</span></u></strong><br />
<strong><u><span style="color: #b45f06;">Frame 8: Lighting</span></u></strong><br />
<strong><u><span style="color: #45818e;">Frame 9: How the suspense is created</span></u></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Frame 1 - The title of the film:</b></span></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBWrBXVen-Ffp2RcT3CxjAIhPPn1UuhbV9e3zeVA5FG2cYgw8gGflLSS1f3sIPJwKhJx3dNrutbLgBFyDCHI06Stz2ayJYeY62cxTd9E_0Hd99V9cA5jCXBe-Ilzrdw9dPI5VMWIjQSvt/s1600/new+frame+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBWrBXVen-Ffp2RcT3CxjAIhPPn1UuhbV9e3zeVA5FG2cYgw8gGflLSS1f3sIPJwKhJx3dNrutbLgBFyDCHI06Stz2ayJYeY62cxTd9E_0Hd99V9cA5jCXBe-Ilzrdw9dPI5VMWIjQSvt/s320/new+frame+1.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The first frame in the storyboard depicts the title of the film, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Premonition</span></b>. This is an essential feature to appear in the first few minutes of a movie as it introduces the name of the film and provides the audience with a taster of the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">narrative</span></b> in the film without revealing too much of the plot. By using a bleak backdrop, the more successful the film becomes as you are using a simpler design and it begins to build up intensity, creating a dark, eerie atmosphere which is a must when filming thriller films. Considering that they used bold, capital letters throughout the title of the film, it clearly adds boldness to it making the lettering stand out to the audience, capturing their attention. I believe that by displaying the title of the film on a darkened background, this has definitely made it a successful <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">title sequence</span></b> as the audience can focus all their attention on the heading rather than being distracted by the scenes which could have been projected behind the text. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Frame 2 - How the characters are introduced:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oy-UPgD-Jfz7if3CBO4CqSz852YOhGqR64IMWomGszVyZXgFWVJqUZDWheE9njY92SfzjsXqFGxw30x6SUIlfvJZNNt4IZkyUHh4YgUreQ1dWd89sb2HZ70i8STBvayYxAvGDiUKMJrD/s1600/new+frame+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oy-UPgD-Jfz7if3CBO4CqSz852YOhGqR64IMWomGszVyZXgFWVJqUZDWheE9njY92SfzjsXqFGxw30x6SUIlfvJZNNt4IZkyUHh4YgUreQ1dWd89sb2HZ70i8STBvayYxAvGDiUKMJrD/s320/new+frame+2.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="webkit-fake-url://EC8DDC76-A5F4-405A-8A84-E33E15C72456/image.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>The second frame in the storyboard is both a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">close up</span></b> and a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">r</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">eflection shot</span></b> of the main characters in the film. By using these particular shots, it helps us to notify who the characters are in the film and it helps the audience to establish the relationship between the couple, due to the fact that the audience are provided with exceptionally good camera shots that allow them to understand the characters actions which are portrayed through their <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">body language</span></b>. The characters are clearly happy and affectionate with one another as the male is seen standing behind his wife whilst looking straight into her eyes as well as resting his head in the crook of her neck. Their facial expressions both depict happiness as they stare straight into each others eyes in a tender loving mood. This frame recognises the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">conventions</span></b> of a thriller film as this is the point in the film where the story line begins to unfold.</div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Frame 3 - Location and Setting:</b></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhiHHIR0WHNKnCuWHXOhdkhY2zCAt61h3rK6WkCH-U0eDastC0HkZfD4AqKXpveJziFji7zRSsF0jNKS6OJugS0J54sYq_F6XrjuC7aAxu8JgZLFB5MwWrhgcjjyH3BJk_dIY8WvZHUGK/s1600/new+frame+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhiHHIR0WHNKnCuWHXOhdkhY2zCAt61h3rK6WkCH-U0eDastC0HkZfD4AqKXpveJziFji7zRSsF0jNKS6OJugS0J54sYq_F6XrjuC7aAxu8JgZLFB5MwWrhgcjjyH3BJk_dIY8WvZHUGK/s320/new+frame+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">This frame is an <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">e</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">stablishing shot</span></b> of the location of where the scenes were filmed in. Evidently, the location of the film was filmed in a beautiful, idyllic part of the suburbs. The camera shot illustrates an exceedingly large house which is located in a very friendly, warm neighbourhood. The setting looks exceptionally peaceful and a great place for children to live and be raised in, considering the enormous front garden where children could run around playing football with one another. Additionally, the reason why the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">set designers</span></b> chose to film this particular scene in the suburbs was because it seemed like the most realistic setting where a couple could settle down and start a family together. Moreover, this shot provides the audience with a rough picture of what the location is like so that the audiences feel more connected to the film. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Frame 4 - Camera Work:</b></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHBPlsVxWfNMpgRtnq0V8K0St8j3aq6cBVMYOyvNSgTpusytcPXU9Y9fP7tsQsM5d5EyjWC_XvU6Jo0_vuCuwsaiZUV7kB7EM8k-PTkwxSmauUXZ1uYYa4lL2lzPX_3T5m3WUawSNkEp5i/s1600/new+frame+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHBPlsVxWfNMpgRtnq0V8K0St8j3aq6cBVMYOyvNSgTpusytcPXU9Y9fP7tsQsM5d5EyjWC_XvU6Jo0_vuCuwsaiZUV7kB7EM8k-PTkwxSmauUXZ1uYYa4lL2lzPX_3T5m3WUawSNkEp5i/s320/new+frame+4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">This frame is a very important <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">over the shoulder</span></b> shot as it illustrates that a very significant event has occurred. Most likely something upsetting and distressing as the female character looks scared and devastated as she holds her hand up against her chest. Due to the camera focusing primarily on the female, the shot begins to create a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">series of questions</span></b> which begin to run through the audiences mind, for example what has happened. Why is the female looking devastated and hurt? Has she received devastating news? By allowing the audience to question what situations might occur in the following scenes this achieves the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>films goal</b></span> as it begins to build up intensity and drama through the story line in the film. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Frame 5 - Understanding the characters:</b></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHz1eVIyPnUrkwykxZiLvEgzuGdBwT-JRRyKTL7liHPD7VVbb48wuiNKnDJUunaACZIBzn-HuRFveyjwaL_1ck2aj5PRxVppuqqiSGmR2A_gaYctX-OpvyPN24jBUf4dSFZWXEGXGushL/s1600/new+frame+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHz1eVIyPnUrkwykxZiLvEgzuGdBwT-JRRyKTL7liHPD7VVbb48wuiNKnDJUunaACZIBzn-HuRFveyjwaL_1ck2aj5PRxVppuqqiSGmR2A_gaYctX-OpvyPN24jBUf4dSFZWXEGXGushL/s320/new+frame+5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">The fifth frame in the storyboard provides the audience with <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">sufficient information</span></b> so that they begin to understand the characters personality and their family background. In this particular frame, it is noticeable that the main character is extending her arm forward towards the two lunch boxes. By using an <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">extreme close up</span></b>, the scene gives emphasis to the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">props</span></b> used in the film as they highlight that the main character must be a mother of two young children and her life simply resolves around her kids as she is seen being very considerate and thoughtful as she reminds her children to take their lunch boxes to school before escorting them in that direction. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Frame 6 - Special Effects:</b></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo37ew4Qf3zK43fYvp9HI8F9y-oulCu9kRM9xjozVCaqN88orKjA4BWAtXX35mdnKg8Nk0flZWsa4YDMh775DkBfjsT-X7_RR4XzztlMdYgGFWlaVtMvJ7CTiPfoRnotJjbYHnxt8xuaVB/s1600/new+frame+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="244" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo37ew4Qf3zK43fYvp9HI8F9y-oulCu9kRM9xjozVCaqN88orKjA4BWAtXX35mdnKg8Nk0flZWsa4YDMh775DkBfjsT-X7_RR4XzztlMdYgGFWlaVtMvJ7CTiPfoRnotJjbYHnxt8xuaVB/s320/new+frame+6.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="webkit-fake-url://5DED69CE-02C7-4662-873D-5BB4526AA28A/image.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This particular camera shot uses a brilliant amount of <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">special effects </span></b>which has been used purposely to demonstrate that the scene in the film is a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">flashback</span></b> to when the couple were getting married in a previous stage in their life. The <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">brightness</span></b> and <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">colour scale</span></b> has been altered with to create an uplifting, joyful moment which the character is sadly going through a terrible tragedy with her family. By using special effects in this segment of the film, it has made the scene exceptionally successful as the audience are aware of the fact that they are being supplied with information regarding a memory from the females past, that is, a flashback. The clothing that both characters are dressed in help the audience to understand that this is a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">major focal point</span></b> in the couple's timeline together, that is, their wedding day. As the female is dressed in an elegant white wedding dress and veil whilst the male is dressed smartly in a tuxedo. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Frame 7 - Genre and how the opening suggests it:</b></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAliaABcAPZH_4xU0Nh0r1GkNSm1ErtaM9myTn57CVELMhg8u2Zkha74Aod8pACFmUDI85FPBf2lkGVKxFEII8M8y9x-J5xz2RiAmd8sH05UFMf5K1KQDqcBkrxEVU9lSgqlAKazZt_07g/s1600/new+frame+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="244" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAliaABcAPZH_4xU0Nh0r1GkNSm1ErtaM9myTn57CVELMhg8u2Zkha74Aod8pACFmUDI85FPBf2lkGVKxFEII8M8y9x-J5xz2RiAmd8sH05UFMf5K1KQDqcBkrxEVU9lSgqlAKazZt_07g/s320/new+frame+7.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="webkit-fake-url://C2CFC1F0-0291-4CBF-A824-87B2B5BDE760/image.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">The seventh frame in the storyboard demonstrates that the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">genre</span></b> of the film is a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">thriller</span></b> for the reason that halfway through the film, the male character suddenly appears standing behind his wife before grabbing hold of her and covering her mouth with a plastic bag, attempting to suffocate and kill her. Moments later he is seen throwing his wife across their bedroom, slamming her body against the bedroom walls, cupboards and upon broken glass. This is another scene in the film that conveys a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">successful thriller opening</span></b> as the scene creates a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">series of questions</span></b> which begin to run through the audiences mind, for instance why does the husband want to murder his wife? What has she done wrong? What event might occur next? By allowing the audience to question what events could occur in the following scenes it begins to build up suspense and trepidation through the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">narrative</span></b> in the film. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrKxpKxzp9AULkOb1-jKXbVgZkABP-DIi9lhxlbPmYcG5RqstwgVChWC3KbI4vWknQsC947C1_ivqWoxYknn0eyvCPWsTXFAhf3DVCi0DorQajs7k-2agM2nnG1cPRO5j3_nrkt3Qu341/s1600/new+frame+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="244" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrKxpKxzp9AULkOb1-jKXbVgZkABP-DIi9lhxlbPmYcG5RqstwgVChWC3KbI4vWknQsC947C1_ivqWoxYknn0eyvCPWsTXFAhf3DVCi0DorQajs7k-2agM2nnG1cPRO5j3_nrkt3Qu341/s320/new+frame+8.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="webkit-fake-url://96D12E04-7C57-4598-81C2-2F76F30B31F0/image.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">In the eighth frame of the storyboard, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">lighting</span></b> is a major feature that is used in this particular shot. Not only did the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">directors</span></b> use an <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">extreme close up</span></b>, they also decided to use <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">low key lighting</span></b> to convey suspense and trepidation, which is clearly presented throughout the majority of the frame. The camera focuses primarily on the characters eye as he begins to stare upwards towards the ceiling. However, the more you concentrate on the frame, it becomes noticeable that the character is clearly uncomfortable in the situation he has been placed in, as he looks as though he would much rather look at something more pleasing compared to the scenario that he is actually having to stare at. Low key lighting accentuates the outline of an object by covering areas of it into shade while a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">fill light</span></b> or <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">reflector</span></b> begins to shed light on the shadow areas to create a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">contrast</span></b>. Low key lighting is usually used to intensify the sense of alienation which may often be felt by the viewer, hence why it is often used in both <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">horror and thriller films</span></b>. By using low-key lighting in this frame, we wanted the audience to realize that not everything is as it seems. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Frame 9 - How the suspense is created:</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlJVX6K4ab_mcIeCkMHGR82UZVtqW0EkQBLWmnc5jAkvYqeeldtmwFm7oXHIb2T_oTBukegjvmOFuaeOpMjJrotru4WwTJd-u-ZjX6_Xm5S7MCritLzx9uD-rl7XaB-oWqZKG1rOS9Lju5/s1600/new+frame+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlJVX6K4ab_mcIeCkMHGR82UZVtqW0EkQBLWmnc5jAkvYqeeldtmwFm7oXHIb2T_oTBukegjvmOFuaeOpMjJrotru4WwTJd-u-ZjX6_Xm5S7MCritLzx9uD-rl7XaB-oWqZKG1rOS9Lju5/s1600/new+frame+9.jpg" /></a><a href="webkit-fake-url://38149067-DDF5-427A-A46D-DE245F856AF6/image.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">The final frame in the storyboard illustrates a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">close up</span></b> of the female character opening her eyes as she stares down looking towards the floor, as she though she may have just awoken from having her <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">premonition</span></b>. This particular shot demonstrates how upset and troubled she is due to the event she has just witnessed. This frame is an excellent <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">representation</span></b> of how scenes which build up suspense create cliff-hangers, as well as a series of questions, allowing the audience to question what events could occur throughout the remainder of the film. This way it draws the audience's attention to the film and encourages them to continue watching it in order to see the outcome. The camera shot is definitely distressing and perturbing as the female begins to comfort herself by clutching her pillow close to her body as she continues to look away from the camera glancing towards the floor.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; color: #45818e; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-12924672002826731952011-02-14T03:56:00.000-08:002011-02-26T09:01:53.070-08:00Evaluating another persons thriller opening - Evasion:<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tMoCpRNePHc" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe><br />
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As Group 3's thriller opening scene begins, it immediately engages the audience with their logos and animations representing the distribution and production companies. They are clear, idyllic and strong images. Additionally, the film begins with a dark background. However, moments later the title sequences appear alongside the faded backdrop. In my opinion, I think that it was really good that the group started the film with a dark backdrop, as it begins to create intensity and fear. Furthermore, the audience are kept in the dark about what events might occur in the subsequent shot. I particularly like the whole 'man on the run' thriller and the group have worked exceptionally hard to convey this. They have established the roles of each character really well and it is clear to the audience who is meant to be playing who. <br />
In the first few shots of the opening sequence, the group uses a vast and different amount of camera shots and angles ranging from "<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">close ups, mid shots, long shots and high angles.</span>" </i>I think that group three put their editing ability to good use as they used 'cross-cutting' and 'jump cuts' in the opening scenes of the sequence where Matthew and Josh are on the phone to one another having a conversation. The audience are given the opportunity to see the actors whereabouts in the different locations.<br />
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One of the things which I think the group could improve on, is that when the phone conversation is taking place between Josh and Matthew, one of them will say something then they'll be a five second pause and then the other character will respond to the actor. Unfortunately, this lacks continuity as if you look closely in films produced today there is never a gap in a conversation. The actors will immediately give a response to what the other has said. Additionally, what group three could have done to improve their thriller opening sequence is that they could have used some of the audio from previous the scenes and then link it to the subsequent shot, so it begins to look more realistic and appealing.<br />
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Additionally, another improvement which could be made to the thriller opening sequence is the soundtrack. Whilst the soundtrack is gripping and electric, it often overpowers the dialogue in certain areas of the film and it is hard to hear what the characters are actually saying to one another. So the group, definiately need to tone down the sound levels. <br />
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The main scenes of the film which I thought were exceptionally good, were the areas where the characers were chasing the man that was on the run. The group used their imagination and creativity when using different camera angles and shots to film the scenes when the characters were climbing and jumping over the walls. I think that by adding these features to their opening sequence, it has without a doubt made the film more action packed and exciting as it lures the audience in to watching the film. <br />
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To conclude, I think that overall their thriller opening sequence is brilliant. However, as long as they take on board the feedback given and make a few ammends to their project, their thriller film will be extremely successful. The continuity flows elegantly between each scene and it definitely keeps you gripped.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-45534636487226180182011-01-23T08:18:00.000-08:002011-04-11T08:53:37.020-07:00Ideas for soundtrack with embedded clips:<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ideas for soundtrack with embedded clips:</span></u><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The Ring’ soundtrack is one of the tracks that I have chosen to analyse for the reason that certain areas of the song has elements in it that we are hoping to use and re-create for our own thriller soundtrack. Additionally, as a group we decided that we wanted to create a soundtrack whereby the tone consists of a high pitched melody and an unsettling electronic sound which would be heard overpowering the film sequence. The soundtrack used in this particular film is clearly eerie and tense as it builds up fear and trepidation to keep the audience questioning about what might occur in the subsequent shot. </span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Wfp2KkDioi8" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="480"></iframe><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">‘Dead Silence,’ is the second soundtrack that I have chosen as an idea for our own soundtrack due to the fact that as soon as the melody begins to play it engages the audiences’ attention. What is more, is that the louder the noise becomes you begin to feel your heat beat race and your throat suddenly becomes dry. Fear takes over. In my opinion, if these elements consist in a thriller soundtrack then this is what makes the overall film successful and enthralling. Furthermore, the tone of the melody is subtle and tense rather than being thunderous and edgy as it would not have had the same effect at creating a suspenseful thriller film. By using a lighter, distressing melody it tends to builds up apprehension and nervousness. </div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The Exorcist’ soundtrack delivers a dark, tense, atmospheric sound beginning with a piano and gradually incorporating the sound of tubular bells. This music can also occur during a particularly suspenseful part of a film and equally can stop abruptly to create a sense of dread as to what is about to occur next, delivering a rollercoaster of human emotions. In addition, horror scores can showcase the fears and anxieties of the characters during tense and frightening situations. It is for these reasons that this soundtrack is being considered as an example to the feelings I hope to re-create for our own thriller opening sequence. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-35429226727961525042011-01-22T10:15:00.000-08:002011-04-12T13:36:06.002-07:00Analysis of Film Posters and DVD covers (models of our own work)<strong><strong></strong></strong><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5atoN0xzQqNUBhYCjQCbPPY29kdfrZTqSh_XLttWzqY8xRytWsuxRSp64uH9Lhx7xRP_nMnR08nJT7Epgj-eqw4lMpO4sWcbWmiBCbg8FNsWb9WqfxnLzUXJu1rRIY8CYsL5C23gU86hF/s1600/nightmare_on_elm_street_rabba_movie_poster3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5atoN0xzQqNUBhYCjQCbPPY29kdfrZTqSh_XLttWzqY8xRytWsuxRSp64uH9Lhx7xRP_nMnR08nJT7Epgj-eqw4lMpO4sWcbWmiBCbg8FNsWb9WqfxnLzUXJu1rRIY8CYsL5C23gU86hF/s320/nightmare_on_elm_street_rabba_movie_poster3.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">'Nightmare on Elm Street,' is one of the film posters that I have selected to analyse for the reason that the narrative expectation in the film consists of a couple of elements which are similar to our own thriller opening sequence. This particular film poster is exceptionally eerie and unsettling since many sinister, murky colours are depicted across the film poster creating a sense of mystery and uncertainty. Additionally, the use of low key lighting has been used to create a disturbing atmosphere. It is clear to the audience that the characters showcased on the poster are the main characters in the film, perhaps the victim and the villain. The characters are introduced to the audience so they have a clear understanding as to who they are and what their purpose in the film is. What is more, is that across the side of the film poster is a couple of childrens drawings which look as though they have been scratched into the wall, these symbols may be clues which foreshadows the events and killings that occur later on in the film. The reason for choosing this poster as a possible model for our own work is due to the fact that we wanted to use a sinister, creepy colour scheme to create an eerie atmosphere and to build up terror and trepidation. Furthermore, we wanted the poster to catch the audiences attention and encourage them to come and watch the film. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH50zvsRb1Cr7qQ2kYYXyYo2Eq4WWgC9PF4VsABOy_zcZ9NRQBAEGClz8VsgJtMjOaLADLeDEdRtOL11Mr3iTwqNY4h1ytjytihG8BYfKYBmN94y0zH_ps3XG-8Y3Xnun-XIFAqGGFpBME/s1600/premonition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH50zvsRb1Cr7qQ2kYYXyYo2Eq4WWgC9PF4VsABOy_zcZ9NRQBAEGClz8VsgJtMjOaLADLeDEdRtOL11Mr3iTwqNY4h1ytjytihG8BYfKYBmN94y0zH_ps3XG-8Y3Xnun-XIFAqGGFpBME/s320/premonition.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">'Premonition,' is another poster that I have chosen to analyse for the reason that a few of the narrative expectations in the film features in our own thriller opening sequence. The title of the film is an extremely bold, straight to the point title as "premonition" only has one meaning. Clearly, the audience know that the narrative consists of someone having a 'premonition,' a dream, where they are able to see events that are going to take place in the future. In my own thriller opening sequence, the main character has a premontion where she sees herself getting ready for a party. However, minutes later her boyfriend is depicted slamming her body against the bathroom door suffocating her in the process. The film poster presented above is exceedingly interesting and ambiguous for the reason that the main characters face has been created using parts of nature such as trees and leaves. In my opinion, perhaps the shadowy, blurred face made up of leaves emerging between the trees, demonstrates that "premonitions" are blurred and that there is a thin line between whats real and what's not. Additionally, the repitive use of plants and trees depicted on the film poster might be objects which are linked to the events that take place in the film. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs55hqmgI4u73YI2OEugHPB-bqwdhd0w9oUGcZXs-hGJWflqDsYNkyM-w-gR8N72nsFBafqPSdudebYMfs_rTt-iA06ay0RNgyJxoUCOrY_kCLaNOUDEeSwPnQoesBF21UVFNkh7oU5VvJ/s1600/the_uninvited_movie_poster_onesheet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs55hqmgI4u73YI2OEugHPB-bqwdhd0w9oUGcZXs-hGJWflqDsYNkyM-w-gR8N72nsFBafqPSdudebYMfs_rTt-iA06ay0RNgyJxoUCOrY_kCLaNOUDEeSwPnQoesBF21UVFNkh7oU5VvJ/s320/the_uninvited_movie_poster_onesheet.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">'The Uninvited' is the third film poster that I have chosen to analyse as it models our own work. The main reason for choosing this particular film poster to examine, is because similar to the first film poster I analysed there is a huge amount of 'low key lighting' and an unsettling, shadowy colour scheme which creates terror and ambiguity. The white typography printed across the bottom third of the poster is somewhat scribbled and depicted slanting downwards, these elements all add to creating the perfect thriller film poster. What appealed to me the most is the shadowy, darkened figure pictured outside of the window. It looks as though the person is trapped and is searching for a way to break free. Additionally, the mist and foggyness presented behind the figure adds to the mystery and uncertainty of the film. The reason why I chose this film poster to analyse, is for the reason that in my opening sequence the main character feels as though she is trapped and she doesn't know what to do or say. I wanted to have a look at possible film posters showcasing someone being trapped so that I'd know what sort of effects and ideas I could use to incorporate into my own thriller film poster. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The film poster presented above is a rough draft of what my own individual film poster could look like when incorporating images related to important scenes from my own thriller opening sequence 'Premonition.' I decided to change the lighting of the pictures so that each photo showed signs of 'low key lighting' to illustrate a shadowy colour scheme which creates tension, nervousness and fear. The same human emotions that our audience may feel when watching our thriller film. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-24690672399060013082011-01-19T13:27:00.000-08:002011-01-23T08:24:34.353-08:00Previous Schools Opening Film Sequences:<u>Previous Schools Opening Film Sequences:</u><br />
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This is an opening sequence which was created by students attending 'Long Road' school between 2008-9. The main reason for choosing this particular opening sequence, is for the reason that I did not think that this was a great opening sequence. I thought that the students worked hard in creating the logo for their distribution company as it looked creative, unique and was brightly coloured. Additionally, they used a range of transitions to allow the logo to demonstrate a range of effects as certain words and pictures moved across the screen. What I believe to have been a letdown in the opening sequence, is three things:<br />
1) The title sequences. These were simply a bland red typography which popped up onto the screen in the first few shots simply listing the names of the actors. They did not list the producer, director, costume designer, casting director and so fourth. If you look carefully, in most opening sequences they <u>always</u> list the conventions of film openings. <br />
2) The narrative expectations. Sadly, the plot was boring and did not really grab my attention. Many of the shots looked as though they weren't thought through properly and they were just placed in a random order. Additionally, the plot was ambigous as I had no clue as to who the characters were and why they were suddenly being tortured in a room one minute and then being shoved into a car in the next one. What is more, is that there was a lack of continuity as the scenes did not flow very well alongside one another, it continually jumped between scenes. <br />
3) The effects. Whilst it is good to sometimes use transitions and effects in your opening sequence, these group of students seemed to over use the transitions as they repeatedly used the same effects in the same scene, so the sequence seemed to jump three or four times when this wasn't really necessary. <br />
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This was another thriller opening sequence created by a group of students who attended the 'Long Road' school between 2008-9. The reason why I chose this particular film sequence is due to the fact that whilst the narrative is not particular exciting and seems quite confusing as the only thing that is being filmed is a forest panning through the different areas of it. The one area of it which I think is absolutely brilliant, is the title sequences. The students have clearly spent a lot of time editing and creating a creative, different and eye catching title sequence whereby you feel as though you are travelling through time across this map where the different conventions of film openings are presented. Additionally, the students have added small captions of text where it discusses parts of the story engaging the audience. However, a downside of doing this is that the opening sequence might look as though it is a trailer rather than the opening sequence of a thriller film.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-38464973061378424742011-01-19T12:31:00.000-08:002011-04-11T08:59:03.534-07:00Our Second group meeting in the christmas holidays and what still needs to be done:In the last few days of the christmas holidays my group, group 4 arranged to meet up one last time to film the first scene in our thriller opening film sequence. We met up first thing in the morning and immediately got straight to work setting up the bedroom with blankets to block out the light, lighting, cushions and photographs, which are all significant items introducing the character to the film. Again, we set up the dolly and camcorder allowing it to record a 'behind the scenes' of Nimesh's bedroom and how we organised the props and placed them in the correct areas of the room.<br />
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In my opinion, the bedroom scene took the longest to film for the reason that we wanted the location and character to look as though they were being filmed late at night, when in reality it was actually 9:00am. However, by covering the windows efficently and blocking out all of the light, it helped us to use the various lamps to create low key lighting, without over using it. Additionally, the second hardest thing we had to do whilst filming the bedroom scene was to bear in mind that we had to use multiple camera shots and camera angles in order to create a sufficient opening sequence. Luckily, we used <em>close ups, long shots, mid shots, pan shot, areial/birdseye view shot, tracking shot </em>as well as using <em>high angle and low angle shots.</em> It took us a couple of hours to film the bedroom scene as we had to do many re-takes as certain shots looked out of place or the continuity did not flow well between scenes. Thankfully, after a hard's day work we finished filming our entire opening sequence, and now we were just excited to get back to school and start the editing process. <br />
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What we still need to do as a group, is that Khushel and myself have decided to edit the opening sequence and add in any transitions or effects that we believe are necessary to our film seqeuence, whilst Nimesh and Viraj are going to be creating the title sequences for our film. We'v decided that as a group were going to create the soundtrack together so that we can all make suggestions and decide what sounds best and what coincides well with the opening scene.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-67892582509790512562011-01-19T12:11:00.000-08:002011-04-11T08:59:40.536-07:00Our first group meeting in the christmas holidays:A few days in to the christmas holidays Khushel, Viraj, Nimesh and myself agreed to meet up together and began filming our final shoot for our thriller opening film sequence. We started shooting bright and early sorting out the different props we needed in order to create the right setting/location for our scene. Whilst we were setting up the location with props, lighting and dark blankets to block out the light, we decided that it would be a good idea if we let the camera film whilst setting up the room so the audeince recieved an inside scoop into the 'behind the scenes' of our location, in this case Nimesh's bathroom and how Nimesh and myself worked together to film the death scene. Once everything had been set up and after completing a couple of practice shots, we were rearing to go. <br />
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We shot many 'reflection shots' of myself getting ready looking in the bathroom mirror before noticing Nimesh emerge in the doorway. We had to take quite a few shots of this scene as when we watched the clip back, we noticied that the camera emerged from the side of the shot. However, after a few takes we succeeded in filming the shot without the camera being seen. Khushel and Viraj (our directors) took different camera shots from different angles in the bathroom but still bearing in mind the '180 degree rule.' The one shot that took us quite a lot of time to film was the shot in the bathroom. This was where Nimesh span me around and threw me against the bathroom door suffocating me with a plastic bag. The main reason for this was because we wanted to make sure that I recieved enough oxygen and was able to breathe, without actually being suffocated! Additionally, we had some difficulties when Nimesh had to spin me around, hold me against the door, whilst pulling out the plastic bag from his pocket, all within seconds of the shot. When filming this shot we'd reach halfway and then the bag would get caught in Nimeshs pocket so we'd have to cut what we'd filmed so far and re-film the shot again. Thankfully, after a few practice shots we managed to get it just right so it looked realistic and fast paced. <br />
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We decided that after a full day's shoot we would arrange to meet up again to film the bedroom scene, towards the end of the christmas holidays.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-59247333873782197702010-12-15T14:46:00.000-08:002011-01-23T08:26:12.660-08:00Premonition: Opening Scene Analysis<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u>Premonition – Opening Sequence Analysis:</u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 109.5pt;">Premonition influenced my own thriller opening sequence since it is tells the story of a housewife who has a premonition of her husband being killed in a car accident as a large truck collides into his own car, causing a huge, disastrous explosion killing them. Fortunately, this is similar to my plot for our opening sequence for the reason that in our film a teenage girl has a dream/premonition of her boyfriend attempting to murder her by the use of suffocation.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The film begins with a series of numerous shots whereby the distributor, production company, a ... film, the actors and the title of the movie fade in onto a darkened backdrop in an intense white typeface. As each scene flows onto the next, the letters fade away from the frame steadily before re-emerging in the following shot. The film opens with a ‘birds eye view shot’ of a woman sitting inside a car with her face buried into her hands. The camera moves steadily through its surrounding before focusing on the main character. Slowly, the camera angle begins to zoom down onto the woman and we notice her partner come into view as he stands alongside the car. The angle increasingly changes to a ‘close up’ of the couple. This has been purposely done for the reason that as the audience we tend to take in and observe the setting and the characters present in the scene. It is an excellent way to set the atmosphere as well as positioning the audience to see clearly, what is taking place outside of the scene as well. It is sometimes followed by getting closer to the subject at hand. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The camera angle suddenly changes to a ‘tracking shot’ as it tracks the two main characters as they begin to walk in front of one another. Gradually, the camera stops moving and focuses on the characters as the camera angle changes to a ‘medium shot’ which is filmed at the side of their bodies. This demonstrates their body language so that the audience begins to understand their thoughts and feelings. During the cameras fast paced movements, it frequently captures an ‘over the shoulder’ and a ‘medium shot’ demonstrating the couple looking astonishingly at their new home. As a result of using these specific camera shots, this illustrates to the viewing audience a sense of romanticism and idealism. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">As the scene continues, the camera gradually begins to do a ‘two frame shot’ whereby the camera angle changes from a close up showcasing the top third of their body from the front and then changing to a ‘medium shot’ where their bodies are shown from the side. A variety of fast paced shots are used as they occasionally cross dissolve into one another to illustrate the two main characters talking to each other and glancing back towards the house on various occasions which may provide narrative information about the main concept in the film. The camera angle swiftly changes to an ‘extreme long shot’ so that the audience gets an insight into what other scenarios are taking place around the couple and their home. Rapidly, the camera shot changes to a ‘close up’ and a ‘reaction shot’ to express the characters emotion and facial features to the audience. The camera eventually changes to an ‘extreme long shot’ as it steadily moves away from the character and the house before fading out into a plain white backdrop. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Throughout the entire opening sequence, especially the opening credit, a non-diegetic sound is heard throughout; this is a sound that comes from a source outside the world of the story. A high pitched, electronic musical sound is heard overpowering the text and images on screen. Compared to the shots on screen, the melody is evidently different unusual. This implies to the audience that not everything is portrayed as it should be. Additionally, the tune builds up trepidation and anxiety as you feel as though something unexpected is about to take place in the subsequent shot.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-6689731182301932352010-12-12T10:21:00.001-08:002010-12-12T10:21:41.195-08:00What was good about Victoria Parker's Media Blog?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 171.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Whilst browsing through another student AS media blog, it was clear to me that she has spent a lot of time and effort linking videos and pictures from other media sites and explaining in detail how they are necessary to her own media blog. Evidently, she has updated her blog every few days explaining what tasks she had to complete in order to create her opening sequence for her film. Additionally, she has broken down her blog and categorised sections of her work to make it easier for other members to view her blog. Some of these categories include: text/font, soundtrack, lighting, audience response and much more. What is more, is that she has recorded videos discussing the reasons why her group chose to film in a particular location and what clothing each character is going to wear. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 171.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 171.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">One of the main things which I believe to be exceedingly good is that the student has also filmed a behind the scenes and blooper real to add to her blog. I believe this that this is exceptionally different as she has done extra work and done something different to show the examiner. She has obviously decided to do something dissimilar with her blog, which is that she does not need to keep on writing pages of text discussing what she has done to create her film and why she decided to do things in a particular way, instead she has done something creatively which is to film her group talking about the different things that they have taken into account when filming their opening sequence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 381.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-56825098346967986682010-12-01T13:12:00.000-08:002011-04-12T12:11:17.424-07:00Nightmare on Elm Street and Premonition Using Todorov's and Propps Theory<object height="385" width="540"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/97h_Oj6PotM?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/97h_Oj6PotM?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="540" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Nightmare on Elm Street 2010</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have chosen the film ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ as a thriller of my choice to illustrate both Todorov’s five stage model and Propp’s theory based upon character roles, also known as spheres of action. I picked this particular film, as it relates to my own group pitch which we are hoping to create and film as our own thriller opening sequence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nightmare on Elm Street </span>is a horror, mystery and thriller movie which highlights how death stalks the dreams of many teenagers to claim its revenge on the killing of a man known as ‘Freddie Kruger.’ They are chased and tortured by this finger – bladed devil, as they begin to experience old memories and the denials of a past of revenge which brings this hellish vision of a nightmare by allowing death to become a part of their reality.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Applying Propp’s Theory to ‘Nightmare on Elm Street:</span></u></street></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The hero’ is usually the main protagonist who is at the centre of the story, or sometimes on a quest, a search or a mission<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;">= in the film there are two main characters Nancy and Quentin who in my opinion are the hero’s in the film since they are able to survive the dreams and find out what events are really taking place in ‘Elm Street.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The Villain’ competes with and tries to destroy the hero</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> = ‘Freddie Kruger’ is the villain in the film as he stalks the teenagers in their dreams and attempts to murder them with his finger bladed hands. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The donor’ provides a magic ingredient to move the story on </span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;">= <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Nancy</place></city>’s mum is the donor in the film as she provides information such as old photographs from when her daughter was in pre school. Through Nancy seeing the photographs she realises that everyone she thought she only met when she started high school, she now realises she was with them in her old pre school and that clearly there’s a link between them and the dream which they are all having. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The Princess’ is often the hero’s reward or prize at the end of the story</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> =</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><place w:st="on"><city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nancy</span></city></place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is the princess in the film as she is largely considered as being the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">main character in the film and the one who tries to solve the story and destroy </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the villain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The princess father/authority figure’ is usually someone who rewards the hero</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">= In my opinion, Quentin’s father is portrayed as the ‘authority figure’ in the </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">film as he was the character who found out that “Freddie Kruger” was a </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">paedophile and he was hurting the children at the pre-school, including his </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">own. He attempted to take action alongside the other parents but </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">unfortunately the plan backfired on them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The helper’ is someone who provides guidance and support to the hero</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> = I </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">believe that whilst Quentin is also a main character in the film, the movie </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">focuses on <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Nancy</place></city> that little bit more compared to him. Therefore, Quentin is </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">portrayed as being the helper in the film as he tries to comfort Nancy and help</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">her to find out who “Freddie Kruger” is and why he is torturing them in their</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">dreams. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The dispatcher’ sends the hero off on his/her task or quest </span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;">= In the film there </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">is not a significant character that plays the role of a ‘dispatcher.’ However, the </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">photograph of the teenagers when they were at pre-school motivates <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Nancy</place></city> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and Quentin to find out what really happened years before. It encourages </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">those to go and visit the old pre-school and find any important evidence which </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">may be the answer to finding out why “Freddie Kruger” is torturing them in </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">their nightmares. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Todorov’s theory:</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Todorov argues that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">narrative involves a transformation. The characters or </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">situations are transformed through the progress of the disruption.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Equilibrium:</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The equilibrium in the film was when the children attended a pre-school in ‘Elm Street' </span>where they were happy and enjoyed sharing new learning experiences with their friends. It also highlighted that they came from happy families</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Disruption: </span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;">The disruption in the film was when a gardener who goes by the name of “Freddie Kruger” got a job at the pre-school. He slowly began to play games with the children and attempt to get closer to them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Recognition of disruption:</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The realisation that there was a disruption in the </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">film was when the children began to tell their parents that whilst they were at </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">school the gardener always took them to his secret place, known as the </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“magic cave.” Once there he would sometimes touch them and scratch their </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Attempt to repair disruption:</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The attempt to repair the disruption became clear </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">to us when the children who are now teenagers slowly began to have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">recurring dreams of the gardener “Freddie Kruger” who they once knew when</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">they were younger. The dreams end up as nightmares as they are chased</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and tortured by this finger – bladed devil, as they begin to experience old</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">memories from their past. The two main characters, Nancy and Quentin </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">realise that one of them must stay awake whilst the other must fall asleep in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">an attempt to end this nightmare once and for all, by killing “Freddie Kruger” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and beating him at his own games. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">A return of new equilibrium: </span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;">The ending of the film takes a peculiar twist as</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Freddie Kruger” decides that instead of killing the students by becoming a </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">visage in their dreams and murdering them in hellish situations. He now </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">comes to a decision that he will target the relatives closest to the students and </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">kill them violently and brutally one by one. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u>Todorov and Propp’s Theory for my own thriller opening sequence – Premonition.</u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<u>Applying Propp’s Theory to Premonition:</u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">‘The hero’ is usually the main protagonist who is at the centre of the story, or sometimes on a quest, a search or a mission<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">= in the film Premonition there are two main characters Yasmin and Nimesh. However only one of which is the hero, this is the Yasmin as she attempts to survive her premonition and find out why it is that her boyfriend is trying to murder her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">‘The Villain’ competes with and tries to destroy the hero</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> = Nimesh is the villain in the film as he attempts to murder his own girlfriend. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">‘The Princess’ is often the hero’s reward or prize at the end of the story</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> = Yasmin is the princess in the film as she is largely considered as being the main character of the film and the one who tries to solve the story, prevent herself from being killed and destroys the villain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">‘The dispatcher’ sends the hero off on his/her task or quest</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> = In the opening sequence there is not a significant character that plays the role of a ‘dispatcher.’ However, the text that the female character receives from her boyfriend could have been the point in the story which motivated Yasmin to notice her boyfriend’s strange behaviour and weirdness towards her when she saw him in her Premonition. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Applying Todorov’s Theory to Premonition:</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Equilibrium:</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> The equilibrium in the film was when Yasmin was sleeping and received a lovely text from her boyfriend explaining how he enjoyed spending time with her. This was a happy moment in the film. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Disruption:</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> The disruption in the film was when Nimesh appeared in Yasmin’s premonition acting differently around her and awkward. He slowly began to play mind games with her by not acting himself. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Recognition of Disruption:</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> The realisation that there was a disruption in the film was when Yasmin began to notice that her boyfriend wasn’t acting himself and he was acting cold towards her. She realised that something was on his mind but she wasn’t sure what that was. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Attempt to repair the disruption:</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> The attempt to repair the disruption became clear when Yasmin woke up from her Premonition where she saw herself being suffocated and murdered by her boyfriend, Nimesh. Yasmin realises that the premonition that she is currently having will become a part of her reality soon if she doesn’t try to prevent this from happening. Yasmin realises that she needs to find a way to work out why it is that her boyfriend wants to murder her once and for all so that she can beat him at his own games. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A return of new equilibrium:</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> We haven’t decided upon a new equilibrium yet but what could happen in the ending of our film is that instead of Nimesh attempting to murder Yasmin in her premonition. He could appear in different ways to her such as when she is day dreaming or when she looks into mirrors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-3081309539094493202010-11-17T13:27:00.000-08:002010-11-17T13:38:20.251-08:00Analysing two film openings: 'Silence of the Lambs' and 'Se7en'<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Analysing ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ – Opening Sequence:</span></u><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGWp6AQrimG2UcBBnsVKLR8FGAtz6AtUKlNb9PH3UN4Rr4iy4s6wVseYVBhR99mNq6-nB7jKhr9MnwrlSRZJDyXErfsJtZdhacjqyAQWCe3C-5h9W-Q7spbCWPm6dc4tIFCEb4np8tdKz/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGWp6AQrimG2UcBBnsVKLR8FGAtz6AtUKlNb9PH3UN4Rr4iy4s6wVseYVBhR99mNq6-nB7jKhr9MnwrlSRZJDyXErfsJtZdhacjqyAQWCe3C-5h9W-Q7spbCWPm6dc4tIFCEb4np8tdKz/s1600/images.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">The film begins with a ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">long shot’</i> of a forest draped with snow as it gracefully collides into the branches and leaves. As the camera changes its focus, it gradually begins to pan the backdrop slowly, circulating the forest. As each scene flows into one another demonstrating the use of continuity, credits appear as a standstill upon the wintery backdrop in a bold, electric black typeface. As each scene follows onto the next, the lettering progressively fades away from the frame before slowly re-emerging in the subsequent shot. The camera moves hurriedly through its surroundings before ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tracking’</i> a young women racing along an unnoticeable pathway before eventually fading into the midst of the fog. This film segment builds up anticipation and mystery as the audience is unaware as to what may appear in the following sequence, fortunately this sets a narrative expedition. Additionally, by using fast paced camera shots, dim lighting and an eerie soundtrack, they all build up to create a terrifying, unsettling atmosphere to coincide with the genre of “horror.” During the camera’s fast paced movements, it consistently captures <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘extreme close ups’ </i>from distorted angles demonstrating the females shoes, and face as she sprints through the forest. Consequently, this depicts to the viewing audience a sense of trepidation and vagueness. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As the scenes persist, the camera begins to change to a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘180 degree shot.’</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The camera begins to pan across the backdrop steadily focusing on the young women as she hoists herself up onto a roped ladder before gracefully landing on the other side. The camera carefully rotates to distort the camera angle as we are presented with an ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">over the shoulder</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shot</i>’ whereby two characters have a quick conversation regarding the young women having to visit her boss. The camera quickly changes to another frame in the film sequence, changing to a ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">medium/close up</i>’ revealing four dismantled name plates which read “hurt, agony, pain and love.’ Perhaps these are phrases which represent scenarios that might be featured in the film. The camera suddenly moves on changing to an ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extreme long shot</i>’ as the camera focuses onto a building or institute of some sort. However, the camera slowly re-focuses itself onto the young women as she makes her way towards the entrance of the building. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The camera seemingly zooms in towards the building, changing the shot to an ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extreme close up.</i>’ The camera lens focuses onto a selection of misted windows before gradually fading away into the subsequent shot. The camera eventually changes to a ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">medium shot</i>’ as it hovers over the young women as she makes her way down a narrow, aged staircase. Lastly, the camera changes to a POV shot (point of view) to illustrate the dissimilar situations taking place currently. This provides the viewing audience with more information as we are able to understand the scenarios taking place alongside her and whether they are relevant to the remaining scenes in the film. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the background of the scene a high pitched, disturbing, and harmonious sound is heard overpowering the scenes from the film sequence. Compared to the images on screen, the melody is undoubtedly similar as it coincides with the situations and atmosphere exceptionally well. Additionally, this conveys to the audience that there is vast amount of danger approaching them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">In conclusion, the opening sequence has began to build up each frame of the film to identify the danger, worrying, isolation which may surround the characters in the situations they put themselves in. Additionally, it might portray how the character thinks and feels. The audience should begin to have a better understanding of the weird and unsettling events which may feature in the film.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The file opens with a series of numerous medium and close up shots, demonstrating the burnt, crumpled pages, flickering as each page turns over in an old stained book. A variety of fast paced shots occasionally cross dissolve into one another to illustrate an extensive range of weapons and machinery which may provide narrative information about the main concept in the film. As each scene flows into one another demonstrating the use of continuity, credits appear glistening against the bleak backdrop in a faint white typography. As each scene follows on to the next, the letters fades away from the frame before slowly re-emerging in the subsequent shot. The camera moves rapidly through its surroundings highlighting a slightly disfigured hand holding a minuscule piece of metal as it slowly begins to hack away at the skin. During the camera’s fast paced movements, it frequently captures extreme close up’s from misshapen angles demonstrating objects of metal as they begin to fade away from the frame. As a result of this, this illustrates to the viewing audience a sense of eeriness and ambiguity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As the scene continues, the camera gradually begins to move closer towards a collection of folders, tracking the same disfigured hand as it begins to caress each individual folder. The camera steadily rotates to distort the camera angle as we are presented with a notebook scripted with a vast amount of lettering inside. As the camera jumps to another frame in the film sequence, changing to a medium shot, revealing a role of film and faded black and white photographs being dismantled and cut to shreds before slowly being stuck back together on a sheet of plain paper. The camera swiftly moves on changing to a bird’s eye view shot as the camera re-focuses on the same notebook scripted with lettering inside but this time the disfigured hand re-emerges creepily crossing out words and faces of different people. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the background of the scene a high pitched, unsettling, electronic musical sound is heard overpowering the images in the film sequence. Compared to the images on screen, the melody is clearly dissimilar. This implies to the audience that there is vast amount of danger surrounding them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The camera seemingly passes over the notebook and focuses on the hand as it begins to peel away the binder of a book before unsettlingly twisting the metal bars and re-placing it onto the notebook with the sharp pin-point edges facing upwards. The eeriness and mystery of the high pitched melody is heard again as it continues to disturb the viewer. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The camera, eventually changes to a medium shot as it hovers over the same notebook. The disfigured hand is showcasing an unsettling use of tools as he begins to use a thread and needle to sow pages together. Each individual page depicts either a male or female being tortured in an alarming manner. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To conclude, the entire opening sequence has been slowly building up each frame of the film to identify the danger, worrying, isolation based on how the character thinks and feels. The audience should begin to have a better understanding of the weird and unsettling events which may feature in the film. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">When we were planning and taking note of our ideas for what our thriller opening sequence might consist of, we came up with ideas such as rape which is discussed in my prezi ‘Shadowed’ murders, stalking and harassments. Whilst we thought the idea of rape would be interesting and could become a successful thriller film if we filmed and created it in a realistic and appropriate setting. We realised that this similar storyline had been used in previous films before hand and as a group we wanted to do something a little more original and different so that we could show off our creativity and imagination skills.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">This is when we came to the realisation that we could use ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ as an inspirational film whereby we could use the ‘dream like’ plot and import that into our own thriller opening sequence making sure that we changed features of it so that instead of our own opening sequence having the main character killed in her dream which meant she died instantly in reality, she could have a premonition of herself being killed so that throughout the remainder of the film she could try and resolve the situation and prevent herself from being murdered by her boyfriend. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">What is more, is that the production logo that I decided to use in my ‘Shadowed’ presentation, we decided that as a group we would keep this particular logo and use it for our own thriller opening sequence. However, instead of having the image remain still, we would animate the logo so that the picture zoomed into the keyhole and faded to black allowing all other events to transpire. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-14433970572507359842010-10-29T10:05:00.000-07:002010-10-29T11:18:52.620-07:00Martin Scorsese:<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Martin Scorsese: </span></u></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Martin Scorsese is one of the most famous and successful directors in today’s film industry. He has directed an exact 31 films, all of which have been particularly popular with the viewing audience. Not only is he a film director but he is also a screenwriter, actor, producer and film historian. He is the founder of the ‘World Cinema Foundation.’ Scorsese has been awarded with numerous awards in his lifetime, from an Oscar, to a Golden Globe, to a BAFTA and finally he has been rewarded with a Directors Guild of America. Scorsese’s trademark is Italian/American Identity, Roman Catholic concepts such as redemption and guilt and lastly machismo and violence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here is a list of the 31brilliant films Scorsese has directed and in what year they were filmed: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Taxi Driver (1976), Goodfellas (1990), Raging Bull (1980), The Departed (2006), After Hours (1985), The King of Comedy (1983), Mean Streets (1973), My Voyage to Italy (2001), Casino (1995), Shine a light (2008), The Last Waltz (1978), The Aviator (2004), The Age of Innocence (1993), Kundun (1997), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Gangs of New York (2002), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), The Colour of Money (1986), Cape Fear (1991), New York, New York (1977), No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005), Shutter Island (2010), Boxcar Bertha (1972), Italian American (1974), American Boy: A Profit of: Steven Prince (1978), The Big Shave (1967), Made in Milan (1990), Silence (2008), Street Scenes (1970), Untitled Airbus Documentary Project (2006) and Vesuvius VI (1959). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Each individual film that Scorsese has ever directed has been a successful movie for the reason that they are films which are so close to the edge. They are realistic and gripping. What’s more is that his films are dangerous, they are the real thing. Scorsese is an extraordinary director because he is not frightened of using images and ideas from the “art world.” Every shot/scene in his films is truthful, humane and they speak of life realistically. He is a brilliant storyteller and a wonderful visual stylist. </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Below are two trailers from the hit movies, Cape Fear and Shutter Island which were both directed by the incredible Martin Scorsese. By watching these trailers you can get a real understanding as to why he is one of the most renowned filmmakers of his era. </span></div><br />
<u>Cape Fear:</u><br />
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<u>Shutter Island:</u><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Evaluation of our Preliminary Exercise:</span></u></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In class, we were asked to create a short film sequence as part of our preliminary exercise demonstrating the use of continuity whilst filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. The aim of this exercise is to demonstrate all the techniques we have studied in lessons and put that into practice. These include techniques such as match on action, shot/ reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1) Discuss how your group came up with the idea for the script. How efficient was the discussion? What key decisions were made? </span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In class we were categorised into 4/5 different groups, our group consisted of myself, David, Nimesh and Keval. We began to discuss the different genres in the film industry today and what we believed would be a powerful, gripping genre that would hold our audiences attention. After several minutes of an intense discussion, we finally came to the conclusion that we wanted to film a horror, mystery and suspenseful thriller. The discussion was extremely efficient as each of us took turns to explain our thoughts and ideas whilst the remainder of us began to write these ideas down to include them to our script and storyboard. It wasn’t long before our script slowly began to come together, clearly demonstrating the shot numbers, pictures/titles/graphics, and types of shot, duration and music, dialogue/sound effects. The key decisions that we came up with as a group were that we wanted the film to be a mystery so that the audiences were unaware as to what scene would take place next. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2) Reflect on the planning/storyboarding stages and upload these:</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In my opinion, I believe that we worked extremely hard and effectively to produce our storyboard and script. Whilst we took some time to decide the order of shots and the different camera techniques and angles that we were going to use in our film sequence. We were consistent throughout and continued to ask each other what we thought about our thoughts and opinions on the script. Illustrated below is the planning stages of our storyboard and shoot schedule:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 1</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – Title of the movie, screen fades into a black backdrop and slowly we see Nimesh sitting down at the desk working away on the computer. This type of shot is a high angle, medium shot. Thriller music can be heard in the background of the scene. <u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 2</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – An extreme long shot of Nimesh sitting down at the desk working away on the computer. Thriller music can still be heard playing the background of the scene. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 3</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – This type of shot is a medium shot of David who passes by the window and smacks the glass, standing eerily up against it before slowly backing away. The camera gradually moves towards Nimesh who is staring towards the window horror stricken. Thriller music is played quietly in the background. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 4</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – This type of shot is a reaction shot of Nimesh as he is in shock and disbelief about the strange occurrences that seem to be taking place around him. The shot then changes to a medium shot as we begin to track Nimesh moving away from his computer towards the window to see if his “stalker” is still outside the building. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 5 </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">– We continue to film using a tracking shot of David outside of the building as he begins to walk away from the window down the street. The music begins to increase its tempo due to the speediness of the scene. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 6</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – This particular shot is a pan shot as we turn the camera away from Nimesh to focus on the bang/smack which is heard on the door behind. Thriller music is still being played quietly in the background of the shot. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 7</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – The shot used in this scene is a POV (point of view) shot as we zoom onto David’s face, which is only visible through the window frame in the door. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 8</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – We decided to use another tracking shot of Nimesh as he begins to walk around the room heading in the direction of the classroom door. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 9</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – Close up of Nimesh’s hand gripping the doorknob. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 10</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – Medium shot of Nimesh opening and walking through the door way into the main corridor of the building. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 11</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – POV shot of David standing at the end of the corridor, head bowed down. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 12</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – Tracking shot of Nimesh walking towards David. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 13</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – Close up of David as he looks up gazing into the camera. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 14</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – Tracking shot of David walking up the corridor towards Nimesh meeting him halfway. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shot 15</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – Medium shot of David stabbing Nimesh. The camera begins to turn away from the scene and slowly changes to a close up of David as he looks into the camera. </span><br />
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3) How efficient was the shoot? Additionally, embed screen grabs demonstrating the required techniques from the brief. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I believe that the shooting of our film sequence was extremely efficient for the reason that we all worked well together to co-operate and succeed in making a great thriller movie. Whilst we had a few hiccups where the camera stopped working we managed to fix these errors and threw ourselves back into our filming working harder than ever. Thankfully, we worked tremendously well together as a group and what’s more, we had lots of fun whilst filming our movie as well. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 169.0pt;"><br />
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In our groups we were asked to come up with a plot linked to the movie title “Man on the Run," this is a sub-genre of a thriller movie whereby the main character, either male or female finds themselves pursued by either a unknown character/an enemy/or the federal armed forces. In the majority of the film, the character must contemplate about the different ways he/she can make an escape whilst trying to avoid the 'enemy,' before eventually confronting them face to face. We had to be creative, and decide on a scenario whereby something thrilling and dramatic would take place. This was a fantastic opportunity for us, as media students to think of a brand new and exciting plot, whereby an action sequence would unfold. As we based our movie, on a spoof, we realised that realistically we had to think of other ‘serious’ movies which included scenarios which we wanted to include in our own original film, turning it into a spoof. The three movies we watched and took ideas from before creating our own spoof for the ‘Man on the Run’ were ‘The Bank Job, Shawshank Redemption and Johnny English.’ Below are the trailers from the movie "The Bank Job" and "Shawshank Redemption," these are the two films in particular that we decided to take scenes from in order to create our own "Man on the Run" movie. <br />
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<u>The Plot:</u>A young man (21-23) is depicted walking down a long, darkened alley way in a hurry. He is dressed in a dark pair of jeans, a grey shirt and a pinstripe blazer; he has a large holdall thrown over his left shoulder. He is in trouble as one of his enemies have kidnapped his girlfriend and the only way he can pay for the ransom is to rob a bank. As he emerges from behind the alley way, he begins to pick up his pace and is seen running towards a towering building. He smashes the window on the ground floor, breaking an entry into the building. Once inside he strolls through the lobby heading straight in the direction of a newly installed volt. Surprisingly, he manages to break through the entry code and ID test and robs just over 1 million pounds. However, what he doesn’t realise is that by removing the cash, a silent alarm has gone off, sending out an urgent signal to the nearest police station. Within minutes of the male trying to make an escape he is unfortunately captured and arrested for breaking an entry and stealing money from a bank. In jail, the man contemplates about the different scenarios whereby he could make an escape. Unfortunately all of his ideas fail to see him escape from jail. The male quickly decides that there is only one definite and realistic way to break out of jail, by removing the toilet from its holdall and squeezing down the sewage drain pipe placed underneath. From here, we see him slide all the way through the sewage pipe, amongst all the dirt and waste from the toilets above. Within seconds, he is seen making a run from the prison out into the unknown. Below is an example of a moodboard demonstrating the planning stages of our script based on the 'Man on the Run.'<br />
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The plot refers to a series of events or actions which sum up a films story line. A plot is a key/major turning point in a film's story which advances the action sequence and sets it into action. <br />
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The setting of our movie is quite dark, particularly eerie and suspenseful as it is set late at night, most likely two – three am. This builds up a more dramatic, enthralling scenario as we the audience are made to believe that something strange is about to take place in the scenes to follow. We thought that if our movie was to be filmed in broad daylight then it would not seem as scary as it was originally meant to resemble. By filming the movie late at night, this illustrates a more gripping and riveting setting. <br />
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The camera shots that I would most likely use to film our movie sequence would have to be a ‘close up;’ this will concentrate the audience’s attention on an important detail. Additionally, CU can be used to illustrate someone’s face when their expression tells us something. A ‘long shot,’ this zooms out onto a scenario or setting to highlight the whereabouts of characters and to direct the audience into understanding what else is happening beyond the characters. In addition, I would use a ‘crane shot,’ this is a technique which starts off as an eye level camera angle, and gradually changes to a low angle position and is titled upwards towards the subject. Furthermore, I would also include a ‘tracking shot,’ this demonstrates that when you are filming a character who is either walking or running, the camera should always be tracking the actor/actress so that you do not lose the character in your shot. Lastly, I incorporate the ‘match on action’ camera technique; this demonstrates a cut between two shots where no time has passed between them. This is an extremely important technique as it continues the flow of the scene. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><u>“Drag me to hell – Horror, Mystery and Suspense”</u></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">“Drag Me to Hell,” is a horror, mystery and suspenseful thriller directed by Sam Raimi, starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long and Lorna Raver. The trailer indicated below is from the hit movie "Drag me to Hell."<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u>The Plot:</u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) works as a loan officer at a local bank but she is worried about the different situations taking place in her life at the moment. She’s in desperate competition with another loan officer for an “assistant manager” position and she is unsure about her status with her boyfriend. Concerned that her boss will think less of her because of her weaknesses in her job, she decides upon herself not to give an extension on an elderly woman’s mortgage payment, Mrs Ganesh, who is now set to lose her house. In retaliation, Mrs Ganesh places a curse upon Christine Brown, unknown that she will be sentenced to hell in 3 days time. With the help of a psychic she tries to get rid of the demons who are torturing her but she faces several obstacles in the days ahead. Below is an examle of a genre moodboard illustrating the horror, mystery and suspenseful thrillers using film posters to demonstrate this: </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/40405895/Horror-Mystery-Genre-Moodboard" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; margin: 12px auto 6px; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Horror, Mystery Genre Moodboard on Scribd">Horror, Mystery Genre Moodboard</a> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" height="600" id="doc_455570177821433" name="doc_455570177821433" style="outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=40405895&access_key=key-dyy71ad9j1uttlq0gns&page=1&viewMode=list"><embed id="doc_455570177821433" name="doc_455570177821433" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=40405895&access_key=key-dyy71ad9j1uttlq0gns&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="600" width="100%" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff"></embed> </object> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The setting of the movie is exceptionally dark and eerie as the majority of the film is set late at night or in dark locations, for example a graveyard. If the setting/backdrop is darkened this creates suspense and mystery. To the audience, this builds up a more dramatic and enthralling scenario, as we believe that something gripping and peculiar is about to take place in the upcoming scenes. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Sam Raimi used a variety of camera shots and camera angles in his movie “Drag Me to Hell,” to incorporate a more dramatic, uncanny film sequence. He used a ‘close up’ to concentrate the audience’s attention on an important detail and to illustrate a characters face when their expression tells us something. He used a ‘long shot’ to indicate a scenario or setting to highlight the whereabouts of characters and to direct the audience into understanding what else is happening around the characters. Additionally, he used the camera technique ‘reaction shot,’ this is to highlight a character’s reaction and to demonstrate whether they are shocked or surprised. He also used a ‘tracking shot,’ to highlight when you are filming a character that is either walking or running, the camera should always be tracking the actor/actress so that you do not lose the character in your shot. Finally, he used a ‘match on action’ technique to demonstrate a cut between two shots where no time has passed between them.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926799851796948944.post-20128203481317237292010-10-06T14:14:00.000-07:002010-10-06T14:17:52.027-07:00The Birds - continuity exercise:<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>The Birds – continuity explanation:</u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We were asked to watch a short clip from Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” as it is excellent at demonstrating the use of continuity in a sequence and how the range of techniques work together to create a fantastic film. Continuity has been used successfully in this particular section of the movie for the reason that it highlights how each camera shot flows into one another elegantly and how it continues from the last scene/shot into the next one. Continuity is a particularly hard technique to get to grasp with and understand since you have to keep check of where the last shot was taken, how close the camera was to the characters and what angle it was facing, if any of these rules were changed even slightly it could completely mess up the scene/shot as it would no longer flow against one another and it would jump, suggesting that the person who filmed the shot was most likely to be an ‘amateur’. If the scenes/shot in a film do not flow gracefully between one another this will annoy the viewing audience as they will get confused as to why the camera shots keep changing angles and why it seems to jitter between each individual scene, this creates an unfortunate, unsuccessful movie. </span></div></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have screen grabbed/shot two clips from Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” both shots in particular demonstrate the use of continuity successfully in this specific scene of the movie. This is depicted as the woman begins to open the front door from the outside of the house and as the scene changes we are shown the woman opening the front door but this time the camera shot is filmed inside the house. Miraculously, the camera stays in the same distance from when the camera was filming outside the house to when it began filming again inside the house. Clearly, this is an exceptionally good use of continuity as the scenes flow elegantly beside each other without and jumps or disruptions. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Halfway through the sequence, different effects and soundtracks are used to create anticipation and nervousness as we the viewing audience are uncertain as to what might appear onto our TV screens in the upcoming scenes. When the female character first comes into view, standing at the bedroom door, she hesitates for a brief moment before carefully and cautiously, pushes the door slightly ajar before peering into the room. One might say that this scene was produced in this particular way for the reason that it engages the viewing audience, allowing them to come up with a wide variety of thoughts and meanings as to why she might be hesitating to open the door. Additionally, the camera shots build up tension and apprehension as we are unsure as to what might take place in the following scene. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Moreover, when the woman appears in the kitchen glancing throughout the different rooms, the camera is presented as a medium shot, however moments later, the camera suddenly changes to an eye level close up, and this is continually used in filming to illustrate the actor/actresses expression. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this scene, an eye level close up has been specifically used to emphasize the actress’s shocked expression and to draw attention to the direction in which she is glancing towards. In addition, this builds up further anticipation as we desperately want to understand what has happened in the scene and why the actress appears to look taken aback. Additionally, this particular scene of the movie has to be my favourite section of the sequence, simply because it demonstrates a fantastic and successful use of continuity and the use of camera shots and techniques are mesmerising. Each individual technique and camera shot is dissimilar and work extremely well together. Each scene flows pleasingly well alongside one another throughout the movie. </span></div><br />
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