Friday, 29 January 2010
analyses of thriller openings
Sin City
The Sin City music is very much like thriller music beacuse of the long bass and the diffrent sounds what make you feel intimadated.
Also the way the writing is in red gives the effect of blood. In our short film we are could to use red writing to give the effect of blood.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Monday, 25 January 2010
BrainSTORM!!!!!!! part 2.
for the mise-en-scene in our thriller we are going to have to look carefully at costume. as stated before we are going to have to have one of our characters in lots of clothes to make them look masculine. the other person will just need to be in everyday clothes. we are going to use a baseball bat as the weapon for the killer to carry, we will also use a computer for the beginning of the sequence. we will need to use fake blood as well. we are going to film it in colour because we think it will give a better effect. the setting is the woods so there isn't really much we can change about that.
the lighting we use will be natural in the woods but when we are inside using the computers we may have to use lights.
we don't really need to look at make up because there wont be many (if any) shots of the characters faces.
for the camera work we will use lots of different shots. to start withe when we are in the room with the computers we will need to use the tripod, and will have close ups of the screen. then when it gets to the woods we will do hand held to help set the scene because it will be shaky to show what the characters are feeling. we may also use close ups of the victims face to show their expressions. we will also use long shots and pans of the characters running through the forest.
the editing will be quite simple because we will need it to have continuity and to be in chronological order. we will use lots of smooth cuts to get it to fit together well.
the sound is going to be important because we need it to set the scene. we will need to it set the mood for the rest of the film, for example in Jaws, we know that every time we hear the certain sound the shark is near. this is because it creates tension. there will be diegetic sound in our sequence because the characters will be breathing heavily when running, also there will be the sound of their footsteps on the leaves etc in the woods. we may also use non-diegetic sounds in it- like a theme tune.
we have decided not to use istop motion because after our children's film we realized it takes a long time to get it all together.
the only special effect we will be using is false blood and having the credits come up when a footprint is made in the mud.
BrainSTORM!!!!!!!
to start with only have us three girls in our group, so if we do the story line we want to do we will have to not show the face of one of the characters.
for the narrative we have decided to base it on Hard Candy where a girl and man meet on an internet chat room. will we use this as our title sequence, with the writing on the screen. then they will meet up and we'll have them running through the forest. we have decided to only have 2 characters because we have 3 in our group and need to be able to film. so because we're all girls we will have to have one of us wearing lots of clothes and masculine things to make them look more like a man.
the atmosphere will be dark and uncertain because of the fact that it is a thriller. when we are in the forest it will be darker than out in the open because the trees will hide the light which will hel to set the scene.
our ident
Monday, 18 January 2010
Hard Candy
Hard Candy!
The start of this movie from 10 seconds to 18 seconds, when there is just the image of the screen. I would like to use something like this in our film. Such as an older person wants to meet a yonger person over the net. but neather of them no who the other person is.
I like the effect of this because of the way the story is set in writing.
review of previous students thriller
Friday, 15 January 2010
personal response
yea boy.
There was a sense of disgust throughout the film as this situation could occur to anyone. The way they torture the
man/couple is worse than you anticipate and shocks you. There is visceral reactions from the film as whats shown is not hidden from
the audience. You identify with the characters and this makes you have a stronger reaction. It creates a false sense of security because
at the beginning we feel we can identify with the teenagers, however once they begin to torture the couple we decide
against this.
when it gets to the tense part when the car comes onto the screen, the diegetic sounds of the car revving its engine makes us feel on edge.
The music follows the conventions of thriller. It starts off quite but then there is added brass music added in to make us jump
Capefear
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Subgenres
- Action thriller - eg The Fast And The Furious
- Romantic thriller - eg Fatal Attraction
- Crime thriller - eg Godfather
- Sci fi thriller - eg Star Trek
The genre of a film is not set in stone; films can be a hybrid of two or more genres. An example of this is Batman, a Action/Crime thriller.
Paranormal activity
Friday, 8 January 2010
Sound-
It starts silent and then the steady beat builds up to the main event. It creates tension because it represents a heartbeat.Then it stops and you hear a girl screams to show that she is scared. Then when it has a shot of the room you hear the music start again and the sound of liquid blasting out of somewhere. You hear a strange noise which creates a sense of superstition. Next a woman enters the room and screams to reinforce the horror.
Mise-en-scene-