evaluatione

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400 word synopsis

Whilst getting my ideas for our thriller film, I watched the thriller “one hour photo” and also “shutter island” these are two totally different thrillers. This gave me a basic idea for my ideas and what I can do within my story-line but also lighting and music, both of these showed a great and deep detail into one person and what they do.
From the films, which I watched, I gained ideas of:

·      Focusing on one person and the weird/wonderful things that they do, this was gained from the film “one hour photo” this gives a good base to focus and build a story line behind.

·      We thought of a news report being heard in the background, while the screen in blank but then slowly showing small clips through out the movie. This news report was about the man and his dealings through out what he has done being reported.

·      From the films which I watched I discovered the use of lighting has been a key point, so I believe that a dark scene would be good start this could be just dark lighting at night or totally black and white.

·      The music that could be used in our film should be a soft beat with sounds from a violin or a light instrument.

·      I had the idea of the opening of hardly any speech, and just focusing on solely music and sound from the main character this could then slowly build tension and ask questions to the audience, so they could be thinking “who is he?” “what is he doing?”

·      Another idea which I had was the opening could be like the main character is waking up, so it is a good way to introduce the main character showing what he is like, and what weird/wonderful things he does during the opening

·      Also I think our opening should consist of things happening through out the movie e.g little snippets of things the main character gets up to but not showing the full extent of the work which he does.

story boards

script

Script:

-       Fades in from credits

-                 Victim - appears in some sort of distress as the alarm goes off

-                         Victim’s eyes open, the room is still dark so they open wide.

-       Staring at the ceiling, camera zooms in and he barely moves.

-               Blanket gets pulled over head in aggression as it swaps to the next scene

-       Psycho – pulls jacket over, zips up in quick, almost robotic motions.

 - victim - Flushes toilet, hand moves slowly, walking back to the centre on the bathroom, Looks into Mirror, Cuts into Psycho looking in car mirror.

Victim - walks out of bathroom, walks down stairs, opens door and proceeds to go inside living room.

-       Turns on T.V using the television remote. sits down on Sofa, looking at the TV with little enthusiasm.

-       Psycho starts to tamper, with the car outside. Looking suspicious and creepy.

-       Victim gets up of the sofa turning to the kitchen,  opens the Fridge, and closes it.

-        Victim opens front door of the house, turning round slowly. He walks to the car, still obviously tired, coming closer to the door he pull the handle slowly as the scene ends

10 questions

1. What is the purpose of the opening to a film?
To engage the audience, set the scene and make them want to carry on watching the rest of the film.

2. What techniques can a director use to create suspense in a film?
The director can use music to build suspense, the sounds of a single instrument, or constant echoing vibration can slowly build up suspense in a thriller movie. They can also use darkness to create suspicion on what’s going to happen next.
3. How do you think a thriller film is defined?
It is a type of genre that is always building suspense and excitement.
4. What films can you think of that would fit into the thriller genre.
One hour photo, Drag me to hell, black swan or se7en.
5. The thriller film can be divided into sub-genres – what different types of thriller films do you think exist.
Crime thriller, conspiracy thriller, disaster thriller, erotic thriller, legal thrillers and mystery thrillers, there are so many different types.
6. What are the characteristics or conventions of a thriller film?
A true thriller will keep the audience constantly on the edge of their seats, by using cliff hangers and suspenseful music and images that will lead to a climax in the movie. Most thrillers take place in everyday areas such as schools or suburb areas; this is to show horror can take place in everyday environments.
7. What do you is the audience pleasure of a thriller film?
I think the audience will gain excitement in the film; they will want to watch it to scare themselves but also for that sense of relief after the jumpy bits are over.
8. What do you think are the differences between a horror and a thriller film?
A horror tends to have scenes of explicit gore and injury, where thrillers don’t need to include this as they just build suspense all the way through the film.
9. using the internet research “top 50 thriller films”. Look at the top twenty – which ones have you watched? If it’s not many, why do you think this is?
out of the top 20 thriller films I have watched quite a few including pulp fiction, the dark knight, fight club, silence of the lambs, se7en, terminator 2 salvation and alien. I think I have watched this many because I do enjoy thriller films but I would like to watch some more in the top 20 list.
10. using the internet find 3 posters for thriller films. Complete a brief semiotic analysis of the posters. What colours are used, what kind of imagery, taglines, certificate, narrative?

planning

Date Action to be taken Completed by
Thursday 3rd March Start to finish cw Monday 7th
Monday 7th March Finish cw “”
Tuesday 8th March Plan story board 8th
Thursday 10th March Finish story board, Decide roles 10th
Monday 14th March Get equipment for filming 14th
Tuesday 15th March Filming 22 march
Thursday 17th March Filming “”
Monday 21st March Filming “”
Tuesday 22nd March Filming “”
Thursday 24th March uploading End of day
Monday 28th March Editing Tuesday 7th April
Tuesday 29th March Editing “”
Thursday 31st March Editing “”
Monday 4th April Editing “”
Tuesday 5th April Re upload if needed “”
Thursday 7th April editing End of the day

200 word synopsis of our film “Natural selection”

200 word synopsis of our film “Natural selection”

The film takes place in a small town, there are few crimes that happen in this town so by having it set here is perfect for our thriller because it is in the everyday typical life for a lot of people. Our film is based around a serial killer who has recently started off his life of crime by booby-trapping cars, vehicles and setting up traps in different rooms with the skills he acquired in his past job as a university science lecturer. The viewer does not find this information out until later in the film where after his third kill takes places and he purposely leaves signs of his past. This thriller focuses on Detective Barns who has been called in to deal with this psychopath after they had reports on his reliability in finding killer in these cases. Detective Barns himself used to be a criminal but after 4 years inside one of the country’s toughest prisons he has come out a reformed man. He gets attached to his work for this reason and believes everybody deserves a second chance, but when these murders keep happening he knows what has to happen.