thriller opening final

response to feedback

we have considered all problems mentioned in the feedback.

firstly, we will be adding news style titles and music to the beginning to emphasize the fact that it is actually a news reel. secondly, many groups mentioned that you could see Dean's character slightly in the news reel shot before he was mentioned and that this took away the effectivness of the situaion. as a result of these comments we will be cutting of dean from this part by cropping the shot. some goups also said that the background music was to loud. this was something that was going to be changed anyway aswell as the ticking in the music. Finally, one group said that the scene should be longer and we will try to drag the scene out a bit longer but we do think that this could take away some of the effectivness that makes the scene as fast as it is.

Rough Cut of 21

we are very happy with this rough cut however there are some things that we need to add/ change. one thing that needs touching up is the sound of the news reel and the background noise in that. this will be changed to make the cuts less obvious and the sequence flow better. as well as this, the final title needs touch up because the style is not exactly what we wanted.

Certificate

The main reason we have chosen to rate our film as a 15 is because of the potential themes and possible hostile nature of the film.
As far as language is concerned, the BBFC says that frequent use of strong swear words such as "f**k" However, aggressive and frequent use of these words are unlikely to be acceptable.
so BBFC goes on to say that no theme is prohibited as long as the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds.
Regarding Horror, the BBFC mention that 'strong threats and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.' However, we do not plan on making the film to purposly horrific.
Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of suffering and that strong gory images are unlickley to be acceptible.

Begining of filming

Yesterday we began the filming of the 'News report' part of the scene. This was done outside the cancer research facilities of Addenbrooks hospital. After asking one of the near by security guards we began filming and all went to plan.

-One problem we had was people in the background leaving and entering the building, taking away the illusion of having a secured building in trouble.

-Another problem we had was remembering what needed to be said and what had already been said as we did not bring a paper copy of the script. This made filming alot slower and less efficiant than it could have been.

- a future problem we may face is the continuity of having the 'News Report' playing on a t.v in the background of the shot.

reviewing another groups blog

P1-04's blog was good for several reasons:

We feel the main reason it was good because it was laid out really well, with examples in all the post and several different images so that the viewer has a clear idea of what the film will be about :)

Flashbacks

Flash Back One
Shot 1: Medium Black and white, Hand-held
Man Runs up stairs, Drone continues with fast ticking, News reporter continues talking over shot with drone and fast ticking


Shot 2: Medium Close up, Black and White, Hand-held
same man runs up to box and cuts something behind it
news reporter continues talking over shot, drone continues with faster ticking



Flash Back Two- Continues From Shot

Shot 1: Medium long, Black and White, Hand-held
Man runs down corridor, Pushes door with shoulder then kicks open
news reporter continues talking over shot, drone continues with faster ticking


Shot 2: Medium, Black and White, Hand-held, tracks back slowly
Kicks in door and walks through, Lifts gun
news reporter continues talking over shot, drone continues with faster ticking


Shot 3: Close up, black and white, focus on face, reaction shot, hand-held
news reporter continues talking over shot, drone continues with faster ticking


flashback 3: continues from shot

shot 1 flashback: handheld black and white closeup on man sitting down, to man standing up reaction
shot 2 flashback: handheld medium long black and white track forward, pushes man on ground, poits gun at other man.

Storyboard

Shot 1: Fade from black, Close up, track to medium
News reporter on T.V talking about a hostage situation
Drone begins- non diagetic
Shot 2: Over shoulder shot, Medium, hand-held shot
flashback of man running up stairs in balaclava, News reporter continues speak over shots
black and white Drone continues, Fast ticking starts
Shot 1: Medium, continue tracking out
reporter continues talking about hostage situation
Drone continues, ticking slows
Shot 3: Medium, Hand-held
Person in balaclava kicking through a door, News reporter continues speaking over shot
black and white Drone continues fast ticking begins
Shot 1: Medium, continues tracking out
news reporter continues talking about hostage situation
Drone continues, ticking slows
Shot 4: Medium, over the shoulder shot, hand-held
man in balaclava goes through doorway with gun shouting, people turn and put hands up, Black and White, Drone continues, ticking stops, drum beat starts, News reporter continues talking over shot "Everyone get the down!"

Shot 1: Medium continues tracking out
people come into shot, one man standing next to T.V, someone with bag over head kneeling on the floor. Track continues moving back and man pushes T.v to floor, News reporter continues talking untill T.V's on floor, man walks towards the camera and pushes a gun to kneeling mans head, "Shut the fuck up!" Drone with drum beat continues
Shot 1: Medium over the shoulder shot hand-held
two men talk to each other. possibility of a reaction shot after this.
Drone with drum beat continues "what are we gunna do!?"

Planning

PROPS:

• Fabric bags/pillows
• Balaclavas
• Dirt
• Tools for breaking in
• TV
• DVD Player
• Gun
• Microphone
  

COSTUME:

• Black clothes
• Balaclavas
• Suits-Gucci exclusively
  

LIGHTING:

• low key lighting will be mainly used to get across the mood and attitude of the sequence.

• in the office building at the end there of the sequence there will be a slightly darkened room where the hostages will be kept.

LIST OF EQUIPMENT:

• camera
  
• tripod

TIMES AND DATES WE WANT TO FILM:

• next week

LOCATIONS WHERE WE WILL BE FILMING:

• addenbrookes hospital will be used for the backdrop of the news report.
• for the office building that we will be using to break into we will be using the G block in college, in particular the staircase around the back.
• wills house will be used for the part at the end where the television is broken.

ACTORS:

• dean, fred, will, lewis.

Planning for Filming

-Props
-Costume
-Lighting(design/effect/equipment)
-make up/hair
-list of equipment
-times+dates you want film & back up plan
-locations(maps? permission? photos?)
-Actors (photos + suitability)
-Production roles-assign role to each member of the group:

• camera person, director/s, producer, production coordinator
  
• Provide definitions of of each role and each person's suitability for that role-experience? roles?

Influences

We feel that this opening scene of the film Munich lends itsself very well to the style of our opening sequence. Both films have a similar plot line involving terrorists and hostages, and the convetions in Munich fits very well with the action/thriller genre. The use if hand held camera is apparent which creates a very chaotic and paniced atmohsoere. Additionally, the sheer variety of shot type creates a sense of confusion to the for the viewer.

pitch lesson

what will you do as the result of the feedback received?

from the feedback that we received we will try to make the opening sequence of our thriller film shorter, but still managing to include flashback scenes and a conversation scene between the hostage (ex-military) takers.

Has the feedback made you consider things that you hadn't before?

we have decided to try to not make our thriller too complicated and also not too long to be able to film. We have also needed consider where our setting will be and the costumes our characters.

Actions points-How will you now develop you idea and plan for production?

the first thing that we will do is to make a story board including all of the different camera angles and shots. it can also include the the settings where we will be filming our seqeunce for instance and office block ' i.c.t rooms'

Thriller Ideas

idea for entire film:

narrative:hostage situation

we believe that this would be a good idea for our thriller opening because it is a quite conventional idea and



character: there could be one main character as the hostage negotiator or policeman. sub characters could be the criminal hostage-takers or the innocent hostages themselves. These characters would conform with that of the usual thriller genre; this would be to act hysterical and scared, and for the part of the criminals; would be fearsome and quote dean; "EX-MILITARY!!"

atmosphere: tense, full of suspense. We will aim to keep the audience, quote fred "ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS!"

Sub genre:
We feel, as a group and a team, that an appropriate sub genre for our thriller film opening sequence would be a psychological action thriller--hybrid.


Sequence:
For our opening sequence; we want it to start in an office room or government building. Suddenly, four, quote dean; "EX MILITARY!!!!", burst into room and take the occupants hostage. the motif of the hostage takers is inside the government there is records of their past military which is dark and disturbing, which they are out to clear, and 'sort out' the people who were responsible. This will then lead to a police gun fight/raid quote dean; "BANG!BANG!". with some of the hostages being killed because quote will; "HE IS A NUUUUUUUTTTTTEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!"

marking another students project

we think that this project deserves to be given a level four due to all the sections in the marking criteria being filled appropriately. we think that the variety in shots and quick changes in atmosphere lead to a much more professional feel to the opening. In addition to this, there is a good variety of shot types going from steady shots on the red smoke/water, to hand held in the short flashback style sequences of the man and woman.

We will use the criteria to our advantage by making sure we have covered as many of the point in the criteria as possible when looking through our work. We will stick to thriller conventions closely, meaning we will make sure mise-en-scene is all related to the plot of our film and the imagery used in the sequence will follow our narrative appropriately.

Cape Fear Analysis Notes

Atmosphere:

Transparent red placed over the rippling water. -> shows death or danger

Music --> shows suspense...penultimates at film title.

WATER--> distorts image-shows mystery-canted angles

Blood--> shows death and danger



Narrative:

water ripple--> goes up + down--shows that story line wont be equal and distorted.

Bird swooping--> death--being caught--shows death


Character:

man--> in negaive--mystery

Thriller subgenres

within the thriller genre there are lots of different types of film, inclding hybrids. For example there are:

Action thriller
Conspiracy thriller
crime thriller
disaster thriller
drama thriller
Physcological thriller
Legal thriller
Political thriller

Psycho Theatrical Trailer

Analysis of "seven" opening sequence

Both the detectives in the sequence seemed to have certain character flaws, for example, Morgan Freemans character Detective Sommerset came across as too caring compared to the other detectives on the scene. An example o this is when he says "did the kids see" to which another detective tells him that he should not care about that, and to just get the job done. Another example is of Brad Pitts character Detective Mills who seemed to be easily distracted by things, and doesnt take his job so seriously. I noticed this when the two characters were walking down the street and Detective Mills was constantly looking at women in the street, and not fully listening to Detective Sommerset.

In addition to this, the lighting throughout the sequnce was low key. This is particulary noticeable in th crime scene itself, and gives the scene a very eerie and unfriendly feel. Furthermore, there seemed to be a grey or blue filter used in the scene which gave it a much more gloomy and depressing feel. Particulary in the scene where Detective Sommerset is doing something in the kitchen at the beginnig of the sequence. In relation to this scene, there was an interesting use of camerawork as there was a long shot on the character with a bit of blurred foreground. This made the scene feel as if it was from someone elses perspective like someone was watching the character. This also gave it a sense of voyeurism and an uneasy feel.