Location research

Title sequence

are title sequence will go in-between a group of different shots throughout the start of or opening clip ending with a single title shot of the name of the film witch is called " BEHIND IT ALL"

Timeline Presents...
A .... Production...
A film by ...
Paul Knight- introduction of the character on a single shot
Tyler Chambers- introduction of the character on a single shot
Jacob Roots- introduction of the character on a single shot
Music directed by Jacob Roots
Written by ...
BEHIND IT ALL

Conventions of an opening sequence

The conventions of a operning title sequence would be

-Produced by
-Published by
-Directed by
-writtern by
-staring main high profiled actors
- name of movie ( could also coventialy be at the end of opening seqence)
-Music by
-Cinematorgraphy
-Editing by

conventions of a thirler operning sequences will also contain

lots of close ups- to hide key information from the audince and keep them wondering. it also keep the view glued to the movies as they want to fins out why and what happend

titles fade slowly- this is a tool used to engadge setle and calm anxoise veiws who have been waiting to view thease blockbuster movies for a long time

Not starting in cronilogical oreder- this is to confues the audince and make them beigin on the hunt to peace the story together right from the off.

music is normaly simple- this is to bild tention and suspernce with is normaly created through a simple heart beat sound or a merithenic sound.

small hints- whitch normaly take the form of pitchers clothing and personaly body marks witch help the audience to make the loop later along the line of the film

Conventions of a thriller

The conventions of a thriller are

Voilence- always in most movies but in a thriller is more implied than shown.

Mysterios- their alway a sence of confution and subplots to through the veiws.

Dark Scenes- again leading over from the mysteriosness to the unknown in thrillers.

Ereie Music- this in thrillers builds tention and helps to make you fell edgy.

Suspense- leaves you as a audience normaily waiting to find out the truth later on in the film.

Shock- unlike a unexspected twist you normaly no its going to happen but are serprise to see it actulay happen at the time and place you at in the film of a thriller.

Twisted characters- characters who normal start of as a humble person normal end up to be the bad guy but with thirllers it knows this is as a coman steriotype of all films and tries to duoble bluff this while making you think other wise of the character.

A unexspected twist/complexted storyline- Again in most films you can see a twist coming along the line but with an unexspected twist in the convention of a thriller is to catch you completely of gaurd and make you as the audinces slightly confuesed on how it actualy worked out.

Crime- you will normaly fined in most thrillers theirs a crime that as been comited and the hole plot of the story is to peace things back together and work out who commited.

Wallander (firewall, bbc)

this is my class notes on Wallander it is a tv drama but follows the thriller conventions I analyse the operning sequence and a little bit of it after. I broke my analyse up in to for groups so i could go in to detail on how
-mese en scene
-editing
-cinemartography
-sound

follow's the thriller conventions and also challange the convention to make it unique to veiws.

Analisyst of Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss me Deadly is a old Thriller flim unlike Memento it doesnt use flash backs and over all doesnt realy give you an idear of what the film is going to be about, however it have a loud hyperbolic sound of running in the squence witch adds to the tension bilding music along side being filmed in the dark to add to the mystery.

Another point witch has change in the convention of thriller over the timeline of movies is the shot angle they use in kiss me deadly the camera angle begins with a panning of a woman running were as nower days you would just see a short clip of her running. Another way in witch it sticks to the opening conventinal sequence of thrillers is the long titles sequence of credits that apear in a ghoastly white whitch and to the scare and unease of the audience witch compears slightly in similartiy with the sixth sense.

Brick (Johnson 2005 us)

I conceder brick to be a conventional thriller movie due to the techniques it uses in the opening sequence.
the opening scenes I watched contained only close-up and extreme close up I believe this was done particularly more to the start of this film and other thriller films to get the audience asking numbers of questions from the of, also by doing this it opens up our minds to explore the possibility of why this could be happening as a result its leaving us anxious and firstly for more to get closer on their thoughts and ideas. For example at the start of the film the first thing we saw was a close-up of a male person shoes den faded strait to his eyes which was looking very anxious sweaty and scared which is already making the audience think, what he looking at why his he scared what has he done.

Another convention with opening sequences this thriller used using close was the way the director mad us see only exactly what he wanted which was a verity of close ups showing us key information and only giving us hints and clues but not making sense complete sense together at this moment in time, but later on in the film would make complete sense e.g. showing of the brown shoes showing us the dead girls costume blue bangles on her arm ect. Then after as it hasn’t been following a chronological storyline its able to go back in time and then link up the key close-ups of the blue bangles of the girl and the brown shoes of the boy strait away making us as the audience recognise what’s going on then begin to try peace things together.

Also in Brick they create a barrier between the main character and the audience. In the short clips we see of him, the director puts him in the view point of the camera were we can never actually get to see the hole of his body or face leaving him always party hidden or cut off in the frame, this creates tension in the opening sequence almost making him to be a entrusted character leaving a lot of question still for interpretation which is also a convention of a thriller.

The mise en scene of this thriller in the first scene was dark damp gritty and wet making us as an audience feel uncomfortable and unsettled, because of the location which is dark normally associated with aloneness and the unknown which is child hood fear that never full seems to go, and also a dirty environment witch is associated with pain and suffering. The next scene is a complete contrast to the first its bright colourful and full of people in a social environment of school witch the director uses to confused the audience as their no longer in the dark, this contrast is broke by the title screen shot which is a simple black background white text read “brick” giving us no real cues to what the films going to be about almost giving us a chill in the eeriness in its simplicity and lack of colour

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is similar to Kiss Me Deadly and is an old style Thriller movie. Again unlike Memento and Wallander it's black and white and has a basic bed of music that creates some tension due to the merithnic beating of drums.

Throughout the whole opening sequence it's credits which is unusual because it doesn't give any clues to the story-line away although it does follow the conventions of thrillers where as it drawing the audience in like the sixth sense. Although like a normal Thriller opening sequence it uses close-up camera shots of a shadow of someone walking towards the camera screen, turning into an extreme close-up. The only clip we get of the movie is an establishing shot of a street and rail station. The only other convention of a thriller this shows is being film in the night. It also makes us ask a questions such has “who is the man walking” and “why is he on crouches”

The 6th sense

Sixth sense is a well know an truely loved thriller one reason why is because it follows the thriller genre and all its coventions in a orginaly way . What sixth sense does is draw in the audience with a long and lenghty title sequence going through all the credits form the directers names prodcres ect. This is also done in away in witch the text credtis look like its dtrifting toward the screen alomost ghoast like in its aproach, this is thier to increase the inteasity and unease the audience.

As the scene begins from the title sequence it still only slowly brightens up with a dull light bulb this is to represent the darkness and countinue to unease the audince as they feel darkness is related to the unknown and a sense of danger

Another very important convention of a thriller the sixth sense show is the

convention of mysteroy and question as we come to see in the shot a women well dressed in a basment of her house looking for something, could be seen as a normal scene but what the director does with the mise-en-sence of the film is catch a camera angle with shows the woman next to her shadow to create a sense of her being watched and another angle shoing something watching her witch almost sub concouisly makes us as the view feel that someone else is in the room.

Analysis of Momento and opening

Memento ia a psychological thriller film and out of all the films was the most creative and intreasting way to start a coventional thriller. It works in a non chronological and chronological order while telling both parts of the story at the same time clearling showing what happen in the past in black and white and what happening in the present in colour witch I haven seen done in any other film wich as the originality of the thriller.

staite from the of it has views confueses not wasting time on long operning title sequences such as the sixth sense but getting to the cimartography of camrea shots realy early on. It starts of with a simple photo of a bloody crime scene just taking by a camera but then all of a suden starts to fade and go in reverse all the way back to the actual shot of the camera, by doing this its aready creating a sence of tesion confuesion then soon after a nother dileama is added to to the situation as it shows who he shot but the question of the audince at this moment is why he shot him and who is he? Beforhand still sticking to the convetional thriller openiong of fast passed close up shots of radom object making he audience feel uneasy a tense.

Another thig that as a media student looking for thrillers that stand out and challeng the thriller genre, is the way the story line is set up witch is perfect for a thriller, where you have a man with aterogade amnesia with means he his unable to store new memories trying to investicate who killed hiss wife using a unque technique of using pitches and tatoos to asist and help his brain. By doing this us as the audience will find it even harder to find out clues to the hole dilemha of the films just as much as the character witch works in pefectly with the thriller genre.

Brief

As AS media students we have been set a task to create the title and opening of a new fiction film to last a maxium of 2 minutes we have been split into groups of three my group is me, Jacob Roots and Tyler Chambers. Even through through the project we will be working together as a group the final cut of the editing of the film will be done indivsauly so we can express our idea's to the maxium abitly without feeling held back and give our self the chance to get the best grade possible

What i learnt last lesson

last lesson i learnt a couple of new things,
the first of witch was the assment brief of are practical mark in media witch is worth 50% of our over all grade. The brief is for us split into groups to make the opperning of a new fiction film to last a maxium of 2 minutes.

when given the brief we was all given a mask scheme with it showing what criterias we are need to meet in order to get the grades necessary, my personal target is to achive the hight grade possible witch is a level 4 to do this i need to make sure the quality of my work it to an excellent standerd anything below this would be unexcepable. Also i learnt witch was made very clear by my teacher was that even though you are working in a group and essentualy it needs to be a group effort to make the film your going to be marked indevisual on your contributions and efforts, this is to ensure that people in the groups do not try to take credit in work they did not them selfs part take in.

Also that lesson we begain to discuss and find out, what makes coventions of a good thriller. As a group we managed to work out most of them witch was:

-Shock tactics
- Strange and tension building music
- edgy audince
- mystoreis
- More sophisticated/intelligent characters and story lines
- dark (night time)
- Violence
- Unexpected drama
- Scream sound effects
- Mist/fog
- Split personality
- Complicated twists
- Crime
- Victctims
- serspence

We learnt if used correctly thease were the perfect ingreedence to make a smash it thiller film !

towards the end of the lesson we started to watch a film called Memento, which was a American film made by Nolan in 2000.
When the film started i Immediatley started to look for signs of the conventions, and found some. For example the fist shot we saw was a blood scene witch strait away mad me as the audine think "hmmm whats going on" witch comes under the convetion of mystory.
One other smart covetion of a good thiller i never learnt untill i was watching the film was the ability to input non linner naritive in it, witch ment that as a audince we was almost cluelous for the fisrt 10 mins and then all of a sudden things came together witch made the story line clever and effective.

Prior to watching the film something i learnt was that often people get confused between the dffences and deffent coventions of horror and thriller.
when discussed this i learnt that horror films are more grity and gory with alot of obvouse plots, blood scenes and murrder, icluded realy to try and make the audince squing and squeam. Were as a thriller is more of a lead up to the gory part were actualy you hardly ethier acutaly see it but only antisipate it wich keeps he audince on a knife edge, also its much more interlectual and sophisticated were the audince needs to be completely engaged to follow the story line.

Refection on editing

When we finally had all the shots we needed it was time to edit i found this quit difficult as i was new to editing on imovie .I really struggled with this part of the task but was relieved when Casey and Elise said they used it before at GCSE level. I feel the editing process became slightly more difficult as when cropping clips form are video clips dare was loads of half cut scenes of each shoot. Eventually after selecting which shot was preferred out of each of the three shots filmed for each section he began to come much easier. When coming to the opening and closing of the door we saw by continuity editing it wasn’t quite right following the 180 degree, we managed to correct this problem as well as possible considering we had already taken are shoots and times was running out. In able to complete our editing we focused on continuity once again, this made it capable for us to adjust our sections so that they did not jump nor freeze, I found considering the end product came out reasonable well consider the massive problems we encountered.

Reflection on filming

when we started filming form the of we had problems as we were missing one of our group members Jacob who was sick, this put me and Elise in problems as when could shoot the scene where we was to show conversation and reverse shot reverse but we tried as best as we can to at least get the opening part to are sequence then try to address the problem when we came to it. Although we encountered these problems it seemed easy as the planning was done in allot of depth and detail. After we shot a couple of scenes we had another group member added (Casey) this made it much easier as now we had someone who could have an audience view point through is video shooting.
Another problem hit us as we began shooting again the next day we realised we never had the same close on with would make the continuity of the video clip pointless so we though quickly and decided to start again still basing it on are storyboard.

During the filming process the continuity seemed slightly harder than we first thought, enabling everyone to look as if they haven’t moved in separate shots was hard to confirm especially during the opening and shutting of the door process. Other parts which seem to cause us a little problem was the 180 degree rule when going through a door showing the character from behind of the opening to the camera in from of the closing I feel this was because of the very tight angle we was shooting at while coming through the door. For the majority of the filming period we used the camera on a tripod, however in one sequence Casey was looking round the set room examining it from his own point of view, to do this shot we used a point of view shot which would allow the audience to see the various movements in Casey's point of view, we believed this would be really effect as it would lead us on to shot reverse shot quickly without too much scenes in-between making the video clip not drag on and become boring to the audience .

Reflection on planning

At first we was all singly separated, and all given our own story bored from this we had to come up with our own ideas on how to incorporate all the continuity techniques while following the guide lines of the task, this was reasonably easy to do. but then got more difficult when we was put into groups of 3 where we had to debate and conversate over everybody’s different idea’s and opinion on what and what should not be put in the clip. After a while or tossing ideas around we was capable of choosing a which plan suited the hole group.

When we was given are final story bored as a group it seemed like a really easy task but when we thought we was finished, we discovered to realise there was much more details we needed to include to make the whole point of continuity to work, for example when turning on a light in the dark, it couldn’t just go from dark to light we had to actual she a person search for it this comes under match on action. A another big decision that caused just a little bit of problem was deciding who does what in the actual video clip, whose shooting and whose acting. In the end of planning it all worked out without encountering to many problems all we did was keep in mind that if we was the audience would it make sense.

Explanation of the task set

What we had to do in are plenimarny task was to create a scene showing we know and have a correctly understanding of continuity editing showing all the five elements of filming;
master shot, match on action, 180 degree rule, eyeline shot and reverse shot reverse.
Also while inclueding this we needed to follow the filming criteria of opening the door, walking across a room, in engaging whith dialoge with some one.

Continuity editing

Continuity editing is a continuig movement between two camera shots while enshuring the scene setout and time remaon the same even though it could be shot on two different days this is so th shot moves smoothly from one shot to another making the aduence stay engaged to the plot of the story line without question if it makes if the scene makes sence or not

The types of continity editing are:

Master shot-
The master shot is used to establish where the characters are and the location or area thier in, this is to make it easer for the audince to belive sounds that they cant see for example police sighrines in mastar shot of heavly populated city street

180 degree rule-
The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making. Its two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Eyeline match-
The eyeline match is of a character looking at something off camera and then the next shot of what the character in the shot befor was looking at. it helps th audience to understand

Shot reverse shot-
shot reverse shot is where the camera would switch between two characters while having a convosation by doing this it shows the reactions on thier faces in response to the other persons question and vise-versa.Using this techniques is good as it makes the audience feel more part of the convosation

match on action-
match on action is a match from one scene to the next. The action is carried on between two scens making it seem like the scene hasn;t changed to th audience for example say a man was just putting a pint of bear in his/hers mouth in the next shot his got to be showin drinking it or someof the liqued as gone down

Analisys of Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a classic conventional old time thriller film similar to cape fear. Unlike Memento and Wallander it's black and white and has a constant sound of tension billing music orchestrated from a trumpet, also it has the sound of a constant beating of a drum witch creates the suspense and panic . Throughout the whole opening sequence it's credits, which is unusual because it doesn't give us any clues to the story line but in contrast to that it does make the audience begin to think as they show a silhouette of a man on crutches with a clear limp, also it follows the conventions of the thriller genre with close ups with the silhouette nearing the end of the title sequence . The only clip we get of the movie is an establishing shot of a street and a rail-way station. The only other Thriller opening sequence movie convention this fits is that it's filmed during the night time.