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