Initial Ideas-Our Thriller

Plot Sypnosis.

The year is 1995, in a southern eastern London neighbourhood, technology and digital society is beccoming the norm and a quiet suburban family is torn apart.
The daughter of the mother is kidnapped by a mysterious stranger and the mother goes through a mental breakdown, which further impacts the family.
the mother spends most of her time searching for her daughter alone, without the help of authority.

later on in the story sevral years pass until the turn of the millenium, the daughter is still alive and now lives a different life from before. during the years of her kidnapping she is now aqquanted to the life and dilemmas she has had to live, now she is almost free. Living in a world almost alien to her. She learns the tragerties and mystery of her previous family.

During the end of the film, she returns to her now crime deprived family, homes turned into drug dens and the streets are paved with papers and debris. She finds her old home. And nothing more.

Scouting for Locations in my Opening.

Considering the plot for our film is focused around the mental

breakdown of a family and especially the housewife. We decided

a mix of surrealist landscapes which appear several moments throughout the

opening. When looking up examples of surrealist cinema I became intrigued

by the works of David Lynch, specificlly his earlier works such

as Eraserhead. I found the use of abstract and surrealist

work in Lynch's films effective, but pretentious at best. Deciding there should be a contrast between the real and the subconsious world was a factor which needed to be set it stone, therefore I looked into parks and feilds to take photos. I feel the less cluttered and natural, empty space of feilds created a simple metaphor

for the mind, especially a mentally declining one.

In addition, I went into depth looking into changing the quality of images to use digital artifacts to create strange movements/images onto the frame.

When taking photos in this area I noticed the ground was crumbley and sunk when stepped on. The dying grass and ground acted as another good metaphor which symbolises the deteriation of the mind. When learning to edit during post production we plan to edit the colour of these locations to look more dream-like.

With this location I really liked the sunrise lighting, hopefully when filming we'll have the same style of natural lighting for when shooting these sequences. The sprawling feild in this specific location could easily be used to create a kenophobic atmosphere to these surrealist locations.

Survey

This pie chart displays the total number of 

people who took the survey. From this we

know that our larger series of audience are male.

This second pie chart further shows which males
and females pefer low key lighting. From this
we see that males pefer the darker tone for lighting.

In this third pie chart it specifies the age group through females.

As shown, the adverage age is 11-16

This next pie chart shows the two major groups through males, oddly

the 17-25 age group is the more adverage.

The final pie chart shows the total between the choice for music in the opening

The adverage seems to pick grim, quiet music as opposed to louder sting music.

Analysing my genre through Voxpops

What Titles? (Post 10)

Analysing the Conventions of a Thriller

Plot: The plot conventions of a thriller are similar to those in a horror (Considering both genres are heavy variants of themselves). thrillers are more oriented towards solving and discovering the mystery enveloped in the plot. With this explained, Thrillers are prior to include plot twist, in which a dramatic unsuspected point in the thriller is exploited. Thrillers commonly involve a threat with their outside life and is commonly an abstract representation of a corruption of society/world.

Cinematography: A series of conventional shots are used throughout thrillers. Extreme long shots are commonly used to create a theme of isolation as commonly used in many adaptations of Stephen King's novels. Extreme and out of focus close ups or extreme close ups are also used to give away specific clues, like in horrors the common close up shot of a weapon is used to create one blunt emotion of the character which is only presented through a prop or extension of the antagonist.

Mise En' Scene: Like some horrors, especially 'slasher' horrors thrillers are commonly set in the corrupted renditions of mundane locations such as suburbs and cities however some thrillers may take place in exotic, desert or space locations.

Characters: The conventional series of characters follows the same in horror films, these include the main protagonist, who may be twisted to the antagonist later in the thriller. There is commonly a secondary protagonist who assists the lead protagonist and is commonly presented as the characters friend or partner. There is also the main antagonist which sometimes may not even be a character and represents the protagonist(s) main fear. 

 

Conventions of an opening sequence

Analysing the Spiderwick Chronicles

Analysing the sixth sense

Analysing A Romantic Comedy (Bridget Jone's Diary)

Analysing Brick Redux

Analysing An episode of Wallander.

The Sixth Sense on Prezi

Analysing the Opening of Memento

Comparing a trailer and Opening sequence.

Task one Breif

In this first task our aim was to set up a series of still images with a basic digital camera, through this we  would learn the basics of setting up a frame through the rule of thirds and importing data onto our files on troy.

Preliminary task.

My www/ebi on the preliminary task.

W.W.W: The Stationary shots, especially the over the shoulder shots are produced and polished to a high standard, the shots aren't completely steady however the shots slightly jut and almost looks intentional. The Lighting on some shot, especially the opening shot. Some of the camera movements including the pans are stabilized and do not shake or speed up/slow down.

E.B.I: The lighting throughout the shot isn't great as it constantly shifts through the film, some of the actors also momenterally look directly at the camera, the first pan is shot a little too slow and can be seen to change paces a few times.
The second pan is the opposite area, as the pan flows too fast to the point that the screen blurs when the pan stops the camera isnt greatly framed. Through some shots the dialouge is slightly washed out, compared to other shots. Many of the shots are over the shoulder, none of these shots a particually master shots however this was due to the face that the room was too large to shoot an establishing shot.

Lewis McNally, Recreating a scene from Donnie Darko

Media Homework Part 2

Media Homework Part 1

Wise Words.

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