Presentation of our Thriller ideas

Title possibilities;
'Vanished/Loose Control/Lost Control/Out of Control'

Using the title 'Loose Control', it straight away appears something is imbalanced. This implys mystery and confusing if things or people are actually there.

A pyschological thriller;
We chose this genre because we can add many different effects and ideas. Camera shots will be more relevant to a psychological thriller. By representing this by picturing flashing backs. For example someone rocking in the corner of a room, possibly with a high angle shot showing a vulnerable state of mind. This added with point of view shots showing the character looking around their surroundings, panicking.Possible locations;
woodland areas in Cambridge

- Milton country park, recreation ground
- College grounds/woods
- a dark room
- church yard

Characters;
- 'Villon/Victim'
Ruby - Camera woman
Adam - Camera man/actor
Extra 1 - Jenny, main character
Extra 2 - Nathan? actor

Narrative Ideas for our Thriller;
For our two minute opening sequence we chose to do a pychological thriller. Our idea involves two actors, one male and one female. The clip contains a depressing mood, coming across mysterious and wanting to see what will happen next. Rather than having a goorey opening involving blood and guts, our short film will show what sort of drama can lead you too and will per sue a negative effect. Only having two minutes to give away the type of genre it is, we will have to think of unusal ways to go about it, giving a feeling of anixiety, like your world is spiraling out of control.

To begin our opening, the soundtrack will begin, a tense odd scratchy noise started the clip off, setting the mood. The title of our thriller appears on the black background. This will fade into a clip of our main character being introduced; walking down the college corridors, with sudden flashes of a man standing behind her. The girl getting paranoid, almost like she has done something wrong in her past coming back to haunt her. The eerie music accompanying the clip. She backs up against the wall, camera closes up to her face, her panicking and scratching at her face looking terrified. During this scene it will cut to a blank black screen with our credits appearing in creepy Gothic writing. Flashing of an image of a clean knife on the ground. The girl will be dressed in casual everyday clothes, as the man also. The camera will then pan over different locations of the woods, the girl running past from a low angle, the man close behind. The music begins to become more tense, the pace off the shot duration increases. Continuing the young girls paranoia getting into her mind, making her loose control, hence the title.. the scene is located in a dark room, using non-natural lighting, the spotlight from above lighting up nothing. From a high angle the girl appears, rocking back and forth, holding herself in a fetal position, the soundtrack stopping at starting at this time. Zooming into her face, makeup been ruined with her tears of blood. The knife suddenly appears in the girls hand, she jumps and drops it. During this there will be sudden clips of the man from different camera ranges, walking towards the camera. As the music becomes more intense, the drama picks up, this reflecting the atmosphere. Towards the end of our opening sequence it will be located in a grave yard, the girl running, screams loudly echoing during this time, the man extremely close behind, closing in on her, she falls and crawls backwards backing up against a grave stone, once again the images of the knife flashing before our eyes. The man walking in front of the camera, unable to see the girl anymore. The screen final ends on the knife, blood dripping of the edge.

In conclusion having flash backs will involve fast pace editing which reflects panic and confusion. The opening sequence does not yet reveal the whole story, leaving you on a cliffhanger. Not knowing if the man she is real or in the girls imagination, who is innocent or that someone has done something in their future that they are soon to regret. The dull and dark images/setting suggests that it is a thriller, with the flashes of scenes and the scratchy music gives away the psychological theme. As reaches mental climax, two character meet and then begins to makes your mind wander.

Music;

To open our clip we will have an odd, spooky soundtrack in the background. This eeriy music will set a mood to the scene. As the clip goes on it will become more intense.

Suitability

• Jenny would be suitable for the role of a vunrable girl because, she is a girl and looks like dweeb and is feeble. And he has plenty of practice in the fettle position.
  
• Adam would be suitable for the role of the odd man because, she looks like a weeeener
  
• Ruby would be suitable for the role of the camera woman because, he is bossy and is to much of a pussy to be on camera.

Logo for 'BlinK Productions' and exmple

Blink Productions logo;
We chose this image from google because then edited it using photoshop, changing the colour of the eye and adding text. We thought this was a good image to use as it fits with the the theme of our thriller. Its intense and the impact of the image makes you want to see more.

Village roadshow introduction;
The start of the clip its almost like you are in the logo because it seems like it is coming in from behind the camera. The yellow of the writing and shine on the logo seem expensive and more attractive. The image is of a V made very creatively and representing the name of the company. At the end it fades out back in to the black background. The music is a short magical tune which accompanies well with the style of writing.

Crime Thriller

Conventions of a Crime Thriller:

- Suspenseful account of successful or failed crimes
- Features murders/robberies/shoot outs/double cross
- Can glorify the rise and fall of a criminal- often based on real people
- Set in large crowded cities to provide the viewer with an insight into a secret world
- Characters have an ambitious desire for success or recognition
- Rivalry between binary characters is strong
- Many locations- seedy interior settings


Examples of Crime Thrillers:

- The Fugitive
- Kiss The Girls
- Reservoir Dogs
- Usual Suspects
- Double Jeopardy
- Murder By Numbers

Exampleof a Crime Thriller:

Analysis of other students thriller

'Reyond Reflections'

This opening sequence begins with a teenage girl staring at herself in a mirror , hence the title, so straight away it shows the audience the location. She starts to stoking her face like something is wrong but the scene suddenly skips to an opposite place of a grave yard and continues flashing back and forth. Lighting is dull and gloomy, so your eye automatically focuses on the girl, showing meaning to the sequence. Titles appear in write writing so it contrasts against the background. The writing looks almost like its been leaking down the screen. The next shot shows someones legs walking past the camera, this is filmed from a low angle. The shots are held steady demonstrating technique. The shots are varied, such as close ups, medium and long shots, boosting up their grade. An guitar has been recorded over as the music, with the occastional sudden boom added in which makes you feel more on edge. The editing cuts between these two locations for a time, showing the artermath of the mirror and young girl. It closes up on her palm, blood over her and te mirror. Through this opening sequence the link between the different settings become more familiar, however I believe this is a good opening becuase it drags you in and makes you want to watch the actul film.

'The Return'

The first few seconds of this thriller it shows many different camera shots, in addition the camera is help steady so it is easy to watch. As it closes up in the eye, the music suddendy goes scractchy making more of a sudden impact. They have used their editing and effects of the eye using the computer extremely well. Although on some ocastions the write writing clashes with the light background, they have used a spookey type face. Rather than like most the previous students thrillers, using a very ordinary look flashing from scene to scene, the effect of the screen almost turns into an old fastioned movie; making it abit delotional. The location is isolated so is great for the theme of a thriller. You are able to see a similarity between the locations in the film although it plays tricks on your mind with the flicking camera edits and makes you wonder.

Mark scheme for Thriller opening

Level 4 - TOP GRADE 48/60
Demonstrate excellence in:

- editing so meaning is apparent to the viewer
- using varied shot transitions ad effects
- using sound with images
- using titles appropriately
- recording voices clearly, in studio/studio set, location
- holding a shot steady
- framing a shot
- using a variety of shot differences
- shooting material appropriate to task set
- selecting appropriate mise en scene

In an opening sequence:

- indroducing main characters
- revealing the themes of the film
- indrocducing a theme/setting to the film
- have an idea of the narrative structure
- the music should indercate the genre of the film
- indication of the characters personalities

Action Thriller

The action thriller i chose to evaluate was die hard 1. It is a fast paced action packed movie in which John McClain (Bruce Willis) has to rescue his wife from terrorists. The antagonists are terrorists and the protagonists.

I Robot Analysis

The action thriller, I Robot involves typical goodies and baddies although there is an unusual twist. The robots who have been trained to do the humans 'dirty work' such as being bin men, suddenly turn bad because of one man, it begins to be a fight between the the two.

The music in the trailer begins before the action has even started, the non-diagetic sound track is a dramatic and sudden. The first few words said is by Will Smith, the main character in the film introducing himself. Following onto a close up of him pulling the ignition on his motorbike racing past everyone on the roads, even just this shot suggests power and that this character has control. A robot appears at his door when it opens, he pushes it away, dismissing this new invention and its 'clever programming'. Soon on the equalibrium of the story is disrupted by these 'imertations of free will', determinded to take over the humans and robots to rule. However not all the robots are bad.

Will Smith does not seek the action, although when it comes he does everything to try to dimolish it, especially when his family is involved.

Pyschological Thriller

Whats involved in a Psychological Thriller:

-Drama/mystery
-Danger on mostly a mental level rather than a physical level
-2 or more characters preying on each others minds or one solitary character with mental struggles.
- Characters will have fear or fascination with death.
-Characters try and discover own purpose.
-Narrative, confusion over what is real and what is not.





'The Game' is a psychological thriller. We can tell this from the trailer by various micro elements, such as, the ambient non-diagetic sound of the tense music which accompanies the drama.
The title suggests playing a game which sets the theme for the movie. Various camera angles and techniques help to make the movie more extreme and exciting. It begins with a narrator.

Political Thriller

Political Thriller
-Threat set against a backdrop of a political power struggle
-plots are designed to give political power to someone whilst opponents try to prevent this
-two sets of characters often set in office whilst others set in action


Syriana



Analysis
The opening scene depicts a country in financial struggle this is

Micro Elements of Seven

There are many different micro elements in the film Seven, which, collectively add up to make the film into a thriller including camera angles. The film starts off with a close up of a Morgan Freeman's face then skips too an over the shoulder shot of him putting his tie on in the mirror. During this time sound begins to pick up, deep ambient sound almost resembling a heart beat. His slow movements show he has things running through his mind. Brad Pitt enters, non-diegetic music is happening in the background, the detectives radio's making rustling sounds, clocks beginning to tick, suggesting time is running out. As the credits appear on the scream, bass kicks in mixed with odd robotic sounds, ocastional screaming

Vertigo (classic thriller analyalis)

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This clip addresses the conventions of a classic thriller in the way that it opens with a man running away from the police and then getting into a very sticky situation. This man, from what we can gather, is obviously the protagonist. The police are pursuing the man for reasons unknown. The music is suspenseful which makes the audience on edge from the very start.

This is the ending to Godzilla. The micro elements in the clip help to define it as a Thriller.

Preliminary Task

This is the finalized version of our preliminary task. We found this alot easier and quicker to film compared to our first one. This is mainly due to our editing skills on the computer, using final-cut express. As we finished creating our preliminary we had plently of time during the same lesson to edit our fotage. I belive that doing a prelimainary task boosts your knoledge about the types of shots you need to involve in such a simple clip and I feel more confident with ideas. When we come to creating our thriller, I think we all will be able to peform becuase it will be famiar to us.

Preliminary Task Storyboard

Our storyboard is an example of each individual shot and how we will go about doing them. It is also shows where it is located and our actions. We will be shooting our task in college grounds.

Actors - Ruby and Adam
Camera man- Charlie

Prelimainary Task, shot examples

We have found examples of each type of shot involved in the Prelimainary Task.

ESTABLISHING SHOT


This is an example of an establishing shot. This shot introduces the setting well with a long shot pan showing the technology being used and where the film is located.

CLOSE-UP SHOT


Close up gives more impact to the scene and makes it feel more intense. In addition it puts the character into the setting.


MATCH ON ACTION SHOT


This shot links the character to the location by giving several different angles in just one place/room. You are able to see what it would be like from that persons perspective.



REACTION SHOT


This is a good example because it emphazies the actors facial expressions to see how the other character/s have influenced them.



LONGSHOT


This gives the audience an idea about the surrounds and where they may be. It also lets yu able to see whole character in one shot.



CONVERSATION SHOT


This clip is good because it uses 180 degree rule over shoulder so the camera is hidden from the audience but shows both characters.