We have now been put into groups for our thriller title sequence, i am happy with my groups and hope we can work together well.
My first idea for a Thriller movie is to have a schizophrenic character (most likely male as they are the stereotypical villain). One side of him would be just an average man, friendly and smooth with the ladies but he will have snaps of a deranged man who will harm anyone near by. There would be no telling as to when he would switch between the two different characters and for how long he would be them. He has never been caught for the injuries he has inflicted on people because the bad side of him would escape before anyone found out.
The title sequence could consist of the man going out his normal day to day business but there's a hint of secrecy to him. Then it will show him going out in the evening with his guys friends and he will end up dancing with a girl. when hes alone with the night it will be going well until he snaps, then the sequence will finish in suspense.
The second idea is one that developed within the group. There's a man, lives alone in a dark place, isolated.
He killed a young girl and it seems her 'spirit' his haunting him when he sees his reflection.
For the title sequence it would begin by showing you the young girl happy and playing. And then there would be a dark scene and we could see a close up of a mans raging face. In the final part of the title sequence it would show the man looking depressed and then he sees himself in a reflection with the little girl covered in blood standing behind him.
Tomorrow we will talk through every one's ideas and decide which one will be the best.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
its all about thrillers
what is a thriller?
a thriller is a type of genre that creates emotions in the audience like terror and suspense. The book or film is designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. People enjoy the sensation of fear with not actually being in harms way.
what is a genre?
a genre is a category to group media arts that have similarities.
the thriller genre is very large with smaller sub genres in it. examples if sub genres of a thriller are :
Alfred Hitchcock is a legend in the thriller industry, he was nicknamed 'The master of suspense'.
He defines the difference between mystery and suspense,
"Mystery is an intellectual proses like in a who'd done it, but suspense is essentially an emotional proses there for you can only get the suspense element going by giving the audience information"
Going back to sub-genres, we did an exercise in class of writing down what type of characters and locations we would expect to see in different sub-genres. When each group said what they had written down it turnewd out that the whole class had thought of the same characters and locations. In thrillers as a genre there are certain things that make you know it's a thriller, going deeper in that there are even specific props, people and locations that you can definatly link with a sub-genre.
Supernatural thriller:
charaters - zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, devils/demons or witches
location - creapy old house, graveyards, fields/woods, derlict buildings, anywhere that makes the character trapped or isolated so no one can help them
a thriller is a type of genre that creates emotions in the audience like terror and suspense. The book or film is designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. People enjoy the sensation of fear with not actually being in harms way.a genre is a category to group media arts that have similarities.
the thriller genre is very large with smaller sub genres in it. examples if sub genres of a thriller are :
- action - These films are fast-paced, hero-centered full of action and excitement
- supernatural - The character (the hero or villain) has some sort of supernatural power that must be called upon
- mystery - where the murder has to be uncovered
- disaster - These films deal with some type of disaster, either natural or man-made
- action
- drama
- murder
- a hero
- villain
- tension
- mystery
- suspense
He defines the difference between mystery and suspense,
"Mystery is an intellectual proses like in a who'd done it, but suspense is essentially an emotional proses there for you can only get the suspense element going by giving the audience information"
Going back to sub-genres, we did an exercise in class of writing down what type of characters and locations we would expect to see in different sub-genres. When each group said what they had written down it turnewd out that the whole class had thought of the same characters and locations. In thrillers as a genre there are certain things that make you know it's a thriller, going deeper in that there are even specific props, people and locations that you can definatly link with a sub-genre.
Supernatural thriller:
charaters - zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, devils/demons or witches
location - creapy old house, graveyards, fields/woods, derlict buildings, anywhere that makes the character trapped or isolated so no one can help them
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Analysising an American thriller
The second movie trailer I will talk about is 'The Fast and Furious'. It is about a street racing action film where an undercover police man infiltrates the street racing world trying to catch a hijacking ring.
the music begins quietly as a sound of cars. The quick shots shows cars driving round in the evening with a big crowd watching. This trailer also has words blacking in and out between shots, its a very common form of editing in trailers used to draw a brief picture of the movie for the audience. As a wide, location shot of on a street is shown and the cars are all driving up into a line the music rises. Then all music stops and a man is shown with a black back round and wearing a black top so all seen is head and neck, and he says "lets go for a little ride" which creates suspense. Then there is loud metal genre of music played with a montage of fast action, violent shots. There is car racing, shooting, fire, fighting and general action clips with a man and woman kissing thrown in the middle to have a hint of romance added into the thriller. the clips are all edited together quickly an playing fast to show the action packed scenes and building to the end of the trailer where a car crashes into the camera.
This trailer is exciting with all the high speed shots and mad loud music getting you pumping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63tg_R4qi2k
the music begins quietly as a sound of cars. The quick shots shows cars driving round in the evening with a big crowd watching. This trailer also has words blacking in and out between shots, its a very common form of editing in trailers used to draw a brief picture of the movie for the audience. As a wide, location shot of on a street is shown and the cars are all driving up into a line the music rises. Then all music stops and a man is shown with a black back round and wearing a black top so all seen is head and neck, and he says "lets go for a little ride" which creates suspense. Then there is loud metal genre of music played with a montage of fast action, violent shots. There is car racing, shooting, fire, fighting and general action clips with a man and woman kissing thrown in the middle to have a hint of romance added into the thriller. the clips are all edited together quickly an playing fast to show the action packed scenes and building to the end of the trailer where a car crashes into the camera.
This trailer is exciting with all the high speed shots and mad loud music getting you pumping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63tg_R4qi2k
Thrillers
Thrillers is a movie genre, it includes tension, excitement and suspense to entertain the audience. The movies stimulate strong feelings of uncertainty, anxiety, anticipation, tension and terror.
It finishes with a final buzzer and the whole red drawing of a wave. The last shot is of the male lead panting out of breath and looking around worried. If the main man is worried it cares the audience as he seemed to be a dominant leader in the trailer so the film is obviously full of terror.
I personally don't watch Thrillers because I don't enjoy the feeling of terror, but I am going to analyse two Thriller movies' trailer. Trailers are like montages of brief clips from throughout the movie.
The first trailer is from a German dubbed film called 'The Wave'.
Straight away the trailer makes you jump with a big bang to start. There is some sort of native echoey music a quite heart beat which always put an audience on edge.They have edited each quick shot to come from black and to dissolve to black, this can signify to the audience that the film is very dark.
The camera work shows some close ups and 2 people shots of characters that are obviously going to have some importance to the movie.
In between a few shots, some words appear in front of a black back round with some sort of drawing in red which you can't see the whole of yet.
5 very impacting words that appear are 'based on a true story'. These impact the audience hugely because they suddenly begin to relate to the movie, maybe some of the places of characters, and it will allow them to think its more realistic.
The sound builds the tension as you hear the marching feet and then the school bells rings repeatedly alarming the audience. The banging and bell gets louder building suspense as the audience can feel something coming.
The action of the movie builds as it becomes more violent and you see blood, the police and fighting. The speed of the shots has quickened to make it more exciting and difficult for the audience to follow exactly.
It finishes with a final buzzer and the whole red drawing of a wave. The last shot is of the male lead panting out of breath and looking around worried. If the main man is worried it cares the audience as he seemed to be a dominant leader in the trailer so the film is obviously full of terror.More Editing
Continuity editing is very important to make the sequence flow and seem realistic. Continuity is when everything from one shot matches up to the next, like all the props are in the same place and the characters haven't changed position hugely.
When putting together our scene, we had to chose which different shot types to use for which part of the scene. If we wanted to have the main character as me, we would chose to see all my speech and some of my reactions, i would have the majority of the screen time. We copied and pasted the mini film to experiment with different editing ways and seeing more of the second actors part.
For an example of choosing shot types, we chose a wide shot of one of Freddie's speech as he also did an action (pointing to the door). This informed the audience of Freddie's body language.
It is important not to jump from one shot type to another, and to then keep alternating between similar types as it will just make the scene repetitive and boring.
We worked we as a team and with the help from our teacher we learnt what each person should be saying behind the camera and what they should be paying special attention to.
When putting together our scene, we had to chose which different shot types to use for which part of the scene. If we wanted to have the main character as me, we would chose to see all my speech and some of my reactions, i would have the majority of the screen time. We copied and pasted the mini film to experiment with different editing ways and seeing more of the second actors part.
For an example of choosing shot types, we chose a wide shot of one of Freddie's speech as he also did an action (pointing to the door). This informed the audience of Freddie's body language.
It is important not to jump from one shot type to another, and to then keep alternating between similar types as it will just make the scene repetitive and boring.
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