Production meeting

Production meeting
Today we had a production meeting in which we discussed the shots that we would be using in our thriller. My group features Leon, Tino, Gottfried and Me (top to bottom) We story boarded each scene of our Thriller opening, and gave each person their role in the group. I was given the responsibility of being the camera man, and director. Gottfried chose the role as our editor, whilst Tino and Leon chose to act in our film, and play parts of the camera man any time that I was acting in a scene.
We came up with multiple ideas for our thriller, and ended up choosing two that we thought were most achievable at a high standard with the time and equipment given. After coming down to two ideas we wittled it down to our final idea.
The first of our ideas called "Unconscious" featured our actor laying in a hospital bed, white room and in a coma. In this coma he has flash backs of how he ended up there, with him being attacked by his bestfriend who is jealous of him, and at the end of the flash back his eyes open and hes conscious again.
Our final idea named "Gott'fried Died Tryin'" featured our editor Gottfried as a rapper that attracts a lot of trouble, and does not know how to deal with the trouble hes faced with. This leads to him dissing another rapper in one of his songs, which is the final straw and he is shot dead. His best friend who was with him from the beginning before the fame, is distraught by his murder and sets out to get his revenge.

Thriller openings

History of Violence
History of violences opening features a sequence of long cuts and mid shots. It features only diegetic sounds as we can hear the crickets making noise in the back ground and cars. When we reach the crime scene, we begin to hear the non-diegetic sound of music. This music gets more intense and louder as the girl enters the scene. Also, when we reach the crime scene, we notice more cuts




No Country For Old Men (2007)
No country for old men features shots of landscapes, whilst we hear non diegetic sounds of a person narrating in the background. when the characters enter the scene, the narrating continues, and diegetic sounds begin to enter the scene, like the car door opening and driving off. When the action scene begins, there is a lot of cuts. Quick cuts of the scene from many different angles.














Zodiac
Zodiac stars off in a point of view style, as if someone were to be looking out a window of a moving car, we hear non diegetic sounds of music playing in the beginning. And through out we can hear non diegetic sound of music playing. The shots are close ups of the characters face, and we are able to see the fear on their faces. it also feautres over the shoulder shots when the characters are talking. The action scenes featuring gun shots had many different shots, and were in slow motion. and after the action music  begins to play again.


Brick (2005)
The opening scene in brick features a boy discovering a dead body. The scene features low lightly, and a blue tint, this makes for a feeling of the scene being cold, and uncomfortable. The camera cuts from the face of the boy, to the dead body, but with each cut to the boys face the body part of the dead body changes. It then cuts to the wrist of the girl, where we see a bracelet. Then cuts to a school corridor, where the girls wrist is seen opening a locker. What this does to the audience is leaves us in suspense questioning how the body got there and wondering what happen to lead up to the girl being murdered.

Rope (1948)

Rope (1948)

Rope is a timeless film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based up on the crimes of Nathan Leopold jr. and Alfred Loeb, in which two young upperclass men murdered Robert Franks in attempt to create the "perfect crime". Through out the film, the audience is subject to constant dramatic irony as at the beginning of the film we see the main characters Phillip(Dick Hogan) and Brandon (John Dall) murder their victim by strangulation using a piece of rope, hense the film title, and stuff him into a crate which they host a dinner party off of. Each time other characters in film are near the crate the audience feel a sense of tension coming from the murderers who are trying to gain a thrill from their actions.



The film Rope is a good example of a thriller, because we are instantly introduced to suspense, from the opening scene until the very last scene. The family of David Bently have attended the dinner party in which they are eating from the crate that his dead body lays, oblivious. But Davids absence is noticed, and his family begin to ask questions of his where abouts. Brandon invited the family of David for self contentment, so that he was comfortable with believing in himself that he is a genius and that he was capable of committing the perfect crime.
The whole murder is masterminded by Brandon, whilst Phillip is more apprehensive and paranoid about getting caught. we see this because on multiple occasions we see him almost give away what they had, but for Brandon to keep his mouth closed.
The whole film has around 10 cuts, and each scene lasting for around 10 minutes without a single cut, but for invisble transitions. These transitions will usually feature colour matching for example the camera may dip to someone black coat, and then revert to a piece of cloth.

Unknown - Conventions of a thriller

Unknown (2011)
The film Unknown (2011) features Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger.
The plot of the film is that through out most of it, we are led to believe that Dr. Martin Harris had his identity stolen after a car crash, which led to him frantically searching for evidence to prove his identity. Whilst this is going on, a second Dr. Martin Harris, played by Aiden Quinn begins to live his life, even down to his wife, who is played by January Jones. Because of this, people are led to believe that Liam Neeson has lost his mind, and is trying to ruin a conference in which a scientist produced corn that could grow throughout all climates, and which is applicable to everyone free of charge. The protagonist in this film is clear, being Liam Neeson, but we find it difficult to immidiently pick out the antagonist.






This clip features one of the most action packed scenes in the film. We see Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger frantically trying to evade a person trying to kill them. This scene is filled with cuts, as it features over 100 cuts in under 120 seconds. Also, the colour of the scene is a darkish blue/black colour. This leads us to believe that can not be any positives coming from this scene. Furthermore, this scene features non diegetic sounds like the orchestra playing in the back ground, also mixed with the diegetic sounds we find it difficult to focus on any particular sound.

Title Sequences

Title sequences
When movies begin, they go through a number of sequences to introduce the film. All these sequences include the logo of the production company, the known ones are very easy to spot. These include MGM, Pixar, Disney, Dream works, Colombia Studios, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios and Paramount.


Typically the film starts with:
1.) Name of producers and of presents
2.) Name of directors "A Film by.."
3.) Main stars
4.) Title
5.) Other major casts members
6.) Name of the producers
7.) Name of the directors


Zodiac
This is the opening sequence to the film "Zodiac" doesn't follow the usual sequence of films, as it starts with the Studio names, but goes straight away to the director of the film, then the stars of the film. Next comes the screenplay,  cinematography, music and then comes the title of the film.

MGM
This is the MGM studio indent features a lion in 1924 roaring.






Dreamworks
Dreamworks production features balloons floating towards a moon which has a man sitting on it fishing. when the balloons reach the moon they pop and spell out the title dream works. This is very popular amongst films aimed at younger viewers, as dream works produce a lot of cartoons and universal rated movies.

Paramount Pictures
Paramount pictures features a mountain view where the words paramount spell out across, and stars circulate the words. Paramount pictures produce movies of many genres, from kids films to thrillers, so it can be seen in a lot of different films and popular films.