Thursday 28 January 2010

Photos showing ideas





More film ideas

The aim of our idea is to fool the audience. The scene will be based around an interrogation between two characters, one of whom is a policeman and the other a criminal. The interrogator (who the audience believes is the policeman) asks the criminal (but really a policeman) several questions about the crime. At the end of the scene it turns out that the criminal being interrogated is really the policeman, who is being held hostage, and the interrogator was the criminal all along. Hence the title of the film being 'Misconception'. At the end of the scene something will be shown to prove that the criminal was really the policeman the whole time, e.g. a badge. We could also show something that proves the interrogator is a criminal, e.g. a news flash showing the criminal after having escaped from jail.

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Ideas

These are some more ideas for our opening thriller:
  • With the news report idea, the crime is being reported on the television, and the victim is the one watching it in a dark room. When zooms out you see the victim in the chair watching it. We will use photoshop to make the news report effects such as the banner at the bottom.
  • The title of 'Misconception' is what it says on the tin, it relates to the what the actual film is about. When watching the film the audience will be misconceived. However the mix up with the police man will not be shown at the opening.
  • The idea is that the opening is the ending of the film, and the film looks back on what happens before.
  • The 24 type shots will show for example the hostage 'as such' his face and the next shot of his hands tied up



This is a mind-map of initial idea's for what to base our thriller opening on. As the text in this shot is small, below is its contents...
  • criminal interview idea- short answers , yes, no, maybe. criminal interviewing policeman without audience realizing( title of opening maybe 'misconception')
  • '24' style shots
  • bodyparts shot, to show nerves and reactions, biting lips, sweating, hands fidgeting, heavy breathing
  • news report on TV, zooms out from TV to reveal the shot is then in the scene.
the other screen shot is of our storyboards, within which are several approaches we could take in order to stage our opening. In other words they are creating a visual image of our idea's (see above).




During the creation of our thriller opening we were tasked to create a short piece for a production company to place at the start of our thriller. These are photos of the process of creating this production logo. It is a game of noughts and crosses that then fades out to reveal our production name: Criss Cross Productions


After we finished this video, we realized we would quite like some changes to be made to our video. Instead of just one nought moving across we decided to use three. The updated video is shown below. We as a group think that the updated video is a lot better and adds more effect.


Thursday 21 January 2010

Production logo

T2-56 PRODUCTION LOGO from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.


As a group, we had to create a production logo to be used in our thriller opening.
We decided to call our production company 'Criss Cross Productions', this relates to the idea that our thriller could be about a game for example. The naughts and crosses would be created using 300 film style writing, giving it an edgy distorted look. As a background for the logo we decided to use a piece of paper that had burnt edges, which adds to the rough look and feel of the logo. The overall distorted look of the logo coincides with our thriller theme

Monday 18 January 2010

Student work



This is a good thriller opening because of the two things happening at the same time. With the title 'Piece by piece' and the idea of playing chess and slowly beating the other player then he is slowly losing his chances of staying alive.
The music in the film creates a feeling of suspense and action at the same time. The tempo of the piece gets faster as the video progresses adding to the content in the video.

Thursday 14 January 2010

Memento


We were asked to analyze a thriller opening and we chose the psychological thriller 'Memento'
The plot of the film is based around the main character who cannot store memories. The film is about the internal psychological struggle he faces and how he copes. He questions who he can trust. It also allows the audience to follow the main character and try to figure out what will happen.

Political Thriller

'The Interpreter
Starring Sean Penn, is a political thriller.Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. Issues incorporated within the film include:
  • conspiracies
  • secrecy
  • assassination
  • general threat to life

Thriller definition



One definition of a thriller film is
"Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened; while a murder mystery would be spoiled by a premature disclosure of the murderer's identity, in a thriller the identity of a murderer or other villain is typically known all along. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others. In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process."

In our words a thriller is a film filled with mystery and throughout the film the audience has to try and guess from little pieces of information what the plot is. Often there are hidden messages or meanings

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Momento





our objective was to analyse the video of an opening to a thriller; we were tasked to identify what aspects of the sequence contributed to its genre. the following is what we decided on...
  • internal psychological struggle endured by main character
  • use of clues to help solve a mystery
  • self-reliant on coping with disability