Kim Brenchley, Chris Ashwell, Alex Frost and Tyler Davidson Questionaire
Question 1 What do you think a thriller is? ______________________________________________
Question 2 What type of thriller do you prefer? (Circle one) Horror Gangster Sci-fi Western Comedy Other, please ________________
Question 3 What is your favourite aspect of a thriller (circle)? Characters Setting Costumes and Props Narrative Music Other please state ________________
Question 4 Watch the opening to Vacancy that we have just shown you. What is it about the opening of thriller that gets you interested and makes you carry on watching?
Question 5 In the clip you have just seen how do you know what type of thriller it is?
Question 6 what do you think a character or a building that is has a low camera angle shot would be?? E.g. picture to the right ______________________________________________________
Question 7 What character would you associate with these colours? Black ________ Red _________ White ________ Green _______
Question 8 What wouldn’t you want to see in a horror thriller opening? ____________________________________________
Question 9 how do you find out about the recent releases of thrillers? ____________________________________________
Question 10 whats the best thriller film you have seen and why? ____________________________________________
Monday, 1 February 2010
Brain storming
Brain storming
Type of film: Horror thriller
Setting: Corpusty, graveyard, abandon area, light from the bottle bins (in Corpusty) the ford, Marriots way, Thurning, tower.
Props of the villain character: knife or a weapon of choice
Similar to, I Am Legend and Vacancy
Shots of killer watching a young innocent girl
Multiple killers?
Killer has a weakness, and a symbol such as a tattoo which will be viewed when running.
Title = Black Crow
Ideas from other media students – you tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSaTaIvMTQ
Piano music, also birds but then turns into tense music
Panning of the landscape
Use of computer typing and close up of computer screen words
Mixture of black and white and colour
Camera going through grass to find a phone
Goes dark with only a lighter lite – blown out in slow motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJLABXpLOpc
Different shots of two guys walking
Typical villain – black hoodie
Dialogue music is tense
Twist being right at the start
The title is very interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3cQeRG_xL4
Starts with a chase and continually goes back to his memory of it
Goes to dialogue
Looking out through windows
Tense music
Slow motion
Black and white
Feeling of being watched
Freezes with title at the end.
Type of film: Horror thriller
Setting: Corpusty, graveyard, abandon area, light from the bottle bins (in Corpusty) the ford, Marriots way, Thurning, tower.
Props of the villain character: knife or a weapon of choice
Similar to, I Am Legend and Vacancy
Shots of killer watching a young innocent girl
Multiple killers?
Killer has a weakness, and a symbol such as a tattoo which will be viewed when running.
Title = Black Crow
Ideas from other media students – you tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSaTaIvMTQ
Piano music, also birds but then turns into tense music
Panning of the landscape
Use of computer typing and close up of computer screen words
Mixture of black and white and colour
Camera going through grass to find a phone
Goes dark with only a lighter lite – blown out in slow motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJLABXpLOpc
Different shots of two guys walking
Typical villain – black hoodie
Dialogue music is tense
Twist being right at the start
The title is very interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3cQeRG_xL4
Starts with a chase and continually goes back to his memory of it
Goes to dialogue
Looking out through windows
Tense music
Slow motion
Black and white
Feeling of being watched
Freezes with title at the end.
A brief synopsis of the plot
A brief synopsis of the plot
Young girl named Jessica previously lived in the city and her and her parents moved to the country a year ago. They bought a house in countryside at a low price. In the year they have been there, there has been many weird occurrence, such as; things going missing etc.
The reason these are happening is that the land has been sacred for many years and was used for rituals. The house was then built and has been haunted ever since.
Jessica then finally gets chased by the cult and find the object that they worship, and then the cult die or move
Young girl named Jessica previously lived in the city and her and her parents moved to the country a year ago. They bought a house in countryside at a low price. In the year they have been there, there has been many weird occurrence, such as; things going missing etc.
The reason these are happening is that the land has been sacred for many years and was used for rituals. The house was then built and has been haunted ever since.
Jessica then finally gets chased by the cult and find the object that they worship, and then the cult die or move
Sound
Sound
Sound is a very important part of any movie production, if the sound isn’t right it can really spoil the film. There are two types of sound:
Diegetic:
This is sound that comes from sources within the film for example, the sound of a bird in a cage. It’s sound that hasn’t been placed onto the film whilst the editing took place.
Non – Diegetic:
This is sound that has been placed over the original film and the source can’t often be seen for example, the sound of a dog barking in a housing estate.
Music
The type of music is going to play a huge part in our production. Using something that is up beat and energetic isn’t going to have the same affect as something that has an eerie and mysterious feel.
It’s high likely that we will be placing Non Diegetic sound over our production. Typical sounds can be placed over during the chase scene like a dog barking as the two characters run to the playing field.
For Diegetic sound there will also be emphasis on footsteps, when the killer walks around the house with camera shots of his feet, say walking up the stairs and the sound of his footsteps quiet but emphasized in a way that gives the viewer an intense feeling.
Sound is a very important part of any movie production, if the sound isn’t right it can really spoil the film. There are two types of sound:
Diegetic:
This is sound that comes from sources within the film for example, the sound of a bird in a cage. It’s sound that hasn’t been placed onto the film whilst the editing took place.
Non – Diegetic:
This is sound that has been placed over the original film and the source can’t often be seen for example, the sound of a dog barking in a housing estate.
Music
The type of music is going to play a huge part in our production. Using something that is up beat and energetic isn’t going to have the same affect as something that has an eerie and mysterious feel.
It’s high likely that we will be placing Non Diegetic sound over our production. Typical sounds can be placed over during the chase scene like a dog barking as the two characters run to the playing field.
For Diegetic sound there will also be emphasis on footsteps, when the killer walks around the house with camera shots of his feet, say walking up the stairs and the sound of his footsteps quiet but emphasized in a way that gives the viewer an intense feeling.
Editing
Editing
I have comprised a small video to show some simple transitions that can be used in our production, it will be posted on our blogs but here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPJl-F2o_7o
Transitions
Transition One, Fade: The most basic transition, it’s so simple and effect that I think it works the best out of all the transitions. It provides a nice smooth change between a scene. It would work best with a calm scene rather that a fast paced action scene.
Transition Two, Dissolve: Another simple transition but one at which I feel doesn’t work very well at all. It gives the film a crude, patchy and unprofessional feel.
Transition Three, Wipe Wide Down: This transition would be good to show a new day. It feels like it wipes everything clean. It would be used to show different times of days.
Transition Four, Page Curl: This one is also like Wipe, it feels as if it should be used to show a new beginning or change in time.
Transition Five, Inset: Personally I would not use this transition it feels very unprofessional. The transition feels too blocky.
Transition Six, Flip: This transition I could see being used in the title or credits bit not within the actual video clip itself.
Transition Severn, Bars: This one I feel is the worst of the lot, it feels so very unprofessional and doesn’t work well as a transition at all.
I have comprised a small video to show some simple transitions that can be used in our production, it will be posted on our blogs but here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPJl-F2o_7o
Transitions
Transition One, Fade: The most basic transition, it’s so simple and effect that I think it works the best out of all the transitions. It provides a nice smooth change between a scene. It would work best with a calm scene rather that a fast paced action scene.
Transition Two, Dissolve: Another simple transition but one at which I feel doesn’t work very well at all. It gives the film a crude, patchy and unprofessional feel.
Transition Three, Wipe Wide Down: This transition would be good to show a new day. It feels like it wipes everything clean. It would be used to show different times of days.
Transition Four, Page Curl: This one is also like Wipe, it feels as if it should be used to show a new beginning or change in time.
Transition Five, Inset: Personally I would not use this transition it feels very unprofessional. The transition feels too blocky.
Transition Six, Flip: This transition I could see being used in the title or credits bit not within the actual video clip itself.
Transition Severn, Bars: This one I feel is the worst of the lot, it feels so very unprofessional and doesn’t work well as a transition at all.
Friday, 29 January 2010
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