THE SHOT LIST

Shot type	Camera Movement	Additional Notes
P.O.V	Pan	Camera shot through eyes of the mask. While the person in the mask looks around.
Close up	Still	the Boy tries to take off mask but can’t remove it.
P.O.V	Shaky	he is Looking at blood on hands through eyes of the mask.
Medium shot	Still	the Boy stands up.
P.O.V	Shaky	he is Looking at feet through eyes of mask.
Over the shoulder shot	Still	he is Looking at blood trail leading to door.
Long shot	Still	the Camera is focused on phone on desk and blurs boy at the back.
P.O.V	Shaky	he is Looking phone through eyes of mask.
P.O.V	Shaky	then he Looks at text message.
Long shot	Tracking shot	then the Boy continues to follow trail and opens door and enters room.
Close up	Still	after that the Camera shot of door.
Medium shot	Backwards tracking shot	then Following boy running out in shock.
Close up/P.O.V/medium shot/extreme close up	Quick pans and tracking shots with multiple tilts.	after that there is a Multiples different shots with quick editing.
Medium shot	Upwards tilt	it then shows the  dead body
Wide shot	Still	after that the Boy falls on ground
Close crane shot	Still	the camera then Shows two feet stand in front of him.

Studio idents

Mise-en-scene

what is mise- en scene?

 mise- en-scene is a French term for staging:

The main key aspects of mise-en-scene are:

set design 

lighting 

space 

composition 

costume 

make up and hair styles. 

Style of editing

Dissolve

A dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another. The terms fade-out and fade-in are used to describe a transition to and from a blank image. This is in contrast to a cut where there is no such transition. A dissolve overlaps two shots for the duration of the effect, usually at the end of one scene and the beginning of the next, but may be used in montage sequences also. Generally, but not always, the use of a dissolve is held to indicate that a period of time has passed between the two scenes.

Cuts and dissolves are used differently. A camera cut changes the perspective from which a scene is portrayed. It is as if the viewer suddenly and instantly moved to a different place, and could see the scene from another angle.

Fades and dissolves typically have a duration of 1 to 2 seconds (24-48 frames), though this may vary according to the preference of the director and editor. Short dissolves (6-12 frames) may be used to soften obvious hard cuts which may startle the viewer, or jump cuts.

Straight cut AND Fade
Although straight cut and fade are two different styles of editing simultaneously both can be used to create effect. A straight cut is a basic cut where Shot A abruptly ends and Shot B abruptly begins. A fade occurs when the picture gradually turns to a single color, usually black, so it gradually fades  or when a picture gradually appears on screen. Fade ins generally occur at the beginning of a film or act, while fade outs are typically found at the end of a film or act.

 





Jump - Cut
A jump cut is a transition between two shots which appears to "jump" due to the way the shots are framed in relation to each other. Jump cuts are usually caused by framing which is quite similar.

Pace of editing

Editing determines the pace and the mood of a film in three different ways:

1. The editor determines the duration of a shot. Generally, the longer the shot duration, the slower the pace.
2. The editor can decide what goes in or out of a sequence. E.g  In Lawrence of Arabia (Great Britain, 1962), in one of the most famous cuts in British filmmaking, instead of showing T. E. Lawrence travel from his safe office in Cairo to the desert, we see him extinguish a match in that office, cutting immediately from a close-up of the match light in a cramped office to the gloriously epic establishing shot of the desert and the desert sun.
3. The kind of edit between shots determines speed. The slow dissolve can leave us lingering on a disappearing image for several seconds (for example, the last shot of Psycho [1960], when Norman Bates's face slowly becomes superimposed on the skull of his mother). Or the cuts between shots can be very quick: Gunfights at the O.K. Corral tend to cut very quickly between the various participants so that you won't lose a bit of the bloodbath.

Graphic Match

Graphic matches, or match cuts, are useful in relating two otherwise disconnected scenes, or in helping to establish a relationship between two scenes.  By ending one shot with a frame containing the same compositional elements (shape, color, size, etc.) as the beginning frame of the next shot, a connection is drawn between the two shots with a smooth transition.

sound

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Modern Thriller openings

The birds

psycho

Media theorists

Rope( unfinished)

Rope is a thriller created by Alfred Hitchcock. It is about 2 friends who live in lavish Newyork apartment who by the looks of them have  a lot of money, they are intellectually superior than another man and decide to murder him by strangling with  a roper hence the title “ rope” This movie was based on a play created by Patrick Hamilton about a 14 year old boy who was murdered by two university students in Chicago.

Similar to the pompous Brandon and Phillips in the film, the real killers believed that Nietzschean superman. Which means that basically due to their intellectual power they don't have to abide by laws. “ Good and evil” they where using a philosophy which they thought that by killing someone it would make them better than anyone else. They believe that right and wrong were invented for the ordinary man.

 This shows us what a typical thriller would be like such as tense periods of suspense and mystery, it keeps the audience intrigued and focused in the film, it makes the audience eager to know what is happening next. However Alfred Hitchcock believes there's a significant difference between mystery and suspense. he says "Mystery is an intellectual process" This means that the difference is that mystery is something you have to work out ("intellectual") whereas suspense is all about making the audience feel a certain way, it makes the emotions of the audience change by giving them the information but its just the wait that causes emotions to stir up.

 

Storyboard

This is groups storyboard,this will then be turned into an animatic.

first production meeting

today i have decided to work with David, Dara and nadine, we managed to come up with a quick plan on what our thriller will be about, we came up with 3 different ideas,

baby boy
masks
anastasia

Our group has moved on further and we have now created a shot list and storyboard for our thriller opening. Our production is named 'Mask'.

Troubled

For our sound exercise we were ordered to do a short film to practise different types of sound we have been learning recently. In our film we added various types of sound: diegetic, non-diegetic, parallel, dialogue and music.

we  first put in non-diegetic music in the background (Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning) of our play to set the mood of a peaceful and calm environment while Ellie and I were reciting our dialogue. We added about 3 flashbacks in our play referring to a "party" that happened the weekend before. For each of these flashbacks we added non-diegetic and parallel flashback music so it would be clear to the audience that we are going back in time, this minimises confusion for the audience. When the flashbacks of the party took place we added diegetic sound that Denis was dancing to on a table and when a "fight" was taking place. We added some more diegetic sound of sirens for when the police arrived at the party.

the use of music gave the short film a better effect, and the sound effects really added to the film, it kept the audience focused.

Blog 3 North By North West

One of the most influential scenes in North by North west is the crop duster scene, in order to understand the thriller genre further, i have analysed a key scene from one Hitchcock's most iconic scenes.

Hitchcok said thrillers allows the audience to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what is like, so this means that he wants us to experience it ourselves, it makes us to emotionally think that we are there but we are actually not. This scene is a great way for us to actually experience that, as we are constantly anticipating on what is going to happen. and if he really does get killed or not.

In this scene I looked at the camera work;
which is the high or low shots , the long or medium shots, the close ups, the establish shots.In the first shot of the scene, there was an of establishing shots to show us where exactly the character is, which was the country side.

Also there was quiet a lot of POV shots when the car goes past, the reason for this shot allows the audience to feel like that they are actually there, it puts the audience in the characters shoes and makes us feel sorry for them so we are forced to care.

There are also some over the shoulder shots to catch the expression of the characters faces, and some Tracking shots which takes the audience along with the action as we see him running for safety.

There was also close ups, Hitchcock liked the subjective viewpoint when we see the close ups of the faces of the two characters and what they are looking at and their reactions to what they can see, Hitchcock said he wanted to transfer the menace that appears on screen into the minds of the audience.

I looked at the sound in this scene  and tried to see if i could spot different sounds and the effect that it would have on the audience, the ex
amples of sounds i was looking at; diegetic and non diegetic sound , parallel/ contrapunel sounds or even the pace of the scene.
In this scene some of the sounds are parallel and there are some diegetic sounds, which is sounds that the audience and the characters can hear, for example the sounds of the bus going past and the sounds of the cars.

In the start there is no music which indicates to us that something is about go wrong which leaves the audience anticipated and eager to see what is going to on and what will happen next.

Alfred Hitchcock was very smart to not have music during this scene also contrasts to location, as in the country side it is very quiet and peaceful. then eventually the juxstapostion kicks in when we hear the crop duster as it all of a sudden becomes very noisy and countrysides are not noisy.
in the scene of both men staring at each other the sound is very basic, nothing interesting is occurring at the moment.
                                                                               
the misenscene is also very important in this scene, the main character is wearing a suit, which makes him stand out as he is in the countryside so it shows how he is not from civilization, he is out of his comfort zone, the props is also very important as it has a link into what the country side is like, it is so empty and alone that there is nothing we can see, this sets the atmosphere of the scene, we can also see some lowkey lighting, which is normally used horror movies or thriller movies,this is when the lighting has both bright and dark areas in the frame , this is often used to unerve the audience.

cinematography filming exercise

This video shows the different types of shots used in our project such as: long shot, rolling shot, extreme close up, over the shoulder, high angel etc.we used the different shot types effectively to make our short film a lot more exciting, we tried to figure out the different ways in which film producers make their films and it was very surprising to see how many different shots are used in a film and how we never really understand the thoughts and hardwork put into the films. 
in our video we used a wide range of shots which include: long shots, close up, extreme close up, over the shoulder, high angle, rolling shots etc. despite this being the first time using cameras for filming, believe we our shots good for amateurs, however we will work on making our shots better and improve the quality of our films.  There are numerous shots which portray this. for example the scene where there is rolling shot where Denis looks confused, the over the shoulder shot where I  is walking towards david with the camera placed over my shoulder, the high angle shot where Nadine stabs as this makes me look vulnerable, The tracking shot of Nadine walking which was kind of shaky and the medium shot of me. From this we will progress to make even better videos using our mistakes from this video.

Genres

The Brief

 Foundation Portfolio: The Brief 

You have been asked to produce the titles and opening sequence of a new fiction film in thethriller genre.

The sequence should last a maximum of two minutes.

You may work in a group of 2 - 4 students.

As acting is not assessed you are free to use actors that are not members of your group.

The film is worth 60% of your coursework grade.

The accompanying blog is worth 40% of your coursework grade

Together the Foundation Portfolio is worth 50% of the overall AS Level. 

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