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

FINISHED- IT IS ON POWER POINT, BUT I DONT KNOW HOW TO POST IT USING SLIDE SHARE.

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'.