Evaluation Of Final Project

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Our Final Thriller Film Opening

Here is our final opening to our thriller film 'The Vision':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yYpunM3vYg&feature=player_embedded

Thriller Intro Preparation/Planning

 

The sheet below is our initial ideas planning of what we thought our thriller introduction could/should be like. When planning our thriller intro we looked at a variety of: themes, settings, characters, mise-en-scene, sound etc that could be linked to the thriller genre. This process helped us to link up our ideas and put together a plott for the opening sequence/intro.

We also researched into psychological thrillers as we thought we could use that genre for our own thriller.

After this we decided on the psychological thriller genre, and began to create a plot and script.

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Thriller opening script (first draft) - "The Vision"

By Jamie, Michael, Emma and Helena

Throughout the opening the titles will be appearing in the bottom right hand corner. At the end the main title will fade onto the screen.

(Craig is in bed, in a dark bedroom) Slow zoom camera shot

(Sudden panicked facial expressions) Fades into vision

(Woodland) Aerial shot of Craig dead, (Voices whispering warnings) Panning shot of surrounding area

(Returns to dark bedroom) close-up shot of Craig’s facial expressions (Craig is sweating/panicking) Zooms out for a wide shot (Gets out of bed and paces, he is frantically looking for something)

Medium shot (Craig falls to his knees and then it fades into another vision)

(Craig is running away from something in the woods) Over the shoulder shot of Craig looking behind him, followed by a long-shot of Craig running towards the camera

(Craig wakes up back into normal reality, however he is in the forest of his visions)

(Craig wakes up standing still) Eye level shot of Craig looking very confused (Craig looks around frantically) (Whispering voices)

(Craig starts to sprint as fast as he can) Slanted camera angle, footsteps made louder on crunching of leaves. Side shot of Craig’s legs. Wide shot, fast changing camera shots.

(Craig starts hitting himself and shouting to try and get out of the vision, however he is stuck) Long shot of Craig then zoom into a medium shot. Fades to black, title screen appears “The Vision”.

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We later made some changes to the script here is the completed version:

Analysis of Thriller Films

To help us collect ideas and be inspired for our own thriller film, we decided to look into a variety of popular thriller films and analysed them, we looked into the key elements of thriller films that we should include in our own thriller.

Preliminary Task

Initial planning of Preliminary task:

This is the script we wrote for our preliminary task:

The slides bellow show the analysis of our preliminary task:

Here is a short picture-movie that shows the photos we took befour we started filming, of the setting for our preliminary task:

When editing our preliminary task we made sure we had included all apropriate camera angles. We have used panning shots and shot reverse shots, all of which stick to the 180 degree rule. In this clip you can see that we ensured that we had continuity with each shot and the sound.Here is our finnished preliminary task film:

Thriller Directors

There are a variety of directors that specialise in thriller films, the word map bellow shows a few famous examples.

The slides bellow give some information about Alfred Hitchcock, his style of directing and some of his well known thriller films.

The Prezi-slideshow bellow gives detailed information about M.Night Shyamalan and some of his thriller films.

M. Night Shyamalan on Prezi

Camera Angles

We have recently been studying different camera angles and their effects. Here is a list of different camera angles we have looked at in class:

• Establishing shot
• Master shot
• Point of view shot
• Low angle shot
• High angle shot
• Long shot
• Extreme long shot
• Close up
• Extreme close up
• Mid shot
• Two shot
• Wide angle shot
• Framing shot

We also learn't that when using a variety of camera angles it is important to stick to the 180 degree rule to keep accurate continuity. The image bellow shows how the 180 degree rule works.