During our filming we took a few experimental shots for our poster and film piece, here are some of the experimental photographs.
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From the shots taken earlier using Muzzy I experimented using effects to create a more sinister look and they turned out successful.
At the start of the trailer we start with a fade in edit of the children playing with their dolls and teacups, which are made out of glass, therefore showing the children belong to an aristocratic family as glass china dolls were expensive in the olden days. The children are also wearing very fancy dresses which shows not only do they look after themselves but they are from a rich background. The colours of the clip are not very colourful, they look very pale and ghostly which connotes there is an erie atmosphere in the room and this shows this is a thriller. We cut to the next edit of the children looking up to the camera at a high angle. They are silent and have no facial expressions and are looking up to something however the audience are oblivious to who or what they are looking at and this has created tension. Now the children look out to the window and are now walking over to the windows. In the next edit there are 3 windows for each of the children and this connotes that the 3 windows for the 3 children all should lead to their deaths. After the girls jump to their deaths we hear screaming of a lady (which could be their mother) pleading for help and in the last edit we see a person, with a lady-like figure, looking out to the children's death, and leads to give a feeling she has made them kill themselves.
Alfred HitchcockKnown as the "master of suspense" Alfred Hitchcock is considered as one of the greatest thriller directors of the 20th centuary. He has created over 50 thriller films, such as 'Rebecca', 'The Birds', 'To catch a theif' and his most famous work, 'Psycho'. He is seen today as a director who managed to combine art and entertainment in a way very few have ever matched. His innovations and vision have influenced a great number of filmmakers, producers, and actors. Since 'Psycho' has been his most famous creation of the adaptation of the book, he has included many techniques to make the audience feel suspense and scared. One being music for example. His most famous 'shower scene' not only includes many camera techniques to hide the identity of the killer, setting of the murder and the victim looking helpless, but the music connotes this scene is very intense to watch and to listen to. Most of the shots are extreme close-ups, except for medium shots in the shower directly before and directly after the murder. The combination of the close shots with their short duration makes the sequence feel more subjective than it would have been if the images were presented alone or in a wider angle, an example of the technique Hitchcock described as "transferring the menace from the screen into the mind of the audience". Brian De PalmaAnother famous thriller director, his films are psychological-thrillers. His famous works are 'The Fury', 'Sisters' 'Dressed to Kill' and his famous work is 'Carrie'. This film is mainly psycolohical and gory, however there are many camera techniques used to create tension, such as shot reverse shot, close up and wide shot. There are special effects used in the 'school dance' scene, with chairs flying about, blood spilled everywhere and people are killed, however there are no murder props used in the scene, only Carrie's mind is used because she has telepathic powers, and this is caused to make the audience feel frightened and confused. Here is a clip of the prom scene in "Carrie". Throughout the scene there is tension building up for the audience. DePalma uses many camera angles, e.g close up of Carrie's face, to show emotion giving a sinister feeling towards the camera. There are also close ups of teenagers looking terrified and trying to escape and the music in the background connotes an erie atmosphere in the scene. The lighting is bright around Carrie whereas the lighting is more dimmed around the people and she is standing at a higher level, which could mean Carrie has dominance over the people in the hall. De Palma uses both wide and long lens in the scene. When focusing on Carrie he chooses a long lens to maintain focus on her and not the dizzying distractions surrounding her, such as the sliver stars, and bright colorful lights. He uses wide lens when he puts the camera in Carrie’s viewpoint, a downward tilt looking out onto the vast crowd, indicating her control. Carrie’s prom scene serves as a climatic eruption of revenge. All of Carrie’s pent up emotions from the malevolent bullying she had faced throughout the film were finally released. The horrific mayhem that surrounded the scene enabled for a satisfying "means to an end" justice had been served. De Palma’s usage of sound, lighting, and camerawork amplified the scene’s impact on the film’s entirety. The terrifying prom scene in "Carrie" is iconic; it fits perfectly into the horror genre by successfully haunting its audience with the ignition vengeance.
The first opening sequence of a thriller I will evaluate is "Se7en". ![]() Here we have a macro shot of the book emerging from the light and it looks as if nothing has been written in it. ![]() And now the book is shown to be coming out of the dark with images that looks to connotes a frightening feeling. At the start of the sequence, we see a close up shot of the background of book pages, however soon after the book now turns into more like a diary with a picture of hands. the hands look like they have been tortured and they look like they are begging for mercy. Between the scenes, it shows a contrast of how the book stands out from the light but then the picture of hands are shown to come out of the darkness, which connotes that the book has been contrasted from being plain to something erie. ![]() Now we have a medium close up of the title of the film with the subject of the film behind the title. The writing looks gruesome, and it includes the number 7, which makes it create an effect of the title and it doesn't look too plain, which stands out as the film is called "Seven" but there is the number 7 written in the title, therefore its makes it a creative title. The audience is shown different camera angles of the killer writing and adding images to the book of dead victims, is including quotations of something from a book and is crossing out words. There is a lot writing in the diary that could connote the killer has researched a slot of killing methods for his victims. Overall this trailer gives a lot of suspense to the audience and it gives a feeling of suspense. There are many ways it can give suspense, for example if you listen to the music, it sounds scary, how the book is being written, images and letters are added, e.t.c. I think watching this opening sequence has inspired our group to come up with something like this opening sequence as it shows lots of close ups about the subject in detail.
![]() The first movie poster I will analyse is 'Orphan.' I decided to analyse this thriller poster as this could give us inspiration to our thriller ideas, e.g, horror thriller and it could help us with our film poster for the opening sequence. I can tell its a thriller because the main thing I would look at and immediately think its a thriller, is the girl in the poster. She gives many hints to the audience this movie is a thriller, for example, the way she looks. Her facial expression gives a sinister look and the eyes are very dark and normally in thriller posters, they use mainly dark colours, like red, black, grey, e.t.c, so the girl's eyes are very dark and spooky. The girl also doesn't look very normal, for example, her clothing is very old and the choker necklace is very thick and is also a dark colour, like a very dark red. The girl in the poster looks like there is a back story to her life. The writing of the poster gives a thriller side to the movie. The title 'Orphan' gives a sharp edge to the writing, and normally in thrillers, the style of the writing is mainly included in thrillers. Finally caption on the top of the poster gives a hint, as it gives away what the movie will be about, e.g, its hints that film may be about an orphan, who may be called Esther, and that there could be something wrong with her. Shot listWe did our shot list in the form of a video discussion where we discussed the various camera angles we used, the mis-en-scene, ideas for our piece other aspects of the clip. Equipment
To film our production we used a Canon EOS 1100d camera, we felt that this was easy to use as we also have a camera phone and have previous experience filming but not to this degree were we used professional camera. To support our filming we used a tripod to avoid unsteady filming. The software we used to edit our piece is Final cut pro which we practiced using at first in a lesson , as we have never functioned it before. We watched a tutorial of using Final cut pro on youtube and we applied our understanding to the final piece .Now we have some experience with the software on how to use it. In our real one we would be confident to use the camera and the software. Shot reverse shot is a technique used where one character is looking at another character in a different angle, whilst the second character is looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.
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