The movies two movies I chose were Mad Max: Fury Road which is an action-thriller and, Fight Club which is a psychological-thriller. The two movies start off very different. The beginning sequence of Mad Max: Fury Road starts off with the sound of dialogue (Max introducing himself) and then the sound of news reports and gun shots are herd in the background whilst the credits start coming up in a rock textured font and a blood font, to emphasises the thriller genre with blood font. Then it goes pitch black with dialogue (max thinking out loud). Then it cuts the beginning scene, a long shot of a man standing next to a rusty old car in a desert – using a long shot it shows the how lonely it is in a dessert and really reflects the dialogue being said. A girls voice echoes in the background as the camera pans down to a two head lizard running of a rock, keeping the man and the car in the shot. The dialogue starts to get very intense and then you see the man pick up the two headed lizard that he has just caught and the camera cuts to a close up of him eating it. Shortly after the sound of roaring engines from cars and motorbikes coming closer from the distance start to arise and then the man (max) gets into his care and drives off. This is when the action genre comes in to the film, the many cars and motorbikes start racing after him and his car, following with a long shot of the whole chase. Then it cuts to a close up on a car explosion with the slow motion of the car rolling over and over and dessert sand covers the whole screen. The scene then cuts to a close up of the car turned upside-down and a man crawling out of the smashed car window, while dialogue starts of his thoughts. the scene then cuts fast flashback to a young girl getting ran over and hurt. this beginning sequence is very fast and is a bit hard to follow because their is so much going on. In the beginning sequence of fight club, the first thing you hear is cracking and fast pace intense music as the camera explores quickly around the inside of a brain, where you can see all the cells as the credits come up with flashing electrons. this continues for most of the opening. then the camera come out of the brain using an extreme close up as the camera pans down the face going down in-between the eyes and down the bridge of the nose and to the top lip where the camera starts to travel down the barrel of a shot gun. The camera then goes out of focus and an establishing shot, which shows a man holding a gun into another mans mouth.
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Different genres have different conventions that are shown in media pieces, which individualises each genre and this is how audiences can separate genre from genre. The thriller genre has many conventions that other main genres do not have. For example in a Romance Film, there is never dark scenes, dark colours or low music. They have more of a whimsical aesthetic to them with light colours bright scenes and high light music.
These are some main thriller conventions:
In the beginning sequences of Cabin in the Woods and Don’t Breath, the first shot is very similar with the credits being dark and relates to the theme of the movie, with the cabin in the woods the opening credits have blood seeping over pages revealing old Egyptian images while string percussion plays in the background and carries on while the camera pans round to more pictures and more blood. In don’t breathe the setting is in a town with trees and large houses, more ambient sounds to match the surroundings. The first people who are seen are a woman and a old man- the man is dragging the girl by her hair down the middle of the road, the woman looks like she has been seriously abused as there is a trail of blood where she has been dragged down the road. These scenes make the audiences think what’s happened? They ask questions about the blood on the Egyptian pictures, and why the man is dragging the girl down the road. Then the both movies cut to a dialogue scene with bright lighting. In 'The Cabin In The Woods' the scene cuts to two men in suits getting a coffee in an office whilst having a about women’s fertility while quiet elevator music plays in the background. Much of this scene doesn’t relate to the theme or pattern. Shots used: medium shot, close-up. Unlike don’t breathe where the opening scene is a flashback of 3 people the girl from the beginning and 2 young men, they are shown breaking into a house – robbery. There is a race against the clock music as the girl counts down from 30, so they don’t trigger a security alarm. The woman then goes through a young girls wardrobe and tries on some clothes, the boys are talking and smashing things at the same time. Shots used: overhead shot, extreme close up Both opening scenes use similar shots like: close ups, long shots, two shots. Both films have thriller conventions in the opening sequences which shows the audiences that it is a thriller genre piece of media. they both include low key lighting, jump cuts and creepy diegetic sounds. A thriller is a genre of film, TV, book or play it typically contains lots of action, excitement and suspense. Thrillers have many sub-genres which means different categories/types of thriller come together to create a two-toned piece of media. Within the Thriller genre, for example there can be an action thriller, psychological thriller, horror thriller and many more. This expands the thriller field and gives more inspiration and depth for film directors to get more creative and extend all the different to create a thriller. Preliminary Task Evaluation
The first step we took to create our preliminary video was to plan what camera angles we were going to use and how we wanted to corporate them into the video. We then made a story board which showed each clip and angle step by step, this included drawings of the character and the environment. We decided to film it in a corridor and a "gangster" conversation inside the schools art room, for the dialogue part of the task we used over the shoulder shots from each character that way the audience is able to see each character separately and be able to judge each character and their comparisons, and then we used a wide shot to show both characters and the "intense" part of that scene that way the audience is able to see both characters expression and the way they react. As we only had 3 days to plan, film and edit the Preliminary Task it isn't that impressive and the editing isn't that neat, we also weren't able to create a scene using props and have good costumes to help the audience identify the characters, but we were able to include every camera angle we wanted to and gave the best effort we could. The name KAESTUDIOS was a group discussion between me (Ella), Kimberley and Aimee. We found it quite difficult to come up with the name as we didn't have much inspiration or many good ideas. We made a mind map and put down a few ideas which we didn't quite like as they didn't fit how we wanted our production to come across. So we decided to do the 'original' thing and combine all of the first letters of out first names together and we thought about all the different ways it could be put together but we found that KAE was the best. This way KAE represents us and it is also different and not a common name.
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