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Audience Research - Interview

risk assessment

animatic story board

Story board

thriller title

Our Title for the thriller opening!

mission impossible

The opening sequence to this film start as we see the main actor scaling a cliff, using long shots, pan shots and zooms we then see a mid shot of him climbing and it stays at mid, following him the rest of the way up the cliff. A reverse shot is then used as we see him emerge from the ledge. This image is shortly afterward, as he throws the glasses they explode into the titles..

splice

As weird and disturbing as they are, the main titles to Vincenzo Natali’s 2009 sci-fi thriller are impossible not to watch, but definitely get more difficult when it becomes apparent that the setting is inside something organic, with the titles written out on to the inner walls as extruding veins. The walls themselves appear like reptiles skin, very scaley and this changes throughout too an alien like skin with hundreds of visible veins. thick field of suspended particles reminds us that we are in the equivalent of amniotic molasses, escorted by a single light through caverns of ambiguous organic matter.

Designed by Kook Ewo and realized at Chez Eddy after an extensive pre-production process, the titles effectively set the tone for the film while familiarizing the audience with its own brand of genetic cloning.

screen shots - garage band

Too make the sound we used a couple kitchen utensils, we used a metal nut cracker to make the scrapey sound, we recorded it scraping on the table, for the metallic sound we used a key against a cheese grater. We recorded me saying a nursery rhyme with an almost monotone, we then edited this with - Track echo, straight quarter and vocal tranformer, down minor third. This makes it sound very creepy indeed!

vertigo

Vertigo

Start with a face /just a mouth and part of a mouth.

Dark light in the background.

Pans down to see more of her mouth.

Main actor name at the start before the credits.

Very dark eyes looks like she is going to cry.

Zooming in further, it has a red flash over it.

Opens her eyes (in shock.)

Hypnotic effect.

Feels like they are falling down a hole.

seven

Seven

Dark/Dance/Scratching/metal/bass/working site/ghostly/Transformer/

Fast/hard credits/names of stars

Montage/Bricolage

Books/handprints/skin/cutting with a knife/loads of writing/planning/classified/printing pictures/copying/saying middle aged man.

Lighting can effect the way you feel watching the scene.

red violin

the red violin.

1)out of focus then going into focus.

2)suspicion sounds.

3)images of violins playing.

4)titles of actors at the start.

5)then rolling into first scene.

6)older style of work place.

7)women speaks, music stops.

8)body language of boss looks scared.

9)music starts again.

10)the title is used in the film ( violin)

11)next shot is behind the shot of the man we follow him through to what seems to be n a posh building, marble floor.

north to northwest

Notes of the North West

green Connotation

Lines make you feel uneasy

Company names

Credits(with  music that gets louder) builds tension

Dramatic Sounds

Actors Names

North West lines

Uses reflections/makes you feel uncomfortable ) sky scraper

New York (yellow Taxis)

Written by Ernest Lennon

Products designer

Art designer- film editor

Modern clothing when the film was made

People walking out not walking in

lines everywhere making you feel uncomfortable

People fighting for Taxi's 

The bourne supremacy

'This is not a drill soldier......This is a life project' is what we hear in the background, this gives us some idea on what the story will be based around, some form of military/special service. The next scene is jason waking up from the dream we have just seen,heads toward the bathroom too cool down, showing us his history somehow haunts him by dreams/memories. His wife debates whether his dreams are dreams or memories and he seems to remember it as a mission. Showing he isn't sure on what is reality and what is not.

Marnie - 1964
Alfred Hitchcock - associated with Horror/Thriller
Opening shows the credits in a book style, baring in mind this is an adaptation of a well known novel.
The opening credits are in the order -
- production company
-main actors
-director
and the continue in order of importance or input.

The first scene shows a close up of a bright yellow handbag that stands out due to the surroundings being rather dull, this makes us as viewers instantly wonder what the importance is of this bag.
Misc en scene, (Everything in the scene) is very important in this first opener because it really helps your assumptions on the character you see before you as you dont see his/her face, adding to the mystery even more.
The office scene just as Sean Connery enters we see an example of visual hierarchy, Mr Strutt gives up his position of power (in the office) by moving out of it and over too Mr Ruttland, showing Sean's character is of some importance.
There is enigma created by the fact that we still haven't seen the woman's face, the long build up too it made me as viewer anticipate it very much.
The scene in the hotel room is interesting, the shot shows the full room then gradually zooms onto the bed where her two suitcases are, showing she is filling a new one with new clothes and less carefully throwing older clothes into an old suitcase, again the yellow bag sticks out, again asking the question what is its importance...
The bag is then opened and the stolen money is revealed, confirming what is insinuated by the film and viewers assumptions.
She is in the bathroom washing dye out of her hair, crescendo is used to create tension and the music climaxes as her face is finally revealed.
we see her choosing from a selection of id's, this shows straight away she has done this before and will do it again, The music is quite quiet and builds to a climax from her choosing her id too her stripping her hair colour, shots that are all linked to her identity.

Runner

Here is the continuity exercise our group produced, we feel it is not very good at all and could be improved in a lot of ways. The ways in which we could improve it are things such as a different range of shots. More importantly we need too think about the fundamentals of continuity and apply them to this to make it a much better film.