After getting feedback, we decided that the sound was very repetitive. To break it up a bit, the beginning was made slower with more of a build up. The title sequence was made a lot shorter in general as well so i could cut parts of the music out. I also sharpened up the middle part of the music to try to remove any errors.
http://www.mp3upload.ca/track/media-studies/song-media
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Friday, 4 March 2011
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Music
This is the finished background music for the project.
The aim was it try to make it sound creepy and mysterious.
http://www.supload.com/listen?s=zw4ED1
The aim was it try to make it sound creepy and mysterious.
http://www.supload.com/listen?s=zw4ED1
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
NOTES
LOCATIONS
1st Location - Small Photography Darkroom
2nd Location - A House - (who's house is unconfirmed)
ACTORS
One male actor needed to play main protagonist - unconfirmed.
One female actress needed to play "Mary".
PROPS
One big bible that can be destroyed.
A desklamp.
A small cross necklace
Brown envelope.
Red Marker Pen
COSTUME
Actor needs a jacket of some sort, long sleeves. When walking - proper brown shoes that click on pavement. Brown/black work trousers.
Actress needs jeans and a plain shirt, also some sort of way to look pregnant convincingly.... She needs to wear a small silver cross.
1st Location - Small Photography Darkroom
2nd Location - A House - (who's house is unconfirmed)
ACTORS
One male actor needed to play main protagonist - unconfirmed.
One female actress needed to play "Mary".
PROPS
One big bible that can be destroyed.
A desklamp.
A small cross necklace
Brown envelope.
Red Marker Pen
COSTUME
Actor needs a jacket of some sort, long sleeves. When walking - proper brown shoes that click on pavement. Brown/black work trousers.
Actress needs jeans and a plain shirt, also some sort of way to look pregnant convincingly.... She needs to wear a small silver cross.
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Hypothetical Script
Int: Small Darkroom
1st shot - fades in from black.
2nd shot - Small desklamp on shelf turned on. Close up (hand is illuminated) (SFX- Click)
3rd shot - Bible thrown down onto desk.
4th shot - Thrown open (bang SFX) writes LIARS in large red letters.
5th shot - Flicks through other pages - Lots of red circles - annotations
6th shot - Close ups of him fidgeting fingers and tapping his pen.
6A - Smooths his hair down from behind.
7th shot - Stop at a page in the bible and slams him hand down.
8th shot - Close up of the page and what is written and him ripping the page out
9th shot - Carefully folds the page up and puts it into a envelope.
10th shot - Cuts to him walking along a street at a long shot. It's raining.
11th shot - Over the shoulder shot of him looking at a church
12th shot - A shot from behind the murdery guy throwing bible pages behind him.
Black screen flashes with titles
A man is sitting in a small dark room which is partially lit by a desklamp he turns on. We see a close-up of his hands reaching down and bringing up a bible. We see his fingers brush over the cover before throwing it onto the table with a loud bang. We see him smooth back his hair from behind. Close up of his hands opening the bible to Exodus 11:1 (the plagues of egypt). There are lots of red ringed phrases and words. Close-ups of certain ringed words. Starts becoming faster - He takes a red pen and slashes X's across some of the pages and rips some out until he comes to the page which describes the death of the children, on which he stops... And writes "Death of the Firstborn" in large bold letters. He rips the page out and folds it carefully into an envelope which has "Mary" written on the front.
Black shot - Title of the Film
Then camera follows the protagonists feet up a pathway and stops at a door. You hear a letter being posted through the door and his feet turning and leaving. We see the door open when he's left and a heavily pregnant woman picking up the envelope. There is a close up of her shoulders and face as a reaction shot showing the cross.
Storyline -
Our protagonist is the husband of the woman he eventually ends up leaving a message for at the beginning of the opening title sequence.
In the title sequence our protagonist is seen writing furiously in a bible, tearing it up and eventually selecting a page and writing "I Know" on it in red letters before carefully folding it into an envelope, on the front of which he writes "Mary".
"Mary" is a rather plain middle aged woman who doesn't look particularly interesting. She wears a small silver cross necklace.
Mary and the protagonist used to date but she fell in love with a vicar and left him. She's pregnant and our protagonist wants revenge on her for leaving him. So he plans to kill the child, according to "Death of the Firstborn" from Exodus.
He leaves clues like blood on the front door and a ransom note saying unless she gives up the vicar, he's going to kill her child.
1st shot - fades in from black.
2nd shot - Small desklamp on shelf turned on. Close up (hand is illuminated) (SFX- Click)
3rd shot - Bible thrown down onto desk.
4th shot - Thrown open (bang SFX) writes LIARS in large red letters.
5th shot - Flicks through other pages - Lots of red circles - annotations
6th shot - Close ups of him fidgeting fingers and tapping his pen.
6A - Smooths his hair down from behind.
7th shot - Stop at a page in the bible and slams him hand down.
8th shot - Close up of the page and what is written and him ripping the page out
9th shot - Carefully folds the page up and puts it into a envelope.
10th shot - Cuts to him walking along a street at a long shot. It's raining.
11th shot - Over the shoulder shot of him looking at a church
12th shot - A shot from behind the murdery guy throwing bible pages behind him.
Black screen flashes with titles
A man is sitting in a small dark room which is partially lit by a desklamp he turns on. We see a close-up of his hands reaching down and bringing up a bible. We see his fingers brush over the cover before throwing it onto the table with a loud bang. We see him smooth back his hair from behind. Close up of his hands opening the bible to Exodus 11:1 (the plagues of egypt). There are lots of red ringed phrases and words. Close-ups of certain ringed words. Starts becoming faster - He takes a red pen and slashes X's across some of the pages and rips some out until he comes to the page which describes the death of the children, on which he stops... And writes "Death of the Firstborn" in large bold letters. He rips the page out and folds it carefully into an envelope which has "Mary" written on the front.
Black shot - Title of the Film
Then camera follows the protagonists feet up a pathway and stops at a door. You hear a letter being posted through the door and his feet turning and leaving. We see the door open when he's left and a heavily pregnant woman picking up the envelope. There is a close up of her shoulders and face as a reaction shot showing the cross.
Storyline -
Our protagonist is the husband of the woman he eventually ends up leaving a message for at the beginning of the opening title sequence.
In the title sequence our protagonist is seen writing furiously in a bible, tearing it up and eventually selecting a page and writing "I Know" on it in red letters before carefully folding it into an envelope, on the front of which he writes "Mary".
"Mary" is a rather plain middle aged woman who doesn't look particularly interesting. She wears a small silver cross necklace.
Mary and the protagonist used to date but she fell in love with a vicar and left him. She's pregnant and our protagonist wants revenge on her for leaving him. So he plans to kill the child, according to "Death of the Firstborn" from Exodus.
He leaves clues like blood on the front door and a ransom note saying unless she gives up the vicar, he's going to kill her child.
STORY OF THE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN - Ex. 11:1–12:36
| “ | This is what the Lord says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.' | ” |
— Exodus 11:4–6 |
The tenth and final plague of Egypt was the death of all of the first born children in Egypt — no one escaped, from the lowest servant to Pharaoh's own first-born son, including first-born of livestock. Before the plague, God commanded Moses to inform all the Israelites to mark lamb's blood on the doorposts on every door in which case the LORD will pass over them and not "suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and smite you" (chapter 12, v. 23), thus sparing all the Israelite first-borns in households that followed the instructions. This was the hardest blow upon Egypt and the plague that finally convinced Pharaoh to submit, and let the Israelites go.
After this, Pharaoh, furious, saddened, and afraid that he would be killed next, ordered the Israelites to go away, taking whatever they wanted. The Israelites didn't hesitate, believing that soon Pharaoh would once again change his mind; and at the end of that night Moses led them out of Egypt with "arms upraised." [30]
Friday, 28 January 2011
Initial Ideas for Thriller
Something along the lines of a psychological thriller.
Very ambiguous opening can have lots of quick cuts and fades.
No actors have to be shown as this creates a sense of mystery and suspense.
Low budget.
Easy to light as a small area is being used. Easier continuity.
Writing notes - close ups.
A whole location doesn't need to be used, just a small dark space that can be lit by lamps...
Possibly use a church - if we can get permission - creates 2 different interlocking scenes.
Inspired by Se7en...
Very ambiguous opening can have lots of quick cuts and fades.
No actors have to be shown as this creates a sense of mystery and suspense.
Low budget.
Easy to light as a small area is being used. Easier continuity.
Writing notes - close ups.
A whole location doesn't need to be used, just a small dark space that can be lit by lamps...
Possibly use a church - if we can get permission - creates 2 different interlocking scenes.
Inspired by Se7en...
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
The Interpreter
The Interpreter
Background music is African music at the start to show where the film is set. There is an intro before the credits start, this shows 2 men being shot, which could be the story line. We are showed this first, similarly to a blurb in a book. We can tell the film will have action in from the start, as there is violence.
The rest of the credits then appear after the intro about 5 minutes in. They appear normally and in a standard font. At this point they are in America so the music changes to more orchestral. Each credit lasts for about 4-5 seconds, which is fairly slow.
I think the film’s genre is an action/thriller as there is a lot of early action and it is set in what seems to be a violent area.
I liked the fact that we are given an early idea of what the film is about in the pre title sequence intro as it sets you up for the general style of the film.
The rest of the credits then appear after the intro about 5 minutes in. They appear normally and in a standard font. At this point they are in America so the music changes to more orchestral. Each credit lasts for about 4-5 seconds, which is fairly slow.
I think the film’s genre is an action/thriller as there is a lot of early action and it is set in what seems to be a violent area.
I liked the fact that we are given an early idea of what the film is about in the pre title sequence intro as it sets you up for the general style of the film.
Friday, 14 January 2011
Friday, 7 January 2011
Analysis of Preliminary Task
Having watched our preliminary task as a group we feel that our project made use of continuity editing, match on action shots and the 180 degree rule, that was specified to be used.
Therefore we think our project was successful. this view was agreed upon by our peer group.
The general consensus was that the shot when James entered the door worked well as far as continuity editing goes as the door was in the same position when it moved from the close up shot to the match on action.
Definitions
Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in narrative cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.
In most films, logical coherence is achieved by cutting to continuity, which emphasizes smooth transition of time and space. However, some films incorporate cutting to continuity into a more complex classical cutting technique, one which also tries to show psychological continuity of shots. The montage technique relies on symbolic association of ideas between shots rather than association of simple physical action for its continuity.
The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.
Cutting on action or matching on action refers to a film editing technique where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action. Although the two shots may have actually been shot hours apart from each other, cutting on action gives the impression of continuous time when watching the edited film. By having a subject begin an action in one shot and carry it through to completion in the next, the editor creates a visual bridge which distracts the viewer from noticing the cut or noticing any slight continuity error between the two shots.
Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenres are mystery, crime, and psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the Hitchcock’s movies.The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight/chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods. Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. More common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique. Common elements in psychological thrillers are mind games, psychological themes, stalking, confinement/deathtraps, horror-of-personality, and obsession. Elements such as conspiracy theories, false accusations,paranoia, and sometimes action are common in paranoid thrillers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenres are mystery, crime, and psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the Hitchcock’s movies.The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight/chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods. Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. More common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique. Common elements in psychological thrillers are mind games, psychological themes, stalking, confinement/deathtraps, horror-of-personality, and obsession. Elements such as conspiracy theories, false accusations,paranoia, and sometimes action are common in paranoid thrillers.
Characteristics
A genuine, standalone thriller is a film that provide thrills and keeps the audience cliff-hanging at the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the character(s) is placed in a menacing situation, a mystery, or a trap from which escaping seems impossible. Life is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspectingly or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation.[6]
Thrillers mostly take place in ordinary suburbs/cities. Though sometimes, they may take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or the high seas. The heroes in most thrillers are frequently ordinary citizens unaccustomed to danger. However, more common in crime thrillers, they may also be "hard men" accustomed to danger, like police officers and detectives. While such heroes have traditionally been men, women lead characters have become increasingly common.
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. While a murder mystery would be spoiled by a premature disclosure of the murderer's identity, in a thriller the identity of a murderer or other villain is typically known all along. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others. In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process.
In recent years, thrillers have been slightly influenced by the horror genre; they have more gore/sadistic violence, brutality, terror, and body counts.[7] Recent thrillers which took this route include Eden Lake, The Last House on the Left, P2, Untraceable and Funny Games
Similar distinctions separate the thriller from other overlapping genres: adventure, spy, legal, war, maritime fiction, and so on. Thrillers are defined not by their subject matter but by their approach to it. Many thrillers involve spies and espionage, but not all spy stories are thrillers. The spy novels of John le Carré, for example, explicitly and intentionally reject the conventions of the thriller. Conversely, many thrillers cross over to genres that traditionally have had few or no thriller elements. Alistair MacLean, Hammond Innes, and Brian Callison are best known for their thrillers but are also accomplished writers of man-against-nature sea stories.
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