Possible ideas for what happens when the man opens the tent entrance;

• could wake up inside a living room or an office
• you could be on a beach
• in the middle on a forest or a field
• an island in the middle of a lake or the sea
• on a hard shoulder of the motorway or in the middle of the motorway
• in the middle of a film, or tv studio

The First pitching of our ideas:

The First pitching of our ideas:

During our lesson we had a discussion about two main ideas and discussed the ideas, by drawing out the positives and highlighting the negatives.

Idea 1 – D of E

Start inside the tent, point of view shot, teacher drugged so the vision blurry. Vandalised shot of the campsite. Running into the forest. Stumbling and vision slightly blurred. Handheld camera. Flash back of the children happy around the campfire, this contrasts with the feelings the teacher is experiencing; scared and anxious. Blurred shot of the lake and then focus on dead kids floating. Close up reaction shot of the teachers expressions. Pan shot and sees a person hanging in the corner.

 This was our strongest idea, Matt and Adam the media teachers and we all decided that our theme would come under the title as abandonment. Both Matt and Adam divided the ideas into two groups the ideas which were workable and the ideas which weren’t.  Firstly, we all agreed on the idea opening with the tent as a great start to an opening thriller because it allows anything to follow, you could go to sleep in a tent in the forest, but wake up in a living room. Also the drugged teacher with the blurred in focused shots we agreed would be affective. Secondly we discussed the ideas which were pointed out to us by the media teachers as being hard to do. The idea with the floating bodies in the lake, would not be appropriate and would be hard to film because the filming would take place in February, which means the weather conditions may not be suitable for people to be in a lake. We also discussed the fact that we need more thought on the ending of the scene.

Idea 2 – baby sitter

Starts with a toddler/young girl sitting at the kitchen table playing with paint and finger painting, while teenage baby sitter watching TV. Then a power cut happens (blackout ) and the tv fusses out/ babysitter goes up stairs to sort out the electricity and tells the girl to stay down stairs. Still the screen is blacked out and shot of the kitchen table is shown when electricity is on but the girl is no longer there. There are finger prints and smudges on the wall which is being followed with a torch light from the baby sitter and the hand prints lead the teenager to the bathroom and she looks in the mirror  and sees the child’s reflection in the mirror with a messed up place.

Adam and Matt liked the ideas of the fingerprints on the walls following the playing with the paint at the beginning. However, we discussed the idea of the girls face as a reflection in the mirror as being a not so strong idea and cliché.

During the end of the meeting we talked about thinking of some more ideas, but with the beginning on the scene starting with the tent.

My first initial 4 opening scene ideas for a thriller

1. There is a funeral which is set in a graveyard (with several graves) there would be a flash back of what has happened, tragic accident of somebody drowning in a swimming pool. The flash back involves a party which has gone wrong, intruders? The funeral would fade into a black-out and then the party scene which goes completely wrong. By using the flashbacks it creates a disjointed feel.
2. or another angle involving the drowning idea is: the opening scene could start with someone floating in the swimming pool and slowly bring the lights up to reveal a body in the swimming pool and then fade out. Then a cose up of some part of the body and the second part would be a flash back of the party and then continue to follow the story and then end with the body flating in the swimming pool.
3. Duiga board. The board with the alphabet and yes and no stages with a glass in the middle, surrounded with a group of people in a room. The spirits would move the glass. Flash back? The lighting would be dim and a male character would mess around moving the glass and the scared girls would be saying 'stop moving it, stop moving it' and then the boy goes 'im not, its moving on its own.'
4. Family/friends watching the TV and a power cut occur. People being tortured, the scream could be flashing and then screen is focused on the suspect being tortured. Foot prints going up the stairs. Blood on the walls? errie feel. People outside trying to break in, the people in side being held as hostage. The telephone wire been cut so they cant phone for help.
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Opening sequence analysis

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Information

·         Columbia pictures and metro-goldwyn-mayer pictures

·         A scott Rudin – yellow bird production

·         A david Fincher film

Actors

·         Daniel Craig

·         Chrstopher Plumer

·         Stellan

·         Skarsgard

·         Steven Berkotlf

·         GeraldDine James

Production Designer Donald Graham burt

Production by Scott Rudin, Ote Sonderg, Soren Starmose and Cean Charffin

Action

-There is close up on textures at the beginning, which soon becomes clear that the close up of is of dragon scales.

- The screen flashes which creates tension and the scene is fast moving,  atmospheric and leaves you wanting  more and intrigued

- The audience is given the idea that the liquid is black ink, this idea is brought to us by the fact that the word ‘tattoo’ is in the title of the film.

- The word tattoo in the title creates rhetorical questions for the audience.

-The main colour which consists throughout this opening scene is black and this suggests death. Some examples are; Ripples of black ink, black leather and black armour.

-The excessive use of ink portrays the idea that is it out of control.

-The information is written on a black background makes it stand out

- At the end there is a section of fire, dragons and wings, which again connect with the title ‘The Girl with the Dragon tattoo.’

Inception

Information

·         Warner Bros pictures

·         A Time Warner company

·         Legendary pictures

·         Syncopy

·         A Christopher Nolan film and directed

·         Production design guy Hundrix Dyas

Actors

·         Leonardo Dicaprio

·         Joseph Gordon-Levitt

·         Ellen page

·         Cillian Murry

·         Marion Cotillard

Action

-The font of the writing is displayed in a maze/puzzle form. This connects with the movies message of different levels of dreams there also zoomed in sections of the letter which allow the audience to see the letters are in a maze font.

-There is blurred and smudged imagery of the letters which suggests moving into the other worlds.

-There is white writing on black which makes it interesting and stands and this draws you eyes to the actors names.

-In the background there are faded and hazy scenes from the film which sets the scene and this also   reminds the audience of faded dreams and partially remembered dreams.

Mission Impossible - Ghoast Protocal

Information

Paramount pictures are skydance productions

• Tome cruise
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• Bad Robot
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• A Brad Bird film
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• Simon peg
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• Paula patton
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• Michael nyquist
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• Vladimir mastikov

Action

The opening scene consists of a traveling spark on a wire which  ends with an explosion. The dynamite ignition chord moves through a large selection of scenes from the movie and gives the captive audience a taste of the fast moving, dynamic action which will be found within the film.

 There is the uses of computer generated images, which creates an action feel; for example when the missile turns into the bullet inside tom cruises gun; this creates a very graphic shot.

Throughout the scene the audience follows the spark, this conveys the feeling of moving through time and this is created by all the scenes rushing towards the audience.

Sound Analysis Kill Bill vol 1, Scene- Beatrix Buried

The clip starts with solemn music which suggests revenge, also the background music portrays the ideas of cowboys and sets the scene as a western style as the characters are presented in a western style with cowboy hats and cowboy boots.

The sound of the nails being hammered into the wooden coffin is loud and exaggerates the fact that she cant get out and how she is locked in. The sound of the wood being punchered into the coffin suggests the idea that it is impossible to get and also creates the ideas that she is going to suffer and die in the wooden coffin

The repetition of the nails being hammered into the boxes portrays the thoughts of her being trapped, it also heightens the fact that she is trapped because it exaggerates the eco of the hammering which gives the effect that the audience is also trapped.

There is a muffled sound of debree being focused on. The muffled effect allows the audience to experience what the same as the character in the scene, this allows the audience to feel and connect with the characters emotions. Furthermore, the close up shot shown on the left allows the character to be aware of the emotions the character is experiencing  

The sound of the trapped character struggling is then followed with a silence and then followed by a louder final blow of mud and debree; the fact that the screen is pitched black while this is happening allows the audience to focus on the sounds and this portrays how terrified the woman. The scream for help is heightened with the fact that this screen is pitch black because the audience isn’t expecting it. Also by using a black out shot it presents what the character is seeing and the audience can connect emotionally with the character

The ending part of this scene involves the sound of laughter from outside of the coffin. This allows the audience to feel sympathy for the woman trapped. There is also creaking of wood which suggests pain and suffering.

                                  

                                  

Semiotics

Semiotics- The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation

The cultural circuit

Semiotics examines how symbolic, written and technical signs construct meaning.

The Signifier – The sign/symbol: word, colour or image (ie colour blue)

The Signified – The concept/ meaning, associations that the sign refers to blue is often associated with sadness or the sea.

Another example would be a kitchen knife- a kitchen knife represents cooking, however in the society we live in people think of death, stabbing and slasher movies when a kitchen knife is mentioned.

What is a Thriller?

Definition of a Thriller
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension and  excitement as the main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods giving them a high level of  anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and/or terror. Thriller films tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced.