Synopsis:
As the Royal North Western Mental Institute mistakes papers, little to they know of the catastrophic events that Derek Hunt will cause to the family he left behind; making his child’s favourite game of Hide & Seek into a sinister tale of twists and turns. If you think you’ve seen it all before, think again! A Physiological Thriller that will push you to the edge of your seat as you pray for the madness to end, and just as you think its over, and let your guard down, the tale will get worse!
Treatment
Beginning:
There is a man in a girl’s bedroom, we first see a close up of his hand as he is routing through a closet slowly, as if looking for something, but at the same time tidying room, placing teddies in closet and picking up clothes, placing them in the wardrobe. Shown through the use of midshots and panning shots.We are not shown where this room is or who’s it is at this point.However there are books spread out throughout the room, all open on certain pages, highlighted certain images and phrases, there are also towels and cloths spread out in one area of the room, this is when the audience realise something is wrong as there are bloodstains on them. This is emphasised through a close up shot of the bloodstains on the cloths.The man then starts to read one of the books whilst sat on the bed and carries on highlighting areas, we see a close up of the book as he highlights it, but the content of the book is still kept hidden. We then show a close-up of the man’s left hand while he starts to stroke one of the teddies he’d placed on the bed, audience notice dried blood on the mans hand but are left wondering why and where it came from. We then see a flashback, make clear through the editing of the same man in a kitchen, routing through the cupboards making a mess and throwing pots and pans on the floor. One draw is left unopened man slowly walks over to the draw, opens it, smiles and pulls out two knives, making sure to shut it again. The man then compares the two, and slices a piece of meat with both knives one after the other, then selects the sharpest one.We then revert from flashback as we hear a sound of a front door unlocking. The shot jumps to the front door and we see it is a girl entering the house, we shoot back to seeing the man in what we assume to be her room. The man is now wielding the blade he chose earlier, slowly stroking it, we show a close up off his face to emphasis his facial expression, he is smiling wickedly.We see the girl walk through to the kitchen and notice everything strewn, and only the knife draw closed.The girl then proceeds to cautiously walk up the stairs towards her room. We see from the mans point of view, who is stood in silence staring at the door from the opposite end of the room from it, next to the bed.We can hear the girl getting closer to the door, and we see from her angle as she goes to open the door.It then changes to the man as she opens the door and we see from over his shoulder as the girl spots him, as she see’s him we see a close up of her face to exaggerate her shocked expression.
Middle:
As the man continues to stalk various girls, he becomes ever much more involved and attached. We will show this by using over the shoulder shots, with the girls in the front and him in the back, blurred at the edges to show they are a clear image to him, and that they are his main focus. The killings wont be seen, but the aftermath that we do show will be quite graphic, and we will use close ups, and shot reverse shots to show the horrified looks as to what has happened.The use of music will be important for the main part of this because it will add tension as it leads up to the killings. We would use a slow paced sound as he moved up to the girl, but speeding up as he went to kill her, and then silence after 1 bass note kills the track.
End:
The Attending detective realises that the killer is also her biological father that she didn’t know existed. She realises through research into murder cases and various other clues that he belongs in a mental institute and the people he has been killing are related to him in some way. (He went insane and started killing his family) This leads her to realise she could be next on his list. She tries her best to find him before he finds her, but she is too late. He finds out who she is and where she lives and one night she finds herself in the same brutal situation as her sister. And she dies.
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Section 4(b): Audience Research Results
After gathering our results together we used Microsoft Excel to put our results into graphs and charts in order to make our results more visual. These graphs are shown below.
After looking at the results from our questionnaire, We, as a group, came to eunanamous decisions, that in turn will benefit our production when we finally come to filming the thriller opening sequence as we know what it is that our audience wants from us. We put on our questionnaire a choice of thriller films and then asked people which was their favourite and least favourite. The three films we gave as a choice were ‘Jaws’, Seven’, and ‘Silence of the Lambs’. We found that ‘Jaws’ was both the favourite and least favourite.We found that psychological thrillers were the favourite so we can consider doing one of these as it was the most popular.
After looking at the results from our questionnaire, We, as a group, came to eunanamous decisions, that in turn will benefit our production when we finally come to filming the thriller opening sequence as we know what it is that our audience wants from us. In the Questionnaire, We asked 40 people in total; 20 males and 20 females. 2 were under 16, 35 were between 16-18 and 2 were over the age of 18. This variety was helpful because most of the people we asked were between 16-18 meaning they had a good idea of what to expect from a 15 cetificate, whilst the over 18s gave a great incite into what they expected from their classification of horror film.
We found that 50% of the people we asked liked the plot the most about a thriller. Therefore when we start our thriller we will concentrate on a good plot.We found that 50% preferred to be scared and 50% preferred to be intrigued by a thriller.
We found most people would associate a male with being a killer. Most people would expect a bad character to be evil. 22 people would like to see a lot of blood and 18 people wouldn’t. As this result was close we could consider using a small amount of blood and not making it too gory.Most expect a thriller to be more tension building rather that violent. Most would not expect to be introduced to the killer at the beginning of a thriller.
Almost half of people would associate creepy music with a thriller. Only 4 people would associate bassy music with a thriller therefore this will help us decide what type of music to use.Red is the main colour people would associate with a thriller so we can consider using this.
22 people would rather the villain won while only 18 people would prefer the hero to win. 36 voted that the killer should be human.Most people thought that the killer should use weapons. A majority of people thought the thriller should be set in a remote location. Most people thought loud breathing was the thing that scared them the most, closely followed by silence.
Monday, 27 April 2009
Section 4: Audience Research
In order to make the best film we could, we made a questionnaire which would would hand out to people, so we knew what people like best in Triller Films.
1)Age: __<16>18
2) Are you male or felmale?:
3) What is your favourite Thriller and Why?
Silence of the lambs.
Jaws.
Se7en.
4) What is your least favourite thriller and why?
Silence of the lambs.
Jaws.
Se7en.
5) What is your favourite style of Thriller?
Action
Disaster
Erotic
Legal
Medical
Political
Psychological
Spy
Supernatural
Techno-thriller.
6) What do you like most in a thriller?
Good Plot
Good Characters
Good
Setting
Other: ______
7) Would you rather be scared or intrigued?
8) Would you associate a killer with a male or female?
9) What would you expect from a 'bad' character?
Evil
Psycho
Schizophrenic
10) Do you like to see alot of blood?
11) Would you expect more violence or more tension building?
12) Would you expect to be introduced to the killer at the beginning?
13) What type of music would you associate with a thriller?
Creepy
Slow paced
Fast paced
'Bassy'
14) What colours would you associate with a thriller?
Black&White
Red
Other: ______
15) What style of graphics would you associate with a Thriller?
'Aa Bb Zz'
'Aa Bb Zz'
'Aa Bb Zz'
'Aa Bb Zz'
16) Would you rather see the hero win or the villain?
17) Do you think the killer should be human?
18) Do you think the killer should use weapons?
19) Where would you expect a Thriller to be set?
Normal place
Remote place
Woods
City
20) What makes you scared?
Footsteps
Loud Breathing
The sound of wind
Silence
1)Age: __<16>18
2) Are you male or felmale?:
3) What is your favourite Thriller and Why?
Silence of the lambs.
Jaws.
Se7en.
4) What is your least favourite thriller and why?
Silence of the lambs.
Jaws.
Se7en.
5) What is your favourite style of Thriller?
Action
Disaster
Erotic
Legal
Medical
Political
Psychological
Spy
Supernatural
Techno-thriller.
6) What do you like most in a thriller?
Good Plot
Good Characters
Good
Setting
Other: ______
7) Would you rather be scared or intrigued?
8) Would you associate a killer with a male or female?
9) What would you expect from a 'bad' character?
Evil
Psycho
Schizophrenic
10) Do you like to see alot of blood?
11) Would you expect more violence or more tension building?
12) Would you expect to be introduced to the killer at the beginning?
13) What type of music would you associate with a thriller?
Creepy
Slow paced
Fast paced
'Bassy'
14) What colours would you associate with a thriller?
Black&White
Red
Other: ______
15) What style of graphics would you associate with a Thriller?
'Aa Bb Zz'
'Aa Bb Zz'
'Aa Bb Zz'
'Aa Bb Zz'
16) Would you rather see the hero win or the villain?
17) Do you think the killer should be human?
18) Do you think the killer should use weapons?
19) Where would you expect a Thriller to be set?
Normal place
Remote place
Woods
City
20) What makes you scared?
Footsteps
Loud Breathing
The sound of wind
Silence
Section 3: Brainstorm of Ideas & Film Classification
Today we put into groups. These will be the groups that will be filming with, during the lesson we had to think of different ideas for a Thriller.
Location Ideas:
Forest,
Church,
Field,
Abandoned house,
Remote location.
Storyline Ideas / Techniques:
See a girl running but we don’t know what/who from.
Set at night time.
Dark and creepy.
Spy thriller- Use transformed city,
Question and answer model,
exotic element.
A girl goes to meet someone she has met online.
We see a person preparing a room obsessively and don’t know what for.
After we had decided on a the storyline for our film, and the general plot, we then set about looking at titles and classifications.
Film Classification and Target Audience
Title: Daddies Little Girl
Classifications:
U
PG
12A
15
18
Target Audience: The target audience will be anybody over the age of 15 as our film classification will be a 15. Our target audience will also be people who enjoy watching psychological thrillers. Our thriller is made to make the audience try to figure out clues so our target audience is people who like to have something hidden from them and have to try and work things out.Film Classification: The film will be a 15 as this enables us to appeal to a larger audience as in 18+ year olds can watch a 15 rated film but under 18 year olds cannot watch an 18 rated film. Also none of us are 18 so it would not make sense for us to produce a film with certificate 18 when we cannot legally watch it.
Location Ideas:
Forest,
Church,
Field,
Abandoned house,
Remote location.
Storyline Ideas / Techniques:
See a girl running but we don’t know what/who from.
Set at night time.
Dark and creepy.
Spy thriller- Use transformed city,
Question and answer model,
exotic element.
A girl goes to meet someone she has met online.
We see a person preparing a room obsessively and don’t know what for.
After we had decided on a the storyline for our film, and the general plot, we then set about looking at titles and classifications.
Film Classification and Target Audience
Title: Daddies Little Girl
Classifications:
U
PG
12A
15
18
Target Audience: The target audience will be anybody over the age of 15 as our film classification will be a 15. Our target audience will also be people who enjoy watching psychological thrillers. Our thriller is made to make the audience try to figure out clues so our target audience is people who like to have something hidden from them and have to try and work things out.Film Classification: The film will be a 15 as this enables us to appeal to a larger audience as in 18+ year olds can watch a 15 rated film but under 18 year olds cannot watch an 18 rated film. Also none of us are 18 so it would not make sense for us to produce a film with certificate 18 when we cannot legally watch it.
Section 2(b): Homework
Déjà Vu Notes
Narration:
Linear, and makes use of Equilibrium as we see people having a good time, care free running onto the boat and having fun.
Thriller Codes & Conventions:
Question and Answer Model.Why are we being introduced to this boat? Why does the horn go off twice (makes use of déjà vu). Concealment and Protraction; we are not shown the bomb in the car, which gives a surprise to the audience as it isn’t expected. Makes use of the ExoticBoat looks far too big and posh to be leaving from such a small, ugly looking dock. Transformed City, the city is a normal place, as is the boat, we are just seeing some people go on a boat trip.
Camerawork:
Long ShotsAre made use of as we see people running onto the boat, and we see people boarding cars onto it etc.ZoomUp to the front of the bus, very faced paced makes it unclear to see what is happening.ArielAs the camera moves over the dock area, showing everything from a higher angle making it appear small and vulnerable.Low AngleOf cars coming onto the boat, making them appear bigger as though they are more powerful than the boat and the surrounding areas.TrackingAs we are following the guard along the car deck up towards the van with the bomb in it.PanningAs we move along the boat seeing what is going on from every angle (gives the impression we can see everything and nothing is being hidden).
Mise-En-Scene:
We are shown an awful lot in this opening sequence, it appears that all is calm until we see the guard on the car deck start checking the car that has its radio playing. It is only then that we are shown the people are in danger but we still think they might have a chance of escape, but it blows up almost instantly after it being spotted.
Sound:
Non DiegeticMusic – Slow Music At the Start as we see people boarding, then of a Band Playing (though we never see them) after the boat has left.We can also hear the radio from the car with the bomb in it.DiegeticCheering – when the boat leaves the dock and starts moving out into the river.Talking – between everyone on the deck.Music – After some time of hearing it off screen, we hear and see the band playing.The bombs ticking noise, just before it explodes.
Editing:
Fast moving, as if to show things are moving at an unreal pace, and things are being rushed.Shot Reverse Shot Between the little girl on the boat and her doll as it falls into the river.
Graphics:
White in courier new as though a murder file/document is being filled in.They flash and move around the screen whilst changing as if to show they are in two places at once.Not in any particular place, just appear randomly arranged.
Armageddon Notes
Narrative Structure:
Disequilibrium to start, as she is running through woods that don’t look safe, she appears focused as if desperately trying to get somewhere. Linear Narrative.
Thriller Codes and Conventions:
Jodie Foster is the “exotic”; she is wearing grey amongst men wearing red, and is the only woman there. The question and Answer Model is used also at the beginning when she is running, “Why is she running?”, “Where is she running to?” etc. and also when she looks at the wall, we find ourselves asking “What is it that we are looking at?”, “Who has done this?”. Partial vision is used as when Jodie Foster first looks at the wall we aren’t shown it. The use of the enigma code is used as we aren’t aware of exactly what is going on at this point. The Police Station is a model for the Transformed City as it doesn’t have a normal or safe feel to it.
Camerawork:
Panning & Tracking shots are used to follow Jodie Foster as she is running through the woods, and on a couple of occasions she runs into the shot and the camera follows her from there. An over shoulder shot of a man, who we don’t know, follows Jodie as she runs, and he then shouts her name. There is an Extreme Close up of Jodie’s face to show the horror of what she see’s on the wall.
Mise-en Scene:
We see a woman running, who is then being followed by a man. We don’t know why she’s running, just that she’s on some type of assault course. She enters the police building wearing grey, which matches the wall, whilst everyone else stands out. We are shown some pictures of people who have been skinned on the wall.
Sound:
The music at the beginning is quite slow paced and spooky; a little disturbing for some of the audience. The only diegetic sounds are those of footsteps, leaves been stood on, and very little amounts of dialog.
Editing:
An Eye line Match is used when Jodie Foster is looking at the wall; this is used to show us what it is exactly she is looking at.This is also used for when the man is running after Jodie in the woods, before he appears on screen.
Graphics:
Very bold, and central and are for the main in black, with a white outline to possibly represent evil and good, but to show good will overcome in the end as the black/evil is surrounded by the good/white.
Silence of the Lambs Notes
Narration:
Linear, and makes use of Equilibrium as we see people having a good time, care free running onto the boat and having fun.
Thriller Codes & Conventions:
Question and Answer Model.Why are we being introduced to this boat? Why does the horn go off twice (makes use of déjà vu). Concealment and Protraction; we are not shown the bomb in the car, which gives a surprise to the audience as it isn’t expected. Makes use of the ExoticBoat looks far too big and posh to be leaving from such a small, ugly looking dock. Transformed City, the city is a normal place, as is the boat, we are just seeing some people go on a boat trip.
Camerawork:
Long ShotsAre made use of as we see people running onto the boat, and we see people boarding cars onto it etc.ZoomUp to the front of the bus, very faced paced makes it unclear to see what is happening.ArielAs the camera moves over the dock area, showing everything from a higher angle making it appear small and vulnerable.Low AngleOf cars coming onto the boat, making them appear bigger as though they are more powerful than the boat and the surrounding areas.TrackingAs we are following the guard along the car deck up towards the van with the bomb in it.PanningAs we move along the boat seeing what is going on from every angle (gives the impression we can see everything and nothing is being hidden).
Mise-En-Scene:
We are shown an awful lot in this opening sequence, it appears that all is calm until we see the guard on the car deck start checking the car that has its radio playing. It is only then that we are shown the people are in danger but we still think they might have a chance of escape, but it blows up almost instantly after it being spotted.
Sound:
Non DiegeticMusic – Slow Music At the Start as we see people boarding, then of a Band Playing (though we never see them) after the boat has left.We can also hear the radio from the car with the bomb in it.DiegeticCheering – when the boat leaves the dock and starts moving out into the river.Talking – between everyone on the deck.Music – After some time of hearing it off screen, we hear and see the band playing.The bombs ticking noise, just before it explodes.
Editing:
Fast moving, as if to show things are moving at an unreal pace, and things are being rushed.Shot Reverse Shot Between the little girl on the boat and her doll as it falls into the river.
Graphics:
White in courier new as though a murder file/document is being filled in.They flash and move around the screen whilst changing as if to show they are in two places at once.Not in any particular place, just appear randomly arranged.
Armageddon Notes
Narrative Structure:
Disequilibrium to start, as she is running through woods that don’t look safe, she appears focused as if desperately trying to get somewhere. Linear Narrative.
Thriller Codes and Conventions:
Jodie Foster is the “exotic”; she is wearing grey amongst men wearing red, and is the only woman there. The question and Answer Model is used also at the beginning when she is running, “Why is she running?”, “Where is she running to?” etc. and also when she looks at the wall, we find ourselves asking “What is it that we are looking at?”, “Who has done this?”. Partial vision is used as when Jodie Foster first looks at the wall we aren’t shown it. The use of the enigma code is used as we aren’t aware of exactly what is going on at this point. The Police Station is a model for the Transformed City as it doesn’t have a normal or safe feel to it.
Camerawork:
Panning & Tracking shots are used to follow Jodie Foster as she is running through the woods, and on a couple of occasions she runs into the shot and the camera follows her from there. An over shoulder shot of a man, who we don’t know, follows Jodie as she runs, and he then shouts her name. There is an Extreme Close up of Jodie’s face to show the horror of what she see’s on the wall.
Mise-en Scene:
We see a woman running, who is then being followed by a man. We don’t know why she’s running, just that she’s on some type of assault course. She enters the police building wearing grey, which matches the wall, whilst everyone else stands out. We are shown some pictures of people who have been skinned on the wall.
Sound:
The music at the beginning is quite slow paced and spooky; a little disturbing for some of the audience. The only diegetic sounds are those of footsteps, leaves been stood on, and very little amounts of dialog.
Editing:
An Eye line Match is used when Jodie Foster is looking at the wall; this is used to show us what it is exactly she is looking at.This is also used for when the man is running after Jodie in the woods, before he appears on screen.
Graphics:
Very bold, and central and are for the main in black, with a white outline to possibly represent evil and good, but to show good will overcome in the end as the black/evil is surrounded by the good/white.
Silence of the Lambs Notes
Narrative Structure:
Disequilibrium to start, as she is running through woods that don’t look safe, she appears focused as if desperately trying to get somewhere. Linear Narrative.
Thriller Codes and Conventions:
Jodie Foster is the “exotic”; she is wearing grey amongst men wearing red, and is the only woman there. The question and Answer Model is used also at the beginning when she is running, “Why is she running?”, “Where is she running to?” etc. and also when she looks at the wall, we find ourselves asking “What is it that we are looking at?”, “Who has done this?”. Partial vision is used as when Jodie Foster first looks at the wall we aren’t shown it. The use of the enigma code is used as we aren’t aware of exactly what is going on at this point. The Police Station is a model for the Transformed City as it doesn’t have a normal or safe feel to it.
Camerawork:
Panning & Tracking shots are used to follow Jodie Foster as she is running through the woods, and on a couple of occasions she runs into the shot and the camera follows her from there. An over shoulder shot of a man, who we don’t know, follows Jodie as she runs, and he then shouts her name. There is an Extreme Close up of Jodie’s face to show the horror of what she see’s on the wall.
Mise-en Scene:
We see a woman running, who is then being followed by a man. We don’t know why she’s running, just that she’s on some type of assault course. She enters the police building wearing grey, which matches the wall, whilst everyone else stands out. We are shown some pictures of people who have been skinned on the wall.
Sound:
The music at the beginning is quite slow paced and spooky; a little disturbing for some of the audience. The only diegetic sounds are those of footsteps, leaves been stood on, and very little amounts of dialog.
Editing:
An Eye line Match is used when Jodie Foster is looking at the wall; this is used to show us what it is exactly she is looking at.This is also used for when the man is running after Jodie in the woods, before he appears on screen.
Graphics:
Very bold, and central and are for the main in black, with a white outline to possibly represent evil and good, but to show good will overcome in the end as the black/evil is surrounded by the good/white.
Section 2: Analysing Similar Films (cntd.)
Jaws Notes
Narrative structure:
Equilibrium is used at the beginning as we are shown a group of teenagers having a party at the beach; a normal situation. Disequilibrium occurs when Jaws sneaks up, and attacks the girl who is swimming. This prepares the audience for what will happen throughout the film.
Thriller codes and conventions:
Partial vision is used at first as we are not fully aware of what is swimming through the reeds and coral.The “Transformed City” Convention is another code Spielberg also uses, as using a beach leads the audience to think they are in no danger as it is usually a safe place.Spielberg also makes good used of the Question and Answer Model as we find ourselves, as the audience, asking Questions – “What is in the Water?” “Are the Teenagers in Danger?” “Is anybody going to get hurt?” etc.Partial Vision is used again as we do not know what is swimming, yet we see the affects of it, as it attacks the girl in the water.
Camerawork:
Spielberg makes use of a Tracking Shot, Pont of View Shot and a Point of view shot as Jaws swims through the coral.Whilst at the beach there is a long tracking shot that doesn’t stop giving a calming feeling as the pace of the film at this point is slow.
There is then a close up on the young male showing he is more important in the film than the other people there, as is the girl they also do a close up on. This shows how they both have something in common leading more into the Question and Answer Model.
Then, just before the couple leave the beach there is a High Angle shot, looking down on the group as if showing they are vulnerable. (This is ironic as the killer can only realistically attack from below – Red Herring).
There is yet another tracking shot as the couple run onto the beach, which leads into a mid shot of the man on the beach attempting to undress himself.
The low angle, PoV shot shows Jaws sneaking up on his pray just before attack.After the attack there is then a Long shot out into see showing how far out she was.
Mise-en-scene:
We are shown a party, being held by a group of teenagers who are having a good time, drinking, and appear to be in no immediate danger. We see two of them leave the group and head toward the beach, and one of them then enters the water, where we see her get thrown around and dragged under; but we don’t see what by.
Sound:
Peaceful and normal music is used to show how everything is relaxed, but is non-diegetic, but at this point we can see some instruments in the background suggesting the teenagers can hear it. The only diegetic sound used is that of the bell on the buoy as the girl try to grab it whilst being attacked.
Editing:
Shot Reverse Shot is used on the beach – As the two teenagers look back and forth at each other.Eye line Match – as Jaws swims around.
Graphics:
Font is big and white, showing that the name of the film is going to play a big part, but has no colour so there is no hint as to whether this means there will be a good and evil side.The Font is Maritime looking, as though it is written on the side of a boat.
Narrative structure:
Equilibrium is used at the beginning as we are shown a group of teenagers having a party at the beach; a normal situation. Disequilibrium occurs when Jaws sneaks up, and attacks the girl who is swimming. This prepares the audience for what will happen throughout the film.
Thriller codes and conventions:
Partial vision is used at first as we are not fully aware of what is swimming through the reeds and coral.The “Transformed City” Convention is another code Spielberg also uses, as using a beach leads the audience to think they are in no danger as it is usually a safe place.Spielberg also makes good used of the Question and Answer Model as we find ourselves, as the audience, asking Questions – “What is in the Water?” “Are the Teenagers in Danger?” “Is anybody going to get hurt?” etc.Partial Vision is used again as we do not know what is swimming, yet we see the affects of it, as it attacks the girl in the water.
Camerawork:
Spielberg makes use of a Tracking Shot, Pont of View Shot and a Point of view shot as Jaws swims through the coral.Whilst at the beach there is a long tracking shot that doesn’t stop giving a calming feeling as the pace of the film at this point is slow.
There is then a close up on the young male showing he is more important in the film than the other people there, as is the girl they also do a close up on. This shows how they both have something in common leading more into the Question and Answer Model.
Then, just before the couple leave the beach there is a High Angle shot, looking down on the group as if showing they are vulnerable. (This is ironic as the killer can only realistically attack from below – Red Herring).
There is yet another tracking shot as the couple run onto the beach, which leads into a mid shot of the man on the beach attempting to undress himself.
The low angle, PoV shot shows Jaws sneaking up on his pray just before attack.After the attack there is then a Long shot out into see showing how far out she was.
Mise-en-scene:
We are shown a party, being held by a group of teenagers who are having a good time, drinking, and appear to be in no immediate danger. We see two of them leave the group and head toward the beach, and one of them then enters the water, where we see her get thrown around and dragged under; but we don’t see what by.
Sound:
Peaceful and normal music is used to show how everything is relaxed, but is non-diegetic, but at this point we can see some instruments in the background suggesting the teenagers can hear it. The only diegetic sound used is that of the bell on the buoy as the girl try to grab it whilst being attacked.
Editing:
Shot Reverse Shot is used on the beach – As the two teenagers look back and forth at each other.Eye line Match – as Jaws swims around.
Graphics:
Font is big and white, showing that the name of the film is going to play a big part, but has no colour so there is no hint as to whether this means there will be a good and evil side.The Font is Maritime looking, as though it is written on the side of a boat.
Section 2: Analysing Similar Films
Se7en Notes
Narrative structure:
Linear Narrative. Equilibrium at the beginning as the shots we are shown are quite unclear, and what we are seeing doesn’t seem to be of a sinister nature; although the actions the person is taking is very organised and systematic and appears to be a professional.
Thriller codes and conventions:
Partial vision is a key convention that is used in the beginning as we can only see half the picture; although we are aware is a man as the hands and fingers of the person are far to big to be that of a womans.The Question & Answer Model is also used when the man is putting the pictures into the water in his dark room as we don’t know why he has pictures of these people, who they are, and what, if anything, is going to happen to them.
Camerawork:
During the opening sequence we have just two camera angles; extreme close ups, and one panning shot of a filing cabinet. Apart from the panning shot the extreme close ups build mystery around the man that we can see. We can see someone slicing their finger tips, writing in a book, and developing pictures.
Mise-en-scene:
The background can’t be seen clear, but from what we can see it would more than likely be the mans working environment either at home or at work; so it may well be an office type place, but this is unclear. We aren’t given much of a clue as to what is going on we just see someone carrying out some different activities.
Sound:
Initially the music is a heartbeat sounding music at a normal sounding pace – leaving the audience in a false sense of security. It then picks up pace a bit, and screeching, screaming, creaky floorboards, and other creeking bits of furniture. About half way through the piece, pace picks up a lot and the music kicks in. Despite this, the only lyrics used are at the ending, which say, “You got me closer to god” as if suggesting people are going to die in the film because of this person.
Editing:
The editing is incredibly fast paced compared to the sounds at first. The use of jump cuts is used to emphasise the fact the man is quick at what he is doing, and also the fact that time has passed. As the editing stays fast paced, the music does eventually catch it up, possibly showing how in the film things will start off slow, and then just come straight after each other. Also we are shown two different actions on screen via the use of a split screen shot, showing how we is efficient, and could easily do two tasks at once; as if he posses supernatual powers or something of a similar nature.
Graphics:
The font used is quite creapy looking, yet it appears as if it was written by a child of some description, letters are back to front, and all the text varies in size. There is no proper position for the text and it just appears everywhere and anywhere; and jumps around the screen quickly and without warning as if to say this is what can be expected from the film.
Narrative structure:
Linear Narrative. Equilibrium at the beginning as the shots we are shown are quite unclear, and what we are seeing doesn’t seem to be of a sinister nature; although the actions the person is taking is very organised and systematic and appears to be a professional.
Thriller codes and conventions:
Partial vision is a key convention that is used in the beginning as we can only see half the picture; although we are aware is a man as the hands and fingers of the person are far to big to be that of a womans.The Question & Answer Model is also used when the man is putting the pictures into the water in his dark room as we don’t know why he has pictures of these people, who they are, and what, if anything, is going to happen to them.
Camerawork:
During the opening sequence we have just two camera angles; extreme close ups, and one panning shot of a filing cabinet. Apart from the panning shot the extreme close ups build mystery around the man that we can see. We can see someone slicing their finger tips, writing in a book, and developing pictures.
Mise-en-scene:
The background can’t be seen clear, but from what we can see it would more than likely be the mans working environment either at home or at work; so it may well be an office type place, but this is unclear. We aren’t given much of a clue as to what is going on we just see someone carrying out some different activities.
Sound:
Initially the music is a heartbeat sounding music at a normal sounding pace – leaving the audience in a false sense of security. It then picks up pace a bit, and screeching, screaming, creaky floorboards, and other creeking bits of furniture. About half way through the piece, pace picks up a lot and the music kicks in. Despite this, the only lyrics used are at the ending, which say, “You got me closer to god” as if suggesting people are going to die in the film because of this person.
Editing:
The editing is incredibly fast paced compared to the sounds at first. The use of jump cuts is used to emphasise the fact the man is quick at what he is doing, and also the fact that time has passed. As the editing stays fast paced, the music does eventually catch it up, possibly showing how in the film things will start off slow, and then just come straight after each other. Also we are shown two different actions on screen via the use of a split screen shot, showing how we is efficient, and could easily do two tasks at once; as if he posses supernatual powers or something of a similar nature.
Graphics:
The font used is quite creapy looking, yet it appears as if it was written by a child of some description, letters are back to front, and all the text varies in size. There is no proper position for the text and it just appears everywhere and anywhere; and jumps around the screen quickly and without warning as if to say this is what can be expected from the film.
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