Preliminary task filmed.

This is the recording of our Preliminary task :

We are trying to demonstrate continuity editing.

We are trying to show:
 - Match on action.
 - Shot/reverse shot.
 - 180 degree rule
 - eyeline match

Focus group evaluation for our thriller ideas.

In our focus group we looked at three possible thrillers that we could produce:

1) A girl who was obsessed with her boyfriend and did not take their break up well. Because she was upset with him breaking up with her she took it on her self to stalk him and try and make him take her back. She follows him everywhere he goes and tries to just make him realise that she loves him.

2) A boy with a split personality from a man to a woman tries to discover himself or who it is keeps trying to take over him. It was inspired by Alfred Hitchock's 'psycho' but has a twist to it.

We left our third idea to the public to decide what type of film they would like to see. Our audience decided that they would like to see a movie that blended the first two ideas together. And this last idea was the most voted and requested idea for or thriller.

For our focus group we asked :

1) Which of the following ideas do you prefer?
The audience said that they prefered the first idea and the third idea that they made.

2) Which one do you think will create the most tension?
The audience stated that they would prefer the third idea.

3) would ou prefer it ot be in black and white or colour?
The audience wanted both involved. so they wanted it to be black and white everytime the boy saw himself as a girl and colour when he was being himself.

4) Do you think it will be more effective using diegetic or non-diegetic sound and would it be better if there was a soundtrack or silence?
The audience preferred diegetic sounds to create a natural sort of tension not tension caused becaused of the music.

5) In conclusion which one would be the most appealing to watch in the cinema?
The audience said that they would prefer the third movie when both movie ideas are combined as they think that it is very creative.

Focus Group. -The recording our focus group.

Camera Angles filming.

This is the filming of several camera angles.

Enigmas.

This refers to a puzzle, something mysterious or inexplicable, or a riddle or difficult problem. In thrillers this is commonly something which the protagonist has to try to find out or solve before the narrative is resolved and the film finishes.

The 'Psychological' Thriller - The mind, conflict and the past.

The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state. Sometimes the suspense comes from within one solitary character where characters must resolve cionflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them.

Hitchocks MacGuffin -

A MaGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or Maguffin) is a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story, but has little other relevance to the story. Hitchock says "we have a name in the studio and we call it the ';MacGuffin'. It is always the necklace and in spy stories it is always the papers."

The Rope - 1948

'The rope' tells the story of two young and wealthy men Brandon and Phillip, who strangled and murdered a friend of theirs just to see if they can get away with it. They then invite other close friends )(including the murdered man's parents) to their apartment for a dinner party, whilst hiding the body in a chest/box in their sitting room, just to see if they can get away with it. The suspense is created through the body in the chest/box. Questions like: "What will happen?" or "Will the body (and the two men) be dicovered and brought to jsutice" arise.

Alfred Hitchcok.

Alfred Hitchock was the ,master of suspense whiose films cae to be the benchmark for 'psychological thrillers'. He says that the only way to get rid of his fears was to make films about them. The suspense thriller - Hitchock model. 'Under the strong influence of ALfred Hitchcok, thrillers often begin with a crime and the accusation of an innocent bystander. Were the accused to contact the authortities, no doubt the case could be promptly soolved, but instead the poor bystandewr runs from the law thus further jeopadizing life an d limb'.Rick Altman - Film/genre. An example of this is 'The 39 steps' 1935, 'North by Northwest' 1959.

Thriller introduction.

'The thriller is a very difficult genre to pin down because it covers such a wide reange of films. Thrillers are films of suspenses... that are supposesd to instil terror into the audience.' - Susan Hayward, key concepts in film studies. Different thrillers include: - Spy thriller: James Bond. - Political thrillers: Manchurian Candidate. - Conspiracy thrillers: Taken 2. - Legal thrillers: Pelican breif. - Psychological thrillers: psycho. As Jerry Seinfield says in Seinlanguage'when you enjoy something, you must never the let logic get too much in the way, like the villains in all the James Bond movies . Whenever Bond breaks into the complex:'Ah Mr Bond, welcome, come in. Let me show you my entire evil plan and then put you in a death machine that doesnt work.'

Understanding Thriller openings.

This is three examples of thriller openings: I am identifying the films language (camera, editing, sound and mise en scene).

Memento - visible things in this thriller include guns,blood,bullets,camera and pictures. the camera angles include revers shot, close ups and extreme close ups, the editing switches from black and white to normal. This thriller has diegetic and non diegetic sounds, from music in the background to dialogues between the characters, the main mise en scene is the photograph fading every time it is flipped.

Brick - started off with a dead body and this was a convention, the camera shots included extreme close ups, cloe ups, slow zoom and reverse shots. The editings included dissolve to clear, switching to and from flash backs it also included music which was non-diegetic and a mise en scene which was a dead body and a guy staring at it in disbelieve and shock.

Zodiac - Conventions of this opening was tension with fireworks and the fact that they both got shot. The camera angles were reverse shots, close ups, tracking, pan and point of view shot. editing was continued and captions, no light then a torch, the sounds were non diegetic, diegetic which was a dialogue and cars. The mise en scene was a couple got shot in a car.

Foundation portfolio. - The preliminary task.

The preliminary task was to demostrate continuity editing. This is the clear establishment of 'cause and effect' plotting which establishes character motivations and helps tell an interesting story which proceeds ligically and steadily. This meant that i had to show examples of - Match on action, SHot/reverse shot, 180 degree rule and the eye line match. Match on action is: See a character start an action in one shot and see them continue it in the next. 180 degree rule is: Basic guide-line stating two characteristics in same scene should always have the same left/right camera passes over imaginary axis connecting two subjects called crossing the line. Our Preliminary task was: Character A walks towards a door. Character A enters through the door and crosses a room to where Character B is seated. Character A and B exchange a few lines of dialogue. There is at leats one use of an eyeline match. Character AS exists the room.

Our preliminary tasked that we filmed: