Initial idea

IDEA

My initial idea was to create a crime thriller. I was thinking of creating a bank heist. It was gonna be like a group of robbers stealing some money from the bank. But we thought that was too mainstream and didnt have a proper location to film a bank heist.

My second idea was to create a heist but this time we were robbing a bank car which was containing books instead of money. We choose books instead of money because we thought in that period of time in the films books are more valuable than money. But i also scrap that idea since it was quiet dangerous and we think we wont be able to make it long enough to cover the 2 minute time.

My third idea was to make a deal with some VIP (mafia) to trade a lot of money for a few books. Then when the VIP got in the car and drove for a bit there will be a traitor in the car which kills everyone and steal the books from the car and then get changed to disguise. Then the traitor will then find his get away car and drove off.I think that should be my final idea and it should be long enough to cover those 2 minutes

The third idea was scrapped because the VIP car was not available for us to use and i think it would be too complicated. So I've decided to use a less VIP car such as a silver BMW instead of a black Mercedes S class. But we are trying to stick to the same story line, such as there is still a traitor in the film but there wont be as much killing and it will be less climatic.

During new year we start filming. We try some of the camera angles and look at the lighting. We did some test shots instead because the prop wasn't ready on the day.

29 January. We start the filming seriously.We film for 3 consecutive hours in the hot sun. We did achieve a lot of new camera angles which help us to put more detail into the film. But this time we didnt have sunny so we need to improvise by using ohm instead and not letting the camera see me. 

Zodiac Character

ZODIAC 2007

Robert Garysmith

• friendly
• brave
• smart

David Toshi

• Hard working
• Put alot of effort in the things he do
• Stylish (wear good clothes)

Narrative Range

Narrative Range

• UNRESTRICTED NARRATIVE RANGE
• Audiences know more then the character in the film

• RESTRICTED NARRATIVE RANGE
• The audience view are restricted to be the same as the character

Thriller Convection

Thriller Convection

Children Of Men Opening Scene

Children Of Men Opening Scene Analysis

Main Character:

• Wearing a black coat
• Looks dirty
• Doesn't care about his surroundings( whats going on it the news) when he buys his coffee
• Alcoholic, since we saw him putting alcohol in his coffee

Setting:

- Location London 2027

• Looks dirty compare to today London
• Tuk Tuk roaming the street
• A lot of air pollution
• Everyone dress in dark color
• Military take over (helicopter)
• Boarders close for 8 years
• Dath of youngest man on earth

Genre: Action

The picture suggest that there have been a lot of changes in London such as tuk tuk roaming the street and a lot of air pollution.

This scene shows the death of the youngest man on earth. It seems like a very big news because everyone is listening to the news. Except for the main character, he seems to doesn't care about the news at all and just walk away after he bought his coffee. Camera focusing on everyone in the store to let the audiences see that everyone is watching and listening to something very carefully.

This scene shows the area in London in 2027 with all the garbage and pollution in the area. The camera follows him to show what London is like and what kind of cars and how people dress commute around town. The camera then move without cutting to the other side of the man to show the whole view London.

The camera move to the other side of the man to show the entire view of the city in that area. It also shows that people are living their daily life. There is also a man and a woman hugging and kissing in the background showing some people are happy without knowing that there will be a explosion happening next to them. 

Sub-genre mini film

SUB GENRES

Audience segmentation

IN THESE SUB GENRES THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPE OF AUDIENCES:

Action Thrillers: In this type of films it mostly consider of action scene and intense scene. Mostly involve car chase, shooting, people dying and explosions. These films target young teenagers who likes action and violence. Since most teenagers like action movies.

Psychological Thriller: These films usually cause human to create fear in their mind by showing graphic image, using camera angle, and creating hint in the film which makes the viewers scared.  These films target older teenagers which usually are more mature, around the age of 25+

Crime Thriller: These films usually focuses in the criminal and their activity on how they solve each problem to avoid the heat(police). These usually target young teenagers to mature people age 30+

ZODIAC SCENE

Fears

Fears

Each movie are based on different fears

Personal Fears

• Darkness
• Ghosts
• Small area
• Drowning
• Being alone
• Death

Parent Fears

• Grades
• Economic
• Family problems
• Business
• Cost of living
• Food
• School fees
• Children Safety

Society Fears

• War
• Political problems
• Global warming
• Enviroment

Scary Films

Why do we see scary films?
-satisfaction
-feel of relief
-testing yourself
What do films do to make them scary?
Tensim
-create use of micro-element and
Realism
-the fear generated has to be revalent to the audiences and believed.
Unrealism
The audience have ti be aware it isnt real.

Why Watch Scary Films?

Why do we see scary films?
-satisfaction
-feel of relief
-testing yourself
What do films do to make them scary?
Tensim
-create use of micro-element and
Realism
-the fear generated has to be revalent to the audiences and believed.
Unrealism
The audience have ti be aware it isnt real.

ARISTOTLE THEORY

-gave audience a chance to purge their negative emotions called catharsis.

-release the pent up feelings of aggression.

DOLF ZILLMANN

-negative feelings created by horror movies actually intensify the positive feelings when the hero triumphs in the end

-people’s enjoyment was actually higher during the scary parts of a horror film than it was after

GLEN D. WALTERS

-The first is tension

- relevance

- unreal ism

Audience Segmentation

Audience segmentation - Dividing into specific group

• Gender
• Age
• Race/ethnical
• Experience/fears (personality)
• Occupation
• Interests
• Wealth
• Class

Analysis
Some of the first result we predicted were wrong
- We have found out that Teacher are in the top professional class

Panic room Credit structure

Panic Room Credits
In order to understanding the conventional structure of credits we looked at David Fincher's 2002 thriller Panic Room. From this we could see it begins with institutions, moves on to stars, the title, co-stars, the behind the camera talent and then finally the director.

• Columbia Pictures
• A Hofflund/Polone production
• Indelible Picture
• Jodie Foster
• Forest Whitaker
• Dwighty Yoakam\
• Jared Leto
• Kristen Stewart
• Ann Magnuson Ian Buchanaii
• Patricn Bauchau 
• Paul Schulze
• Casting By Laray Yayfield
• Custom Designer Michael Kaplan
• Music by Howard Shore
• James Haygood.a.c.e. Angus Wall
• Production designer Arthur Max
• Directed Conrad W. Hall, Darius Khondji
• Produced by Gavin Polone, Judy Hofflund, David Koepp, Cean Chaffin
• Written By David Koepp
• Directed By David Fincher

Dexter Opening - Shape Theory

Dexter Opening Credits

In this film we learn about how shapes effect our view and what we think about each section of the film

In this film opening there was no blood or any living thing being hurt but they use shapes to create a sensation of someone being hurt in the video.Each of the section in the opening gives the viewers a perspective of how he torture his victims even though there was nothing being harm in the scene.

In this scene we can see him smiling after slapping the mosquito. This shows that he feels good killing other animals and human.

In this scene we see him bleeding from his blade shaving his beard. after he pick up a piece of napkin and clean up his blood it shows the blood entering the napkin creating sensation of someone being hurt.

This part where he cut a piece of meat for his breakfast. It represent how he cut and torture his victims and how he rip his victims meat into pieces. In the next scene it shows him eating the piece of meat he cooked. This means that he is enjoying the meal just like he enjoyed killing and torturing people.

In this part it shows Dexter breaking an egg for his breakfast. It also represent a person's head being break when he killed them. Also after he finish frying his egg it shows him cutting the egg, It represent a human eye being cut apart. After that part there are ketchup splashing in front of the camera which represent human blood splashing when he kills them.

The way he hold the coffee maker or what ever it is represent how her torture people by drowning them. There is a evidence for this when there are bubbles coming out from the drink which represent the victim drowning in water.

When hes cutting the orange it represent the way hes cut his victim head and tear the brain out. There are evidence to support this when he squeezed the juice out of the orange but the orange looks red like blood and brain coming out.

This shows when he is tying his shoes for work. But in other perspective is it shows how hard he strangled his victims or how hard he tie them before murdering them.

Heat Shoot out

Heat Shootout scene

1. The character just walked in the bank. The camera focuses on the man's face panning right with close up while he walks, also the zoom stay the same while the man calmly walk toward the camera to a extreme closeup to show the stress in his eye while he looks left and right for guards. It also create stress to the viewer that something intense is going to happen. 

2. The robber just got his gun drawn at the guard. This is a over the shoulder shot. It shows the guard stopping in front of the robber as he yelled. It shows the viewer that the guard is scared and stop moving.

3. The robber gets on top of the shelf as the camera follows him in the back with over the shoulder shot and a high angle-low angle showing the people in the bank fearing the robber as he command everyone in the bank to get down and stay still. This creates intensity to the viewer that someone might stand up and fight the robber or the robber is going to shoot someone that is not following orders.

4. This scene shows 2 undercover policemen running across the street. It is shot with extreme long shot mixed with blocking.  It shows that the road was very busy at the time and there are alot of people around there. It makes the viewer thinks that the cop was struggling trying to get to the point of the robber.

5. This scene shows the civilian ducking and running in panic due to the gun noise. It is shot with a extreme high angle. It shows the viewer that the gunshot was heard all over and the people around there didnt know what was going on and started running in panic trying to get out of the shooting area.

6. This shot is happening between the undercover police was chasing the robber. This shot was taken with close up to show the intensie face that the cop is trying to get the civilian to safety while he run through the people who are trying to run away from the scene. It shows the viewer the intense the cop was going through at the moment

7. It shows the civilian running and hiding behind covers with their hands over their ears. It is taken at a eye level. It shows the viewer that there are many people in that area that are scared and trying to get out while the police try to kill the robbers.

8. Shows that he is leaving the building and almost making it to the car safely but he ran into the police across the street first. IT uses close up camera angle to show his smile that shows that he is happy making it out while not being captured or notice. It shows the audience that he is happy but it shows that the character doesnt know that the police are just right behind them.

Camera work

Camera work (i put link instead because there was a save issue)

1 minute film challenge

1 minute film challenge

This film consists of 3 people, me,nana,micky and eye. I was the cameraman and nana was the director and eye was the main actoress. We choose to replicate a movie scene from Annabelle. The reason we choose to do this because the movie plot was interesting and there are a lot of micro element we can play with such as sound which creates a sensation of fear. 

We face some problems while filming such as there were no dark room in the 6th form center and it was hard to create a scary feeling in the film. Also the in the trailer it was taken at house and public places which was hard for us to recreate the scene since the only place we have was the school. Also some we need to create our own sound effect since there was only bad sound effect on the internet such as rusty door noise and creepy doll noise. Another problem we encounter is we didn't know how to use the premier program since i use iMovie all along and didnt know how the new program work. It delayed us during the editing for almost an hour. we manage to fix this by doing some research and asking our teacher for help

When we start filming we apply the camera rules to the film such as closeup,180 degree view, and angle shot. We use 180 degree view when eye and Micky was having a conversation and angle shot when eye was dragged by the ghost which create confusion and stress to the viewer. Also we didn't use any stabilizer which would cause a unstable scene which would create a sense of danger and confusion to the viewer.

In conclusion, i find this piece of work very fun and I would like to work in teams again because the work can be spread evenly along the people in the group and with more people, more ideas can be made which would make the film better quality for the viewers. Also working in teams helps by providing equipment such as cameras and microphones. I was the one with the camera and the microphones while Nana was the editor and Eye and Micky was the actor in the film.