Media Prelim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v90lQq1wEoo&feature=plcp&context=C3170f2aUDOEgsToPDskK9AzSEJdxLkNoRpSWOi7R1

our prelim went quite well as the corridors were mainly empty. we did alot of takes of someshots due to the noise in the back ground. we had an hour to film this peace and we also had planning time before. I really wnjoyed performing this peace and acting in it, luckily for us we had a expert camera woman well infact we had 2 and we included a verity of shots. the things we struggles with were passing students, not enough time to film and a decent place for 'The Agents' to take place. our srengths was our team efforts and good communivation skills. some of our weekness was our editing but i feel that wew will pick up of this soon after getting used to the macs.

Reseach of a thriller

What is
Thriller Drama

A thriller is
a film, video game and television program that uses tension, suspense and
excitement as the key elements. The most popular subgenre is a

psychological
thriller. After JFK was assassinated political thrillers and also paranoid
thrillers became popular. The examples of thrillers are films of Alfred
Hitchcock.

A thriller
stimulates the audience mood the key moods are a high level of anticipation,
ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, suspense, excitement,
tension, terror. Red Herrings and cliffhangers are often used throughout films.
A chase or fight scene are common in thrillers it could also be a subgenre.

Crime
thrillers often have methods of mainly ransome, captives, revenge kidnapping
where as mystery thriller uses the whodunit technique and investigations. A psychological
thrillers most common elements of mind games stalking confinement and a
psychological themes.  Some other
elements used in psychological thrillers of false accusations fringes of
paranoia. 

The audience
experience tension when a character is placed in a menacing situation or traps
that seems impossible to escape.  And
another time when the audience experienced tension is when a life is threatened
by character being involved in a dangerous for potentially deadly situation.  The plot of a thriller is to conflict with
the outside forces.

What setting
is for a Thriller?

An atmosphere
of creepy menace and sudden violence, crime and murder characterise thrillers.
They mostly are adrenaline rushing, gritty, rousing fast-paced. Thrillers
mainly take place in ordinary places. Though sometimes, they may take place in,
deserts, Polar Regions, or at 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. Hitchcock's films often
placed an innocent victim (an average, responsible person) into a strange,
life-threatening or terrorizing situation, in a case of mistaken identity,
misidentification or wrongful accusation. (wiki)

Definition of
a Thriller

Thrillers may
be defined by the primary mood that they elicit: fearful excitement. In short,
if it "thrills", it is a thriller.

(sourced from
wiki)

The ideas

•1:WW2 theme based.

•Location: The air field in Folkingham.

• Includes: War machinery, Fields, Old tractors, Hangers, Silo’s.

 Story line- Man goes to war, dies, ghost haunts the air field where his wife goes to “feel his presence” on a regular basis.

•

 

•Old machinery

•Rifle

•Hangers

•Tractors

Missile silo

•

 

•Helmet

•Blazers

•Smart trousers

•Smart Dresses

•Medals

 

Old airport road leading to the modern barn in Farmland near Folkingham Airfield. This WWII airfield was open between 1940-1963 and was originally a "decoy" site. During the day there were dummy planes and lots of activity. During the night it was a Q site or night time decoy (with dummy lighting fitted) that successfully attracted the Luftwaffe. It was redeveloped in 1943 as a proper bomber airfield. The station was later turned into Thor missile base in 1959, but finally closed when Thor missiles were taken out of service in 1963. All that remains of this are three sites with a characteristic ground signature on the Folkingham side of the airfield.

2:

•Hostage situation

•Set at Henrys abattoir, Hannah tied up

•Flicking between the girl hung up and the dad wanting to save her.

•Conflict between kidnapper and dad of the victim, he’s keeping her hostage to get money and to prove a point.

•Ideas for this from the film ‘taken’ which is a action thriller about a dad chasing his daughter around the world to save her from being taken hostage.

 

•Provocative clothing

•Black balaclava

•Black clothing

•Leather gloves

•Dark Leather jacket

 

•Rope

•Knife

•Gun

•Dead animals

•Phone

•Briefcase

•Money

 

•Common abattoirs, or slaughterhouses, are used to process meat for human consumption as well as animal by-products.

•This will be an interesting and captivating place to film our thriller, as it is a gloomy, gory and scary location that will give of a mysterious atmosphere that we need to portray.

3: 

•Psycho idea.

•Man’s daughter dies of having a mental break down and drowning herself in the bath. he got rid of, so he got rid of her.

•At the funeral the man has flashbacks of his daughter dying as he was the one who actually killed her, as she wasn’t the ‘perfect child’ and was rebellious, him being a religious control freak couldn’t andle it and everything he didn’t like

 

•Black clothing- funeral.

•White dress

•Chief mourner uniform

Vicar uniform

•

 

•Pills

•Religious cross

•Bible

•Coffin- bake-o-lite

 

•Cemetery was established in 1855 and consecrated in March, 1856. At that time, all the other burial grounds in the parish were closed for future burials. The cemetery is on Thurlby Road.

Questionaire

Questionnaire:

Questionnaire for expectations of thriller genre:

1) Which gender are you?

Male?

Female

2)What age group are you?

15-18?

19-30?

30+?

3) What type of sub genre of the thriller genre do you prefer?

Drama?

Sci-fi?

Crime?

Action?

Comedy?

Mystery?

4)Which is your favourite film out of the following..?

Psycho?

Donnie Darko?

The happening?

Paranormal activity?

Saw?

5)What type of music do you think should be played in a thriller film?

Eerie?

Mysterious?

Up-beat?

Calm?
Classical?

6)Which location would best suit a thriller?

Woods?

Abandoned house?

Every day setting?

Shopping centre?

7)What factors do you think build up the atmosphere of a thriller film?
Special effects?
Sound effects?
Acting?
Realistic based plot?
Mise-en-scene?
Props?


8)Who would you watch a thriller film with?
Girlfriend/Boyfreind?
Family?
Friends?
Alone?


9)Who you expect to be the victim within a thriller?
Female?
Old person?
Hero/Heroine
Teenager?
Parent/Career?
Child?


10)How often on a regular basis would you watch a thriller?
Once a day?
Once a week?
Once every two weeks?
Once every month?
Never?

Donnie Darko

BBFC and Paramount Pictures

The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) was set up in 1912 and has classed cinema films since then and DVDs and Games since 1984. Although they class films the local council can overrule them on anything. The BBFC is a 'Not for Profit' organisation which only charges the company on its costs and has never received subsidies from the government or the film industry. why do they do it? protect  the public, and especially children, from content which might raise harm risks, empower the public, especially parents, to make informed viewing choices. Funnily Monty Pythons: Life of Brian is banned in quite a lot of countries due to it non religious content. In Malaysia all of the Monty Python sketches are banned. The only films banned in the UK still are c**ksucker blues, Mikey and Grotesque, i believe that the human centipede 2 ban has been lifted after making 32 cuts.


Paramount Pictures is owned by Viacom who also own nickelodeon and MTV and MTV films, viacom has owned paramount since 1994. Viacom has 170 media networks reaching more than 600 million global subscribers and more than 500 branded digital media properties. 

Momento

This screen shot show Lenny with all of his tattoos,  the connotation of tattoos are middle class people however these tattoos are different as they hold messages as he has a memory condition. The shot is in black and white when the camera goes back to this shot when he is talking on the phone to someone is when he still has his memory. Lenny looks like an ordinary person in an ordinary hotel room. this shot follows the golden mean and the rule of thirds as his body and tattoos are in the center of the frame. If you can read the tattoos you will notice they are all about this one guy who raped and murdered Lenny's wife and the messages contain little bits of information to help track him down. as you can see by the shot Lenny is a physically fit person who works out, this is very useful in being a detective as you may need to run to catch a criminal or have stamina for a fight.


Memento as a films


Memento is a physiological thriller which affects the brain although it is not a really bad thriller like saw it is more on an action thriller with a very confusing story line as it is not in linear order it is difficult to follow but can be followed if you watched it several times. it is a very unconventual films as it runs not in chronological order if anything it runs backwards. in the first clip the music is very meloncolli and odd the writing blue on black is also unconventual, in the first clip you see the blood running down the walls this is the first sign on a physiological thriller. the audience are all the time enguaged as they want to know what has happened as there isn't a basic story line.