Xx Ideas for film titles for my thriller xX

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NIBIRO


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NIBIRU

XxVisual ideas and inspiration posters for my thriller.xX

The Descent

I like the way the girls bodies have been used to create a skull character represeting the theme of death.

I like the use of the red wash, representing the blood.

Hide and seek

The door in the background looks mysterious and intrigues the viewers into watching the film, in order to find out.

Hostel

This sums up the film, in the way that the poster is gory and grotestec.

Warning the viewers, of what the film beholds.

House of Wax

This poster is one of my favourites, i love the cold blue wash, it gives a cold eary feel to the film and the wax on the character illustrates what will happpen in the film. Again intrigues the viewers.

Saw

I love this poster, the W on "saw" looks like a chain saw and the fact that the killing instruments are on a plate with a knife and falk potray the antagonists mentalness and the fact that he is disturubing.
Silent Hill

The girls missing mouth is scary and disturbing, the audience may feel an emotional connection to the girl as she looks innocent and vulnerable this could intice them to know what happens to her in the end.

Xx IDEAS Opening sequence of Evil Dead 2- ideas for thrillers xX

Evil Dead 2- 1987
Sam Raimi

American horror- comedy film. Standing as a sequel to 1981’s The evil dead.

· Narrative at the start. Beginning of sequence gives huge clues to rest of the film.
· Stop Animation.
· Animation logo- yellow, rose bud. Has no relation to the film. Random. However could be seen as juxtaposition.
· “Necronominiom” Archaic words- Feels like from an ancient time. Add weight to the story.
· Fist 2 minutes- enormous amount of information is given about the two main characters.
· Red wash- waves/ocean.
· Some kind of warning- spars you on as it says doesn’t watch it which makes you want to watch it as it says not too under the age of 17, just to prove them wrong.
· See through- change opacity. Add layers.
· Font- bold, sans serif, within a box, an official warning.
· P.O.V shot, tracking running quickly towards them - ambiguous character.
· Sound effects- witch screaming, Halloween noises, scary sounds. What am I going to have in my thriller?
· Symbols are unrecognisable text- different cultures and ancient times.
· Smoke filmed- then run backwards creates weirdness and uneasiness for the audience.
· 1300 A.D.
· Light at the end of the tunnel- could represent hope? Being shown the way.
· P.O.V of the car- tracking shot.
· Is my dialogue relevant in my thriller? Is it really needed?
· Establishing shot- moving away from civilisation, driving into the darkness. Feels strange, uncomfortable- moving from right to left, unusual.
· Shows a vast landscape, - they are insignificant compared to their environment- moving far into the high mountains.
· Pathetic fallacy- whether reflexes mood of the piece. Dark storm brooding ahead of them.
· Necklace – E.C.U- intriguing, ornate, precious (set in gold) could be significant later in the story.
· Beautiful young girl- for sits into what’s going to happen.
· Voice over on tape recorder- narrative, explains book of the dead. Flash back of what has happened. History of what is going on.
· Man and women in room- warm, cosy, women in rocking chair, ambiguous character, and face is in shadow. Scary, like a witch, scary.
· P.O.V echoing from long distance effect- coming through the woods- in inhuman speed.
· Back light from house- ethereal glow(other worldly)
· Girl’s costume- purity, innocence, vulnerable.
· Tableaux- broken glass from window, shattered champagne. Glass shattered on window- as if looking at a different world.

Xx IDEAS Film opening scene for Seven xX

Seven
David Fincher!

Summery: two investigators jointly investigate a series of ritualistic murders inspired by a series of sins!

Opening.
· Visual.
· Abstract images- Toe tag, either untied from real toe or just about to be tied to a real body.
· Inverted colours- make film backwards before even being seen. Warning to audience.
· Double imaged toe tag- superimposed-implies connection between to images.
· Ambiguous images, such as a skeletal spine.
· Journal- secret, code, words are upside down encoded.
· Distortion on the images- feels of distortion, uneasiness for the viewers. Opening of a thriller should do.
· Old crusty blood- not red, red reds and oranges. Hiding detail of toe tag. Implies some sort of censorship.
· Aural.
· Sounds like nine inch nails.
· Ambient sounds.
· Many layers of sounds.
· Electronic soundscape- Intense and suspense. Feel like the rest of the film is going to be weird.
· As if in a big metal factory, industrial sounds.
· Here water running.
· Speaking into a microphone and being distorted.

Scene 1
· Green filter
· Production company- New Line Cinema. Major contributors of the money- logo.
· What is my production company going to look like?
· Protagonist- clean, minimalist, ordered, lonely, under controlled. White collar worker.
· Prepared and organised for things- pocket knife to protect him.
· Ambient outside world outside sounds- bad environment- realistic effect.
· Over the shoulder shot- tying tie- neat and sophisticated.
· Precise, methodical, prepared. Everything is in order for him.
· Bed is clean, white, prestige.
· Juxtaposition- Desaturated colours- dull, cold, dark dead person on floor, messy.
· Only bit of light is from reflexion of light from blood- from outside world. Tiny bit everything else is in darkness.
· Mise scene scene- children’s picture on dead person’s fridge. Audience emotions –sadness- pitty.
· Blood spatter- oldness, person been dead for a while.
· Low angle- protagonist- establishment of status.
· Shift of power hierarchy- brad pitt was in front, then when Morgan freeman put him in his place, he walked forward past him. Establishment of hierarchy of power.
· Brad Pitt- leather jacket- young, bad boy.
· Raining- depressing, sorrow, pathetic fallacy. Weather reflex’s mood of the piece.
· Hat- authority
· Zoom in on Metronome- shows order, passage of time.
· Slow zoom in on him- sound of ticking, builds tension, suspense for audience waiting for something bad to happen.
· Close ups- on abstract scary, images. Blazers, rasers, abstract hands. Note book- writing is upside down. creating distortion for viewers.
· Colours- red blood.
· Blacking out of the words- censorship. None approving of the texts. Blackening out of eyes.
· Pre meditated- pictures of tortured killings finely crafted- home made stitching. Horrific death.
· Music- crescendo, builds in tension, suspense, audience, scared uneasy. Want to know what will happen next with via the images.

Xx IDEAS Film opening movie example of Swordfish for idea for thirllersxX

Swordfish- opening scene.

Sword fish- not a metaphor or any phrase we recognise immediately. Therefore it’s intriguing- what is it referring to?
· Interference effect- terrorist activity/ technology based. Intentional Hacking – imperfect.
· Monochrome screen- often used in banks / number crunching and computer code.
· Serif font- seen in formal texts like newspapers.
· White on black- W.O.B
· Orchestral score – suspense /rising tension
· Anticipatory quivering strings
· Green filter
· Glints of metal and glass, what else glints mirrors, water, trophies, silver services, candlesticks.
· Foreground and background, focus pulls- in and out of focus could indicate he is not to be trusted, and portrays his character to be ambiguous.
· Designer stubble
· Specialist props- sliver cigar sniper lighter + cigar indicating wealth and prosperity. (detonator?? Cluster bomb)
· Antagonists monologue is controlled, low masculine cultural voice- how would you describe accent? (Crisp clipped tones)
· Over the shoulder shots- men in suits connoting authority establishment – faceless threats.
· Armed men following moves of antagonist
· Bright sunlight- nothing to hide anymore –contrast blinking disorientation.
· Sniper scope site- cross hair- special effects.

This was used for the collection of ideas, for types of shots that could be effective for our thriller. introduction.

XxBeginning thoughts and preperation towards thriller.xX

Film Symbols
These images and sounds make me think of:
• A high gate- Trapped.

• A telephone off the hook- Unreachable, distant.

• The sound of dogs barking- Annoying, anger, unsettlement.

• A calm lake- Tranquility, beauty.

• Cars beeping- Noisy, hectic.

• Sirens from emergency vehicles- Emergency, death, danger.

• A hooded figure- Danger, youth.

• Running footsteps- Panic, emergency.

• Lightning- Danger, tension.

• A creaking door- scary, eary, mysterious.

• Tapping glass- stranger, danger, creepy.

• Shuffling paper- Noisy, annoying.

• A smoking fire- Danger, run, scared.

• A sweating man- Panic.

• Heavy breathing- Panic, exhaustion, tiredness.

• A door slamming- Anger, danger, frustration.

• A clock- Passage of time.

• A ring taken off a finger- Ending of relationship, sadness.

• A train speeding through the night- Noisy, Hogwarts.

• A vulture- Scavenger.

• A glass of wine with lipstick on the rim- Affair, sex.

• A bird in flight- Freedom

• A bird in a cage- Trapped no freedom.

• A candle- Warmth.

• An axe- Danger, death.

• A cross- Religion, Jesus.

• A bat- dark scary night.

• A dead butterfly- Inevitable.

• A key- A secret path.

• Broken glass- Pain, suffering.

Xx Old thriller idea- changeling xX

Changeling Presentation

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Before the creation of Nibiru, my treatment to my thriller was firstly called Changleings in which the presentation describes the idea of a monster kidnapping a child from a car that has broken down. When completing the planning and treatment for this film, the main issue that arose was the fact that there was no unique seeling point, the story line was traditionally the same as everybody elses, there ws nothing that differenciated our project. This then led to the creation of Nibiru with its unique use of after effects.

XxPreliminary Filming Task xX

This was the first time, I got a real taste for Media. I was very pleased with my group as I knew everyone was ready to contribute and take part.

We were given a story board with a strict dialogue such as "come on do it, do it now I cant wait for you" etc.. they were adimant that the dialogue was not to be changed. Through this we had to create a scene that we found would fit into the scenes and specific camera angles such as close ups and over the sholder shots.
My group decided on having a comical theme of the forbidden biscuits, as we wanted to create something different. This task made me realise how many times a scene will be shot in order to get the different angles. Now when watching Tv soaps such as Eastenders I can appreciate how many shots it must take to achieve the one scene, as it would of been shot from vairous camera angles..

Evaluation of the Task.
During filming everyone worked together and listened to one another as I was the director, I had the role of shouting standing by, and action. In additon I had to say whether the cameras were at the right angle or if the actions were acted in the correct way such as the pointing of a finger.
The fact that the scene had to be shot so many times, made the task tiring after a while but I had to stay on focus as if any bit was not the same as before I needed to shout cut and restart it as otherwise it would not look accurate on screen. All my knowledge from my previous tasks were used in this such as the 180 degree rule as well as focus and apiture. This is when I apprecitated the purpose of the previous tasks.
During filming, the acting and dialogue was very fast, this was a huge disadvantage when editing as the scene became very fast with few pauses, this made it diffiuclt for onlooking viewers to understand the scene and fully appreciate it.

Overall I was happy with the end result and feel as a first piece of media work, it was well produced. As not only did I enjoy the task, I learnt alot, such as how to zoom and focus.

It was interesting to compare my groups work to others as although the same dialgue was used the interpretations of the scene contrasted. For example one group did skipping school, where as another group chose do about a pregnancy test..

Here is my and my groups preliminary task:

xxcompletion of premliminary filming/editing task - notes and evaluation. xx

My role and what I did:



I was the director and therefore had the responsibility of directing the actors e.g. postioning them, telling them were to point the camera or aim it at, at the different points.
I also decided whether or not the camera was at a good angle and looked at the focus before beginning of filiming. I was to say standing by, rolling and action.




The strenghts of the group:

Communication worked well, everyone respected each others roles, and listened to instructions and responded.

the 180 degrees rule was relatively easy, as we made sure always before filming and saying action that we did not cross the line, this was not that challenging as our acotrs remained seated for most of the shots until Austin stood up. In which the 180 rule needed to be checked, just to be sure.

We followed the story board correctly, and accurately.

There was a large amount of control of the camera, as a tripod was used to steady it.

Jorden kept looking to see if the gain was correct to keep the shots correctly lighted at 0 without the gain.

We observed the rule of 3rd well.

Our framing was good.


The weaknesses of the group:

We could of moved quicker from one set to another, in order to get the job done quicker.

Marking where the camera used to be, with the tape in order to get everyone in exactly the same postion for realistity.

Things that could make the filiming process easier next time:

We could of used, more variety of angles of shots such as low and high angles to show vairety. We did this at times but more could of been done.

xx Introduction to Editing and film cut pro xx

This was my favourite part of the priminalary task, we had done the hard part of shooting the film. Now it was time to turn it all into a short movie clip.

In order to do this we:

1. I set up a scratch disk (in which the computer makes notes about what I am doing.)
2. Final cut - systems settings - set - Fire wire drive - folder - scratch - choose.
3. Make a new folder (final cut called bins)
4. File - new - bin - enter title.
5. make a log bin.
6. File - new - bin - enter name - drag log bin into folder.
7. Log it.
8. Beginning of take- i (in) - go right to the end of the take - o (out)
modify - make sub clip - enter title- drag clip into log bin.

To make own time line:

file- new - sequence - enter title - drag into folder again
double clip ruff cut.