Location

Today i went out with my group looking for a good location to film our thriller.

Research into company logo

Today in lesson we looked at Collateral and Green Zone. We watched the opening scene because we was looking at how there are diffrent companies for example Paramount, Dreamworks and Universal, because our task was to come up with our own production name and try to design a logo for it.

These are the logos of the Big production companies, but sometimes you can get small production companies that work with the big names for example in Green Zone Universal worked with Working Title which is a small production company in the UK. I also noticed that the pictures that they chose are stuff that are big, like Paramount have the mountain and the universal have the Earth saying look at me and we are hoping to make our ident the same. So try to make it stand out.

Panic Room opening sequence.

When we was watching the Panic room we was looking out how the title was layed out. Also how it was suitable for the film. The film it self looks ok but the music makes it seem very scary.

Survey monkey results

To find out some answers about the thriller genre i decided to do a questionaire on survey monkey. Then i uploaded my survey to Facebook asking people if they can do my survey and these are the results that i got at the end of the day.

Film Language Summery

Film language is basically mise en scene in most films so stuff like costume, camera movements ands other stuff.

Mohammed, Rilwan and Jenna Storyboard Backstabber

This is our story board for our thriller and it took us about 15 minutes to draw and then we had to take pictures. Then finally we uploaded it to youtube.

Sabotage

In todays lesson we watched a bit of Sabotage. That is a Alfred Hitchcock film what it is about is that a terrorist sends the little boy with film reels, this turns out to be a bomb and he has to deliver it before      1:45 pm but the doesn't know that it is a bomb. But then the little boy decides to wonder off while he is delivering the package and heads of to the shopping centre.

To build tension Hitchcock always zoomed into the package then you would hear the music and the music would be a clock ticking away. Then he went to a hot of the clock mechanism reminding the audience that the boy is still against time. Then when he got onto the bus thats when the tension really started to build up because the shots kept on changing from the parcel to the clock. As soon as it hit 1:45 the bomb went off and the boy died on the bus.

This is the little boy with the bomb.

Final idea

As a group we decided to go with the fourth idea where some one is tied up and another person is going to help them. we decided as a group because we have member in our group that found a good location. So all we have to do is go ask for permission.

Initial Ideas

When we was deciding with a idea for our film we had a lot of ideas for our films.

First idea;

• a man walks into a bar
• he slips  

second idea

• a drug deal in a dark alley way
• doesnt have  the money
• a chase through the dark alley

Third idea

• an accident 
• someone gets stabbed

fourth idea

• some one is tied up
• another person is going to help them
• then they get knocked out

Alfred Hitchcock films

Shadow of a doubt

In todays lesson we watched the opening of Shadow of a doubt, and we focused on the Mise-en-scene.  In the film i noticed that they wore fancy cloths and was happy. The main character had money on the floor and was smoking a Cigar which shows that his wealthy because he can afford all that. But because of the fact that he had the money on the floor like it was nothing it made him look like he doesnt care about life. The music was also parallel because when we was runing away from the chasers the music was up beat. Another factor is that when the blinds came down the protaganist mood also changed as he had his drink the smashed the glass against the sink.               

North by Northwest                              

In the opening scene we can see from the begining that he is a wealthy man as he had fancy suit and his hair was tied back, he also was telling his secutery to buy chocolate for his mistress but he doesnt really care about her. But he must be very vein because when he was in the cab he worried about if he was getting fatter, and he also made sure that he didnt have any drinks because he said his mother checks his breath. Suggesting that he is still treated like a boy and maybe also that he is a alcoholic. Then in the crop scene when the plane was after there was no dialog or no music. Maybe to build up tension on that the plane could hit him.

Vertigo

Vertigo was all about this cop that discovers that he was afraid of heights, he discovers this when he was chasing a criminal on the rooftops. His colige dies trying to help as he fell of the roof then after that he decided to retire from the police force.         

Re uploaded My survey

When i first put my survey on Facebook no one replied to it maybe because the message i put was a bit vague. So i re uploaded to Facebook with a better message saying its part of my coursework. Hope fully this time people would reply to the latest post.