Minority Report
Equilibrium- A normal guy working at his company, 'pre-crime', he is a officer for his company.
Disruption- He sees that he is going to commit a crime in the future and tries to prevent anyone finding out about it as he will be put it jail.
Recognition of Disruption- The 'pre-crime' team find out that he was going to commit a crime, and begin to go after him.
Attempt to Repair Disruption- He has to lay low as he is being monitored, he begin to think that the pre coggs could be wrong and he traces back to how he got into that position. He finds out about something that he shouldn't and realizes that he has been set up because of this. He then has to convince someone that he has been set up.
Restoration of Equilibrium- The company 'pre-crime' is abandoned and all the prisoners arrested are released as they didn't commit the crime.
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Friday, 19 November 2010
Film Opening
Silence of the lambs.
The opening starts with an establishing shot of what look like the woods, as there are trees and grass in the shot. It looks quite foogy which adds to the mystery and thrill of the film. I think that this is a good opening shot to have as it set the scene for the viewers, inthe beginning. The camera then slowly moves down to show the first and main character, Jodie Foster. During this there is a very sinister and gloomy soundtrack going on in the background, and the credits are edited into the shot as well. Then we see Jodie Foster at a low angle coming up closer to the screen, at this point we cant tell what is going on, it just looks like sh is doing some exercise. We then have a tracking shot from behind her whilst she is jogging, again while this is going on the credits appear on the screen. Slowly we see her jogging into the distance and the credits continue then fade out when she runs into the fog, this then becomes a long shot. It then goes into a medium close up tracking from the front so we can see her face. The mise-en-scene works well here as we can see the fog and the trees inthe background. This then cuts straight into a tracking shot from the side as if someone is running beside her, here the soundtrack also gets a bit higher to create suspense and tension. The medium close up of her feet whilst she is running is a good shot, as it is also tracking her through the forest. During this, the titles appear, they are plain simple titles which are bold so they stand out. The camera conitues to follow her using different shots such as medium close ups and long shots and tracking from behind again, whilst this is happening the titles continue to roll.
We then see her run to a net which makes us think that she is on an assualt course, but we are still not sure of what is happening at this moment and time. As she jogs to the next section of the assualt course, another character appears in the frame. The is minimal dialougue here, he tells her thats somebody wants to see her. We dont know who it is but as we see her face it shows us that she does know who it is, also at the end of this shot we now know that she could be FBI or in the police force as the other male character is wearing a FBI cap. The next shot is her running out of the course/forest and we know she is going to meet this guy. the titles cotinue to roll inbetween. The there is a long shot showing us other people training and now some of the mystery is gone. There is an establishing shot of building suggesting that she is at the place to meet this man who we dont know. As it zooms in we see her in the building and in continues to track her into the office, in the building the mise-en-scene creates the image that it is a FBI building full of police officers, as everyone is in suits and she passes a firearms unit. Dialougue then continues as we see her speak to a man in s iut who tells her to wait in his office. The camera follows her from behind into the office, the office seems like a supiors office because of the furniture. In the next shot we see a lot of close ups of her facial expression as she looks shocked at the case on the wall and pictures and articles of it. Then the other character appears and we think that it is the the boss, who wants to talk to her. The dialougue in here is mainly about her file, yet she is still shocked to why she is there.
The opening starts with an establishing shot of what look like the woods, as there are trees and grass in the shot. It looks quite foogy which adds to the mystery and thrill of the film. I think that this is a good opening shot to have as it set the scene for the viewers, inthe beginning. The camera then slowly moves down to show the first and main character, Jodie Foster. During this there is a very sinister and gloomy soundtrack going on in the background, and the credits are edited into the shot as well. Then we see Jodie Foster at a low angle coming up closer to the screen, at this point we cant tell what is going on, it just looks like sh is doing some exercise. We then have a tracking shot from behind her whilst she is jogging, again while this is going on the credits appear on the screen. Slowly we see her jogging into the distance and the credits continue then fade out when she runs into the fog, this then becomes a long shot. It then goes into a medium close up tracking from the front so we can see her face. The mise-en-scene works well here as we can see the fog and the trees inthe background. This then cuts straight into a tracking shot from the side as if someone is running beside her, here the soundtrack also gets a bit higher to create suspense and tension. The medium close up of her feet whilst she is running is a good shot, as it is also tracking her through the forest. During this, the titles appear, they are plain simple titles which are bold so they stand out. The camera conitues to follow her using different shots such as medium close ups and long shots and tracking from behind again, whilst this is happening the titles continue to roll.
We then see her run to a net which makes us think that she is on an assualt course, but we are still not sure of what is happening at this moment and time. As she jogs to the next section of the assualt course, another character appears in the frame. The is minimal dialougue here, he tells her thats somebody wants to see her. We dont know who it is but as we see her face it shows us that she does know who it is, also at the end of this shot we now know that she could be FBI or in the police force as the other male character is wearing a FBI cap. The next shot is her running out of the course/forest and we know she is going to meet this guy. the titles cotinue to roll inbetween. The there is a long shot showing us other people training and now some of the mystery is gone. There is an establishing shot of building suggesting that she is at the place to meet this man who we dont know. As it zooms in we see her in the building and in continues to track her into the office, in the building the mise-en-scene creates the image that it is a FBI building full of police officers, as everyone is in suits and she passes a firearms unit. Dialougue then continues as we see her speak to a man in s iut who tells her to wait in his office. The camera follows her from behind into the office, the office seems like a supiors office because of the furniture. In the next shot we see a lot of close ups of her facial expression as she looks shocked at the case on the wall and pictures and articles of it. Then the other character appears and we think that it is the the boss, who wants to talk to her. The dialougue in here is mainly about her file, yet she is still shocked to why she is there.
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Successful Film Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was an English director, he lived between 1899-1980. Most of his films were thrillers, the reason they were so successful was because he captured the suspense and thrill of the movie. He was good at, making films in the psychological genre. Some of his famous movies are Psycho, Strangers on a train, Vertigo and The Birds.
Psycho has a famous soundtrack at the beginning of the trailer it also is famous for the shower scene in which the 'Psycho' kills the woman. I think that the soundtrack is quite effective because it is a high pitched sound like a scream repeated, this gives a sense of suspense, which Alfred Hitchcock was known for. In this trailer he describes almost the entire plot but doesn't give away how tense it is, the soundtrack is quite the opposite of the film genre. His trademark for his films are the shadows that we see just before something happens. This is included on the trailer with his shadows before he opens the shower curtain.
The most famous scene of one of his films is the shower scene in Psycho. In this scene we see his trademark of the shadow creeping up to the shower. Most of the shots here are extreme close ups, but before and after the murder they are medium shots. When the mysterious shadow opens the shower curtain we see only the silhouette, this is created by the light coming from behind the shadow to block out the appearances.
Psycho has a famous soundtrack at the beginning of the trailer it also is famous for the shower scene in which the 'Psycho' kills the woman. I think that the soundtrack is quite effective because it is a high pitched sound like a scream repeated, this gives a sense of suspense, which Alfred Hitchcock was known for. In this trailer he describes almost the entire plot but doesn't give away how tense it is, the soundtrack is quite the opposite of the film genre. His trademark for his films are the shadows that we see just before something happens. This is included on the trailer with his shadows before he opens the shower curtain.
The most famous scene of one of his films is the shower scene in Psycho. In this scene we see his trademark of the shadow creeping up to the shower. Most of the shots here are extreme close ups, but before and after the murder they are medium shots. When the mysterious shadow opens the shower curtain we see only the silhouette, this is created by the light coming from behind the shadow to block out the appearances.
DVD Cover Analysis
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Thriller Research
Thrillers use suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements in the genre. There are many different types of sub-genres of thrillers such as, mystery, crime and psychological thrillers, later on political thrillers and paranoid thrillers became more popular.
Some examples of mystery thrillers are Vertigo, Memento and The Big Sleep.
Vertigo is about a retired San Francisco police detective, 'Scottie' who suffers from acrophobia is asked by an old friend to follow his wife. His friend fears that she is going insane and believes that she may be possessed by a dead ancestor. During this investigation he becomes greatly obsessed with her.
Memento is about an ex-insurance investigator man who is suffering from short term memory loss, and the last thing he remembers is the murder of his wife. unable to build new memories he hunts for the man that killed his wife. He does this by using notes and tattoos.
The Big Sleep is about a private detective who is hired by a rich family and he is asked to deal with several problems that the family have. during the investigation he finds that all the problems centre around the dissapearance of a favoured employee who left with a mobsters wife. As he continues to investigate he finds that most of the problems are a cover for something else.
Some examples of crime thrillers are The Silence of the Lambs, Goodfelllas and Seven.
The Silence of the Lambs is about a young FBI agent who is given a case to try and find a missing woman and save her from a psychopathic serial killer. The agent tries to understand the case more, by talking to another psychopath who is powerful and manipulative, and which they believe can help them locate the woman. The agent must first gain the confidence of him before he gives away any information.
Goodfellas is about a man named Henry Hill, who has wanted to become a gangster since he was young. When he grew older he became a small time gangster and began taking part in a robbery with the high time gangsters. Watching his friends successes he becomes jealous, and wants to get to the top of the mob hierarchy.
Seven is about two homicide detectives who are on a case to find a serial killer who justifies his murders around the seven deadly sins. Each murder is connected with one of the seven deadly sins, the first one is gluttony and it continues, to show the worlds ignorance of the seven deadly sins.
One of the most well known psychological thrillers is Strangers on a Train directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This film is about a psychotic man named Bruno who meets a stranger on a train, and tells him about how he wants to murder his father. He says he will get caught because he has motive, so he builds up a crazy scheme to exchange murders with the stranger on the train. The stranger on the train does not realise that Bruno is serious about this and takes things into his own hands.
All of these different sub-genres always include the main elements to a thriller, this is also shown in their trailers.
Some examples of mystery thrillers are Vertigo, Memento and The Big Sleep.
Vertigo is about a retired San Francisco police detective, 'Scottie' who suffers from acrophobia is asked by an old friend to follow his wife. His friend fears that she is going insane and believes that she may be possessed by a dead ancestor. During this investigation he becomes greatly obsessed with her.
Memento is about an ex-insurance investigator man who is suffering from short term memory loss, and the last thing he remembers is the murder of his wife. unable to build new memories he hunts for the man that killed his wife. He does this by using notes and tattoos.
The Big Sleep is about a private detective who is hired by a rich family and he is asked to deal with several problems that the family have. during the investigation he finds that all the problems centre around the dissapearance of a favoured employee who left with a mobsters wife. As he continues to investigate he finds that most of the problems are a cover for something else.
Some examples of crime thrillers are The Silence of the Lambs, Goodfelllas and Seven.
The Silence of the Lambs is about a young FBI agent who is given a case to try and find a missing woman and save her from a psychopathic serial killer. The agent tries to understand the case more, by talking to another psychopath who is powerful and manipulative, and which they believe can help them locate the woman. The agent must first gain the confidence of him before he gives away any information.
Goodfellas is about a man named Henry Hill, who has wanted to become a gangster since he was young. When he grew older he became a small time gangster and began taking part in a robbery with the high time gangsters. Watching his friends successes he becomes jealous, and wants to get to the top of the mob hierarchy.
Seven is about two homicide detectives who are on a case to find a serial killer who justifies his murders around the seven deadly sins. Each murder is connected with one of the seven deadly sins, the first one is gluttony and it continues, to show the worlds ignorance of the seven deadly sins.
One of the most well known psychological thrillers is Strangers on a Train directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This film is about a psychotic man named Bruno who meets a stranger on a train, and tells him about how he wants to murder his father. He says he will get caught because he has motive, so he builds up a crazy scheme to exchange murders with the stranger on the train. The stranger on the train does not realise that Bruno is serious about this and takes things into his own hands.
All of these different sub-genres always include the main elements to a thriller, this is also shown in their trailers.
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
'Man on the Run'
For this task we worked in groups to come up with a whole scenario of the genre 'man on the run' spoof. We had to come up with the setting for our movie and the plot. We used two movies for inspiration 'The fugitive' and 'The Bourne Trilogy' we tried to re-create main parts from each of them.
The Plot:
The first scene is a prison bus travelling down a long stretch of road at night, then the bus crashes because of a deer in the road. Our main character is one of the prisoners, he manages to escape from prison and is now on the run. In the next scene we see he man now in normal clothes, he is wearing a disguise, a fake moustache, which is clearly seen as it is hanging of a little. He is walking down a street on the phone to one of his friends, explaining to him how he was wrongly convicted of the crime, this is where the audience find out he is not a real criminal. As he is walking down the street a sniper has targeted him and is aiming to shoot at him, although he does not know. He then realises that his shoe is untied and he bends down to tie it, as he bends down the sniper take a shot and misses. He is still totally oblivious to the fact that someone is trying to kill him. He stands up and continues walking along the street, the sniper then takes multiple shots at him and fails again. Now he is aware that someone is trying to kill him, he begins to run for his life. The sniper then begins to chase him through a crowded place and whilst they are running they mess up the whole place and he trips up a number of times creating humour. Towards the end he stumbles into a circus and finds a clown outfit, he puts it on to blend in with the others, and the sniper then looses him, for the time being.
We tried to incorporate some main parts of 'the fugitive' and 'The Bourne Trilogy' so that it would make it more obvious to the audience that it is a spoof. The beginning with the prison bus and crash was from The Fugitive. The part with the sniper we tried to match with The Bourne Trilogy as in that film there are a lot of snipers and he himself is a trained to use one.
The Plot:
The first scene is a prison bus travelling down a long stretch of road at night, then the bus crashes because of a deer in the road. Our main character is one of the prisoners, he manages to escape from prison and is now on the run. In the next scene we see he man now in normal clothes, he is wearing a disguise, a fake moustache, which is clearly seen as it is hanging of a little. He is walking down a street on the phone to one of his friends, explaining to him how he was wrongly convicted of the crime, this is where the audience find out he is not a real criminal. As he is walking down the street a sniper has targeted him and is aiming to shoot at him, although he does not know. He then realises that his shoe is untied and he bends down to tie it, as he bends down the sniper take a shot and misses. He is still totally oblivious to the fact that someone is trying to kill him. He stands up and continues walking along the street, the sniper then takes multiple shots at him and fails again. Now he is aware that someone is trying to kill him, he begins to run for his life. The sniper then begins to chase him through a crowded place and whilst they are running they mess up the whole place and he trips up a number of times creating humour. Towards the end he stumbles into a circus and finds a clown outfit, he puts it on to blend in with the others, and the sniper then looses him, for the time being.
We tried to incorporate some main parts of 'the fugitive' and 'The Bourne Trilogy' so that it would make it more obvious to the audience that it is a spoof. The beginning with the prison bus and crash was from The Fugitive. The part with the sniper we tried to match with The Bourne Trilogy as in that film there are a lot of snipers and he himself is a trained to use one.
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