First production meeting ideas

First production meeting ideas :

-Piece of paper being blown across a deserted street, it gets stuck on a post or maybe on some sort of prop, and camera zooms in on it to be a wanted poster for a serial killer possibly. Wind catches it and it blows away, until obstructed by the feet of a man, camera rolls up the figure to reveil the face of the man on the wanted poster. We could create this is in the style of 'Sin City' , by over dramatising everything in it, such as the lighting in the background when face structure is revealled, almost like a comic book.

 -Girl leaves friends house, has to walk through woods to get home. She sees a barn with a small dim light on, and as she walks past ,she sees the tall barn doors are open and there is some type of montage on the wall so she enters, only to reveal the montage is a montage of pictures of her and significant moments in her life. The sequence stops there. As we see her walking through the woods,The camera cuts back and forth from her and a pair of hands pinning up the photos, with red string act, but not revealing his face, to create a sense of suspense.

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- A well dressed man enters a restaurant, and orders his food,The camera then cuts to his food being made, and suspicious liquid subtley being put in. The food is served, and the well dressed man begins to hallucinate as the poison begins to kick in. The chef gives a sly smirk ,and we hear 'Someone call an ambulance" And then the screen goes black.

     

      -There is a scuba diver,and he gets into the water and defends deep down until it is dark and he has a light to see, the camera cuts to the surface to show the connection cable between the boat and the diver is being cut at by a rusty piece of metal, and snaps. The diver feels a tug, and looks at his gage and only has 5 minutes of oxygen left, and no heat.He is stuck.

-     - Man and woman having a rant in a car driving home,When out of no where and animal (deer,dog ect) comes out of the mist in front of them, they swerve of the road. Blinking eyes slowly opening from the mans point of view, as soon as vision comes clear, he hears his woman scream,and a figure appears and knocks him out and the screen goes black.

 

These are simply ideas, we will have a maeeting and decide which of the ideas for our thriller sequence we will use

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First Production Meeting

Proposed Ideas:
Each person in my group was asked to produce four different thriller ideas. The next lesson we shared our ideas with each other and we made a decision on which of the thriller storylines we thought were good and binned the bad ones, narrowing it down to a few. These are only rough ideas of our thriller yet they will be adapted.

Wanted
Piece of paper being blown across a deserted street, it gets stick on a post or some prop, and camera zooms in on it to be a wanted poster for a erial killer. Wind catches it and gets blown away, until obstructed by feet, camera rolls up the figure to revel the face of the man on the wanted poster. We could go 'Sin City' style, and completely over dramatise everything in it, such as lighting in background when face is reviled ect, almost like a comic book.

The Runner
leaving friends house, has to walk through woods to get home. She sees a barn with lights on, and as she walks past ,she sees the doors are open and there is some type of montage on the wall so she enters, only to reveal the montage is a montage of pictures of her and her life. The sequence stops there. As we see her walking through the woods,The camera cuts back and forth from her and a pair of hands pinning up the photos, with red string act, but not revealing much, so the audience still doesn't know what is really going on.

Deep Sea Diver
There is a scuba diver,and he gets into the water and defends deep down until it is dark and he has a light to see, the camera cuts to the surface to show the connection cable between the boat and the diver is being cut at by a rusty piece of metal, and snaps. The diver feels a tug, and looks at his gage and only has 5 minutes of oxygen left, and no heat.He is stuck.

Poisoning
A well dressed man enters a restaurant, and orderes his food,The camera then cuts to his food being made, and suspicious solution being put in. The food is served, and the well dressed man begins to hallucinate and as he does the chief gives a sly smirk ,and we hear 'Someone call an ambulance" And then the screen goes black.( He has been poisoned).

Meet the Group

This is the group which i will be working with for the construction of a thriller title sequence and the whole build up and research towards creating it. From left to right: Chessie Hoare, Me (Toby Baring), Liv Purdy, Mariella Bailey. 

Choosing Groups

In todays lesson we were told by our teacher that we were to begin our thriller pieces and that we would have to be split up into groups of around three or four people. He put names into a hat and drew out the names of people and created groups randomly. I was put with three girls: Marriela, Liv and Chessie. Once we had been put into groups we were told that our homework was to research ideas for a thriller title sequence. We were advised to use newspapers and news articles on internet, and from these stories we would develop them into possible ideas. However i thought it would be good to remember some of my own personal experiences and attempt to develop these memories into possible thriller ideas. Each person in the class was asked to produce four ideas by the next lesson.

Kyle Cooper Demo Reel

Kyle Coopers Demo Reel

Kyle Coopers demo reel was very interesting as a lot of his work our in films and adverts that I am really fond off. The way that he combines digital animation with film is really interesting. You can depict by watching Kyle Coopers work that he creates each sequence title he does in a very detailed manner. You can see that he likes to mind map and study every aspect of the subject he is creating. He experiments with allot of his work.” I like finding the Hand made things, there something imperfect about it”. Some of his most genius sequence are Experiments and the product of successful accidents. “Some of my favourite title sequences encapsulate the main characters obsession”, for example Coopers title sequence for seven, coopers obsesses over the detail of the serial killers own obsession to get a better sight of the killers way of life. I found seven a really good and inspiring sequence. The way that the close up shots glitch into one another with robot stereo music in the back.

Background On Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper was born in july 1962 and has been an influential designer of motion picture title sequences from which he has become well known and respected throughout the film world. Cooper began his studies of graphic design in his mid twenties at Yale university where he was taught by a man named Paul Rand. He then began a career as a professional graphic designer and worked as a creative director at R/GA, a well renowned advertising agency based in New York. In 1995 during his time at the agency Cooper created his first, widely talked about title sequence for an American crime film called 'Seven' starring both Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. Cooper began declared that main title sequences were behind if what was happening in other areas of the film industry and he wanted to rase the bar and this is exactly what his piece for 'Seven' did.

A year later he founded his own agency called 'Imaginary Forces' yet later left the agency in order to focus on the creative side of his work and founded yet another agency called 'Prologue'. Kyle Cooper's work is often compared to that of Saul Bass' another very influential man in the film industry.

Target Audience

From the poster for the film "Drive" we do get the feeling that the movie is a thriller due to then man looking mysterious and the glove implies crime -making sure to not leave any prints behind. So the audience watching this would be people aged between around 18-50. The fact that the writing is in pink does suggest romance therefore reassuring women that its not souly focused on violence. Therefore both men and women would have the want to watch this. In addition we don't get the sense that the film is overly scrary meaning that people who aren't particularly up for having a frieght would be more likely to watch a thriller like this one.

From the poster for the film "Perfect Stanger" the curious man standing in the background signals a thriller as well as the fear in the womens eyes. The colours used are very neutral -not swaying towards women or men, however the ones used do connote a ghostly feel to the movie as well as the use of red writing implying violence and death, so the target audience is proabably aimed at older teenagers and young to middle aged adults.

Genre

A genre is a type of something for example a type of film would be called the genre of the film.  There are many examples of film genres for example:

• comedy
• horror
• thriller
• documentary
• sci fi
• action
• adventure
• drama
• western
• romance
• musical

and many more....

Films within a particular genre have similar characteristics (mise en scene & characters) for example in a thriller there is always a threat, a person being targeted and someone trying to stop the threat.  In a rom-com there is usually a romance then they fall out then they are together at the end.  It is very unusual for the plots of these kind of films to be different.  The main similarity between different types of thrillers is that they always get the same audience response which is putting the them on the edge of their seats.

Although the genre of the film may be similar in the thrillers, they can still turn out very different for example Jaws and The Strangers.  They have a completely different setting and different characters but they are still similar in plot.  An obvious difference between these two films is that the main character in the Jaws is a shark and the main characters in The Strangers are a couple who are being threatened.  The setting in Jaws is usually in the ocean and the setting in the Strangers is a small house in the middle of nowhere.

The whole thriller genre is very broad but within that genre there are sub-genres. Within these there are recognisable characteristics for example characters, mise en scene and setting. For example in a crime thriller the plot will be the same in most of them (someone killing or robbing someone then ditectives trying to find out who did it.) 

Analysing Kill Bill Volume 2, Texan Burial Scene

Kill Bill: Compare and Contrast how the Four Technical Areas (Camera, Sound, Mis-en Screen and Lighting) represent the bride in the burial scene.

In the first scene the camera shows the bride in a helpless position as she is sealed into

            the coffin. This sense of vulnerability is achieved initially by a low angle shot focusing in on the terrified face of the woman which signifies a sense of helplessness. This then cuts to the men looking down mercilessly upon the bride and shows the audience that she is the victim. Furthermore the shot looking up upon the men puts the audience in the same position as her which gives one an understanding of what she is going through and the emotions she is feeling (Fear, Anxiousness, etc.).

            The sound portrayed in this scene creates a strong sense of fear and anxiety which enables the audience to feel similar emotions as the ones she is feeling. The non-diegetic music makes one empathize with the woman at the beginning of the scene however the diegetic sounds soon cuts in and ones emotions immediately change from empathy to anxiety and fear. This begins when the nail is being hammered into the wood and the hits are accentuated and amplified to create a sense of fear. This is then followed by the sound of mud being shovelled on top of the coffin. The sounds become evermore muffled as more and more dirt is shovelled by the digger, this portrays the girls helplessness. Diegetic, amplified heavy breathing and exasperated sobs also shows her panic in the situation. The use of a large gap in any sound creates tension and suspense and forces the audience to ask questions, “Has she given up?”, “What’s she going to do now?”

            M.E.S is also used affectively. The men are showed dressed in cowboy costumes drinking beer which signifies that they are untrustworthy and casual, almost not caring about the poor woman they have just buried. The brides clothing is ragged and torn up which connotes that she has been struggling /fighting. Also the blood and sweat running down her face has shows again her fight to escape.

            Initially there is a low light emphasizing the darkness which can be associated with helplessness and a loss of all hope. Then the artificial light from the digger is seen through the lid of the coffin yet slowly disappears which almost mirrors her hope disappearing as the light goes. Once she is buried the use of the flash light then gives the audience an idea of just how confined the box is which creates empathy as one realises that she is alone and has little chance of survival.