Analysing Animatic

Evaluating our Animatic on Prezi

Analysing Shooting Script

Analysising Shooting Script on Prezi

Reflection

Today me and my group decided to reflect on our blogs and look to see if we have any missing details and information we want to add that will finalise our research and planning so we can start shooting on the 7th of March.

Pre-Production: Gemini

Pre Production: Gemini on Prezi

Development of Gemini

Development of Gemini on Prezi

Shooting Schedule

First Draft

Shooting Shedule Gemini

Re-draft

Shooting Shedule Gemini 2

Our Animatic storyboard (pictures)

Sound research

Sound motif

A sound motif is any recurring sound that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative (or literary) aspects such as theme or mood. For example, shark sounds tend to be very noticeable and popular as it is used in a lot of scenes with sharks about to appear.

Synchronous sound

- are those sounds which are synchronized or matched with what is viewed. For example: if the film portrays a character playing the piano, the sounds of the piano are projected.

Both dialogue and sound effects may be recorded during shooting, but sound effects are usually added later. Synchronous Sound is recorded on either magnetic film or tape. On magnetic film perfect synchronization between the picture and the sound can be achieved only if the film and the tape are moving at the same speed. Otherwise, dialogue will not correspond with the lip movements of the actors, and sound effects will not match the action in the film. Synchronous motors on both camera and recorder, as well as the same sort of perforations on both the magnetic film and the camera film, assure synchronization, or sync.
This is what you would find in thrillers especially scenes where there is a police chase or gun shot there as to be synchronous motors on scene to record the sound so during editing if the camera didn't catch all the sound they can add it into the scene.

Asynchronous sound

- which is indigenous to the action but not precisely synchronized with the action.

In a close­up in which the surroundings are not visible, a sound that seeps into the shot sometimes impresses us as mysterious, simply because we cannot see its source. It produces the tension arising from curiosity and expectation. Sometimes the audience does not know what the sound is they hear, but the character in the film can hear it, turn his face toward the sound, and see its source before the audience does. This handling of picture and sound provides rich opportunities for effects of tension and surprise. Asynchronous Sound can acquire considerable importance. If the sound or voice is not tied up with a picture of its source, it may grow beyond the dimensions of the latter. Then it is no longer the voice or sound of some chance thing, but appears as a pronouncement of universal validity. The surest means by which a director can convey the pathos or symbolical significance of sound or voice is precisely to use it asynchronously.
Asynchronous sound is used in thrillers when the antagonist is about to attack but the director add this sound in so the audience know something is about to happen but it could be anything this is to build suspense and thrill the audience we intend to use this in our thriller.

Opening sequence- Black swan

Opening sequence- Salt

Storyline presentation

Media Storyline2

Opening sequence 4321

Explanation of Preliminary task

Preliminary task

Equipment testing

Today we tested out the equipment we are going to use to film our thriller. So we used this trial to film our preliminary task and edit on I Movie which is the software we are going to use to edit our thriller.

Animatic Storyboard Research

Ani Ma Tic

I did some research on animatic storyboards and I must say that this is the best example so far as it includes various different camera shots and a clear picture of how their story will be like.

Shooting Script

Shooting script first draft Shooting Script Shooting script (re-draft) Shooting Script

Abduction: Analysing Protagonist and Antagonist

Protagonist: The leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Antagonist: A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.


 

Sound effects

The reason why i have chosen these specific sound effects its because i think they convey in the thriller genres the most. Especially in action and crime sub-genres of a thriller dog barking occur when the police are chasing the antagonist at the end of the film. The door opening and closing sound effect is usually common in every film genre but for thrillers when the door opens it builds suspense because it could be the scene when the antagonist is about to murder the protagonist or vise-verse. We are going to use the door opening and closing sound effect in our thriller because we think it is very effective in building suspense of what will happen next in one of our scenes.
Open of our sound motifs in our thriller is the heartbeat, we added the heartbeat into our animatic because we thought it would add effect because it is building the thrill and hopefully our audience heartbeats are pumping and we have them at the edge of their seats.
Like how thriller like Jaws as the sound motif we wanted one for our thriller.
The busy station sound was to add the mis-en-scene feel to our thriller because we may get background noise when we film and e will use the sound for artificial effect.
The cell phone ringing is in one of our scene in our thrillers so we decided to play around with the sound before we did our animatic and final piece.
Clock wind up and coin on concrete, traffic were just extra sounds that we thought have appeared in most thrillers we have watched such as limitless and abduction and they were very effect way of using digetic sound.
Daydream sound effect could be one of the added sounds we use in our thriller because it has that upbeat suspense tone to it.
Dogma also as a thriller theme sound to it because of the up tempo thrill effect and is relevant to the atmosphere.
Sirens sound is usually seen in thriller films for when the police or fire fighters arrive at the scene it could be digetic or non-digetic so we decided we want siren for our police scene in our thriller.
Footsteps is used in our animatic as artificial sound because we want people to feel like they are in the shoes of the character and build that relationship and thrill effect.
Incase of late night filming or weather disruption we looked at the forest evening and hard rain effect to add as extra sound to our thriller.
The indulge and mystery sound effect also one of the sounds we may use as extra suspense in our thriller. 

Camerawork

Camera Work

Anaylsing Sucker Punch

This is Kaylie's case study on sucker punch

How does the film use conventions of the genre to create suspense?

Red herring

A red herring is something that draws attention away from the central issue, as in talking about the new plant is a red herring to keep up from learning about downsizing plans. The herring  in this expression is red and strong-smelling from being preserved by smoking. The idiom alludes to dragging a smoked herring across a trail to cover up the scent and throw off tracking dogs.  

Anaylsing Abduction

Analysing Chloe

Copy of Copy of Case study on chloe on Prezi

Film Certification

I researched on Film certification so i got a clearly view of what to do and what not to do in a specified age rating. Me and my group want to target 15 and above, so by doing this research on 15 rating I learnt :

Discrimination

The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour.

Drugs

Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example, aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

Horror

Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.

Imitable behaviour

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Language

There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’). The strongest  terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity

Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context.

Sex

Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour, but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable unless justified by context. Works whose primary purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme

No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds.

Violence

Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also unlikely to be acceptable. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and have a strong contextual justification.

Film Certification

Thriller directors research

I looked at three thriller directors, Christopher Nolan, Felix Gary Gray and Alfred Hitchcock who all have different kinds of ways in which they write, direct and produce a thriller films.
Thriller Directors

Target Audience Research

Me and my group decided we wanted to carry out research on our target audience so that we had a clear idea of what they are interested in and we can develop our ideas from the data we collect.
We brainstormed on questions we thought would be relevant to ask.
First question was about this film posters of thrillers that are quite popular

Film posters

So we questioned our audience
1. Pick a film from this poster you have seen or any other thriller film you have seen and what did you like about it?
2. What thriller have you seen that had the most memorable opening and why did you like this opening?
If the audience replied ' i do not remember any opening' we questioned
3. Why do not you remember the opening ?
4. What do you like about thriller films?

Video response: