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- 1. Key Code:Joanne: Abigail:Gledis: Vera:Group work:
- 2. Joanne. For my Assignment 8 project, I obtained a grade. The
skill I bring to the group is my imagination andquick thinking to
solve problems and contribution toconcepts and ideas. Some targets
I have made for myself are to: Add more visuals to my work and use
less words. Sometimes go into greater depth with my
explanations.
- 3. Gledis. In assignment 8 I received a grade. From this
assignment I leant: How to apply elements and ideas used in other
films andopening sequences to my own opening sequence. I also
learntthe significance of making my opening sequence appealing tomy
target audience. The skills that I bring to the group are :
Creativity My attention to detail and perfectionism My ambition to
get things done Targets that I have set myself are: It is very
important to organise my slides and informationneatly so that they
are understood by my audience. It is essential that I include more
images and diagrams ratherthat too much text I must speak louder
when presenting my work to an audience.
- 4. Abigail. I received aon Assignment 8. I learnt about the
importance of props and makeup aswell as how to properly design a
brainstorm. I bring creativity and organisation to my group.
Theseskills will be particularly useful when we make theopening
sequence. I want to improve the design of my presentation andwork
on writing briefer sentences.
- 5. Vera. I received grade because I was missing a pieceof my
presentation. What I learned from this assignment is that i need
toimprove more on my PEE. The skills I bring to the group is my
range of new ideasto help make a good opening sequence. My targets
to improve my individual presentation is toobtain a grade C or
above.
- 6. Joanne. My choice in theme was Thriller and my concept
wasidentity. My idea for my opening sequence was: An unknown main
character who the audience knowsnothing about is shown. A second
character who knows the identity of the unknowncharacter is shown.
A dead body in a body bag is being dragged across thefloor. There
is then an extreme close up of a woman screaming. A black out,
followed by a woman being grabbed. (Taken)
- 7. Gledis. The theme of my opening sequence is the supernatural
/discovery. The concept of my opening sequence is being haunted
andterrorised by ghosts and spirits. Main idea: The main character
(a student) runs up the staircase to the top floor of the
school.(close up of feet running) A long shot from the end of the
hallway of the character asshe reaches the top As she walks down
the hallway, incoherent, but loud whispering can be herd comingfrom
the walls. In between shots flashing images of newspaper articles
will appear revealing that theschool used to be a mental
institution and something happened involving a patient. She
continues walking. At this point the character is very frightened
and shaking. Allthe doors begin to slam by themselves. The students
drops her folder from theshock. She notices blood on a door knob,
opens it with her sleeve and follows a trail of bloodto the
cupboard door. As she opens the door, high pitched music to plays,
what shesees is not revealed you only see her reaction.
- 8. Abigail. The theme of my opening sequence is obsession and
the conceptwas the idea of serial killers. The office worker is
working late at the office following the latestmurder. A colleague
leaves them to it and exits the scene You see this from the killers
POV who is silently watching from afar.The writer slowly starts to
pack up and suspense building music willstart. As they close their
office door and turn down a series ofcorridors, a dark figure hides
behind one of the corners and blockstheir way.A series of camera
angles will be used to film the killer stabbing thewriter and as
they die, the killer pulls out a camera to take apicture.The final
part of this opening sequence is a cut to the killer sittingat a
desk and printing the picture and carefully placing it in
hisscrapbook and slowly closing it as the scene ends.
- 9. Vera. What went well is that I had a lot of images to
supportmy presentation and have improved more on my work.It wouldve
been even better if I included my PEEstructure. The film that
inspired me is Precious because it hasabuse in it e.g. Sexual and
emotional which helps a lotbecause my chosen idea was drama.
- 10. Genre:Thriller We have decided to use the genre Thriller.
We want to use this genre effectively by using a numberof
conventions such as crime, possession, haunting andrevenge. We will
use these conventions by using them inour opening sequence to
thrill our audience which meetsthe conventions of a thriller.
- 11. Conventions of Thrillers...Conventions ExampleImage
Use/Develop/ ChallengeFatalUse- SomeoneAttraction becoming obsessed
after a relationship Challenge using a female as the Stalkers/
stalker instead of Obsession a male.The FanDevelop Instead of being
obsessed with a woman and or a family, De Niro is obsessed with his
favourite sports star and stalks him.
- 12. Conventions of Thrillers...Conventions Example Image
Use/Develop/ChallengeThe HandChallenge- itThatdoes it throughRocks
The using a womenCradleas the crazy killerstalker who seeksrevenge
insteadof the normal use Stalkers/of a male ObsessionStir of
Develop Itsechoesmore obsessionas Kevin Bacontries to find
theanswers to anever hauntingmystery
- 13. Conventions of Thrillers...Conventions ExampleImage
Use/Develop/ ChallengeEye For An Develop AEyewoman is used as the
person seeking revenge for the crime rather than the typical use of
a Crime male character.TheDevelop NotAmbulancegiving the audience a
clear understanding of what the crime actually is at first.
- 14. My Inspirational Films Paranormal ActivityThe characters
use ofresearch of theirhaunting and findingother similarhappenings
is what wetook inspiration fromand what we hope touse efficiently
in oursequence
- 15. Inspirational FilmsWhat I foundInspirationalabout this
scene isthe kind oflighting they usedthrough out themore dark
scenesemphasises theemotions of theactor /actress
- 16. Inspirational Films Black SwanWhat I foundinspirational
from thismovie is the use ofclose up shots whichwas clearly present
inthis filmIt gives a clear pictureof the charactersemotions and
helpsthe audience toconnect with thecharacter by seeingtheir
emotions soclosely.
- 17. Films that have inspired me The film that inspired me most
is The Ring I want to use a similar long shot in our opening
sequence. Its an effective way of keeping the audiences attention
to the puddle of waterwhilst showing the character come up the
stairs. I also want to use a fast zoom in our opening
sequence.
- 18. Use of costume and make-up in The Ring Quite frightening to
look at and an effective way of scaring theaudience. The lighting
throughout the whole movie is kept more or less the same. This
creates a very eerie and creepy atmosphere in the movie, commonin
most horrors and thrillers. I want to use dark lighting in our
opening sequences .
- 19. Films that have inspired me Another film that inspired me
was The Haunting in Connecticut Its paranormal theme has inspired
me to make my opening sequence abouta haunting. Slamming doors It
especially inspired me to set my opening sequence in a building
thatshaunted. E.g. a haunted house. I would like to use old
newspaperarticles such as this to briefly show thehistory of the
area.
- 20. Films that have inspired me A scene from Rosemarys Baby
also inspired me.Close up of hand reaching into cribDraws the
audiences attentionto what shes doing.. Allows imaginationIt never
shows what Close up of to run wild makingshe sees, only
herRosemarys face the audiencereaction. emphasises her uneasy.
shock, and horror at what she sees.
- 21. My Inspirational Films This film is inspirational Gothika
because of the scratch marks and engravings that the ghost leaves
on her arms is similar to the idea we had about our character
waking up with the same marks that the ghost had when she
died.
- 22. My Inspirational Films I found this movie Paranormal
Activity inspirational because the characters used their own camera
to document their experiences, which I thought would be a good
addition to our opening sequence with our character doing the
same.
- 23. My Inspirational Films The Grudge The ghost in this film is
trying to get revenge for her death, which is just like with our
film where our ghost is trying to avenge her own death.
- 24. IMAGES AND SCENES FOM CABINFEVERThe camera shot for this
The props of thisscene is a mini close up movie is veryshot of his
face todisturbing for thedemonstrate fear,audience as it hasdisgust
and anxiety to disgusting imagesthe audience.of blood
everywhere.
- 25. The movie has some kind of old fashioned humour to it which
makes it more entertaining and interesting to the audience.In this
scene the lighting wasvery dime which makes it morescary because it
emphasisdeath, danger and fear. Itcreates suspense to theaudience
as they dont knowwhat is going to happen next.
- 26. SCENES FROM THE VILLAGEA scene where a This scene has a
midcharacter discovers shot of a characterabout the supernaturalwho
is illustrating fearthings happening in the and also of thevillage
in order to prove monster destroyingto the people that therethings
in the village.is something going on.
- 27. Theme/Concept An idea we had for the theme was Revenge and
theconcept was Possession. InjusticeGhostsGrievanceTwists &
TurnsVictims EnigmaRevenge
&HiddenPossession!ViciousidentitiesGhouls Suspicious
circumstancesUnsuspecting Mysterious ShockingSomeone who has
revelationsbeen wronged
- 28. Theme/Concept Another idea we had for the theme was Justice
and concept was DeathMurder & Manslaughter Righteousness
RevengeMoralRightness.VendettaJustice & Death!AMystery Cause
Decay SupernaturalLife AfterDeath
- 29. How we got down to one brainstorm... After meeting and
discussing our idea, we decided thatour first brainstorm was more
suited to our openingsequence. This first brainstorm carried the
theme idea of revengeand the concept idea of possession. Using the
trigger words, we formed our openingsequence.
- 30. Theme/Concept The way in which we came down to one idea is
as welike Glediss idea but had problems with the choice ofset being
the school We later added elements from Abigails openingsequence
and developed on that There were some bumps in the road as to the
ending ofthe sequence but after meetings we came up
withsolutions
- 31. Idea Development Option We stripped down our opening
sequences and identifiedthe good points and the bad points. After
also identifyingthe problems that we may have with filming in
certainlocations, we decided to structure our opening sequenceto
our advantage. We thought that filming only in one location
andthinking about what is achievable in this one locationwhilst
also being aware of the different limitations wouldbe best.
- 32. Idea Development Option We also briefly discussed who would
do what role andhow everyone would contribute. We decided on an
actress and the discussions about whowill do the other roles still
needs to be discussed.
- 33. Our New Idea! After feedback, we decided to do option 2
which was tocollaborate multiple ideas into one idea. We
collaborated Gledis idea and Abigails idea andthen developed it
further. And this is the product...
- 34. The whole film It starts with the opening sequence, where
strange ghostlythings are happening to the main character. The main
character slowly begins to find out informationabout who lived in
her home before her. She attempts to tellher family and friends but
they dismiss it. The main character has a series of close
encounters withthe ghost. Whilst sleeping she dreams of its life in
the homeshe now inhabits. The ghost possess the main character
slowly. Thinking sheis on drugs, her family hosts an intervention
for her. At thisintervention, she is fully possessed. Her family
and friends, whilst trying to restrain her,collectively kill the
main character and dispose of her bodyin a house fire. The cycle
continues, with the audience beingshown a family moving into a
newly built home where themain characters house used to be.
- 35. The opening sequence The character is at her desk typing
and researching ghosts,hauntings and the history behind where her
house is situated. Suddenly, her television turns on by itself, she
grabs her camera todocument this strange experience and this is
seen from her point ofview. After turning off the television, she
walks back to her desk, and theanother persons reflection is seen
by the audience as they walkpast her television. She hears another
a noise coming from the drawer behind her, shescrambles to find out
what it is. She finds an old photograph in thedrawer that clearly
doesnt belong to her of a young girl wearing asimilar necklace to
the character. She hears a thump coming from downstairs, she rushes
to find thesource of it, running through the corridors in her house
she tracksthe noise down to the bathroom and she listens outside
the door. Asshe slowly reaches for the handle, someone elses hand
slams onthe glass door from the inside.
- 36. Enigma The way we want to create enigma is through the
combination ofsound and pace. The actress is never fully calm which
also keepsthe audience on edge The end of the opening sequence will
leave the audience wantingto know what happens next as the audience
do not see what thecharacter sees.
- 37. Target Audience! Age: It is aimed at 15+, this is because
the main character in thefilm is a teenager and a younger
generation can relate to this becauseit will appeal to them.
Location: the fact that it is set in London will appeal to a
greatnumber of people who actually live in London. This is because
theaudience will be able to relate to the character and the film
andtherefore will be more affected by the film.E.g. many people who
live in London were terrified of using theLondon Underground after
watching the movie Creep which is set inCharing Cross tube station.
This scared many people who used thestation, which is the major aim
of a horror/thriller film. Lifestyle: The movie itself is quite
slow pace this doesnt take awayfrom its excitement. Therefore our
target audience would be peoplewho lead an active life and enjoy
trills and sitting on the edge of theirseat whilst watching a
movie. The mystery and enigma throughoutour film will appeal to our
target audience.
- 38. Why Our Target Audience Will BeInterested In Our Film! The
Idea: Our target audience will be interested in our idea because it
isthrilling and exciting and creates mystery (the history behind
the house and theghost). This will intrigue our audience, because
they will want to find out more.The unexplained paranormal events
that take place will interest people whoregularly watch thrillers
Form: We want to use very creep and eerie music in some parts then
fastpace violin music to create excitement. This will interest our
audience becausethe are aiming our film at thrill seekers. We also
want to use quick cutaways tocreate excitement and build up tension
for the audience. (running through thecorridors). However will we
also use smooth camera movements to build uptension that will lead
up to the climax at the end. Conventions: We are targeting our film
at an audience who regularly watchhorrors and thrillers with
conventions such as terror, and we will intrigue peoplewho enjoy
being frightened by films.We will include ghosts and spirits in
order to attract an audience who areinterested in supernatural
happenings and life after death. (Ghost girl). Wewant to satisfy
their interest in paranormal activities by including spirits
andweird unexplained events such as the TV switching on by
itself.
- 39. CharactersWe are using one main character who is seen, and
someone toplay the ghost that is troubling our main character, who
is unseen.Gledis is playing this main character as she fits the
profile. She isthe same age as we want our character to be, and so
will play ourmain character extremely well.Gledis
- 40. Actor/CharacterProps/Costume Gledis Character The Others
The Unborn This character meets stereotypes of a helpless young
girl who is hauntedby a ghost Some movies in which this is
displayed are listed above.
- 41. Location We have two locations with this idea. The first,
is a bedroom in which all of these supernaturalthings happen to the
character in. There are no healthand safety risks in this
locationIMAGES The desk that the character is working at, when she
hears the noises coming from...
- 42. Location...this wardrobe. More images of the desk...
- 43. The television thatll turnLocationAnother view of my
itself.onthe desk and herworking area.
- 44. Location This location is nearly always accessible as its
my room,however, the only problem we may face with thislocation is
when we can film as my mother works fromhome and noise from filming
could be an issue. We can get there from school by getting the 266
or 260bus to Church Road and then a short walking distance,where
wed have to cross four non-major roads.
- 45. Narrative Our opening sequence has a linear narrative
withforeshadowing. The structure of the opening sequence will not
change,its all in one place and at one time. Also, our
characterwill be researching ghosts, a series of hauntings etcwhich
hints at what will happen throughout the rest ofthe film.
- 46. TVZETAN TODOROV( NARRATIVE FILM THEORIST: NARRATIVE
STRUCTURE)Tvzetan Todorov is a Franco- Equilibrium: it is a
narrativeBulgarian philosopher. Hethat starts with a state oflived
in France since 1963 harmony, example a group ofwith his wife and
twopeople enjoying their live.children. Disequilibrium: it is a
world of stability which involves disruption, example when an evil
event happens to character in a movie. New Equilibrium: it is when
the evil in a movie is removed and it restores harmony.
- 47. It contrast with disequilibrium because it has some
disturbing images in the middle the movieThis describesequilibrium
as it has This links with newthe character enjoyingequilibrium as
ithimself because heshows a peacefulthinks that
everythingatmosphereis perfect. between thecharacters
- 48. Binary Opposition: This is asophisticated but important
idea thatwill help you understand how ideas andmeanings are being
shaped, created orreinforced in a text. It is a theory ofmeaning
and an idea that can beapplied to all texts; it is especially
usefulwhen analysing poetry where meaninghas been compressed into a
very fewwords.
- 49. This scene is clearly This particular sceneused to
illustrate fear shows the audience aand danger. A close upbasic
understanding ofshot of his face explains the movie which links
towhat is happening in thethe binary oppositionscene without
theaudience not evenseeing the next stage
- 50. Characters and their purpose inpropps theory. The villain
(strugglesagainst the hero)The donor (prepares the hero orgives the
hero some magical object)The (magical) helper (helps the heroin the
quest)The princess (person the heromarries, often sought for during
thenarrative)Her fatherThe dispatcher (character who makesthe lack
known and sends the herooff)The hero or victim/seeker hero,reacts
to the donor, weds theprincess
- 51. This scene shows a characterof a man losing his familyand
ends up in an accidentas he tries to escape the trueworld.This
scene shows thecharacter been played by thiswoman as a care taker
of thesick or a doctor.
- 52. This genre links to the theories as thethemes used in all
the theories areincluded in the decision making, suspense,disgust
and fear been created by thegroup.