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Opening Credits - Abbie

Seven

- Credits appear over different images throughout
- White text merges in and then disappears like an electric current is passing through it
- Moves to a black plate background
- Flicks between appearing over an image to appearing over a plate background
- When text disappears non-diegetic electrical sounds play with it
- The title Seven appears in different distorted texts glitching each time
- Sounds like a tape being fastforwarded linking to the glitching text and sounds
- Different texts appear for longer than others with emphasis on certain names of actors
- Background images of books and the contents of what is inside these certain books
- The colour red is introduced linking to the fact the film is a thriller (blood)


Inception

- Red text used on a black plate background
- Unclear that it's a thriller with only subtle hints being the non-diegetic music and the text being red
- Letters from each actors name used to frame the next one in the sequence
- Non-diegetic soundtrack is fast paced, something you would relate to a chase scene
- Spinning-top is symbolised throughout causing us to think it could be in relation to something in the film
- Zooms right into the text where further patterns emerge making it quite hypnotic
- When main title is introduced all previous text merges together to form the word 'Inception'


The Sixth Sense

- Black plate background
- Text merges in and then fades out
- Gentle soundtrack
- Doesn't reveal anything about the film
- Adds a sense of mystery

Vertigo

- White text appears over womans face, new text introduced over each main feature
- Zooms into womans eye and filter turns red introducing the fact that this is a thriller
- Main title of film wooshes in from the eye
- This is followed the hypnotic spirals on a black plate background and glitchy white text
- The soundtrack is mysterious and becomes more dramatic as the text appears
- Music is also quite hypnotic at times linking to the spirals

Audience Aim - Lucy

After having a discussion about the plot of the film Leah, Abbie and I decided on rating the film 'Duncan Barnes' an 18. We decided this due to the extreme violence and strong language that occurs from the start and throughout the whole film, so we want to aim our film at 18 year olds and + that love thrillers.

Thriller Openings - Abbie

The Woman In Black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCR4tfQBd6w

- Opening scene, close up of teacups (props) making you question the age of the characters about to be introduced.
- Moves to show a close up of a child's toy implying the character's we're about to meet are children
- Small child's hand also shown to establish character
- Medium long shot used to show all characters and their surroundings
- Long shot of three girls looking at something which is hidden from viewer creating suspense
- Camera pans in to show the large window causing us to think it may be a main feature of the scene
- Children begin to stand up, quick cuts of both their costume and the props they are using
- Close up of the children smashing the china causing the audience to think something isn't quite right
- Tracking of the children from infront as if they are coming towards you
- Children are blank faced hardly showing any emotion causing audience to wonder what's happened
- Long shot of children showing their body language and how they are behavig in sync
- Orchestral music throughout
- No dialogue right up until the end of the sequence causing a sense of mystery
- When dialogue is introduced audience is greeted with a woman screaming but you are unaware of this character in the scene


Blue Velvet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDEzzFtrCTs

- Opens to a dated song giving the audience the impression that the film is quite old
- Camera pans down from a blue sky to a flower showing that everything seems to be perfect and untouched
- An old fashioned fire engine then drives past adding to the impression of the age of the film
- Man on the fire engine is waving causing everything to seem angelic
- Fades back to someone's flower bed
- Man in garden watering his plants showing the village is proud of its angellic image. This also creates a sense of innocence
- Woman watching some kind of television program (gun shown) as if that's the only place you'll find any crime in that area
- Close up of hose making strange noise showing something is going wrong
- Close up of hose wrapped around bench convincing the audience that that is the only problem
- Suddenly man drops to the floor in pain leaving audience oblivious to what's happened
- First sign of any dialogue is man wailing out in pain
- ECU of the grass, camera tracking through it making the audience think they are crawling through the grass looking for something
- Grass starts to become darker (black) as if it's coming to a dead end
- Music creating suspense starts playing causing a sense of mystery
- Man is wearing old fashioned gardening clothing, a sun hat to show what type of day it is and that he was obviously planning to be out in the garden for a while


Scream 4 (watched up to 3:14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW0HMeQhiQo

- Hear phone ringing before audience gets a view of anything that's going on
- CU of innocent American girl answering the phone
- Mysterious, creepy noise at the end of the phone but girl remains naive
- Shot reverse shot of conversation between to main female characters giving audience a view of their relationship
- Creepy music played throughout creating suspense, as if someone's watching them
- Girl casually describes how she has a stalker who had said he wanted to kill her - girl acts oblivious but this triggers alarm bells in audience's head
- 2 shot showing the girls very close to each other implying that they are close friends/sisters
- Man on the phone remains anonymous to both audience and character creating even more suspense
- Voice on the end of phone sounds dangerous
- Door bell rings and both characters scream causing audience to jump
- Door is slowly unlocked leaving audience in suspense of who may be out there and what may happen next
- Door is suddenly opened but we are faced with nothing but darkness
- Audience knows these girls are being watched but are left in the unknown as to who by and where the person is


The Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIuCfnmPQg

- First shot of CU of girl looking distressed as if she's seen something the audience hasn't
- Camera pans around the corner of hallway causing the audience to think something/someone is going to jump out
- Lead to an empty room where a television is on a fuzzy screen as if someone has been in there
- Long shot of girl walking away from room, television is turned back on by itself showing the audience that something isn't right
- CU of girl and television with a quick cut to her unplugging it
- Girl moves to kitchen where fridge door is mysteriously open by itself
- Girl is breathing heavily showing audience that she is distressed and scared causing them to react in the same way
- Camera tilts down from top of stairs to girl standing at the bottom as if people are watching her from upstairs
- She is wearing a school uniform showing her age
- ELS of girl coming up to a corridor
- CU of water on floor showing showing something strange is happening leaving audience in anticipation
- Girl is calling out throughout clip but never recieves any replies making us question if she's imagining it
- CU of girl grabbing door knob causing audience to wonder what may be inside the room
- Opens door abruptly greeted by another fuzzy television
- Flashes back to a girl who's face becomes distorted and rushing sounds develop causing us to jump

Location & Costume, Day 1 - Leah

Here is the first location that we used we wanted to show an urban setting and also fit the description of the teenage character. This shows how rough the place where these teenage kids live resulting in them terrorising Duncan.

 

Here is one of the character in the location. Fitting in to the chosen location.

Location - Leah and Lucy

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

We decided to base our filming in Tilgate because there are plenty of ideal, open spaces that we want our youths to hang out in. Here are some of the places we plan to shoot in - 

We are planning to shoot our first shot in the location shown above, it is an underpass beneath a main road. It is quite an empty place where youths could be pictured to hang out in, this location definitely would add to the atmosphere by tying in a bit of fear from the start.

This picture shows the back side of a shopping parade, its very quiet and usually empty making it a realistic place for the teens to be in.

This final picture shows where our last shots on the 'handheld camera' and the CCTV shots will take place. We will be using one of these houses to do shooting inside of the protagonist but we will also be filming the youths from inside the house to show that he is watching and taking note of what they are doing.

Props List - Lucy

Here is a list of all the props we will be using during our thriller opening:

- Video Camera/Camera- We will not be using this video camera to film actual footage but are using it as a prop to show that the man is recording outside his house, to make sure each move of the youths is recorded. We want the camera to look a bit like this one; standard, compact and digital.

- Evidence Board - I made the evidence board by using an old map of my local area and pinning it to a notice board. I shaded in particular areas, used string to connect different places together and made up codes to link places to people. We also have attached other items onto the board such as fabric so it appears that it is from an item of clothing of one of the youths, narrowing down Duncan's search on finding them. 



- Letter (abuse written on it) - This letter is going to be posted through the door with abuse written on it from the youths to Duncan. We want it to say something along the lines of "We'll get you one day", "You can't hide in there forever" or maybe just normal everyday slang such as "You're retarded, we're gonna kill you"

- Mug of coffee - We decided to have a mug of coffee rather than tea to show that Duncan needs the caffeine to keep him going, we want this to show that he stays up late at night researching into these teenagers lives to finally get revenge.

- Book (to record abuse shouted and occurrences) - We decided that we wanted a hard back, leather bound notebook for the protagonist to record what has happened and what has been said. This way, the book is protected and it is unlikely for anything inside it to go missing or be ruined.

 

- Ink pen (to write things teens are saying/doing) - We felt that our character would use something such as an ink pen to write what the youths are saying to show what kind of character he is, the ink pen shows that he is a mature adult. The ink pen also portrays a weird creepy character which we want the audience to feel about him.

Teen Costumes - Abbie

We want to portray the teenagers as low class. To achieve this, we have a rough idea of what clothes we want our actors to wear. Here are a few images of the ideas we have.

For girls:

Type of Scarf we want our actors to wear. We believe this would be a good idea as it's not associated with the 'upper class' we achieves our aim to make them look lower class.

We would like our actors to wear clothing like this (matching tracksuit) 

Stereotypically female 'chavs' tend to wear large earings with diamontes on them like the pair above so we will be trying to find a similar pair for our actresses. 

For boys:

                                           

This is the style of hat we want our actors to wear. It's a fake version of a Burberry hat showing that they obviously don't have the money to buy the real thing adding to the stereotypical image of a 'chav'. 

 

Along with this they will also be wearing tracksuit bottoms with a hoodie/jumper in dark colours.

They will also be wearing cheap looking trainers.





We chose these types of costumes as we want the teenagers to look like "thugs" and the type of people to be from working class families and therefore people that have nothing better to do than to harass and old man as they are less likely to be in education.