Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Recipie for James Bond thrillers

                                               Recipie for James Bond thrillers


  • There is always a sexy secret agent
  • There is always a very powerfull villian
  • There are also a lot of women james bond will make love to
  • Parts of the film are always set in an exotic location
  • There is always a massive stunt, which would be very unlikely to tappen in real life
  • There is always the John Barry music
  • A pop song which is well known so it could promote the movie
  • James Bond going on his mission with his gadgets
  • Fights and car chases
  • Bond being trapped but somehow gets out of the sticky situation (normally towards the end of the film) 
 This video shows fast pacing action nearly through the whole clip as the James Bond is chasing Sebastien. The music even has a very fast tempo, this gives the audience an extra sense of thrills. We could sense from Sebastien's acrobat and free running skills, that he is the villain because we can see that at the moment, he has a lot of power. In the last minute of the clip, Bond is in a very tough situation. There are a lot of soldiers about to kill Bond. Bond somehow gets out of the situation and injuring the soldiers. As we see all the officers aiming their Rifles at Bond, there is suspense for a few seconds, were scared that he might not make it, but just like every other Bond film, he stays alive and gets away.

Monday, 19 November 2012

Past Opening Thrillers

                                                               Past Opening Thrillers

I have been watching past openings of thrillers. The first one I watched was "The night walker". This opening of a thriller showed a good low shot showing someones footsteps and another persons footsteps following them. There was also a good high shot showing the girl going in to the alleyway. There were also things which weren't good about the film. The font type on not original. A lot of groups used the same font.

Another thriller I watched was called "Hide And Seek". There were things that were really good about the thriller. One thing was that in one scene there was a woman in black on the stairs while the other character was on the ground. By the woman in black being in a higher position it showed that she had control of the scene. There were also things in the thriller that weren't so great. For an example near the end the main character and the woman in black were face to face, then everything turned out to be a dream. The thriller would have been better if it ended as the two characters being face to face as a cliff hanger.

Another opening thriller I watched was "The Betrayal". There were also things which were very good in this opening thriller. For an example, When one of the characters slowly start walking down the stairs, the tension builds up because the audience might feel that something very drastic could happen. And then it ends with a cliff hanger which also builds suspense. Even though there are good things, there are also things that are not so great. For an example, the lighting during the scenes at the girls house were not good, the lighting was black and white. This lead to those scenes not being as clear as the rest of the thriller.


Thursday, 15 November 2012

The Preliminary Exercise

             The Preliminary Exercise


During this exercise we had to show the following types shots. the shots were:
  • Match on action
  • Eye Line Match
  • 180 degree rule

Match on action: We see a character start an action in one shot and then see them continue in the next shot.
Eye line match: We see a character looking at something off screen and then cut to a shot of what they are looking at.
The 180 degree rule: A basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. If the camera passes over the axis, it is called jumping the line or crossing the line.

In our preliminary exercise we did include all these things. But because this was one of our first encounters those types of shots. This inevitably made the shots look a little rusty. For an example, for the eye line match we showed a character looking at a magazine and in the next scene we showed the magazine he was looking at but it wasn't very precise and accurate.

Monday, 12 November 2012

Sound Editing Exercise

                                                              




During this task we had to focus on the sound of editing. By taking part in this task I have learnt that when the scene changes to a different characters perspective or even a complete different type of shot, the sound needs to be the same so the scenes would match. Therefore the continuity should be smooth.

Brighton Rock

                                                                      Brighton Rock

The director and writer of this film is Rowan Joffe. Brighton rock is first suspected romance film but soon opens its true identity which is a thriller mafia movie. It is based on Pinkie Brown who is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it to be suicide. This doesn't convince Ida Arnold, who was with Fred just before he died, and she sets out to find the truth. She comes across naive waitress Rose, who can prove that Fred was murdered. In an attempt to keep Rose quiet Pinkie marries her. But with his gang beginning to doubt his ability, and his rivals taking over his business, Pinkie starts to become more desperate and violent.





"Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing action". one example of this in Brighton rock is when pinkie was recklessly beating a man to death. Another example is when the acid spilled on pinkie's face and he fell off the cliff  because of the uncontrollable pain he was trying to bare. Normally in thrillers there is a "resourceful hero who must thwart the plans of more powerful and equipped villains". In the case of "Brighton Rock" this is true because Ida and Dallow are the heroes stop pinkie the villain continue his plans of getting Rose to commit suicide.


Comparison of the Manchurian Candidate 1962 & 2004

                                      Comparison of the Manchurian Candidate 1962 & 2004

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was made by John Frankenheimer. The thriller is based on politics about a son in an upper class family embraced in politics who is brainwashed unknowingly to an assassin for the communist party.

In this clip of the film, the non diegetic sound has a  very low pitch and changes rapidly to to a high pitched non diegetic sound give thrills to the audience.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) was made by Jonathan Demme. This version of the thriller is also based on a man who is brainwashed to being an assassin. But instead of the cold war this the man in his troops get kidnapped during the gulf war.
This is when their process of being brainwashed begun.
During the beginning of the film the is a flashback to when the troops were in kuwait for the gulf war. The modern film has more of a believed battle than the war on the older film. This was because in the new film there was explosions, and even night vision.

The use of non diegetic sound is used more productively in the new version than the old version.One example of this is when the music sounded like blood was pumping around the brain in the flashback scene.




Sunday, 11 November 2012

Psycho(1960)

                                                                          Psycho(1960)

The director of this film is Alfred Hitchcock. the writer of the film is Joseph Stefano. The film is about a young woman who steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. 

In this movie the external threat is from a mad man. A man who is degranged. " thrillers are characterised by fast pacing action. One example of this in "psycho" is when the blond woman was in the shower and she was repetively stabbed to death by the motel manager pretending to be his mother. Another example is when the detective albergast was rapidly stabbed to death and imidiatly was in so much shock that that he fell down the staires.

In thrillers, normally there are "resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful villains. I think Sam is the heroe because he stopped the motel owner (villain) from killing the sister of the woman who was stabbed to death. This lead to him being caught of all his other murders and him being put in prison.

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

The birds (1963)

                                                    The Birds (1963)

The director of this film is Alfred Hitchcock. A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. 

In this film the external threat is from nature. Thrillers are characterised by fast no pacing action. An example of this in the birds what's when the children came out of the school and they ran as fast as they could to get away from the birds which were chasing them. Another time was when Melanie was at mitch's house and the birds rapidly tried to penetrate the baricades and break into the house.

Normally in thrillers " resourceful heroes my thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains". In this movie I think that this is not true because ultimately the hero or the villain didn't win because the film did not have a dead end. In had a clif hanger instead.



Saturday, 3 November 2012

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