Continuity Editing Task

We have been told to create a short video lasting no longer than 90 seconds,the requirments for this task will be:

• the 108 degree rule to not be broken, once you film on one side in a scene it cant cross over 180 degree line as seen below.
• 
• include a shot reverse shot.
• include many different camera angles. 
• the use of editing to make sure the continuity of the scene is clear.
• multiple locations.
• interaction between others.
• some non-diegetic sound.

We also must create a shot list and a outline on what we are shooting.

sound used in thrillers

Sound:

Sound is used in thrillers to help the audiences understanding of what is going on. Sounds are used to evoke characters feelings and emotions and get a response from the audience. It is also often used to symbolise both the protagonists and antagonists movements in the scene. By carefully using the sounds employed in the scene it creates the right mood and atmosphere and in the context of the thriller genre, helps to build suspense and tension.Thrillers are typically noisy and they uses lots of diegetic sound throughout the film. Common sounds include bangs, ticking and screams, they use these sounds to build tension and to create suspense. These sounds are normally heard by both the audience and the characters and they are normally very jumpy. Non diegetic sound is also used in thrillers. They sometimes use a steady drone which puts the audience at unease. Also as the action increases in the film and the tension builds the music speed up and increases in unison. Hitchcock used sound in a very new way than was typical at the time. For instance in Blackmail he demonstrates ongoing tactics, such as: withholding sound from the viewer to pique curiosity which is shown in the murder scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POMvKwfBVWo, there is no sound during the murder and we can’t see what is happening which leaves us wondering what exactly is going on. It subverts our expectations of a murder as we would expect lots of screams but we don’t get anything. He also exaggerates sound as a form of narrative emphasis and creating tension through both ambient noises and silence. Further, in a world where music was the dominant form of narrative accompaniment, he stripped music score away from his scenes and instead used the act of singing (and whistling) as a suspense device. Lastly, Hitchcock’s manipulation of human speech ranged from technical malfunctions of telephone calls to dizzied audio abstraction of the characters’ subjective thoughts.

codes and conventions of a thriller film

possible feeling a thriller could create:
tension
anxiety
uncertaincy 
suspense
anticipation.

iconography:
cars
wepons
fast paste edits
low lighting

themes:
assaination
crime
spies
terrorism
supernatural events
mind games

characters:
stalkers
spies
assasins
psychotic charcters
convicts

From what ive found out The codes and conventions of a thriller , low lighting, shadows, fast editing, quick cuts, changes in camera angle, tension building music, stairs, psycholigcal issues and games, disorientation of time and space as well as montage editing. The editing helps represent the darkness within some characters while shadows and the lighting used signify the inner darkness within being.

typography (UNF)

Above are some fonts that can be used in thrillers,usually used for the title of the film.  In the title sequence they also use quite simple/minimalistic fonts for names in the opening,some of the minimalistic texts are animated with the style of the movie.

We are thinking of using,the ALCATRAZ.ISLAND.CA.FONT as its professional looking and fits into the genre,psychological thriller.  

We ended up with this font as we watched the Shutter island opening and like the font used.

we then decided we would use a simple but eye grabbing bold font.

we ended up with the ALXATRAZ.ISLAND font,  this font is similer to shutter islands but slighty modified.

The other fonts we looked at also would not have fitted in with the possible story lines we had chosen.

Possible movie titles using the chosen font:

                 

film noir

What is noir?

Film Noir began in the 1940s and was one of Hollywood's original, artistic movements.

During and immediately following World War II, movie audiences responded well to this original,In 1946 a Paris retrospective of American films said that during the war there was a significant increase in popularity towards visually darker and more sublime films. It was then made that “film noir” ”or black film" is a new type of Hollywood product

Few, if any of the artists in Hollywood who made these films called them “noir” at the time. But the vivid co-mingling of lost innocence, doomed romanticism, hard-edged cynicism, desperate desire, and shadowy sexuality that was unleashed in those immediate post-war years proved hugely influential, both among industry peers in the original era, and to future generation of storytellers, both literary and cinematic.

To this day the debate goes on as to whether “noir” is a film genre, circumscribed by its content, or a style of storytelling, identified by its visual attributes. The debate — in which there is no right answer — is only one of the things that keeps noir fresh for successive generations of movie lovers.

questionaire

Here is a link to our questionaire:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GP7AD1w5HYSk0TCMnl-6XSkVduOCIc3bCtbSBfzP0W0/viewform

15 and 18 rated film

15

This film is not suitable for any under the age of 15. People under the age of 15 can buy or rent a 15 rated film.

Discrimination

The media text can’t encourage discriminatory language or behaviour.

Drugs

Drugs can be shown as a whole but you cannot promote or encourage the use of drugs,this includes alcohol abuse. If it is in the film it is never unlikely to pass as a 15

Horror

Horrors can be “threat” and “menace” but sexualised and  sadistic is unacceptable.

Imitable behaviour

self harming should be shown in detail as it could be influential on this age group. Easily accessible weapons can’t be glamorised.

Language

Strong language can be used if in the right context.

Nudity

Nudity is allowed in educational sense and in a non sexual sense.

Sex

Sexual activity is allowed but aslong as it is not in detail.

Violence

violence can we strong but not in infliction. Sexual violence is allowed but mildy. The strongest “gorey” violence is unlikely to be acceptable.

18:www.bbfc.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/BBFC%20Classification%20Guidelines%202009.pdf

“• where the material is in breach of the criminal law,

or has been created through the commission of a

criminal offence

• where material or treatment appears to the BBFC to

risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour,

to society – for example, any detailed portrayal of

violent or dangerous acts, or of illegal drug use,

which may cause harm to public health or morals.

This may include portrayals of sexual or sexualised

violence which might, for example, eroticise or

endorse sexual assault

• where there are more explicit images of sexual

activity which cannot be justified by context. Such

images may be appropriate in ‘R18’ works, and in

‘sex works’ (see below) would normally be confined

to that category.

In the case of video works (including video games),

which may be more accessible to younger viewers,

intervention may be more frequent than for cinema films.

Sex education at ‘18’

Where sex material genuinely seeks to inform and

educate in matters such as human sexuality, safer

sex and health, explicit images of sexual activity may

be permitted.

Sex works at ‘18’

Sex works are works whose primary purpose is sexual

arousal or stimulation. Sex works containing only material

which may be simulated are generally passed ‘18’. Sex

works containing clear images of real sex, strong fetish

material, sexually explicit animated images, or other

very strong sexual images will be confined to the ‘R18’

category. Material which is unacceptable in a sex work

at ‘R18’ is also unacceptable in a sex work at ‘18’.”