Preliminary Evaluation

1. The story we were trying to tell in this film is a Turkish guy and a Irish guy fighting over the money which belongs to the Turkish guy.

2. I included all of the techniques which were listed which were needed, following Match on Action, Eye line Match, Shot, Reverse Shot, Graphic Match and 180 Degree rule.

3. I will now be explaining how the video was was created using the each of the techniques.

The first technique which we used was the match on action. The way we did this is to get Billy to walk around the corner for one shot, and then moved the camera around the corner in the next shot to continue the action Billy was doing, walking round the corner.

The second technique we used was the eye line match. The way we did this is by getting me to look at something or someone in the video, yet the audience cant see what I am looking at until the next scene. First you see a close up shot of my eyes looking at someone or something and then in the next scene you see what I was looking at, which is Billy looking back at me. 

The technique we then used was the shot reverse shot. The shot revers shot was used in conversation between two characters. The way we did this was by doing over the shoulder shot so we could see the character which was speaking in the conversation at the time.

Throughout the whole of the recording of this video we kept to the 180 degree rule. The way we were able to this is by recording close to a wall. What this meant is that we cant pass the wall, which then meant passing the 180 degree rule. 

I made sure that we used all of the techniques accurately, even if it meant we had to re do a scene lots of times. 

We mad mistakes in editing the video. We could of added background music, but besides that no mistakes were made in doing all of the techniques. 

What we did well in a video is getting all the techniques into the videos, we also at the beginning added a graphic match transition. 

Where I would improve on this video is to add of screen sound and background music. 

Preliminary Task

    

In this Preliminary task we recorded a fight scene in between a Turkish person, which was me, and a Irish person, which was Billy. It was a based over the money which belongs to the Turkish person but wasn't given to by the Irish person.

We demonstrated in this Preliminary task that we included continuity editing, which included eye-line match, match on action, shot/reverse shot and to keep to the 180° rule. First I will be explaining what these what each one of them mean. 

Eye-line match is when we see a character looking at something off screen and then have cut to the next shot of what they were looking at.

Match on action is when we see a character that starts an action in one shot, and then see the character continue there action in the next shot. 

Shot/reverse shot is when one character is looking at another character then having that character looking at the the other character. This is usually used in conversations as an over the shoulder shot. 

The 180° rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other.

We did all of the continuity in our video successfully, but what we could of done to improve our video is to add sounds in, for example diegetic and non-diegetic sounds to make the video look better, but this will help us not make the same mistake when it comes to the thriller opening that we will be recording. 

Unknown

Unknown is a modern thriller which came out in the year 2011. The film is about a man which wakes up from a coma, that he got into from a car accident, to only discover that his life, his wife, his everything has been taken by someone else that he doesn't know. No one believes him and that is including his wife, with the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who is, yet he finds out a terrible truth about himself that he forgot.

The director of this film is Jaume Collet-Serra, the writers of the film were Stephen and Oliver Butcher, which worked on the screenplay of the movie. The stars of the film are Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones.

This film has essential characteristic which makes it a good thriller, the reason for this is because of the g moments of high tension,  A example of this would be the hospital scene when Liam Neeson is reaching for the scissors leading to the murder. Fast editing was used to show that there is a scenes of danger and a limit of time that he must get the scissors to escapes before the murder comes in.

In this image we see a screen shot of the two characters together. There is great use of mise-en-scene in this scene. The reason for this is because of the colour which has been used. The colour which has been used is red, what this inferring to them is that there in danger, but it also shows a scenes of love in between the two characters.

In the trailer we see lots of technical uses that gives the audience a thrilling feel. The main parts of the trailer I would like to speak about. We first see the start of the trailer with Liam Neeson and his wife arriving in Germany, then there has been a use of fast editing to show that there is action and that danger. There is also a scene in the trailer with a rolling shot to show the confusion between the two characters, and as the trailer progresses we see there has been more use of fast editing to show us the danger and the action, this gives a thrill to the audience.

Blog 4 Psycho

The Director of Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock. The writers were Joseph Stefano, which write the screenplay, and Robert Bloch, which write the novel. The stars of the movie were Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh and Vera Miles. Anthony Perkins played as Norman Bates, Janet Leigh played as Marion Crane and Vera Miles played as Lila Crane.

Hitchcock made the audience think that it is all about $40,000 which was stollen. When the murder happened it was a shock to the audience because it wasn't expected. What the shock did was make the audience apprehensive for the rest of the movie. This meant anything could of happened, anyone could be killed.

The audience knew that there was a murder somewhere in the house. They just didn't know when the murder was going to strike again. But to make it more suspenseful they must know it could happen any moment.

Hitchcock stressed that the more that the apprehensiveness increased, that there is less and less violence on screen.

The scene I will be analyzing is the shower scene. The reason for this is because it shows the audience the thriller is characterized by fast pacing and frequent action.  In this scene we see the murder happen. Back in the 1960s people would say that it was the most violent and bloody scene ever, with the stabbing, and the film industry said to Hitchcock that he cant have that be shown. What Hitchcock did was make it look brutes, when in fact of the good use of fast pace editing we didn't actually see anyone getting stabbed. All we did was see the knife move with the music which was being used and also the people who then saw the movie used the imagination to fill in the gaps that wasn't shown. This is why people thought it was a very brutal scene when in fact we don't actually see any stabbing.

Red herrings were used in this, the reason for this is because as the audience we thought the film was going to be about the $40,000 which was stolen, but in fact the film was about a guy that dressed up as his dead mother and think he is the mother, then kill people.

The film was successful from Hitchcock, that other directors decided to make a part 2 and a part 3 of Psycho. In the other Psychos Norman Bates is on the front cover of all of them because he was in the first one.

Production meeting 2

This is our second production meeting, for this we drew out a story bored, this was to help create a animatic and give us an idea on how we are going to film our thrillers. We disused about locations, timings and roles that we will be taking.

First Production Meeting

This was out first production meeting in our group. We spoke about the each others ideas on how we are going to the first 2 minutes of the thriller, spoke about what we agree on as a group and where we could improve on each others ideas. What this allowed the group to do was think of different ideas which can be used in the thriller. What we then did was speak about how we were going to implement things like camera shots and mise-en-secene. This allowed me and the rest of the group to think about the setting of the opening of our thriller, the colouring, if there will be any dialogue and how we are going to implement a introduction sequence. This was our first meeting which was very interesting because we have been able to give each other ideas which will help for the next meeting we have.