The camera angles used:

The camera angles used:

Panned shot; strobbing shots; Low angle shot; High angle shot; Point of view shot; Medium Shot; Extreme close up; Close up; Long shot; Static shot; Extreme long shot; Bird’s eye shot; Medium close up; DCU; Full shot; Medium long shot

1.       Close up of the cupboard as veronica takes a glass;

2.       Close up of the tap as she fills it;

3.       Birds eye view as she turns;

4.       Medium shot of her walking to the door from behind;

5.       Medium long shot of her walking through the door;

6.       Full shot of the cupboard in the bathroom;

7.       Close up of the cupboard handle as she opens it;

8.       Close up of the pills from the inside of the cupboard;

9.       Close up of the pill box as she takes a couple;

10.   Medium long shot of veronica shutting the cupboard;

11.   Medium shot of her walking back until she stares in the mirror;

12.   DCU of veronica’s face in the mirror;

13.   Medium long shot of her looking in the mirror;

14.   MLS of her turning around and walking out the bathroom;

15.   Long shot of her walking out the bathroom into the corridor;

16.   Birds eye view of her at the bedroom door;

17.   Long shot of her walking into the bedroom;

18.   Close up of her leaving the pills and glass of water on the dressing table;

19.   Medium shot of her turning around to do her hair;

20.   Close up of the pills and glass of water as she takes her pills;

21.   Medium close up of her taking the pills;

22.   Full shot of her walking to her bedside;

23.   Birds eye view of her going to sleep.

24.   She’s in bed its birds eyes view shot,

25.   Then for when she’s getting out of bed it's mid shot,

26.   Her feet on the floor its close up,

27.   Then low angle shot for her walking across the landing,

28.   Medium shot of her going into the bathroom,

29.   Close up when she's in the mirror,

30.   Long shot of her leaving the bathroom,

31.   Close of up the knife then

32.   Extreme close up of the towel going around the knife,

33.   Mid shot of her putting the knife in the bag,

34.   Full shot of her putting her coat on,

35.   Close up of her,

36.   Long shot of her leaving through the door

37.   Mid shot of the door slamming shut

38.   Then extreme long shot of her walking down the street from the window

39.   Close up: Veronica waking up

40.   Extreme Close up: Veronica distressed facial expression

41.   Medium shot: Veronica going to sleep

42.   Close up: Veronica rolling over in bed

43.   (Black and white)

44.   Long back view: Veronica standing at door

45.   Camera pans:  To show Veronica from a different angle

46.   Extreme close up: of Veronica reaching into pocket

47.   Low shot: Of Veronica pulling keys out

48.   Extreme close up: of dangling family photo key ring

49.   Medium side shot:  Veronica walks to open door

50.   Point of view shot of putting key into door

51.   Medium shot (from inside house): of door with being able to see Veronica silhouette through the glass

52.   Low angle shot: Of Veronica feet walking into house

53.   Bird’s eye view shot: as Veronica walks through door frame into hall

54.   Point of view shot: as Veronica looks at family key ring

55.   Point of view: as she looks upstairs

56.   Camera pans: as veronica starts to walk forward

57.   Extreme close up: as Veronica reaches to close the door

58.   Long back shot: of Veronica closing the door

59.   Long shot: of outside the house’s front door

60.   (In black and white)

61.   Medium shot: back view of Veronica with coat over her shoulder

62.   Close up: of Veronica hand turning handle

63.   Long Shot: back view of Veronica walking to the cupboard

64.   Point of view:  from the bin bag- seeing Veronica bending down to pick up bag

65.   Side shot: of Veronica opening bag

66.   Point of view shot: from inside the cupboard looking at Veronica silhouette

67.   Medium shot: inside of the cupboard with just the bag inside and door shut

68.   Panned shot: as Veronica walks from kitchen to bathroom

69.   (In colour)

70.   Medium Shot: Of Veronica waking up

71.   Point of view shot: As Veronica turns head to look at clock

72.   Extreme close: up of clock

73.   Static low shot: Veronica getting of bed and walking past the camera

74.   Long shot:  Veronica walking back from the bathroom to the camera

75.   Panned shot: Veronica moves from corridor to bathroom

76.   Extreme close: of hand turning radio on

77.   Medium close up: of Veronica getting ready whilst listening to the radio

78.   Extreme close up: of Veronica facial expression

79.   Medium shot: as she reaches for bag

80.   (In black and white)

81.   Low angle shot: on bag on floor with objects all over the floor

82.   Panned shot: of objects on the floor

83.   Close up: Veronica picking up object (knife wrapped with kitchen towel)

84.   Point of view shot: Veronica looking at her reflection in the mirror

85.   Extreme close up: Veronica facial expression changing.

Analysis: The opening scenes of 'Jaws'

Narrative Structure:

Jaws is a linear structure as its chronological order.

Beginning: audience is immediately introduced through the eyes of this unknown animal, threat, alien or fish creating tension as the non-diegetic sound of a beating sound indicates something wrongs going to happen or this character is dangerous. After that you are introduced to a group of rowdy teenagers on the beach signifying something is going to happen between this group of people and the mysterious character.

Middle: Sexual tension builds as a girl and a boy from the group of teenagers decide to run away from the group to jump in the sea,

End: the boy isn’t able to get in the sea as he is to drunk and ends up falling asleep on the beach whilst the girl carries on swimming far out to sea and is delirious to the fact of a dangerous creature lurking underneath her.  She is alone and no one knows she is in trouble, whilst she getting attacked the buoy bell is ringing to signify danger but no one is there to help. After she’s been killed the sea is calm and silent again.

Thriller codes and conventions:

Concealment: the audience doesn’t know specifically what is under the water.

Partial Vision: the audience is introduced to the killer straight away by seeing through its point of view, as its underwater it takes a few seconds for the audience to click on where it is as its cloudy and murky( as it’s under the water) it disorientates the viewer.

Protraction: it delays what is going to happen and confuses the audience giving mixed messages to what is going to happen.

Question and answer model: the audience is left asking questions

·         What is this creature under the water?

·         Is she going to die?

·         Why is she going into the water naked?

·         Does she survive?

·         Does he rescue her?

This makes the viewer carry on watching to find out the answers for such questions.

Transform city: the beach is seen to be a safe environment until this creature has turned it into a very dangerous place to be, leaving an lasting image on the audience as they could be reluctant to go the beach again.

Camera work:

We are introduced to this mysterious creature through using a point of view shot, seeing through the killer’s eye which disorientates and panics the audience as it takes a few seconds to understand your surroundings. As it cuts to beach full of teenagers a tracking shot is used to introduce to the characters to the audience. As relationship grows between characters a close up reverse shot is used to symbolise the sexual tension building between characters. The high angle shot taken of the group shows the vulnerability of the group being on the beach. When the characters run down to the beach long tracking shots are used, suspense and tension are built by long slow editing, in comparison to ‘Se7en’ when suspense and tension was built through quick cuts and fast editing, whereas the use of extreme long shot of the sea creates this suspense as you can see how eerie and lonely it is, creating this sudden fear against the sea. Like before using a reverse shot between the same girl and boy was to show the closeness and connection building whilst this time it’s to symbolise how far she is gone out to sea and this once closeness is now a far distance increasing her vulnerability being alone. As she is in the water the low under water shot would usually shows power in a character but this contradicts with that as she is far from powerful as she is oblivious that she’s getting stalked by a this mysterious creature- sending fear again to the audience as the audience is still unsure what’s going to happen and what it is. When the girl does get attacked it isn’t the camera what moves as it’s a static shot to dramatize this scene. As it cuts straight to boy in the midst of her attack you see a long shot of this boy lying on the beach to show how he’s safe and oblivious his is to what has gone on. The sequence ends again with another extreme long shot of the sea again is to contrast with that last image of the sea being danger, it’s still and calm again leaving no evidence of what has just happened.

Mise-en-scene:

As we are introduced to this creature under water the light is very dark to build up suspense to make the audience feel uncomfortable and scared, as they are unsure what is going happening. The warm colours from the campfire and beach contrasts with that last dark, cold image as the colours from the fire makes it feel a safe and warm environment.

 The characters are dressed reasonable respectful and don’t seem aware of what lurks in the water as they all seem calm and relaxed.  You assume underage drinking is going on as when the boy is running down the beach he is stumbling everywhere.

Sound

There is non-diegetic sound used soon as the film starts, which becomes the theme tune for this creatures appearance. The use of the theme tune builds up suspense and tension as the beat gets stronger and louder leaving the audience to feel scared and anxious for what’s going to happen next.

When we are introduced to the characters on the beach we hear brief diegetic sound such as dialogue and music playing from the guitar other than that the only time we hear sound again is when

Editing:

Eye line match of the creature under the water creates tension as you don’t know what is your looking through the eyes of. The use of cross cutting from the unknown creature to gang of teenagers also builds suspense as you there’s going to be a connection between this mysterious creature and this group of teenagers but it is not obvious to the audience yet going to be good or bad. Also the use of long takes builds this suspense as it drags out in comparison to ‘Se7en’ which uses fast cuts. Whereas in Jaws it’s unnecessary to use fast cuts as it’s not an action thriller.

Graphics:

The graphics are very simple being white on black, but they do look futuristic font- big and bold. The use of capital letter also shows importance to such names like the director who is last in the order. The title stands out from the rest of the credits as it over the point of view shot.

Analysis: Opening scenes of 'Se7en'

Narrative Structure:

‘Se7en’ is a non-linear thriller as it’s in non-chronological order.

Beginning: we are introduced to a character who is either planning, reading, investigating, it’s unclear to the audience what his intentions are.

Middle: Through the sequence we get to see the characters intentions are disturbing and cruel as he document images of tortured victims.

End: At the end its obvious the person is clearly not normal as he documents and stores homemade books with disturbing images of torture victims. There are many of these books as the camera pans across all neatly filed books.

Thriller Codes and Convections

Soon as the credits start the audience are left with questions,

·         Who is he?

·         How did he get those pictures?

·         Why is he doing that?

·         What’s he doing?

·         Where is he?

All this encouraging viewers to carry on watching to answered questions thus creating suspense for the audience. As we are not introduced to the characters face its ads suspense to the scene because the viewer is concealed from information adding mystery to this character. Similar to concealment we as an audience can only see through partial vision as each shots are very sharp from shot to shot leaving the audience to investigate almost what is going to happen.

Camera Work

In se7en the use of extreme close ups/closes up heightens the thriller atmosphere as there jump from shot to shot creating suspense and tension as it disorientates and frightens the audience such scenes as the character cutting their finger tips off distress the audience as well as building the atmosphere. A panned shot of filling cabinets gives an impression of the character being organised. The use of dissolving shot and point of view shots lets you see what the character is doing and shows a passing of time.

Mise-En-Scene

There isn’t much you can say about mise-en-scene as the tight camera angles controls the audience allowance in mise-en-scene as we only see books, film strips and photos. Such tight camera angles give the impression that’s it’s in a confined dark space maybe set in a loft or cellar? Thus creating a claustrophobic atmosphere panicking the audience.

Sound

The non-diegetic sound which is used is to create tension with the use of beating sound builds tension as the beat gets faster and louder. They also use an eerie scratchy noise which relates to the distressing images and text used, constantly building the suspense. At the end of the credits the one dialogue which is spoken is in the music ‘You’ve got me turning to god’ suggesting this potentially could be a religious based thriller?

Editing

Se7en’s highly edited opening sequence is to confuse and disorientate the audience with the use of fast pace editing and its quick cuts to add to the jumpy atmosphere. Also the impression of passing is shown in the use of strobbing (Hands doubling when writing), jump cuts (picture of the boy scribbled out) and dissolving shits contributing to the non-linear structure.

Graphics

Throughout ‘Se7en’ opening sequence its aim is to distress, disorientate and confuse the audience which is applied in the use of graphics being randomly placed, with a typewriting/ hand written font used on a white and black format.

 

Ideas for thriller

Thriller Certificate

We have chosen to give our thriller a certificate of 15, even though we will be restricted on the amount of use of nudity and swearing. It will give us a wider audience as more people we will be able to watch it, where as if it would be a certificated 18. But this doesn’t mean it will restrict us in the making of the film, as it will still consist of the codes and conventions of thrillers, to create suspense and tension.

Prelim

When looking back on filming the prelim we did little preparation meaning our mind maps and story boards wasn’t constructed well enough to show a clear filming process and our original idea was very poor leading us to re-film multiple times. What I have also learnt from this assignment is to develop ideas further and be productive in the time you have in class so you don’t get left behind. When we finally filmed our prelim we had a few difficulties in editing as some shots didn’t match with and was a few seconds out meaning it didn’t flow properly. When we did show our finished piece to the class the feedback was good  as the liked the variety with the different use of shots and angles from: low angles, match on action, shot reverse shot, panned shot and close ups. The only thing they did say we need to improve on is the editing which we will take more time on doing so in the future. The one thing this has made me think about for future filming is to have assigned roles and split the work load equally among the group.

Codes and Conventions

Codes and Conventions

  Here are codes and conventions which are used in the opening thriller scenes:

o   Non-linear narrative

o   Linear narrative

o   Limited number of characters used in the opening sequence

o   Mise-en-scene shows relation to characters and can heighten tension

o   Partial Vision

o   Question and answer model

o   Romantic hero

o   Concealment

o   Protraction

o   Mazes and labyrinths

o   Disequilibrium

o   Non-diegetic music/sound to create tension

o   Diegetic sound usually limited by sound effects

o   Use of non-diegetic sound usually has no vocals

o   Sound effects are used to heighten tension

o   Close up shots are used

o   Extreme close up shots

o   Panned shots are used

o   Slow zooms

o   Point of view shots

o   Tracking shots

o   Dissolving shots

o   Low angle shots

o   High angle shots

o   Shot reverse shot

o   Long takes sometime used like in ‘Jaws’

o   Unknown locations can be used to keep something away from the audience

o   Graphics don’t detract from on screen action

o   Graphics usually are superimposed on screen

o   Dim , dark lighting is used to set the mood