Openning sequence to 'Seven'

Film:Seven
Director:David Fincher
Lead actors: Morgan Freeman, Brad pitt, Gwyneth paltrow

Titles: The titles gives a hostile atmosphere of how unpredictable it is, like the music and transitions are. A mixture of red, black and white in the title sequence these colours symbolise the outcome of the movie such as danger, death etc.

Shots: Point of view shot of morgan freeman's character picking up his equipment. Low angle shot when showing both detectives, showing power. panning shots of morgan's character when he is looking in the mirror emphaising his facial expression - could lead to what his character is feeling.

Movement:Tracking movement of morgan freemans movements.

Generic themes: There seems to be a linear squence to the movie. The character of morgan freemans's is strange his house is very clean which can prove his character is quite neat, perfection is his objective in what ever he does.

Sound: There is Digetic music as police sirens is heard i the background, and a radio playedm there is also the noise of rain. Non-digetic music played in the title sequence

Mise-en-scene: Rain gives symbolic colour of the movie being dark so we can assume that it will continue to be black until the rain as stopped.

Openning sequence to 'Momento'

Title: Momento, 2002,
Lead actors: Guy pearce
Director: Christopher Nolan

Titles: In the openning to the film the viewer notices the opennig credits, these credits are in blue and when change of credit, it fades slowly giving a cold feeling due to the colour and transition, this could maybe give the reader an insight to what the story line of the play could be, a dark and cold play but to add effect a slowness to give emphasis. Non-digetic music is played while showing the titles, where there is an increase in volume when showing the title 'Momento'

Shots: A high angle shot in beginning showing the audience the picture the character is holding to symbolise the power the picture possess's; a low angle shot showing the dead body to emphasize the death.

Movement: There is a tracking movement of the camera when showing two characters

Generic themes: A murder has taken place. The movie starts from the end instead of the beginning( a non linear sequence ); flash backs are used to add effect.

Sound: Non-digetic music showing the tiltes; Digetic music as there's police sirens etc.

Mise-en-scene: Naturalistic as everything is proved (realistic), nothing seems to be false. For objects we see a gun and bullets lying on the floor. the picture contains a person lying dead with blood splatterd on the wall

An introduction to thriller films

In this lesson we began by thought processing what we assumed what had to be included were in thrillers, theses were:
.Supernatural themes
.plot twists
.tense atmosphere
.Suspense
.Dark lighting
.stock characters
.Puzzles
.Camera shots and angles
The evidence for this was a film by last years media group, there thriller film which included these themes, the film was called 'End of the line' which we analysed to discover how and why the themes were used. It seemed the group had focused their attention on the camera angles and shots because of how cleverly organised it was and the impact it had on its viewers, for example tension was built through the fast and continuous change in camera shots.

We were then given permission to explore the other video's that the previous media students had created, which was very interesting as I was curious to find out why the groups used the techniques that they used, from my perspective camera shots and angles seemed as the most important tool to use when capturing the plot, but it as also given me and insight to the standard of my film, when I do create it.

Introduction

Hi my name is Percelle Ascott, and I am in the theatre strand and studying media as my additional studies. I am really passionate about theatre not just in the acting but the additional stuff that no one really likes which is camera work, lighting etc.
This is why I chose media as in the near future I hope to be apart of the theatre industry whether it involves acting or camera work; also I chose media as this would really benefit me when applying for university or a drama school.
In media I hope to achieve my full potential to do this i will put maximum effort into every objective that is give to us or every opportunity