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Watching our film

Ali decided he would edit, as he has the most experince in editing. He edit the film and showed us in our media lesson. We found that overal editing was done very effectively. But some faults where spotted, my group found there was a shot where Shadei was wearing to two differnt types of dresses. We decided we shall fillm the scene again we the scene was not continuous. Overall the overal film was very well put together and edited but some scenes where to long and made the audince loose itnrest. So the scene with be shortend down, to keep the audince watching.

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Identity was directed by Dough Liman and released in the year 2002. The movie is based on the novel which has the same name by Robert Ludlum in the early 1980’s at the height of the Cold War. The book has also generated a television series and several more books. The opening of The Bourne Identity contains a fast-paved and exiting action sequences.






From watching the film, i have made the following notes:

I feel the opening of The Bourne Identity has inspired my opening. The constant darkness entwined with eerie background music is effective. This has inspired me to use this in my film, to use dark and an eerie background music to build tension. The films use of non-digetic has also shown me how effective it can be to build tension up. I also feel the use of foreign lanuage has given me more support to my idea of the main charector speaking in a foreign lanauge.

Thriller Research - Physco

I felt to gain some inspiration into my groups opening, i felt it would help alot to watch a physcological thriller. I watched Physco by Alfred Hitcock.

The camera
Through the opening credit the camera doesnt not move or change angle. The credits are shwon right infrorm of the audince and in the center of each shot. The director has fone to bring out the importance the title. I feel this has inspired me to create opening credits which are centered, so the audince can see the importance of the production company, film tittle and actors.

Editing
The title seqquence of Physco only consits of short takes all followed by straight cuts. The effective editing is combined which non-digetic sound. From this the audince feel they know the pace of the narrative to be quite fast. This builds up suspence and tension for the audince and the a surprise is also built up. This has inspired me how effective non-digetic music can create tension and suspence. Also by the use of fast paced non-digetic music just in the opening creditds, sets the pace of the film. It has given me more inspiration by a convention often tied in with thrillers. Thorugh the opening credits, the audince can gain an insight to the narrative and can have an idea what the film is about. in my opening i have been inspired to make my opening credits build up tension by the use of non-digetic music. This will give the audince an idea what to expect. I will also make sure the font is clear and bold to emphasize the production company name, film name and actors name.

Mis-en-scene
The title sequence only consits of opening credits and straight lines. The straight line are
simple yet effective. Its give the idea to the audince that the open credit can show a lot
and communciate a lot to the audince. In Physco the interlocking opening credits, show
straight line which communicate normality and stiffnesss, this theory is supported when
the credits lock in with each other smoothly. This idea is put next to when the lines of text
do not me smoothly, this represents to the audince that narrative is abnormal. This has
inspired me. For my opening i will take into account these princples and posible tweak
them a bit. In my opening credits i will use two colours to show good and bad, with a
white background to show some innocence.

Titles
The titles use are of white text on a black background. Most of the titles are centrlaized in the frame.
The chosen colours show s purity and innocence. The word Physco is distorted. I feel the director
has chosen to show the innocence and purity has been lost in this text. This gives an indication of
the narrative. This has inspired me to possible use two colours ona certian coloured background
to communicate to the audince a clear message of innoncence and negativity.

Thriller Research - The Silence of the Lambs

For some reserch in class we watched silence of the Lambs (1990), it is regarded as one of the best physchological thrillers ever made. It won Oscars for the best actor, actress and best film.

The opening

We see a charector runnign through a wood on an assualt course. The music from the start is an erie peice of classical music which is intimidating unsettling. In face we are waiting for somthing to occur. This makes us predict somthing in the visuals.

The interview

The soundstrack plays as she walks towards Hannibal Lecter. It is used to unsettle the audince without going to its full tempo.

Howard shore

The escape scene

The scene opended with digetic classic music playing. This suggests a peaceful scene. The high tempo soundtrack creates immediate anxiety and tension. Then the high tempo music stops and the classical non-diget music comes back.

Buffalo Bill is killed

As Clarice struggles around in the dark the sound builds again until she shoots him and then dies down.

The audince is familar with the soundtrack from its use of key moment in the film. its very lould which can be draining.

Overal i have learnt from this lessons that the use of good music keeps the audicne watching and builds and relaxes the audince. I will take this into account when it comes to the editing process of my film and looking for music to use in my film. I feel the silence of the lamb is a good example of how effective music is used to heighten tension. I feel i will carry out more soundtrack reserch in future posts to gain more of a knowledge on an effective soundtrack. In my next post i will look at the opening of a well known thriller by the man who pioneered phyological thrillers Alfred Hithcock movie Physco.

Script (update)

As we tried to sitck very closey to our script. But through this process, that not everything goes to plan. Below is a new updated version of our script, updates where carried out as the script was to long for an opening:

(2sec shot)- 3 men getting prepared for something, looking dodgy.Audience is left in uncertainty as to what.

(5sec shot)- Girl walks along a road at night, talking with her mum in a foreign language (subtitles are included in shot). The girls name is Shadei.

shadei: "Salam maman, "(mum speaks)" are residam ghorbunet, nigaran nabash enghadr. Dirooz saate 11 sobh residam Landan, mehdi omad dumbalam foroodgah.

(2sec shot)-men putting on gloves/shirts.

shadei: Na maman nigaran nabash pool daram. Alan dooste Mehdi mano davat karde restaraunt, daram miram sare kare mehdi ke ba ham berim restaraunt.

(2sec shot)- Men putting on balaclavas/masks/aprons.

shadei: man bayad beram maman, mobilam battery nadare, az restaraunt residam khone ba telephone khone behet zang mizanam".

(2sec shot)- one of the men is shown holding a tool

(3sec shot)- Girl still walking down the road, girl looking slightly frightened, and looks behind her to see if anyone is following her.

(2sec shot)- Guys in the van, a short shot of there hands about to open the door,audience is given idea that something bad's going to happen.

(1sec shot)- A close up of Shadei's face for just less than a second,more of a flicker of her face rather than an actual 1 second shot. This will help to create a sense of fright as it is going to be such a quick shot.

(1sec shot)- Guys jump out of van, grab Shadei and struggle to keep her quite while getting her back into the van as she is fighting them of.

Shadei:Velaaaam

Kon!Naaaa!Velam Konid!Komak!HELP HELP!" (speaks inforeign language, when she shouts "help"- she says it with an iranian accent.)




NEXT SCENE-LOCATION:(van)-

Ted's hand is covering shadei's mouth, but we still see her attempting to scream. Guy (2) passes rope to ted. Guy (3) holds Shadei as guy (2) and Ted try to wrap the rope around Shadei's mouth to stop her from screaming.

Ted: "Get me something to cover her fucking face! Now!"

Filming - Final session

Our final day of filming was upon my group. We met up in ponders to carry some scenes. Which needed improving. As it was raining was decided we would carry out somesshots of the men attacking Shadei in the van. We used effective shots and lack of natural light, but the use of the vans light provided us with good light source. The lighting was very effective as the lack of it gave the shot more of a scary feel to it. As the weather died down, we decided to film shots which we needed to do agian. It was the shot of Shadei walking and talking on the phone. We knew this was an important shot and felt the use of the tripod helped to improve the shot a lot. We filmed this shot a few times and then we filmed the major scene was grabbing shadei and being put in the van. We felt as we was filming at night the lighting worked very well and produced a very good look to the scene.

As a group we felt we put a lot of effort in and done quite lot in short of what we had of two hours. We used our time effetivly my our group planning out well, helped a lot.