Link To The Group Evaluation

http://ascvhsmediajall.blogspot.com/

This link goes to Blue Productions blog which shows our group evaluation that we have done.

Final Cut - Film Opening - Blue Productions - Tick List

2nd Rough Cut - Film Opening

1st Rough Cut - Film Opening

Character Profiles.

Within the film opening we are going to introduce three of the main characters with some dialogue and another main characters but only for a brief second without any dialogue. The main characters will be the mother, father and the little girl, and then we have the brief encounter with the villain.

During the opening of the film we will see four different news reporters three of which will be in a studio and one out in a field where the last sighting of the girl was.

I have thought about the types of people I would like to play these eight characters down to there clothing, hair colour and personality that comes across to the audience.

Little Girl.

For the little girl I would like her to have long brown hair, not too short about 10 – 13 years of age. Her personality has to come across to the audience as being bubbly and lovely the type of child that would have lots of friends. She would need to be loud and clear when reading the script and would need to be able to take direction, I did think about having a younger child but due to the taking of direction it would be better for her to be 10 – 13. This is a picture of a girl who is in the media already she is the type of child I would like to play the part in my film.

Mother

I would want the mother to have brown hair, and in there late thirties to early forties. Again she should have a bubbly personality, caring and very mothering. She needs to be very loud and clear in the dialogue and needs to be able to take direction. This is a picture of what I would the mother to look like in the film.

Father

For the character that is the father I would like someone who can play a serious part as well as being kind, caring and fun. He needs to be very business oriented. He needs to be tall with brown hair and between the ages 40 - 45. This is a picture of what I would like the father to look like.

Villain

The villain has to be of average height, big built in the arms and body, between the ages of 40 - 45. He has to have a fierce personality which would be revealed during the rest of the film when he is properly introduced to the audience. He has to have a deep voice to make it sound more frightening for the girl playing the part of the other character. This is a picture of what I would like the villain to look like.

Within the opening we see four different news reporters I have got pictures of what I would like them to look like. I would like them to be between the ages of 25 - 45 so they can give a mature and serious performance.

News Reporter 1

News Reporter 2

News Reporter 3

News Reporter 4

Comparison of my ideas to other films.

I have looked at two psychological thrillers and analysed them, I have then compared them both to the ideas that I have for my own film.



I've analysed up to 3 minutes.
The titles that have been used are written so that the words are shown backwards on the screen. Slow and quiet music has been used to make the opening seem eerie to help with the genre of the film. Non-diegetic sound effects have been used of birds and crickets as well as creaking noises again this adds to the genre of the film. The opening is set in a forest, its fast pace as we see the running of the main character. The opening has a great use of open narrative.



I have analysed up to 2 minutes.
The titles that have been used are very basic and are just black block capitals. The opening is set in a graveyard and then changes to a road which then helps to keep an open narrative as the audience doesn't know what is going to happen. It starts of black and white and then blurs into colour. The opening has music of which we hear trumpets and then diegetic sounds of church bells and children singing.

I have chosen to analyse these openings as they are both completely different from each other but they have some things that I can compare to my film opening.
The Titles in the silence of the lambs are written backwards to go with the theme of the film, I think that they must make more sence during the rest of the film.

This is the same as our film as we want to use a handwritten type font to go with the theme of the tick list.
Within the opening of straw dogs it starts off with the scene in black and white and we want the part with the CCTV footage in black and white as well.

We want to start the opening with a montage of news reports with flashes of photos of the missing girl, CCTV footage of when she was last seen, and information of what she looks like. We then have a clip of the girl in her bathroom cleaning her teeth when she bends down we see a villain in the mirror and then when she gets back up hes gone. The audience is then shown a conversation between the parents and the child at the breakfast table before the girl goes to school. We have a good open narrative and the music we are going to use we start of slow and quiet and as the montages get quicker the music will get quicker as well and it will also get louder.

Analysis of 2 Psychological Thrillers

This is the best video I could find for the film, the sound isn't completely in sync and it has subtitles but I was still able to analyze it.

Triangle (2009)
The titles that have been used look really basic but the way they appear on the screen is really effective. We see small white block capitals which appear on a black screen, once they appear they then split so we see three of the same title, the two that have split off of it then disappear and the middle one stays for a while before fading out itself. Having the three titles could represent the three sides of a triangle which then fits with the title and the fading out and disappearing may fit with the storyline.
The opening is made up of short clips the first being the two characters is a dark room and then the rest both in the house and the garden, in-between each clip the titles are shown this helps the audience to think about the clip they've just seen while looking at the titles.
A house and garden has been used for the setting of the opening but the first clip that we are shown is in a dark room. The dark room shows the audience that something bad is going to happen or is happening whereas the house and garden shows everyday life.
Within the opening we are introduced to two characters these being a little boy and his mother. Not much is given away about the characters which really helps to keep an open narrative but what is shown keeps the audiences attention and makes them want to carry on watching.
Within the opening we see a variety of sources of water such as a swimming pool, sprinklers, tears and paint, water is a key representative of psychological thrillers so it helps to portray the genre.
The atmosphere is made to make the audience feel quite strange, its very quiet and the mother seems to be worried and panicky which puts the audience on edge and wondering what is happening and what is going to happen.
Slow quiet music is played through the opening, with use of a woman singing a lullaby. It is backed my piano to make it eerie, we also hear the diegetic sound of water at times and the diegetic dialogue from both the characters.
Open narrative has been used, the audience can start to piece together the storyline of the film through the opening but wouldn't have a clue on what is going to happen further on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf-ZwM-3X1w
The embedding has been disabled on this video and I wasn't able to find another one like it on YouTube.

Cube (1997)
The use of the titling that the opening uses is great, it fits perfectly with the name of the film and its really creative at the same time. They've used a white screen and one by one small rectangle and square blocks appear on the screen to make up the title, this then makes the title look 3D. The screen then goes black and the edge of the letters are then white to give it a shadowed effect.
The opening starts straight away with a cubed room, we then see further on in the opening that the room leads into other cubed rooms through small tunnels in the walls. This use of setting confuses the audience and really gets them thinking, no other settings have been used through out the opening so it really helps with the narrative as nothing is given away to what is actually happening and how the characters have got into the rooms in the first place.
The openings starts with an eye opening and then reveals a man lying on the floor of the cubed room. The audience has no indications of who the man is, what he is doing there or why. The character seems to be very confused and scared with shows the audience that maybe he has the same questions as the audience themselves.
The themes of the opening help to also get the audience thinking, the rooms are cubed and have a set of squares on each wall including the floor and ceiling. Each room that the audience is introduced to is a different colour, the man starts off in a white room, he then opens one of the tunnel doors to find a blue room which represents the main colour of the genre, then a red room which connotes death and murder and then finally an orange coloured room, this is the room that the man then enters and gets killed in. This could then mean that the colours of the rooms are a trick and that the man avoided the red room due to the colour but thought that the orange one would be ok.
The opening gives a strange atmosphere, it makes the audience feel on edge as there is no indication on what is going to happen next but it also feels lonely due to the character being on their own.
Throughout the opening we here non-diegetic noises which sound like wind from out side the room, odd creaking and other strange noises are also used.
Finally there's a perfect example of an open narrative that has been used as hardly anything has been given away so the audience has no idea what is going on or what is going to happen in the rest of the film.