thriller/horror movie clips

I decided to put this trailor in because when i watched it, I thought it the idea was a grusume idea which made me feel very uncomfortable, so there message to the audience worked for me. It was meant to make people feel uncomfortable but at the same time excited to see what was going to happen next. The sound in this trailor was dramatic non-diegetic music which made it clear of the genre of the movie. There was a montage sequence throughout this trailor which gave the effect of something dangerous.

I chose this clip from the ring because I thought it was clever the way the camera focused on just the feet as she was walking up the corridoor towards the mysterious noises and towards danger. The camera also focuses on the water on the floor. and this shows how the water on the floor was not meant to be there. I also liked the way the camera focused the girls hand on the door handel hesitating to open the door. This tells the audience to be scared by building up the tension. The sound in this scene is quiet slow non diegetic music. This music builds up to something bigger which is about to happen. The very first part of this scene, the sound was just the TV crackerling noises. I found this was a good effect to get people scared because it showed us that the film was about something in that TV.

I chose this because i thought the music for this was really well done by have dramstic music it built up to the major bits of this sequence. The colouring was dark so this made it clear what the genre of film this is. Monatge sequence was used in this trailor to build up tension and quick cuts were also used to tell us that it was an action piece. The way the people looked in this trailor also told us the genre.

I chose this because i thought that the music in this clip was really well done. Without the music i wouldn't think that the film was a thriller. This is because the whole set is beautiful mountains and the countryside, but when we hear the dramatic sinister music i realized the genre of the film. so i liked this because it didn't bring out the genre in a obvious way. it was subtle. I also saw that it was a triller by seeing that there was only one car driving through the deserted road in the middle of the foerest. This brought out the idea that the people in the car were no their way to something dangerous.

clips of thriller/horror movies

I chose this part of 'What Lies Beneath' because i thought the sound in this scene was really well done by them not having much sound at the begining, and then dramatic music to build up to what will eventually happen at the end of this scene. i also liked the colouring of this scene. they made it dark, with a blue tint of lighting. This gave us the idea of what genre of film this is just seeing this sequence. The camera shots in this include over the sholder shot, to show us what she is seeing in the bath, this shows us how she is feeling and it also tells us that something fearful is about to happen. The camera also focuses on just her feet at one point which makes us more curious of whats happening because we cannot see above her. Eyeline match is used in this scene also to once again show us what she is seeing.

Denotation/Connotation

 Scream:


Denotation:
Blonde girl on one side of the window, phone to her ear, with a terrified facial expression, crying.


Connotation
Blonde girl is in danger, she will die because she is the first character we see, shes innocent, man on the phone is dangerous.
 Psycho:


Denotation:
Lady in shower, black and white, naked, shocked facial expression
Connotation
her facial expression signifies that danger is approaching. The shower is also used in a lot of thrillers so this also signifies danger.

Gothika:


Denotation:
Girls back is facing camera, normal dress sense, looking at writing which looks like it is writen in blood saying, "Not One".
Connotation:
She is not alont, blood indicates danger and death.


Friday 13th:


Denotation:
Blonde lady, facing man at opposite side of car park, in the distence, facing her back toward the camera.


Connotation:
Man is mysterious, empty car park, this signifies that the blonde lady is in danger.

The Exorcist:


Denotation:
Girl with cuts, big peircing eyes, bloody mouth, pale with long red hair, a pretty blue dress on.
Connotation:
Cuts and her facial expression signifies danger, her eyes and mouth are disturbing and she has a piercing glare on her.
The ring:


Denotation:
Little girl, long black hair, pale skin, clean clothes, white long dress, clean background.
Connotation:
Girl looks pale, sick and posessed. She appears to be in a hospital. maybe a mental hospital.
Omen:


Denotation:
young boy in graveyard, sweet looking, white crosses, black suit.
Connotation:
Graveyard symbolises death, danger, death of child. the cross he is standing next to could be him...


It:
Denotation:
Clown with sharp teeth, about to bight into somthing.
Connotation:
teeth and facial expression, red mouth, nose, hair, angle meens danger. Low angle=power.
Halloween:


Denotation:
Man looking down the railings, white mask, white skin, holding knife, dark and shadows.


Connotations:
Knife=danger
Mask=mystery, sinister
High angle=danger
plain expression=he doesn't care about killing people.
H20:
Denotation:
Girl in Window, shocked, man outside, white skin, black coat, dark hair, dark outside.
Connotation:
Her expression shows that danger is about to occure and maybe death.

Narrative and Characters

Five narraitve stages are:
-Equilibrium
-disruption
-complication
-Resolution
-New equilibrium


Jaws


E=Everyone is happy, people onthe beach, sun bathing, preparing for 4th of july.
D=They find a dead body, it had been eaten by a shark. everyone panicked.
C=Do they keep the beach open?, Will more people die?, Do they kill the shark?, this leads to...
R=Decide they will keep the beach open and go out and capture the shark, kill it, and hire a shark killer.
NE=Shark is killed, shark hunter is killed, everything goes back to normal, however things have changed because of the shark being around and all the deaths occuring. this leads to new equilibrium.

Five haracters who always appear in film:
-The hero=The one who saves the day
-The villain=The evil one who causes the disruption
-The helper=The person who helps the hero on their quest
-The victim=At the mercy of the villain
-The donor=Someone who has somthing special which will help the hero.

For an example of these characters is in Harry Potter the prisoner of askarban= Harry Potter the hero, the hlepers= Hermiony and Ron, The donor= Dumbledore, the Villain=Voldamort, The victim= serious black.

Conventions of a horror/thriller

-Danger                                         -Snakes/animals
-Death                                           -Hiding
-blood                                           -Coffins
-Goasts                                         -Attic
-telephones                                    -Burrying
-guns                                             -Form of box
-the villain                                      -zombies
-knives                                          -dark hair
-screaming                                     -isolation
-spoockey music                            -dragging
-tension                                          -goodlooking male/female
-Revenge                                        -revolting male/female
-Anger                                            -first appearance=death
-violence                                         -mood swings
-dolls                                              -changing characters
-big black eyes                                -windows
-Flash backs                                    -mirrors
-clowns                                            -shadows
-happy music                                    -water/reflections
-todlers                                             -frustration
-Rape                                                -forests
-leather jacket                                    -night
-police                                               -full mood
-candle/torch light                               -shaking
-food                                                  -drinks
-Protagonist                                        -gore
-demons                                             -possession
-abandoned house                               -wealth
-fire                                                     -animal sounds
-dogs                                                   -rings
-costraphobia                                       -blue lighting/dark lighting
-numbers                                              -jealousy
-silence                                                 -orphans
- abandonment                                      -storms

-marks/blinding head lights

Thriller/horror films

We have been asked to think up 4 ideas of what we want our thriller/horror movie to be about. and once we have picked one of these idea we have to write 200 words on it.

1. a pale looking doll, who comes to life and haunts children who have seen death in their life. he shows the children their memories of the past, the horror they experience and eventually possesses the children and they end up killing the people they love and then them ending up killing themselves. The ages the children are is around 10.

2. An old mental hospital where a few teenagers go and hang out for fun, but this place has something strange about it. one girl oout of all the teenagers, starts to see strange things, lights flicker, they end up getting trapped in the hospital and as time goes on more things start to get suspicious. this girl starts to see shadows which are not meant to be there, she starts to see flickers of different, unknown faces, all the faces are pale spooky looking faces, they end up being goasts of people who died in the mental home 100 years ago. one goast ends up getting to this girl and trys to take over this girls body. there is a twist in this movie.

3. a circus- there have been murders around this town near the circus, the poilice are trying to find out the mystery but cannot work it out. it turns out to be a clown who is murdering these people, he looks like a good guy, but turns out to be a bad guy.

4. a desease comes over the world, where all the children catch this desease and get seriously dangerous, the desease is that they are constantly angry and all they want to do is kill. they try and take over the world...

The one i have chosen is the mental hospital. My idea of this Mental hospital is that a group of teanagers aged around 16-18 go to this deserted hospital to use this place for a place to chill out and smoke and drink. Once they all enter the building the door slams behind them. there are a few lights on at this time. While the lights are on one of the kids called Sarah hears something, she asks "whos there?" as soon as she says that everything becomes pitch black and the audience will not be able to see anything. However, while the blackout is occuring there are noices going on in the background. suddenly a scream and the lights turn back on again. The kids check that everyone is there and realizes someone is missing. "wheres Sarah?" One of the guys slowly scans the room with a torch and sees Sarah in the corner. She had blood dripping down her face, shes turned zombie like, and she is pointing to something behind the group. the group looks behind them and a sudden scream. this ends the first few minutes of my film. 

Prelim Post Production Blog

The purpose of continuity editing is to establish the logical coherence between shots. It also is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process. It is very important to follow a specific film language because it ensures that only the relvent story points are shown. this is to minipulate time and space in the narrative, to basically force the audience to identify with the right characters, this is to make sure that the story line is clear and that it makes sense to the audience.


for our editing we had the task to do logging shots. So we had to choose the appropriate for our film, from our various takes of each angle. The reason why rejecting and selecting the different shot choices is important is because we had to match each of our scenes together correctly to make it clear to the audience what is going on in our storyline. And so the scenes we selected were the best scene we managed to do and so that would make our project better and the ones we rejected were the scenes which did not make sense. and the scenes, which were not done very well and so if we did not reject them they would make our project a confusing piece and so we had to reject those particular shots. so rejecting and selecting shots was to let us find our best fit of the takes. So we didn't do this to just have the overall best example, we wanted it to make sense and we wanted to make the scenes fit together well.


When we organised our shots we made sure they fitted to the story line. This was very important because we had to make our film interesting and for it to make sense to the audience. so we selected are shots to best tell our story. We focused on who had the most camera time to show who was the main part of this filming and we used close ups to show the acters expression to also make the audience more interested in the storyline. these things determined the storyline in a clear way.


So while we organised our shots we had to put our shots in order to also make the storyline clearer. So certain shots had to be put into order to explain the continuity and how it controls the story and information. We put shots in order because we also wanted to show link to something in our story.


Finally we did our final cutting. This was to add on dramatic effects to the storyline. We use a montage sequence between the two people speaking to eachother to create tension in the scene. We cut to people in different areas to show where they were and what they were doing. So we cut from both characters speaking to one persons mouth to create a dramatic build up to what may happen next.

   

Preliminary Task Evaluation

For our filming project the location we did it in was in the media class room. This worked well because we had tables and chairs to use as our props on the set it also worked well because we had a lot of space to use for our piece and so this made it easier for us to think up idea to what we could do in the scenes. I was involved a lot in this project because as a group we took it in turns to film different scenes. we all did it in two's or threes so that we could help each other in what to do and give each other ideas. In filming the over the sholder shots, wide shots, I also got the chance to direct to the actor and to achieve the task of getting the perfect timing on when to say cut, or action, etc.


For the lighting we used a was a darker type of lighting because we wanted to create a darker and more serious atemosphere. We decided to use darker lighting because we wanted to make it clear to the audience to what was happening in the scenes and to see the tension between the two characters. The lighting was important in our scenes because it made it clear to the audience what type of mood the filming was in. The lighting was effective because if we did not have it, it would not be clear to the audience on what was going on and it also created the tension and atemosphere of the scenes.

 Matt Ayrton, our star in our film project.

Camera Operating

Two weeks ago we were introduced by camera opertating we were all put into groups and each group were given a camera to study. we learned all about the whiteening balence, the timecoad and the focus on the camera. We learned how to keep control of the tripod by bubbling the tripod so that the camera keeps still and so it would not move or wobble about. for bubbling there is this green circle with a bubble which we had to get into the middle of the circle so that the camera would be steady. The benefits of using a tripod was that it made the quality of filming better then if you had to handhold the camera. this is because tripods create a more steady effect. But there are also benefits to handheld camera because if you would want to create a dramatic effect in your filming. for example if you are filming a scene full of tension and drama you could create a lot of movement which tells us that the scene we are filming is an action piece and that there is tension within the scene that you are filming.


throughout our filming project we used the different types of camera angles which was part of the filming skill we are studying. We used 'Over the shoulder', 'Wide shot', 'Close up shots', etc. These camera angles created the effect of a variation of different viewpoints we had of the filming. They also taught us that without these camera techniques and angle the audience watching the film would not have a big reaction to the story line within the film. This is because these camera shot types create the effect of what mood and scene is in and it makes it clearer towards the audience what is going on in the film. For example tracking shots can give the effect of action happening within the filming. We learned about the framing and composition within the filming. This helped us understand the looking for space, head space and movement within the frame. the most important task we had to learn was the 180 degree rule. This was important because if this did not exist the audience would get confused with who was on what side of the filming. When we did our filming project we got actors and we learned what we needed to do to create a good effect on what was happening in the scene. for example we learned about spatial relationships to show what the relationship is between the two character, so for example if they were placed standing far away from each other or close to eachother this would show their relationship between the characters.


The mistakes our group made in our first practise was that we did not consentrate much on the 180 degree rule. This made our piece a lot more confusing for the audience to watch because they found it hard to understand what was going on within the filming. However next time we did this we improved on our mistakes and so it became a lot easier for the audience to understand what was going on and we also added on props like a phone, a table, a chair, etc. These props created more of an effect of what was going on. they made it more clear about what the characters were talking about and why they were talking about it.


We each direct the filming in turn to help the actors and to tell them what to do, Like when they had to start acting, etc. We said things like 'Stand By/ Standing by', 'Turn over/  Tunring Over', 'Action' and 'Cut'.

i enjoyed the experience of this project because i learned a lot more about how films work and what the fiming industry is all about. I found this project very interesting because learning about things like the different camera angles and the 180 degree rule made me learn about what they do in movies to create their effects on the audience.       

Photoshop

In photoshop the tools we used were cropping, selecting, layering, rubber which rubbed out a certain bit of an image if we did not want that bit of the image in our project. we also used tools like the fill tool which created the effect of part of an image fading into the whole image. The fill tool created the image to disolved into the image in a whole. i found this effect was effective because it made the image have an effect of a mysterious look.

The tools i found tricky to use was when we had to reflect part of our image by turning it horizontally or vertically over. i found this effect effective but it was hard to figure out how to use it. this was because to reflect our image we had to select the original image and copy and paste it to create another one of that image. We then had to make both images look exactly the same by changing the colours of the image and the contrast of the image. Eventually the reflecting project worked but it was difficult.

I found Photoshop quite easy because i had studied it before hand but there were some aspects which i did find difficult. for example i found some tools hard. like i found the selecting quite hard by getting it completely right.

I think that photoshop is useful for media because it tell us what the genre is in a movie and what tpe of movie it will be by creating the effects for the front page of a movie.

What Is A Thriller

In our lessons we have been studying the film 'The Usual Suspects'. This films genre is a thriller movie and I have descovered that to create a thriller movie there are five techniques used to create this. The lighting, the sound, Mis-en-scene, Editing and the camera angles and types. These five techniques bring out the mood of the film and it also gives the audience a bigger and clearer view of the genre and the story line of the film. With 'Usual Suspects' these techniques were all used. We studied the first 7 minutes of 'Usual Suspects' and we found out that this film is a thriller by seeing the dark lighting, dramatic musical sounding, the tracking shots of the camera, etc. The front cover of the 'Usual Suspects' showed us that it was a thriller by the big bold red writing, the five men standing in the prsion all lined up and what the five characters were wearing.

Photography and Images minipulation

Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.

 

Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.

Last week we started to learn about photoshop and how it works. We were taught how to layer different images into eachother as well as learning how to change the colour of the image to create an effect of one image. so the two images would blend in with eachother. We also learned how to cut part of an image and then copy and paste it onto another image so it can create a different image to the original one before. After that we learned how to take a bit of one image and then re-create it without having to copy and paste it. we also learned how to create four objects which was the same object before. For example we learned how to create one person into four versions of that person. we learned how to turn the layer horizontal, verticle, etc. This helped us when we had the task to create a reflextion in water of the object of our image.

About Myself

Helllllllllllllloooooooo my mates hows it going? My name is lizzy ward thomas i live in petersfield! i came from a school called Alton Convent! which was gay!! i have a twin sister who goes here as well and she is very weird... you can view her blog on here to find out. I have an older brother who is 22. I chose to study media because i liked the whole aspect of it. for example i found studying films, images, etc, very interesting. I like action movies, comedy, thrillers and romantic genres of films. The type of music i like is a mixture of pop, rock and country style music. and i like media because i like the way we really look into how people react to media and how people get influenced by media.