Camera Exercise
In one of our lessons we had to experience using the camera angles and movements. This is my groups video we had made. We edited it on Final Cut Express and then we uploaded it to Youtube. Enjoy.
Friday, 26 October 2012
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Thriller
Psycho
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.
The young woman was on her way to her lovers and had to stop at a motel where she met a young man who owned the motel and offered to have dinner but the mother doesn't like it so he brings food down to her, after she goes back to her room to have a shower and this is where she gets killed by the young mans mother. this is the most famous scene of all horror scenes, where the person gets in the shower, the door opens and someone comes in and opens the curtain and you see the person scream and then show them getting stabbed to death by the killer, with fast pacing shots and movements.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Casting: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Janet Leigh
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Casting: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Janet Leigh
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Thrillers
Many films have a MacGuffin; a MacGuffin is a plot element that catches the viewers attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.
The defining aspect of a MacGuffin is that the major players in the story are (at least) willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to obtain it, regardless of what the MacGuffin actually is. Sometimes the MacGuffin is ambiguous, villains want money, power, victory etc.
The MacGuffin is usually shown at the beginning, sometimes the end or its forgotten.
Hitchcock defined a MacGuffin as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what that object specifically is, he declared, "the audience don't care".
Many films have a MacGuffin; a MacGuffin is a plot element that catches the viewers attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.
The defining aspect of a MacGuffin is that the major players in the story are (at least) willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to obtain it, regardless of what the MacGuffin actually is. Sometimes the MacGuffin is ambiguous, villains want money, power, victory etc.
The MacGuffin is usually shown at the beginning, sometimes the end or its forgotten.
Hitchcock defined a MacGuffin as the object around which the plot revolves but as to what that object specifically is, he declared, "the audience don't care".
Thriller
"North by Northwest"
"Devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers are used extensively"
In the film, there is actually a cliff hanger where Roger Thornhill and Eve Kendall are literally hanging onto Mt Rushmore. There is also a red herring where we a thought to believe that Eve Kendall was helping Roger Thornhill but was actually on the villains side and we then found out that she was actually an agent who was investigating the Phillip Vandamm situation.
"A thriller is a villain driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles the hero must overcome"
The villains kill the real Mt Townsend when Roger Thornhill is with him so it looks like he killed him and he must overcome being chased by the police; so this is the villain creating obstacles for the hero to overcome.
"Devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers are used extensively"
In the film, there is actually a cliff hanger where Roger Thornhill and Eve Kendall are literally hanging onto Mt Rushmore. There is also a red herring where we a thought to believe that Eve Kendall was helping Roger Thornhill but was actually on the villains side and we then found out that she was actually an agent who was investigating the Phillip Vandamm situation.
"A thriller is a villain driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles the hero must overcome"
The villains kill the real Mt Townsend when Roger Thornhill is with him so it looks like he killed him and he must overcome being chased by the police; so this is the villain creating obstacles for the hero to overcome.
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"North by Northwest"
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
This is a thriller because the film is "characterised by fast pacing and frequent action"; this is down by the Mr Thornhill being chased by a crop duster aeroplane, when he was being chased at the train station, an actual 'Cliff hanger' on Mt Rushmore.
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
This is a thriller because the film is "characterised by fast pacing and frequent action"; this is down by the Mr Thornhill being chased by a crop duster aeroplane, when he was being chased at the train station, an actual 'Cliff hanger' on Mt Rushmore.
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RECIPE OF A THRILLER
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres.
Thrillers are characterised by fast pacing frequent action and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains. Devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers are used extensively.
A thriller is a villain driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles the hero must overcome. The genre is flexible and can engage the audience through a dramatic rendering of psychological, social and political tensions. Hitchcock said thriller allow the audience "to put their toe in the cold water of fear, to see what it's like".
An example is House at the End of the Street, they created tension when the mother woke up and looked out the window to see a house put on a light at 3am when there wasn't meant to be anyone in the house as it was abandoned.
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres.
Thrillers are characterised by fast pacing frequent action and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains. Devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers are used extensively.
A thriller is a villain driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles the hero must overcome. The genre is flexible and can engage the audience through a dramatic rendering of psychological, social and political tensions. Hitchcock said thriller allow the audience "to put their toe in the cold water of fear, to see what it's like".
An example is House at the End of the Street, they created tension when the mother woke up and looked out the window to see a house put on a light at 3am when there wasn't meant to be anyone in the house as it was abandoned.
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