Treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography: Katie Gray Mise-en-scene: Katie Gray Sound: Katie Gray Editing: Katie Gray

Title: Silence Tag Line: Silence is a deadly killer

Synopsis: In the opening sequence you will see the title sequence and then you would see a family in the park and person with the camera follows them around the park, there will be a type of music box lullaby in the background quietly and it cuts to drawings done by a kid from blood of someone dead and then it would flashback to the family playing and then it would cut to another painting and then it cut to the garden but the family and zoom on the son walking back.

Key Genre Conventions: Scary music Blood Dark lighting Flashbacks Cliffhanger

Focus Group

Focus Group

My focus group showed that I had most votes on my idea 2 as it was effective and it seemed like the sort of film that my target audience would watch. It showed that the idea 2 was common cause it had the right elements of a thriller and makes the audience want to watch more so it has a cliff hanger. I had one vote for my idea 3 because that idea seemed like all the films that teenagers would watch and my idea 1 would have been popular with the girl side of my target audience as it would have been romantic and they can relate to that.

Preliminary Task

Evaluation
In this task we had to have a conversation between two people and have shots of them coming through doors, eyeline match and shot - reverse shot. I found in this task that it was quite hard to film as we did it in a big area and it had echoed a bit. We decided to not talk about why the two people were arguing as we thought it would make a good effect and the audience would want to know what is happening. I did different angles such as zoom, medium shot, long shot and a tracking shot.

Focus Group

Ideas for my opening scene of a thriller

Idea 1 - Romance/Thriller, there is a couple who are happy together and then the girl's best friend starts to get jealous and then she becomes everything like the girl and trying to take over her life; changing her looks and her style.

Idea 2 - Horror/Thriller, the beginning is a swingset swinging but no one is in the swing, you hear a type of music box music and then there is flash to a family playing outside then it fades to a finger painting made from blood then it flashes to the family outside again and you hear laughter and then fades to another painting and then it cuts to the place where the family was playing but they ain't there and all that is left is a doll on the floor .

Idea 3 - Spy/Thriller, a spy ia after some man on a train and does this sort of chase on the train and there is action music very fast pacing, and the spy chases the man off the train and on the street and loses him in the crowd.

Unknown

Unknown 

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

Director: 

Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers: 

Oliver Butcher (screenplay), Stephen Cornwell(screenplay)

Stars:

 Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones

Film has essential characteristic of a good thriller - moments of high tension.The hospital scene reaching for scissors leading to murder. Soundtrack effective disorientating sounds, Use of close up and Fast editing leading up to the escape.

Scene effective because loud booming soundtrack – disorientating  and threatening and screen dark – only shadows – indistinct – the viewer shares the main character’s confusion. You also have the car chase scene, it is very fast pacing and lots of different camera shots and angles. This shows the tension of the chase and how they are trying to escape.

Coursework

AS Coursework Thriller

The Brief
- The titles and opening of a new fiction film in the thriller genre to last a maximum of two minutes. The production itself is worth 60% of the marks. The coursework also comprises a written component on a blog, this is worth 40%.
- We have to use varieties of shot distances, holding a steady shot, framing a shot and shooting material appropriate to the task set. Using variety of shot transitions, captions and other effects and using sound with images.

Opening title sequence

Panic Room
Logo of production company
Production company presents
Film by
Characters in the film
Title
More characters
Casting by
Costume by
Music by
Editors
Production design
Director of photography
Produced by
Written by
Director

Opening title sequence

In the cut - This is the order that the title sequence was shown in this film
Logo of production company
The company presents
Film by
Characters in the film
Casting by
Music by
Music supervisor
Costumes by
Edited by
Production design
Director of photography
Screenplay
Based on novel
Executive producer
Produced by
Directed by
Title

Title Sequence

Title Sequence
A title sequence is the method by which cinematic films or television programs present their title, key production and cast members, or both, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound. It usually follows but should not be confused with the opening credits, which are generally nothing more than a series of superimposed text.
A title sequence can include the production company who have made the film, their logo, producer, director, characters in the film, who made the casting, who made the music, editor, who it was written by, executive producer and the title.

Opening thrillers

Brick
Dead body, flash backs
Extreme close up, long shot, medium shot
Cuts/ dissolves/ graphic match/ flash backs
Non diagetic

Opening Thrillers

Memento Opening
Photo of killing, gun, blood
Close ups, Medium shots
Fade and cuts
Dialogue/ non-diagetic sound