What is our Thriller about?

In a single our Thriller is going to be about a mysterious person that wants to find out certain facts about our hero's life and what he has been doing.

We do not know who this person is so this is what creates a sense of mystery.

We have arranged our Thriller into around 4-5 different sections.

1st:
The first section is about how it is a happy couple walking through a forest this will then lead onto the second section.

2nd:
The second section is called the kidnapping scene this will show the hero being captured and taken to a random location that is barren from civilization.

3rd:
The third section is called the torture section. This is about the hero's life and what he has done wrong in the past few years.

4th:
The fourth section is the chase scene. This is about how our hero has escaped. It is hard to explain in words but in will be a lot more detailed in the film.

5th:
The last scene will be the reveal scene this will be the big plot twist at the of the film and how everything linked.

Shot List

Shot List
Scene	Shot Number	Description
Forest scene Kidnapping scene Torture scene Chase scene Reveal scene	1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22	Medium Shot of the Forrest Long shot of James jumping over tree branch Long shot of Matas chasing James, ducking under the tree branch. Crane shot of James jumping through a gap in a fence Crane Shot of Matas jumping through a gap in the fence Medium shot of James jumping over a ditch Medium shot of Matas jumping over the ditch Point of view shot (from James's perspective) running away from Matas. Pov shot, James turns around to see if  Matas is still chasing him, then turns back around. Close up of Matas's fist punching James in the face ( still in Pov from James's perspective) Screen goes black Tilt shot, tilting upwards from James's feet to his face which is covered by a pillow case Medium shot of the pillow case being removed from James's head. James is sitting on a stall tied up. Pan shot of Matas pointing the gun at James;s head. High Angle shot of James looking vunerable Low angle shot of Matas pointing the gun Medium shot of James standing up while Matas walks away Closer medium shot of Matas and James struggling. Screen goes black Tilt shot of Matas walking out of the door Tracking shot of Matas leaving the room and walking away with a mystery women

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

Day	Scene	Location	Equipment	Costumes	Props	Cast +Crew
1 2 1 2	Kidnap scene Torture scene Chase scene Reveal scene	Forest Ellese's shed Forest Ellese's house	Camera Torture tools - Power tools Camera Camera Camera, paper with hit note	N/A Ripped up and bloody clothes Ripped up and bloody clothes Ripped up and bloody clothes	Bag Power tools N/A Paper wih hit note or confession	Everyone Everyone Everyone Everyone

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Group Members: James, Danny, Matas, Ellese                                                                     Location: Everywhere

Hazard	Person(s) at Risk	Likelihood of Hazard 1 – Extremely Unlikely 5 – Extremely Likely	Severity of Hazard Outcomes 1 – Very Low Risk 5 – Very High Risk	Risk Level (Likelihood + Severity) 2	Measures to Take to Manage Risk	Risk Managed? Y/N
Weather - Falling over	Everyone	1-2	1-2	1	Use good grip shoes and record when its not raining	Y
Falling out of a window	James	2	3	2	Make sure to be careful and not fool around when recording that part of the film.	Y
The power tools	Everyone	1-2	2	2	Move the tool with care and dont throw them around.	Y
People or Dogs in the forest	Everyone	1-2	2	2	Make sure surroundings are empty before starting to record.	Y

Contacts

Emergency Service:     999
Robert Clack School:      02082704222, 020 8724 1100  (Upper and Lower school)
Other Contacts:  02082527207 My home phone number

Costumes and Props Sheet

Costumes and Props

Character Name:	James
Costume: Normal Clothes	Props:  N/A
Character Name:	Matas
Costume: Normal Clothes	Props: Type of bag to put over head also a fake gun.
Character Name: Ellese Lee
Costume: Normal Clothes	Props: .N/A

Location Sheet

Production Schedule Location Visit Sheet Programme Title: Disapperance Client: Matas Writer:  Danny Producer: Ellese Director: James Date: 17/12/13

Rough Sketch/Explanation of location and key points to not The main palces that we will be filming is; in a forest where the kidnapping will take place, in a empty room with no detail, the next place would be in Ellese's house when we need to do a reveal scene.   Access to location via: The access to the location will be good because we have full access to them. For example the forest we could use hanialut forest or we could also use Epping forest. Also for the empty room we can use Ellese's shed or some other dark empty room. Lastly Ellese's house because we will not have to change locations to record and it fits the approiate feel. Name and number of location contact: 0208 227 9319 (Ellese's home numner)

Health and Safety Issues to note: There will most likely be some power tools or sharp objects in the shed so we have to be careful if we need to move any of it out of the shed. Also at one point in the film I will have to jump out of the window and onto the shed roof to escape from the people chasing me so we just have to make sure that the weather isn't bad and wont cause any accidents.

Potential Filming Problems : Depending on the weather we may have to re think our recording times. This is because if it is raining it cn be bad for the camera. The rain could also be good for recording because it can give a certain mood to the film. The space issue in the shed could also be a problem.

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc) (Will update when we get to the days fo recording for forecast)

Style of editing

There is nothing much to the style of editing other than how the shots are actually linked together and what type of transaction is used to get form one scene to another.

This can mean is the transition clean and smooth or is it jagged and fast this can give the effect of emotions that the person is having in the film.

One style is straight cut this is where one shot will just instantly move to another. With no fade in or fade out just quick and straight to the point.

Speed of editing

The speed of editing is usually used to make the audience feel different things. For example if the audience are so feel suspense or anxiety then the scene should be quick. This means the scene can literally last for a few seconds and then change to something else so the audience are left thinking and worried for the main character.

However if the scene is to be more relaxed and slow then the scene can last for much longer times so they can show there is nothing wrong. For example this can be use din comedy films or romances. Or romantic comedies.

In some films the speed of editing is not even there. This is because the film was taken in one long take. This means the one person recording was the whole film. This needs split second timing and actors that know exactly what they need to do.

Speed of editing is also used in trailers as well. This is why they pack as much information into it as quick as possible. This is so the audience will be wondering what will happen next and what is actually going to happen in the film.

Usually in films there is a slow introduction so we can understand what is going on who people our and what we should be looking at for throughout the film. In summary it is the length and speed of shots and how much of an impact they can have on the person.

In conclusion speed of editing is used to be able to create different moods for the film. The diffrent moods can involve; Suspense, anxiety, pressure and a general sense of build up. It can also be used to create more calm atmospheres that are slower and gie information in a much briefer manner.

Treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography:  Danny Mise-en-scene: Ellese Sound:  Matas  Editing: James

Title:  Disappearance Tag Line: No one can find you.

Synopsis: Our thriller introduction is going to be about a couple walking through a forest when one of them our kidnapped by a random man with his face covered. Up tot his point we do not have any idea why this is happening to our hero. When he awakes from being knocked out he sees that he is in an isolated room. He is then confronted by two people shouting and interrogating him. He is still yet to understand what is going on. So at this point we see a table full of tools that would supposedly be used for torturing him but he manages to escape. This is when a slight action scene will start between our hero and the kid napper. This will break into a chase scene. Where our hero will run to his partners house and find a note or something that involves our hero doing something wrong where he is being falsely accused.

Key Genre Conventions:  The key conventions of this will be an action thriller. Also there will be a sense of mystery where we do not know what is exactly going on.

Continuity editing

Continuity editing is just simply keeping everything smooth and flowing in time. For example it would not be continuity editing if there was a bad edit in the clip. This would be if there was a cut off but you see a scene that was not supposed to be kept in the actual clip.

This can also be making sure everything is the same for different sessions. For example if on the film the person is wearing a red shirt then it says "1 hour later" then it shows the person wearing a blue shirt. This is bad because it is really logical.

An example of bad continuity editing could be in the film war of the worlds. This was when Tom cruises daughter was crouching under the table then the scene is shown again and both of the actors have moved position.

Another example could be the moment in the film Mars attacks. When the "president" does he tie and button up and looks smart. In the next scene it skips to him having his tie and button undone again so it has skipped form one thing to another. This leaves the audience thinking "Was that supposed to happen?"

Montage theory

The montage theory is mainly used when something is needed to be built up to. For example in the rocky movie he would always have a training montage before each fight. This would usually be because he knew his opponent is going to be stronger than him. So he goes through an intense workout montage this is to show his progress and strength.

In film making this is when many different shots are linked together in a short period of time. This is to take a lot of information and condense it into a small context/moment of the film. This is mainly to save time and save their budget.

This can also be used so that the story is made more intresting and the whole sequence is sped up and made much for fast paced. It can also be used to make you excited to see what happens after this montage of the person training or whatever they are doing in the montage. To see if they win some kind of competition for example.

Sound Techniques

There are different types of sound techniques two of them are diegetic and non-diegetic.

Diegetic is in the world of text and people around them can hear everything that we can hear. This can refer to if someone is mining and we can hear them hitting the stone so can the characters in the film.

Non-Diegetic this is outside of the world of text. This means only we can hear it and the people in the film cannot see it. For example in the film Jaws the music building up to the shark attack is Non-Diegetic because we can hear it but no one in the film can.

The next is on screen sound. This is when there is a sound and it is on screen so we cana ctually see the source of soiund. This could be when a dog is barking and we can see it on the screen.

Lastly is off screen sound. This is when we hear a sound but it is off screen. This could be like a train that we hear but cannot see.

These can all be mixed for example Diegetic On-screen. For example the characters can hear it as well but it is also on the screen so we can see it.

Evaluation - Preliminary Task

The story of this task was two teachers talking to each other and exchanging documents. This was simple it was more to demonstrate the techniques in the video. It was just two teachers exchanging notes to each other.

We used all of the listed techniques that were needed except the graphic match but we was told that we did not need to use it.

We used match on action by recording someone walking through the door and then the same person coming out of the door on the other side.

We used the eye-line match by recording one person looking one way and then going to the other person to record them looking around the same angle. We gave the impression that one of the people looked confused.

We used the shot reverse shot by by recording one person then recording other another person and carried on like that.

We did not break the 180 degree rule.

We did use every technique correctly and managed to edit the match on action so it looked as if they just walked through the door. We did not leave any bad edits in the recording.

By mistakes too improve we could have used a graphic match and the acting could have been more planned out throughout the recording. Next time we would make the story more planned out and it could be deeper.

Overall I think the best parts of the recording was the editing that was placed in. I was happy with this because I feel like it was continues and flowed well throughout the recording.

There are rooms for improvement throughout the whole recording. Like some of the camera angles could have been placed better and we could have implemented some of the things we have learnt previously from other tasks. Specific moments could be the match on action this could have been more fluent.

Light Sources.

There are different ways that lighting can be used.

The first way is:

To use key lighting. This is the main light and is usually the strongest this is so it can create a strong effect on the main thing it is aiming at.

The second way is:

Called BackLighting. This is to create light behind behind the person. This is so you cannot see the persons face and there will be a big shadow in front of them. This is the create a mysterious feel to the person.

The third way is:

Three point lighting. The three point lighting is used to do a light from the front the left and the right. This is so the person stands out so all light is focusing on one point. It is used in films so there are no shadows and everything in filled so you can see all of the detail.

The forth way is:

Called under lighting. This is used so that a shadow can be made on the celling. It is also used to create a slight shadow on the face of the person it is usually used to make a mysterious or scary feel.

The fifth way is:

Top lighting. This is used so that we get the light coming form above and we see a shadow on the floor that is all around. This can be used in interrogation scenes in films.

The sixth way is:

Low key lighting this is used so that not all of the light are not on. This is also creates the effect of a shadow on one half of the face.

The seventh way is:

High key lighting. This is so everything is bright and everything can be seen. There are no shadows in the shot this is because 4 lights are being used 2 from the front and 2 from the back.

Die Hard With A Vengeance Analysis

Die hard was a primary action film but also a thriller at the same time.

This story mainly involves of action scenes, fighting, explosions and guns. This is because it is an action based thriller. There are many different techniques that are used throughout this film.

The story starts of to show us Bruce Willis in a truck drunk and out of work because he has been suspended from the police force. We then get to knowing a bomb has gone of in the city and this is due to wanting revenge.

The terrorist lures out Bruce Willis by saying if he does not come out of hiding the terrorist will carry on blowing up public places if he does not come out.

Bruce Willis comes out of hiding to talk to the terrorists and find out what they really want. They tell him they want him to play along with what they are asking. He does so and complete most of the tasks. However Bruce Willis knows that he will blow up the train no matter what so he finds the bomb and throws it out of the train so no one dies when it goes off.

This was only done to actually lure him into a trap they did not actually want to kill Bruce Willis but keep him out of the way while they steal a lot of gold from a bank.

Bruce Willis then notices that it is the brother of the terrorist he had killed before. So he knows that he would be after money. He puts all of the pieces together about the subway explosion and the placement.

So because of the placement it made a hole into the bank and a perfect route for them to rob it. Bruce WIllis goes into the bank and manages to kill the fake security guards and carries onto go down into the vault to see it has been totally emptied.

He then carries onto track the bag guy he find out that he is on a big cargo boat. They go through the boat to catch him but he is caught himself. They are then sat on top of a bomb. They are told that they are going to blow up all of the gold that they stole, but because Bruce Willis knows the family and how they act he knows they are not going to blow it up and keep it for there self.

Just before the bad guy leaves he give Bruce Willis some pills. When they just escape the boat and they are getting all their injuries treated. Bruce looks on the bottom of the pills bottle and see's a location they go there and notice that they did steal the gold and are celebrating.

The last part of the film was a chase scene/ shootout. This was when the main bad guy was in the helicopter and Bruce had 2 bullets he managed to shoot some wires that fell and blew up the helicopter the bad guy was in.

The techniques that was used in this film was:
Plot twists this was because we thought that the terrorist was doing this out of pure revenge but we start to see them building up to rob the bank.

The next technique that was used was a red herring this is because we thought that Bruce Willis would be able to catch them while they are still extracting the gold form the vault but they had already stole it and managed to leave.

There was another red herring this was to blow up all of the gold that they have stolen this didn't happen because there was another plot twist that they did steal the gold just so the country and media think that they did so they became very well known people, but they really stole the gold and wanted to buy a island.

No country for old men - Analysis

In the film No Country For Old Men we have 3 main characters.

The characters are the villain, Sheriff and the normal citizen.

We start with the normal citizen we see that he is a hunter who is chasing after dear and trying to kill them for food or to sell for money. He hits one of the dear but it leaves a blood trail from where it ran. He follows the blood and it leads him to some cars that have been left alone.

As he approaches them he sees a lot of dead bodies and investigates around the area. He then notices a lot of drugs in the back of the car.

So he would think it was a drug deal that has gone wrong. He then is able to find another man who is dead holding a briefcase full of money. He then takes the money and hides.

This is when the villain comes into the story. The villain is a hired hit man who is going to try and kill the citizen. The citizen is confused on how the hit man is finding him and following him. He then notices that there is a tracker inside the briefcase.

He disposes of the tracker but as he does this he notices that the hit man is inside the building with him. So the citizen prepares himself and sit at the door holding a modified shotgun.

This then leads to the action scene this is just them shooting at each other from different places both of them got hit once by each others guns. So after this the citizen runs away in a car and the villain kills the other man in the car with him.

After this the citizen just hides and he crosses over the border to try and get away but again this does not work and he gets tracked by the villain and the private eye/ detective and the private eye was killed by the villain.

Also the villain gave the citizen a chance to save his wife but he did not take the opportunity and ended up getting himself killed and his wife killed. He hid the money in some bushes but went back to get the briefcase and got killed while he had it.

At the end we do not know who had the money. This is because we saw mexicans running form the scene of the crime but also the lock was blasted in like how the villain always done to locks. So we do not know who killed him or who had the money. The Sheriff didn't do to much through the film but at the end was talking about his dream.

There was a MacGuffin what was all the characters cared about the money but the audience wasn't to bothered about that we just wanted to know what would happen in the end and who would die and who would actually live.

In my opinion the ending of the film was very far fetched as in it didn't make a ot of sense because there was so many loose ends that needed to be tied up.

Mis-En-Scene

Mis-En-Scene is when there are two images that are there to be compared for example if we put an image of a women looking sad then we put an image next or after that of  something like a baby crying this can be suggested that the women is either happy or some way sad.

In simple terms it is the surroundings and placement of people in the set. For example the surroundings can be as follows. Red or orange can represent a warm area where it is safe. A blue area can mean a sad or cold area. For example in a film we saw a blue area where a couple was in it and could not talk to each other what suggests it also means emotionless.

Also it can be the placement of people around the set. For example a conversation could be going on and there could be someone in the background listening in on the conversation. Usually the person would be blurred out but in this case they are not this is so you look at them more what makes them more suspicious.

Another example of this could be the lighting for example low key lighting gives a effect of mystery.

Or a color effect what is called color splash this or focus this is when you make everything in the scene a dark color but then one thing stands out the most form the others. Like in a film where someone was carrying a glass of milk but we couldn't see the mans face or what he was wearing because it was blacked out. The only strong color was the white of the milk that made us focus on the glass more and try to understand what has been done to that glass for example poison.

Source Code analysis

Source code is a film that is supposed to confuse you by using a lot of different terminology. This is used it a light term here this is because it is like the main character is a person within a person within a person. That is in a universe within a universe.

The main thing it is trying to suggest by my own opinion is that anyone is anyone. As we know the main characters name is Shaun for most of the time. He is getting sent back pointless amount of times to try and figure out how to get rid of the bomb.

He dose not want to but he carries on doing it. He quickly starts to dis agree with what is happening to him and why he is doing this.

One of the biggest plot twist that was in the film was when he finds out that he is actually dead. He was in a helicopter crash and  is missing the bottom half of his body. He discovers this and does not want to be part of this experiment anymore.

This is when we get fully introduced to the leader of this operation. The boss would not let him go this is because he is one of the only people in the world who's injuries and brain stimulation to let the machine fully work.

At this point our hero called Shaun believes he can save everyone on the train. This is because he has notice he is not going back in time but rather, going to alternate universe where the events have not yet occurred. So because of this reason he wants to save everyone on the train instead of failing and letting them die even thought he job was completed and the terrorist was caught. Noe because the job was completed there is no need to send him back into the machine. So the women who talks to him throughout the whole film called Goodwin goes against the order to wipe his memory and prepare for the next job.

She ends up sending back in the save everyone on the train. Shaun successfully does this and we still think the universe is going to end, but because he has saved it the universe carries on living with Shaun in the universe. So because he has managed to do this he is in that universe living on his life as a normal person.

Techniques that are used:

One technique is a red herring. This is because we think once he saves the train that universe is over and will not continue. However because it is a real world/ train he has saved it continues like it normally would. So this tricked us by making us think the train was still going to blow up however it does not.

Also a plot twist is used in this film. This was when we think that Goodwin will not send him back to another universe however she does.

Again another plot twist is used this was when we was told there is no possible way to send a text from another universe to someone in an alternate universe. Shaun proves this theory wrong by doing it and the text basically said. He has save all of the people on the train in every universe. So when Goodwin goes to the radio/TV it talks about a failed terrorist train bombing attack.

So the source code actually works a lot better than what the creators once thought.

Psycho analysis

Breakdown:

Psycho was a film about a women who stole 40 grand from her boss and ran away and stayed at a small motel that was not easily located. The man that owned started to gain an emotional and physical attachment to the women, because of this his "Mother" became jealous of her and killed the women. The owner of the motel did not know about the money and ended up hiding the body and the money in the trunk of a car and driving it into a swamp.

The boss of the company became suspicious as he noticed that the women who stole the money hadn't returned they begun looking for her at places like her flat. As they slowly picked up the trace the private eye that was working for the women's family got to the motel and went to ask the mother some questions he was murdered again by the "mother".

The son again cleared up the dead body.

As we got to the end of the film the women's sister and partner.  Go to the house and as the sister is searching she finds a dead body. She screams and someone runs at her with a knife. Luckily the women's partner holds the person back and we see that the mother was really the son dressed up in a wig and dressing gown.

We find out that the son actually killed his mother and her new partner. This is because he was mentally unstable from when his father died. So the son homed half of his mothers mind and sometimes the mother took over the whole of his body.

So he in the end was schizophrenic, split personalities. He was never fully his self he was either half his mother and his self. Or one hundred percent his mother. 

His "mother" killed these girls because of jealousy towards them because "she" wanted it to be just him and her and no one else.

Techniques:

Some of the techniques that were used was things like: 

A red herring. This is because we thought that when the sister entered the upstairs/ basement she would be killed with a knife like all of the others but it changes and we find out she is actually dead. 

Another technique that was used is a plot twist. This is because we think it is actually the mother killing everyone but we find out it is the son. It again twists by telling us it is actually the mother killing them but in another way it isn't the mother killing them.

Other:

The fact that the film was so interesting was that we thought there was no way that the old sick mother could have killed anyone. So this is what made us stay and watch the film. This time the villain was not after anything in particular this is why we was so interests because why would they be killing people for no reason. Then in the end we find out that the son is a "mad man". Or mentally unstable.

In this film there is again no single hero. This is because most of the people that we thought could possibly be the hero would of got killed.

Also in the terms of the film being called psycho it relates to the son who is one. Even though it is truly his fault because it was the death of his father. Then his mother loving another man that drove him over the line of holding his self in.

The way that Hitchcock expressed this is what makes the film so unbelievable this is because we truly didn't expect that the son would be in that type of state. This is because we was sure that we heard him talking to his "Mother" but we know now that he was talking to his self.

The way that Hitchcock present a lot of these scenes leaves a big impact on the audience. This is because people in that time was so scared of how open they were while in the shower that they started taking baths instead. One of the people that was affected by this was one of the actors called "Janet Leigh". One of the surprising things that happened in this film was that a lot of people went to watch it because the actor Janet Leigh was in it, but she was killed around 20 minutes into the film so people didn't get to see much of her actually in the film. 

Micro Features.

Cinematography this is simply two different things brought together. 

It combines two different Greek words. One is kinema which refers to movement. The second word is graphien which means to record. 

So from them two words we can understand that cinematography is the study of recording. 

The study of recording is a very wide subject. This is because different types of recording are available. 

For example lighting can be used it recording this gives different effects on the film. If you use low key lighting. Or under lighting this is to make it seem scary because it is casting a shadow onto the ceiling.

Sound

Sound can be used in many different ways in films. This can be for example diegetic sound. This can also be off screen but we can still have an idea where it is coming form. For example lights from a fire engine. This.This is when the sound is visible from a source on screen. Non-Digetic is completely opposite this is when we can hear a sound but the source of the sound is not visible on the screen.

The next kind of sound is called. On screen and off screen. On screen sound can be when we can hear the sound and it is on the screen. The off screen sound is where we can hear the sound but it is not on screen and we cannot see the source of the sound as well.