preliminary task

got a reply back from moby gratis

this is the request to use the piece of music from moby gratis, as you can see it has the name of the film and the user that requires the music.

the ident

This is what me and Chris have made for own film industry, we called it knockout as our films are mind blowing. All we need to do now is add the music and upload it to youtube.

moby gratis

this is a music website where you are able to browse through and choose a song that you will need permission to get from the site owner. Me and Chris are using this to get music for our thriller and out ident, as you can see there are many songs to chose from.

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examples of thrillers

• the silence of the lambs 1991
• se7en 1995
• rear window 1954
• taxi driver 1976
• the usual suspects 1995
• vertigo 1958
• jaws 1975
• the shining 1980
• no country for old men 2007
• the sixth sense 1999
• North by Northwest 1959
• manchurian candidate 1962
• fargo 1996
• dog day afternoon 1975
• the prestige 2006
• scarface 1983
• the birds 1963
• dial m for murder 1954
• old boy 2005
• the bourne ultimatum 2007

As you can see all good thrillers go right back to the 1950's.

The psychological thriller

The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying on each others mind, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the others mental state.
 Sometimes the suspense comes from within one solitary character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own mind. Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them
for example: Marney and spellbound

suspense in rope

Rope tells a story of two friends who kill one of their friends just to see if they can get away with it, when they have committed the murder they hide the body in a big chest which is then used as a dinner table and the suspense is introduced when a party is thrown and the table has lots of food on it and people are eating off it.

suspense and shock

Suspense: a scene in a film similar to a classroom, the camera reveals that there is a bomb under the table to the audience but the students are unaware of the bomb being there and we can see that the time of the explosion is at 10:00 and the time is 9:55 so us as the audience are thinking will it blow up or not which leaves an uneasy feeling.

shock: exactly the same scenario but nobody knows that there is a bomb and it destructs which then makes the audience jump.

opening to a thriller

The opening of a thriller is a very important part of the film as they tend to include the setting of the film, they also show the main character being vulnerable or isolated. Sometimes it may include a POV shot of the main character and it involves an element of mystery                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

recipe for a thriller

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, thrillers are called thrillers because of the techniques they contain. They contain fast-pacing action scenes along suspense. Red herrings are also involved in thrillers, red-herrings are when a hero or villain is swapped over to the opposite. For example in North By Northwest Roger Thornhill is a hero but in the film he is portrayed as the villain. In many thrillers there is a pot that is being driven by a villain. Long the way of overcoming the driven plot the hero has to accomplish obstacles in his way to achieve what they want, going back to North by Northwest Roger Thornhill has to accomplish avoiding getting killed by a plane that has been sent to kill him.

Analysis of scenes from north by northwest

• North by Northwest

The drunk driving scene is a brilliant scene in this film as it contains a lot of techniques straight away as they are dragging him to his car we can see that something isnt right in what they are doing, this is also interpretated by the music, it is a worrying-countdown sort of sound, as he is forced into the car the music gives off a confusing feel as though we was Cary Grant and its him feeling all confused in what is happening. When Cary Grant pushes the pulbatrator out of the car the music gets more intense with high pitched notes which is a scared sense because he starts to drive and close-up shot is used to show to terror and fear in Grants face and the suspensions continues to build because a POV shot is then used to show what is happening in the eyes of Grant. Another scene in this film is the plane scene, as this scene starts in the distance we see a car driving offroad towards Grant, landscape shot is used at this point to show where the car is coming from. Moments later a crop duster is seen in the distance and shot/reverse shot is used here to goes from plane to Grant showing that the plane is heading straight towards him, a brilliant moment in this scene is when Grant is running away from the plane and behind Grant we see th plane drawing nearer and nearer and it builds lots of suspense thinking weather its gonna hit him or not. Imediatly after Grant stands in the middle of the road flagging down a lorry, a freat ammount of suspense is built here because he stands infront of the lorry and the lorry continues to bib but it doesnt seem to slow down and it also does shot/reverse shot with Grant and the lorry. Also there is no music in this scen which can show that it is deserted, also there is only two lines of dialogue which means the scene was told visually like many Alfred Hitchcock scenes.

analysis of film opening to Memento

• Memento

Starts with a fade in of a picture which straight away makes the audience think what this might be and the music is sad music which enhanses what this picture may mean or be. We then see that is a blood bath in a room of what looks like a murder and the person holding the picture shakes it which could mean that it had just been taken and the photographer may be the culperate of the blood bath, the taker keeps shaking the photo and as the scene progresses we discover that it is going back in time because the picture begins to fade out and the shot goes back into the camera and we discover that the taker is the murder and it was a shooting.

definition and example of a Maguffin

A Maguffin is the plot of a film in which the audience are able to identify and in notorious (1946) the Maguffin is a spy who has to find out about a group of Nazi friends and how far she will go to find out the information she needs.

definition and examples of suspense

Suspense-a state of feeling excited or anxious about what is gonna happen next in a film or scene, for example in sabotage when the fire breaks out and Ken is given the fire extinguisher we are on edge as to weather it will work or not. In children of men a suspense building scen is the car scene, and Jullian is shot and we are unaware of weather she is gonna make it alive after the shot. Finally in rope, suspension is in the opening scene, as we hear the scream we wonder what it is that behjind the curtain.

types of thrillers

• Action Thriller-Taken
• Conspiracy Thriller-edge of darkness
• Crime Thriller-Silence of the lambs
• Erotic Thriller-Eyes wide shut
• Legal Thriller-A time to kill
• Political Thriller-The ghost writer
• Psycholigical thriller-psycho
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chuck jones and the rules

• Some film makers will claim that 'there are no rules' or that 'rules are made to be broken'. However most would agree that there are certain conventions that mainstream films observe in order for them to be acceptable to the mass audience.
  A man named Chuck Jones made certain rules for the road runner cartoon which he created..              Road runner cannot harm or upset the coyote except by going ‘Meep Meep!’
• No outside force can harm the coyote only his own ineptitude or the failure of ACME products.
• The coyote could stop anytime if he wasn’t a fanatic.
• No dialogue used ever except ‘Meep Meep!’
• The road runner must stay on the road – otherwise, logically, he would not be called a road runner.
• All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters – the south west American desert.
• All materials, tools, equipment, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from ACME Corporation.
• When ever possible, make gravity the coyote’s greatest enemy.
• The coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

Alfred Hitchcock the master of suspense

Made 52 in 50 years of his filming career. He first started making silent films and became making psychological thrillers in 1956. Towards the end of his career he became known as the greatest british film maker. He claimed himself to be a typed director quoting that if he made Cinderella the audience would be looking for a dead body in the coach. His top films were: rear window, vertigo, notorious, north by northwest, shadow of a doubt, the 39 steps, psycho, rope, dial m for murder and lifeboat. Most of Alfred's Hitchcock films contained a character who gets framed for a crime they didn't commit.

conventions in psycho

the conventions contained in psycho are a few. Suspense is involved all throughout the film, fast paced action scenes are also used for example in the shower scene the shots are all quick and fast. Also there is a curious character who is Norman.

thriller conventions

thriller conventions are what we as the audience want in a thriller, these are:

young naive protagonists

flashbacks 

fast paced action scenes

suspense

hero wins

double agent beginning

curious character

mysterious enigma

false hero

resourceful

villain shady past