Police Raid

Police Raid Outfits

• For one of our scenes we have a police raid on Martlet Lodge where around 5 policemen/woman barge into the house, finding Graham Harvey in the mental asylum and taking him out.

As we don't have actual police costumes we need to create costumes that are as authentic as possible so the scene seems more realistic.

In this picture it shows a police raid where the police are wearing all black. We won't be using riot shields or helmets as props as we aren't trying to create a violent police raid as Mr Harvey won't have any weapons on him in Martlet Lodge.

We will need to have our characters wearing dark black clothing and big black boots if possible,  however we can't expect all our actors to own this type of clothing so we are going to have to get the costumes as close as we can in this short period of time we have for them to be filmed.

Here in a video of an actual police raid. We won't be able to use items to break through windows in our location as it isn't owned by us so we will need to have the shot of the scene showing medium close up's from behind the police officers so we can't see any damage being caused to the building however the audience will get the feeling that this is what is actually happening.

The scene of the police raid won't be very long, they'll be walking in to find Graham sitting on his old patient bed smiling to himself. In this scene we will be using tracking shots to follow the 'police' through the building and up the stairs until they find Graham without showing shots of their faces.

-Megan

Primary School Permission

Part of our film takes place in a Primary School, so I made contact with my previous Primary School asked them if we could have permission to use their reception area to film.

Waiting for confirmation

Beth

Risk assessment on Martlet Lodge

Martlet lodge has a lot of risks that will need to be checked out before filming can take place.

Martlet Lodge

The first risk is getting across the fence, this involves climbing through a hole without getting any splinters, long trousers and jumpers will need to be worn. These clothing items are essential as we will be around a lot of stinging nettles before we make it to the back of the house. At the back of the house we will need to climb through a window without glass. Loose glass could be sticking out of the window and therefore we need to be very careful, and defiantly with looking after an 11 year old while in the building. Wearing a pair of gloves may be an idea.

There is glass on the floor on the ground floor due to smashed windows which have now been boarded up, safe shoes need to be worn so that glass can't go through the bottom of them, leather shoes would be most advisable.

The ceiling has many holes in where the boards have fallen down, there is a very low chance of any more boards falling out but we'd need to be wary about where the ceiling looks worse as if some ceiling came down on our heads it could be very damaging. This is a risk concerning both floors of the building however the first floor ceiling seems much more secure than the lower floor ceiling.

The floor is very uneven in certain places so we need to be careful where we are treading as not to trip over anything. The floorboards are all in place however the ground floor is full of old loose wooden panels that scatter the floor. Also, as the building hasn't been cleared out since it's closure in 2007 many old tables and chaires are starting to rot away and broken pieces of furniture fill quite a lot of the spaces. In the kitchen and the old clinic the floor has no floorboards and is very muddy underneath which is quite sticky mud so we need to be careful where we are treading when around these areas.

The old clinic is still full of medical equipment like syringes and needles so we need to be careful not to touch these in the unlikely case of contracting any illness or diseases. 

Some parts of the building are very dark due to wood being used to board up some windows that are broken so we need to make sure we bring torches and also have the right lighting equipment for our film so it won't be in complete darkness. 

Stairs

There is a 'caution steep stairs' sign so we need to be careful when walking up and down these however the stairs are completely stable and secure compared to the floor everywhere else. These stairs can be a bit slippery when rain gets in through the broken windows so we need to be walk up them slowly rather than any running which could cause injury.

Even though the electricity has been turned off in the building we need to be careful around the mains electricity box and around loose wires that have been cut to stop electricity passing through as they can be dangerous if there is any high voltage around any open wires. However, in an outside workshop room the electricity has been rewired so the lights and heating now works in there, this may have been a room that the builders used while they were closing down the building. 

Seeing as we are entering the building, people before and after us will have too so it'll be advisable for us to walk around in groups of 2 in the unlikely event there is someone else in there as it's a perfect place for squatters to go due to the beds and is quite warm. However, I've been in there many times and I have come across no one else in there before. 

We need to be careful when transporting our camera, tripod and lighting equipment into the building and around it so it doesn't get broken. We will need to find a spot to place the tripod where the floor is flat and there's no worry that it'll fall over at any point.

As a lot of patients old documents are still in there we need to be careful to get none of there personal information in shots by accident as it is a breach of their privacy as we have no permission. 

We can't take anything from the building as it's not ours and is illegal to do so, everything should be kept where we found it or if moved, placed back as soon as we are done. 

-Megan 

Location

Outside View

Outside View

Front View

Inside

Inside

Inside

Inside

Inside

We tried multiple times to get a hold of the owner of our first location idea, Linden House, however we kept getting passed round to different companies and now we are in our filming stage and need to sort out our location.

However, as we're running out of time I started to explore other possibilities to locations that would fit the setting as a psychiatric ward/hospital where Graham Harvey is found, in the same room he was assigned to 7 years before. I came across this building just down the road from me that is an old sanitarium where patients were kept that had tuberculosis a couple of years ago. 

This building is easy to access and doesn't require permission to be entered as long as nothing is disturbed or taken from the building while we are there.

The building is very secure, however health and safety risk assessments will need to be carried out due to their being a lot of rubbish scattered on the floor downstairs, and there is a lot of broken glass around.

Becky and Beth drove to the location on Thursday the 26th of February, and the entire group will return on Friday the 27th. The location fits in perfectly with our plot and so we would really love to be able to film there.

Megan and Beth

Follow-up Linden House call

I found a number on Linden House advertising the security company that looked after Linden House and called them up and left my details with them and I'm hoping they'll get in touch with the owner for me and get back in contact with me so we're one step closer to having an opening for our film. 
Bad editing quality on my Ipad and ill voice..

Megan

Interrogation Scene

This is an interrogation scene from a Palestinian film that came out very recently. 

This scene is set in a police station like ours will be in Haywards Heath Police Station.

I like how the lighting is used in this clip because the background is dark to make is seem more intimidating and the characters stand out more. Even though we can't understand what they're saying we can tell from their facial expressions what they are feeling.

I want to use the shot reverse shot technique that is used in this scene to make it seem more dramatic. The close ups of the guy lets us see that he feels tense, but he is trying to hide the look and seem innocent. He looks calm in the scene which Graham Harvey will also look in our film opening as he doesn't have anything to hide and admits everything. 
I also like the idea of having silence surrounding the characters rather than non-diegetic music being played for the audience as it makes if seem more tense and realistic.  

Megan

Bruised Make-Up

The Character Iona is beaten and killed by her father and therefore would have bruises on her body, including her face. So to make the opening of the film seem more realistic I have tested make-up styles on her face to create the illusion of being bruised and battered by Graham Harvey

I did her bruises using the make-up displayed in the picture. I used a variety of purple and brown eye-shadows and lipsticks to bring out definition in the bruises. 

Iona's full face bruised

Bruised eye

Bruised Cheek

                          Bruised face                  
                   

-Megan

What is a target audience for a thriller?

• It really depends on the kind of thriller film. Like all genres, there are sub-genres and to really give an accurate answer to my question i would need to specify what kind of thriller film. 

• Silence of the Lambs and No Country for Old Men are considered the two best thrillers in recent memory... and they're rated R. Their target audience was probably for the young male adults. 

• Meanwhile, there are those thrillers that are borderline horror films, such as M. Night Shyamalan films The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village. Since they're close to horror (and horror films target teenage girls), the demographic would be slightly different... probably younger and more female based. 

• And then there are legal thrillers (Fracture, Runaway Jury) and crime thrillers (Memento, Se7en) that target a more mature audience... and classic thrillers (any Alfred Hitchcock film) that are rated PG, but are intended for adults. 

• But if i just need a target audience for a generic thriller film... I'd have to say the young adult demographic from 18-25. That's my opinion.

becky

What is Chronological/non-chronological order?

• the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.
• organized by time/date, which can be either with most recent on top of the pile and going back in time (called reverse chronological order). or starting with the beginning and moving forward, depending on what it is. For instance your phone messages are in chronological order with most recent on top. A medical chart is always in reverse chronological order as is classic design of a resume; but history timelines usually want to start at the beginning and move forward. History in general likes to start at the beginning and move forward. A crime investigation starts at the point of the crime and moves forward.
• temporally sequential, from earliest to latest (as opposed to reverse chronological order which would be from latest to earliest), although a lot of people tend to use the term more generally meaning alphabetically and/or numerically, from first to last and/or least to greatest.
• In media and film , this means the order in which the series of events in the film are presented to an audience. if the film is chronological, then we see and order of the protagonists journey from start to finish, if its non-chronological or reversed, the it does not and flash backs may appear or the film may begin and the end and finish at the beginning.

becky

What is Plot?

The events of the story that we are shown, and that 
have been organised chronologically or non-chronologically 
for the narrative.

Becky

What is Story?

• All of the events of protagonist/s' lives in chronological order

 Thriller films may re-order the story in order to engage the spectator in an active relationship with the text 

Creating some confusion like this or raising questions are important 

thriller techniques - to keep us on the edge of our seats, and to keep us 

• This is the creation of AN ENIGMA CODE (Theory from the literary 
• theorist Roland Barthes). See your handout for more information on 
• Barthes' theory of Enigma and Action Codes.

Becky

What Is Film Narrative?

• A film narrative is the story that the movie is telling, whether that narrative is linear or fractured.

•  A chain of events in a cause-effect relationship, occurring in time and space. A narrative is not a random string of events.
• A narrative (or story) is any account of connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words, or in a sequence of (moving) pictures
• ‘Narration’in film is the telling of a story,through a 
• combination of audio/visual techniques(sound and vision).
• Remember how a camera can communicate a perspective?
• The camera can be a'subjective'(personal pov)oran
• 'objective'(omniscient-all knowing/seeing)narrator.
• This places us as 
• spectators in the film,giving us a preferred attitude in relation 
• to character.

Becky

Story

Story

Graham Harvey was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic at the age of seventeen. After trying counselling and various medications, Grahams condition continued to further decrease rapidly, which resulted in him being placed into a mental asylum, Linden House. After spending four years confide to a cell with minimal contact with the outside world, Graham was eventually released. Struggling to come to terms with the world outside of the building, further counselling sessions and support meetings were set up in order to help him find his feet, and he was placed on medication to help control the paranoia he was constantly feeling.

After managing to secure a job as a warehouse assistant for a local retailer, Graham's confidence increased and he soon found himself many close and supportive friends, one of which being Sophia. After pining over her for almost six months, Graham finally found the courage to tell her how he felt, and to his luck and surprise, his feelings were reciprocated. A year on, the couple married and at the age of 24 Sophia gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Iona, where they then relocated from Haywards Heath to the town of Crawley.

Satisfied that he had managed to turn his life around, at the age of thirty two Graham, with the support of his family, stopped all counselling sessions and took himself off of his medication. However, after just four months he found himself reverting back to his old ways, and his actions began to worry Sophia. Convinced the voices inside his head had returned, Graham became violent towards his wife and daughter, claiming that he was following the instructions of the Devil. Fearing for her daughters safety, the pair separated nine months later, and Sophia left with Iona to live with her mother. After a lengthy and stressful two year divorce process and custody battle, at the age of thirty five, Graham was denied all contact with his now eleven year old daughter.

Devastated and unable to convince the judge that he was fit to be around his daughter, Graham devised a plan to kidnap Iona. Breaking conditions of the divorce and all restrictions placed upon him, he waited outside Iona's primary school, claimed he was Sophia's brother and had come to take her home, before leading her towards his car and driving her to his house. There he tried reasoning with Iona, attempting to convince her that everything she had been told about him had been a lie. But when she tried to leave he grew angry and frustrated. As she desperately tried to make for the door he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her to the ground where she then hit her head and was knocked unconscious. Horrified by the way he had behaved, Graham began to panic, and the voices that he had tried so desperately to control returned, and before he knew it he was carrying his unconscious daughter to the only place he knew he would be safe.

***

Running late due to a meeting she was unable to leave work, Sophia called Iona's primary school to inform them she will be picking her daughter up slightly later than usual, but was told that her brother had already collected Iona. Confused, she rang her brother, only to find that he had been up North for the last two days because of work, and wasn't due home until the following day. Extremely panicked by this point, Sophia then alerted the police where an immediate search party was organised. However, the police already had their prime suspect.

Aware of what Graham was capable of, they rung up the warehouse he worked in, only to find that he hadn't turned up for work that day. With alarm bells now ringing frantically, the search was on to find Graham Harvey.

After two days of searching the police found nothing, and with the case being now high profile, they became desperate for any information. After thoroughly searching all over Crawley and the surrounding area, the police, as one last desperate attempt, asked Sophia if there was anywhere she could think of that he might possibly be, anywhere that had any specific importance to him or anywhere that he he had briefly mentioned before. And then it hit her. Linden House. With this one last vital piece of information, the team jumped straight into action and drove fifteen miles to the now abandoned building that was once Grahams home. And sure enough, there he was. In his cell, Graham waited, sat bolt up right, with his legs cross and hands in his lap, grinning from ear to ear.

Back at the police station he told them how he had done it. He willingly and, perhaps, eagerly told them how he had cussed at her, beaten her, felt her pulse slow rapidly as his hands tightened around her neck. How he had seen the fear on her face, and laughed. How he had watched the life disappear from her eyes, and felt satisfied. But he never told them what he had done with the body.

Beth

Costume Ideas

The actress, Iona, was taken by Graham Harvey, her father, after her school day finished and would therefore be wearing some type of school uniform. As it's a film and we don't have permission from the school that she attends we can't use her actual school uniform due to it's logo being on the jumper and blazer and therefore we had to plan a school uniform for her to wear that looked real but was suitable clothing for her to wear to keep her safe at the same time.

Back View

Front View

This is a typical school uniform for an 11 year old who would be attending her first year in secondary school. I've used an old black skirt that I used to wear to school that is knee length to show innocence as a character. I used an old jumper and Ionas' usual school top to complete the look. 

Megan

Linden House Phone Calls

This is one of my attempted phone calls to get permission to use Linden House as a set for our thriller opening. As well as phoning Affinity Sutton, I also tried Mid Sussex Council, West Sussex Council, Princess Royal Hospital, Southdowns Council and England Nature but we could not find the owner of Linden House. 
However I now have a lead into the owner and am going to investigate into it in the next couple of days. 
-The quality of this film isn't very good as it was filmed on my Ipad and then also edited on my Ipad using an app called VideoShop
-Megan 

Police Permission

This is a video of Beth getting permission off of Sussex Police to use on of Crawley Police Stations interview rooms as one of our sets for our thriller. Unfortunately we weren't able to speak to them directly, but all relevant details have been passed on, and they should be in touch shortly.

We realise that it would have been easy for us to upload all of the footage, but because I spent a lot of time on hold it gave us an opportunity to practice our editing some more, and its something we had fun doing.

Beth

Health and Safety

Equipment

Equipment Hazards may include tripping over the legs of the tripod. We will need to make sure we keep clear of the tripod with the camera on top to keep the equipment safe. Another equipment hazard may be the lighting equipment, we will need to make sure it isn't pointed directly into people's eyes as this can be damaging and also make sure not to touch the light if it is hot.


Location

We will be filming part of our opening in the woods and need to be careful of uneven flooring so we don't trip. If it's raining, we need to look out for mud so we don't slip over anything. Also, some of our film will be in an abandoned building and we need to watch our for broken floorboards/uneven and broken glass around to keep ourselves safe.

We are hoping to be able to film in a police station as well as a school, so because these places are accessible to members of the public, we will need to make sure that we do no harm anyone with any of our equipment.

Megan

Target Audience - Pearl and Dean

The film 'Transcendence' is due for release in April 2014. As you can see by their predicted audience rating, males in class C1 aged 15-34 are most likely to watch this film. 

Most thriller films are aimed at males as they tend to enjoy them more, however our films main character is Iona- a female who could have a relatable story line to other females. So therefore our film will be aimed at both genders however we expect mostly males to watch it.

Our target age of the audience will be 15-24 because this is the highest rating on most thriller films on the Pearl and Dean website. Also, anyone younger than that wouldn't understand the plot line or be too scared to watch it. 

We expect most of our audience to be in class C1 as this is the most common and is also working class. The characters in our film are also of working class and therefore more relatable to that target audience.

Megan

Depth of Field

Depth of Field is simply the distance between the nearest and farthest objects within the shot that appear sharp.

The shorter the focal length the larger the depth of field.

The longer the focal length the smaller the depth of field.

Depth of Field is highly effected by the distance of the subject from the lens. For example, the closer the object to the lens, the shallower the depth of field. And alternatively, the further away the object, the deeper the field. Moving closer or further away to the subject is the least effective way to improve image quality as is changes the composition of the shot. By using depth of field, its easier to maintain the compositional integrity, and still be able to alter the distance between lens and object.

One major aspect of DOF is the 'thirds'. The window of focus does not occur evenly in front of, and behind, your focal point. Approximately 1/3 of the DOF window will occur in front of your focal point and 2/3 will occur behind your focal point. This head shot of a young jaguar is an excellent example of the 1/3 in front, 2/3 in back rule. If you examine this photograph closely, you will see that the point of focus is on the bridge of the nose between the eyes. This POF, slightly forward of the eyes, kept the tip of the cat’s nose in focus. The 2/3 behind was enough to keep the left ear in focus while the right ear is already going soft. The background is completely out of focus.

Beth

istance in front of and behind a focus point that appears sharp in a photograph
Read more at http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/how-to/tech-explained/536453/depth-of-field-explained#gRrvZYyXkzopZUYD.99

istance in front of and behind a focus point that appears sharp in a photograph
Read more at http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/how-to/tech-explained/536453/depth-of-field-explained#gRrvZYyXkzopZUYD.99

istance in front of and behind a focus point that appears sharp in a photograph
Read more at http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/how-to/tech-explained/536453/depth-of-field-explained#gRrvZYyXkzopZUYD.99

Thriller Opening Location Idea

We have decided to base out thriller opening in an abandoned mental ward outside Megan's house.

I tried ringing Affinity Sutton about the use of the abandoned building but they told me they gave the building over to the council a couple of months ago. I did try phoning the mid Sussex council however they were closed and I will try again tomorrow morning. 

The travel time by car from the College to our location

Horror Stories of Linden House - If you click on this link it leads you to a website with horror stories and the first two are about Linden House in Southdowns Park. 

These are photos I've taken myself of Linden House showing it as a Thriller Location possibility because it has a thriller theme to it due to being abandoned as well as it is an easy spot for us to travel to and from. Linden House also fits in to our plot line as a good place for a kidnapping and hiding of a persons body to be.

Megan

The girl with the dragon tattoo

Megan's analysis:

The establishing shot isn't in focus and it tracks upwards from a low angle shot to show a close up of fingers unwrapping a parcel.

• Desaturated lighting is used in this scene, as the room is pitch black lighting is used from the side to shine on the mans face to make it clearer to us to see what he looks like and his facial expressions while opening the package.

• The plant in the picture frame is used as enigma to keep the audience guessing about what it symbolizes and its relevance to the story line.

• As the camera zooms up on the plant the non-diegetic music in the background becomes a lower pitch and crackly to create suspension in the audience towards its meaning.
• The music carries on as the camera starts at a long shot and slowly tracks away from the man sitting at the desk, staring at the plant in confusion before the man starts crying which we can tell from the sound rather than being able to see his facial expression. This makes the audience feel that the plant must symbolize something bad in that mans life or has relevance in some way but we don't know what yet which keeps us intrigued to find out.

We are cut to a close up of a woman's face which seems to be an old picture as it is taken in black and white. This makes us wonder who the woman is. The title 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' comes onto the screen as the camera tracks into her face even more as if we are staring straight into her eyes.

• A cut is then used to show someone walking through an underground but as their clothing is dark with their hood up, we can't tell if this is a man or a woman walking.

An ellipsis is used from when the person is walking through this tunnel and is then cut to them walking in another section of the tunnel to cut out some of the walking. We can tell time has jumped forward by about a minute because the lighting changes but the way they are walking is exactly the same.

A side view is shown for a second to show it is a woman walking before the camera stops moving to show the woman walking away from the camera down the stairs and disappears creating mystery around this character.


Three Point Lighting

Lighting is used to add mood and drama to a shot, to help make objects appear more 3D and to highlight the outline of an object of character. Three point lighting enables the director to illuminate the subject in the shot however desired, while controlling all shading and shadows.

Key Light
The strongest out of all three, the key light has the most influence on the shot. It is placed on one side of the subject, causing one side to be illuminated and the other in darkness or in shadow. High Key Lighting produces soft edges and and no shadows, often associated with realism, while Low Key Lighting produces more shadows and areas of darkness, used to create a tense and mysterious atmosphere. Reflectors can be used to help balance out the light.

 

Fill Light
This is a secondary light, and is placed on the opposite side to the key light, filling in shadows and helping to make the subject to appear softer. As the role of the key is to only allow us to see a little more detail, it is not as intense as the key light, and similar reflectors can also be used in order to maintain the balance between the two.




Back Light
The back light is placed behind the subject and lights for the rear. Rather than providing direct light, its purpose is to provide definition and subtle highlights around the subjects outline. It also helps separate the subject from the background, resulting in them appearing more 3D.



We tried out different techniques with each of the lights, creating different shadows and areas of darkness. In this picture, we held a spotlight next to the side of Becky's face. this then put one side in full light while the other remained heavily shadowed. This then made her appear more mysterious, a technique that we would really like to use within our thriller in order raise tension.

Beth

The Usual Suspects - Megans Analysis

Megan's analysis of The Usual Suspects

The non-dietetic music soundtrack helps to build tension in the piece by slowly increasing the speed and volume. This adds a more intense effect to the sequence and helps the audience to realize the building plot-line.The music is also parallel to the sequence, as when the man drops his cigarette on the oil, the music suddenly builds to a climax and a loud crashing noise is heard. This helps to create a more intense effect.

The first scene starts with the stroke of a match, which immediately grabs the audience's attention. This then carries on to a shot of the oil/petrol canisters that are leaking, from the two shots being connected together the audience is able to put the scene together even with such a small amount of information to know that something bad will occur at. s we know this will cause a fire of some sort. Both of these items are iconography to show the thriller genre as they create suspense of what will happen next to the character.

Desaturated colour is also used throughout to give the sequence a serious tone and to make the piece feel anxious. As the audience cannot see much of the frame this is called restricted narration and can cause suspense. 

All of the clothes that the characters wear seems to be plain and dark. The man who wears a black cloak uses the cloak to cover most of his body and face creating suspense and this is again restricted narration as we can’t see who it is making us feel as if he is the villain (antagonist)

The second guy that comes into the screen stands up and towers over the guy that is sitting down who we meet as the film first begins. Restricted narration is continued throughout to create enigma and suspense. The antagonist's face is never revealed which engages the audience in the film as they question who the character is. This makes them continue on watching so they can find out.

The antagonist lifts a gun slowly and two shots are made which we can guess were directed at the protagonist sitting on the floor. When the antagonist is leaving after killing the other character, he drops his cigarette that re-ignites the petrol which is on the floor. In this shot it had been edited into slow motion this emphasis it falling and the result being the petrol re-ignited to put the audience back to the beginning in knowing what is going to happen next.

After the tracking of the flame building suspense slowly to what the audience will think is the explosion but is stopped and we are then shown close up shots of the rope that keep tracking in so that we realize that the rope must have some importance in the plot line or what is about to happen .

Becky's Four Film Openings (ANALYSIS)

Now You See Me(2013)

 

•  A pan in is used at the beginning of the opening from behind the character so that their identity is unknown and to create suspense.

•  A close up of the characters hands shuffling a deck of cards is then used to show the spectator the characters profession, hobby and interest. His hands are kept moving in this shot to show match on action in the following shots, to keep the sequence interesting and allow for consistency. There is then another pan in from the front of the character to a close up of his face. This allows a spectator to seethe characters facial expressions.

• .Another pan is used to circle the character as he observes his reflection in a mirror opposite him.

• this then cuts back to the close up of the hands and then back again to finish the pan.

 

 

Pulp Fiction(1994)

 

 

• The first frame is a still shot of a dictionary definition written in a dictionary style font of the word 'Pulp'. It is clear that the second meaning is relevant, as it sets the tone of the film immediately. The shot fades in and out, which I believe indicates that the director (Quentin Tarantino) intended it to be kept in the spectators mind whilst they view the film, there is silence at this point that builds suspension.

 

 

• This cuts to a medium shot that introduces the main characters in the opening scene showing a couple having a conversation whilst eating in an American diner. The male character is smoking, leaning back in his seat with his legs and feet perched on his seat in front of him. This suggests non-conformity, and also, his liberal use of swearing suggests he is a rebel or possibly an antagonist in the film. The woman is sitting up straight, opposite to the man and sounds nice and happy in contrast to him.

•    The shot has high-key lighting from the large use of naturalistic lighting from the windows behind them. There is only diegetic sound in this scene, in the form of background conversation from other customers in the diner, the activity and quiet music being played as well as the sound of traffic, letting the audience know they're in a busy, built up environment.

 

 

• Later on in the opening sequence, the male character unexpectedly stands up to alert the people of the coffee shop that they're being robbed. The camera pans up with him, and the woman turns away so you cant see her face. At this point, the man appears to be the dominant figure, in charge of the robbery as the woman has moved out of the focus of the camera. The woman then stands up with her companion also pulling out a gun to the customers. The opening credits then appear with loud intense fast non- diegetic music which contrast to the silence of the scenes before.

 

The Day After Tomorrow(2004)

 

 

•   I noticed there were many different camera angles being used. There were high angle shots, medium shots, and extreme close up shots. These were very important because it kept the audience close up to the action. 

• The audience could be close enough to see what was happening and far enough to admire the scene and its many specific details. The camera zooms out to show the audience the explores base and then it zooms in. I think this was pretty important because it showed the scenery in the background and it showed the area the explorers were working in. This camera angle helps the audience figure out the scene and what is happening. 

  • At one point, when the explorer cracks the ice and almost falls thorough the crack in the ground, the camera zooms out away from the characters and it looks down into the trench that was being made. This camera angle shows the audience how deep and far the trench was and it looked as if the audience was going to fall right down that trench. I thought that this was a pretty good camera angle shot because it made the audience feel as if they were going to fall down the trench and the movie interacted with the audience so that the audience would feel excited. If there was only one camera shot, the audience would soon be bored with the movie and they would not want to watch it again. 

    • Having these different camera angles help the audience get a better picture of what I happening and the camera shots show the great distances or the small details in a movie. At the beginning of the movie, I noticed the music that was playing in the background. This music was an orchestra type of music and I thought that it fit quite nicely into the scene as the camera was showing the audience the icebergs. The music sounded peaceful and calm as if nothing was going to happen. 

      • Later on, when the ice starts to crack in the ice shelf, strong music starts to play as the ice is cracking and the explorer that was drilling tries to get to solid land. The music is very fast paced and ominous. It has a big contrast as to the calm music that was playing before and the audience can tell that this is a very exciting part. The music helps in gripping the audience because the audience doesn't know what is going to happen, and the orchestra music makes it seem as if something bad is going to happen.

 

Hanna(2011)

• we begin with an extreme long shot of and abandoned white landscape, panning to the right as the opening credits begin to appear. This shows an audience perspective and introduces the setting to the spectator.