Construction Thriller opening - "Faces of Evil"

Evaluation for our Thriller

Evaluation Final

Storyboard - Thriller

Certificate - 15

Our movie would be a 15.

This information is from, http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

15 – Suitable only for 15 years and over no one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. 

No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work. 

Discrimination 

The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory 

language or behaviour. 

Drugs 

Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not 

promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily 

accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example, 

aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable. 

Horror 

Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic 

or sexualised. 

Imitable behaviour 

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and 

self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be 

copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised. 

Language 

There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, 

‘fuck’). The strongest terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be 

acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated 

use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable. 

Nudity 

Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without 

strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a 

non-sexual or educational context. 

Sex 

Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail. 

There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour, 

but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable 

unless justified by context. Works whose primary purpose is 

sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable. 

Theme 

No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is 

appropriate for 15 year olds. 

Violence 

Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction 

of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to 

be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also 

unlikely to be acceptable. 

There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence 

but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and 

have a strong contextual justification. 

"Faces Of Evil" - Working screenplay

Shot 1:

Dark ambient music comes in then using the flicker on effect the words "Dark Lightning productions" with lightning bolt going through the name while lightning sound effect comes in. While dark and productions are in red writing and lightning is white. 

Shot 2:

The same dark music while the same flicker on effect comes up with the words "Presents a Martha Lucas and Collette Connor film" with the colour red on the words "presents a" and "And Collette" while the white is on "Martha Lucas" and "Connor film." Dark music still plays. 

Shot 3:

This is a long shot of two teenage girls walking towards the camera talking. (non diegetic music continues).

Shot 4:

Mid - shot as a effect comes in and the female on the left of the screen acts normal as the female protagonist on the right changes into black clothing looking dark and mysterious. (non diegetic music continues. 

Shot 5:

Mid - shot continues as the it changes back to normal as they talk while non diegetic dark music still plays. Walking towards the camera more. 

Shot 6:

Mid - shot still continues as the two gils walk closer to the camera, as the blink and strobe effect comes back while the mysterious figure come back into the shot. (non diegetic music plays).

Shot 7:

Cuts to a close up of mysterious female protagonist in black clothing with a mask round her mouth. Zooming up to her eye with a blurred effect. (non diegetic music plays).

Shot 8:

Zooms into her eye more using the effect dip to colour dissolve which makes the screen dissolve into white then goes back and we see a close up of the mysterious girls eye. Extreme close up of eyes (non diegetic dark music still plays).

Shot 9:

Cuts to a bench as the two girls walk on to the shot (non diegetic music continues).  

Shot 10: 

Zooms in as they go into and sit onto the bench going into a mid - shot of them looking around, one female on the left and the female protagonist on the right. (non diegetic sound plays till the end of the shot. 

Shot 11:

Close up of face of soon to be female victim while she says, "Where's Martha she meant to be here by now." (diegetic sound). 

Shot 12:

Close up on the female protagonist face while she says, "I know right she should call by now." (diegetic sound). Stays a close up as phone rings (diegetic sound).

Shot 13:

Extreme close up of phone as it rings showing the name "Martha" (diegetic sound).

Shot 14:

Cuts back to close up of female protagonist, phone stops ringing as she says, "Oh look it's Martha" (diegetic sound). 

Shot 15:

Close up of female victim again as she says, "Talk of the devil" (diegetic sound)

Shot 16:

Cut to female protagonist picking up the phone and puts the phone to her ear and says, "Hello"

(diegetic sound)

Shot 17:

Cut to a direct view of them both sitting down, the female protagonist says, "Alright see you a minute bye" takes the phone away from the her ear and down then turns to female victim and says, "Martha says she is up that way should i go get her" does a pointing motion to the left of her. Female victim says, "Yeah sure." Female protagonist then answers saying, "Do you want to wait here or come with me." Female victim says, "I'll wait here" female protagonist then says, "Alright then see you in the minute." Female victim says, "bye" as the camera does a tracking shot following her walking away. 

Shot 18: 

Cuts to a direct view again of the female victim sitting on the bench, while non diegetic sound comes in with a blurred effect. 

Shot 19: 

Stays at same camera place as non diegetic sounds plays while female protagonist comes out from behind the female victim as she slowly moves towards her. (non diegetic dark music plays).

Shot 20:

Point of view shot of female protagonist from behind the female victim with same blur effect as the shot before (non diegetic music plays).

Shot 21:

Quick direct view of female protagonist swinging a stick to hit female victim (non diegetic music plays). 

Shot 22:

Point of view shot of female victim as she falls on to the bench turning to look at her attacker which is the female protagonist. (non diegetic suspense music plays).

Shot 23:

Non diegetic music stops as the direct view shot looks at the female protagonist as she stands over female victim, then throws object on the ground all in slow motion.

Shot 24:

Cuts to a mid shot of female protagonist as she starts to spin in slow motion and non diegetic music starts to play.

Shot 25:

Goes to a point of view shot of female protagonist looking up at the sky and trees in sight (non diegetic tense music plays).

Shot 26:

Changes back to mid shot of female protagonist now knowing that her friend is the killer, female protagonist is wearing two pink tops in this shot. 

Shot 25:

Non diegetic music plays until the female protagonist stops spinning releasing her friend is dead, then puts her hands onto her face and then the non diegetic music stops. The camera quickly zooms out as she moves to the females victim body. She then screams, "Jade, Jade, Jade." As she says this the words "Faces of evil" comes up with the effect flicker on, while the same non diegetic music at the start begins to play. The screen goes black just with the writing "Faces of Evil." 

Location

Our location was set in Bostall woods, we chose this location as it seemed casual and spacious however it is a public woods so we had to make sure the area was clear of the public.

Questionnaire Results:

This is the results from the questionnaire that gave us ideas of what we should put into our Thriller. 

Questionnaire

Equipment Used:

This is after we finished the thriller we had to convert to a quicktime player and upload it to "Youtube" so that we can finally put it on our blog. 

This is where we created the music for our thriller. This is just one of the songs. 

This is what final cut pro looked like for us, where all the editing and uploads the music to the thriller happened.

Final cut pro was our most importance feature for our opening to our thriller because it is where we editied it putting all the effects, graphics and the music into it to make our final project complete we couldn't of done it without it. But we also used Garageband for the music and motion for our production company and title of film.

Tripod:

This is a tripod it allowed us to make the motion of the camera steady, less shacky movements and get a high quality picture out of the camera.

Camcorder:

This is a camcorder we used for filming our opening to our thriller. This equipment was used used through out the whole of the media product.
Mac Computer:
We used this for our opening of our thriller and primilarly task using various different applications on the Macs. This made is easier for me us to edit and produce a good opening of a Thriller.

Storyboard and working script

In Media, we have been planning our shots for making films through storyboards. In the prelim task we've shown our use of 'the 180 degree rule', 'shot reverse shot' and 'match on action' shots.
Working Script

Shot 1 : Female walks towards the camera to go to the door.

Shot 2 : The camera then follows behind the girl then back towards facing her.

Shot 3 : The girl then approaches the door.

Shot 4 : The girl walks into the classroom and sits down.

Shot 5 : The girl then says to the boy sitting opposite to her at the table " I know what you done!"

Shot 6: The boy oppsite her says " I don't know what you mean"

Shot 7: The girl then says "Yes you do"

Shot 8: The boy responds with a loud "What?"

Preliminary Task

Research into other films similar

Pearl and Dean where we did most of our research. 

Our group have been looking at several opening to thrillers that match our storyline criteria in order to help with our main task. The movies our group have selected which are similar to our thriller opening are;

Donnie Darko(2001), The Village(2004), Shutter Island(2010) and the Blair Witch Project(1999).

As a group we have decided to base our film on a young female with Schizophrenia, we looked at opening scenes of each film named above which can give us an idea onto what we want our outcome to be like.

We did some research on these films on Pearl and dean.

Shutter Island (2010):

The Village (2004):

Donnie Darko (2001):

The Blair Witch Project (1999):

Analysis of opening titles for "Se7en"

Opening Sequence Analysis - "Se7en"

Camera Shot/Angle/Movement:

The camera shots are very quick showing the man in the opening scene is crazy and mental ill. All the angles are on the mans hands showing that they don’t want you to know who the guy is or his connection to the movie yet. When the words come up it is distorted which also shows this guy we are looking at is not right in the head.

Sound

The sound is dark tune. It is creepy with a lot of disturbing effects and sounds. This is quite unique for an opening sequence because you do not know what is going to happen in the movie. The sounds are quite hectic as well showing the man does not look like his head is in the right state of mind.

Editing

There is a lot of editing in the opening credits it jumps to each scene fast and there is a lot of overlapping in scenes to get a sense that everything is packed together and there is a lot of thought going on. When everything is overlapping it is sort of like subliminal messages because some of the scenes only pop up for a second then disappear. Most of the close ups are of his hands and what he is doing with them, such as when he is cutting his fingers with the razor and when he is writing in his book. 

Mise en Scene

In the opening credits the Mise en Scene is themed around pain and obsession. We see the pain when it shows us the razor that he uses to cut his hands, also it has a lot of close ups of the pin right at the end of the opening scene. Obsession is show through the pictures that the person has and how he crosses out their eyes in the pictures, also how much he writes in his notebook. Furthermore in one scene it shows how precise the person is when he cuts out the word god. 

Characters

We only get to see one person through out the whole first scene and it is supposed to be showing how the movie is going to be portrayed through out because we do see an ill person. 

Locations

It is only set in one room, the persons room because it is dark and we see that he is at a table in some scenes.

Narrative/Plot

The plot I think is that this person that we saw is mentally ill and is going to go out and kill people in a gory and sinister ways. But keep them to a particular way because it seems he doesn’t like to do things differently. 

Themes

The Themes are crime and death, crime because in every thriller there is crime to set the scene and try and catch the person who did the crime, this links to death because normally a murder has been committed. 

Visual Style

The visual style is unique because you rarely get a lot of editing that overlaps each other and creates the effect that it is quite frantic.

Genre

The Genre is thriller we can tell this because we can tell that there is going to be a murder and in thrillers a crime is normally at the core of the story, which is normally a murder.

Analysis of opening titles for "Panic Room"

Opening Sequence Analysis - Panic Room

Camera Shot/Angle/Movement

It uses a lot of extreme long shots and wide shots to emphasise the settings and the surroundings of the area. Furthermore the movement is very slow panning around the buildings showing that it is smooth. Some of the angles are you looking up at the buildings to show how tall they are and to emphasise the words that are on the buildings. The words are made to look 3D so it looks like they are coming out the skyscrapers. It also uses a lot of high and low angles to show how big the buildings are and to get a bigger view of what is around them. 

Sound

The sound through out the opening sequence is quite sinister at the start of the song it has long notes to create suspense but nothing is happening yet. When it starts to get into the middle of the song it speeds up and we feel tension from it. 

Editing

The editing cuts to another skyscraper slowly showing that it is calm but tense because you don’t know what is going to happen yet. The editing shows a lot of the surroundings and area that this movie is going to take place. Near the end it shows a smaller building this could be the main characters house. One of the last shots that they end up with is an establishing shot of a park and buildings in the background then jumps to what we think is the main characters in the movie. It does this establishing shot to show where these characters are. 

Mise en Scene

The mise en scene is mainly the buildings but when we get half way in we see cars and big posters plus a view of Time square. There isn’t much Mise en Scene in the opening credits.

Characters

We only get to see two characters at the end of the opening sequence and they are talking about a new house that they just bought. As the audience we don’t see much of the characters but we do see two women, furthermore we can tell they are the main because they are the first two characters we see and to speak.

Locations

This is set in New york we can tell this because we see time square and central park in the opening sequence. It shows us that   isn’t going to be in the suburbs and that it is going to be in the city.

Narrative/Plot

The plot is not told yet because we are only shown buildings but the plot might have something to do with buildings. This links because are focus is on the skyscrapers. 

Themes

The themes are suffer, thriller, mystery, murder and crime.

Visual Style

The style is typography is different because they pop out the screen like 3D but they are not. It is one of the first films to have this typography and was rare. 

Genre

The genre of the film is Thriller, the audience is plot it is not clear so it creates tension and suspense for the audience.