Thrillers

After a while of thinking of ideas we finally all agreed on one.

New idea 
There are four young boys playing a game of football, you get close ups of their faces, feet, etc. The camera suddenly cuts to a sniper aim on the screen while its zooms in on the players, the shot goes back to a establishing shot of the boys being clueless and then suddenly back to the sniper aim and one boy gets shot. This happens again to another boy until finally the two others realise, the run in opposite directions and the camera only follows one. The boy being followed sees a house at the bottom of the road, there the camera follows him to the door and he finally escapes.

We believe that even though their is a bit of running in the scene it won't really matter as first of all its only a little bit of running and the first part of the title sequence is so enticing that it won't affect the rest of it.

We all agreed on this idea and we believe it will work out really well.

Media Coursework - Thrillers

In class we were put into groups of around 3 to four, in my group there is Myself, Julia and Fadie. Our first task was to come up with a few ideas for the thrillers so we all went away and came back with our own ideas. I believe that this stage of the Thrillers was probably the most difficult part for our group as we found it very hard to agree on ideas and i also think that we each found it hard to really picture the scenes in our heads. By the end we finally came up with two ides which none of us very really set on but we decided to show Matt and luke.

Idea one
Our first idea was basically about two young children, who are brother and sister, running away from Nazi's in hope to find shelter but along the way the brother trips and is taken away by the Nazi's. The sister, in panic, runs as fast as she could until finally she is safe.

Idea two
A young girl decides to go for a run one day, she ends up taking the wrong route and ends up in the woods, and then all of a sudden she is grabbed by the feet and dragged away.

Matt and luke explained to us that it can be very difficult to film running scenes because various things could go wrong. They allowed us to think about our thrillers in more detail and we realised that they wouldn't work out the way that we wanted to as it would come to great difficulty.

So, it was back to the drawing board.

Coursework Task

The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.

What is a thriller?

Crime thriller: Focus’s on criminals, either killers, robbers, chases, murders. (E.g. Seven)

Psychological thriller: In which the conflict between the main character is mental and emotional rather then emotional. (E.g. Shutter Island)

Supernatural thriller: Brings an otherworldly element along with tension, sometimes the character has a psychic ability. (E.g. Jacob’s Ladder)

A thriller is defined as a novel, play, or movie with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage. In my opinion a thriller is something that keeps the audience on the edge of their seat filled with excitement and suspension. It has your eyes drawn to the product from the beginning to the end. Below are examples of sub genres of thrillers with the movie posters.

Conspiracy thriller: When the hero or heroin confronts a large group of her enemies. (E.g. The Da Vinci Code)

Opening Title Sequence Creators

As you can see both Kyle Cooper and Saul Bass are both very respected and talented graphic designers. They are able to not only create opening title sequences but also create things like logos and adverts.

Opening Title Sequence Creators

Saul Bass not only creates opening title sequences but Logos too.

As you can see some of these logos are still used to this day, like the Quaker Oats logo. 

Opening Title Sequence Creators

Another opening title sequence which I enjoyed was Around the world in eighty days. It shows bass's versatility skills as he is able to change his aim and tone of a title sequence to suit a different viewer.