Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Health and safety risk assessment

Film Title: Independent Law
Producers: Emma Sofianou and Shelby Jane Prentice
Directors:  Emma Sofianou and Ahmed Sayed
Date: Friday 13th January 2012


Major Issues:

Filming
1.     Finding a suitable location
2.     Check all equipment is working properly
3.     Making sure the equipment isn’t stolen
4.     Steep stairs going up to warehouse
5.     Safety in the warehouse
6.     Falling of the chair and injuring yourself or others or the equipment
7.     Making sure the person who is gagged can breathing through nose
8.     Make sure every one is safe at all times  

Solutions
1.     Shelby works at Iceland’s so we can use the warehouse to film in
2.     Check if the camera has full battery before starting to film
3.     Make sure there is more than one person around the camera at all times
4.     Go up the stairs slowly and carefully
5.     There a hot boiler in the corner to look out for 
6.     Practice falling of the chair on a soft surface then do the real shot
7.     Have some one who can breathe through their noise with ease
8.     Make sure parent and teachers both have contact details and also some one should have credit with them at all times while filming


Emergency services:

School phone number: 02082704200  
Local Police: 999
Local Fire: 999
Local Hospital:999

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Triller opening

Why is it effective?


A history of violence exaggerated slowness short clips of music. Its important that the thriller has one of the most dramatic starts because most of the story ccomes from the start of the film and it also allows the audience to engage with the film right at the start. Also thrillers attend to have great starts.

production meeting-1

Task 1- Create a spider diagrams on paper or in word of potential thriller ideas

Task 2- Taken one ideaand develop it through a second spider diagram corrieder props, camera work and  cost ect.

Task 3- write a proposal outlining you idea for a thriller opening and the loctions propslect that you require.

Task 4- storyboard it 

Cliffhangers

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction. A cliffhanger is hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma.

One of the best cliffhangers in histroy is from the Italian job heres a clip of it 

Do films follow rules?

some film-maker will clam that "there are no rules" or rules are there to be broken. However, most would agree that there are certain conventions that mainstream film observe in order for them to be acceptable to the mass audience.

Here are some of my thriller rules:
  • Cliffhangers
  • Exposion
  • Dramatic music 
  • Plot twist 
  • Theres a chase 
  • Tension 
  • Suspence 
  • Kidnapping 
  • P.OV 
  • Mind games 
  • Fight 
  • Has to be in a city 
  • Cool gadgets
  • Hero 
  • Villain  

Thriller

The thriller genre is a very difficult to define becuase thrillers come in such a wide range of films. Thrillers are films of suspense, tension and excitement which are supposed to install terror and keep the audence on the edge of their sets while they watch.


Types of Thrillers


Spy thrillers
Political trillers
Conspiracy thrillers
Legal thrillers
Psychological thrillers

Suspence and Shock

Alfred Hitchcock is known as the ‘master of suspense’ and a great innovator. He has three films in the Top Ten of the American Film Institute’s top thrilling films. ‘Psycho’, made in the year 1960, was number one. Hitchcock always uses suspense and tension to shock his audience. He does this by using cinematography very well by the way he uses the camera position, angles, movement and shots. He also uses scary music and lighting when he wants to shock his audience or create suspense


Here are some of Alfred Hitchcock films that have suspense and shock


Sabotage- Suspence because we knew that the kid had the bomb but he didnt know. Hitchcock also had itense music in that backgroud that brough suspence to the audience.


Rope- Tells the story of the two young, wealthy men. Brandon and philip who strangly murdered a friend of theirs just to see if they can get away with it. So they put the body in a chest/box. The suspence is created through the body in the chest and only the audience know.