Pitch Presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shutter Island conventions and ideas:  

Settings:

on boat shows fear due to him being sick trying to pull together

Characters:

don’t see the true people, everyone is on edge

Camera shot/angles:

low angles of island and place to make it look huge.

Mid shots show them two together.

Mood:

Strange mood everyone on edge, why though??

Mysterious atmosphere

 

Sound:

Orchestral sound building tension puts you on edge

 

Techniques:

Flash back to woman, old tap, establishing shot of island 

Summer work

The thriller film that I am going to be looking at is The Avengers Assemble this is a film about a group of super human people protecting the earth from evil men. I feel that this is a good piece of film as it has a bit of everything from stereotypes to anti-stereotypes and shows how mise-en-scene is used throughout.  

In this first screen shot we see how agent Romanoff is shown to be innocent and that again for an American film we see that it is a Russian man in a uniform to be a baddy. This could be due to the cold war where these two sides came to conflict. Also we see other props that are linked into this action thriller for example the props where the three Russian men have guns this I feel is very stereotypical to an action thriller. However after this still we see how Agent Romanoff is a bit of an anti-stereotype as when her boss calls the interrogator she is able then to beat all the men while tied up and make her way out with her high heels.

This next shot we can see how the producer has used the camera angles to show power and authority. However you do see that the villain is standing taller than the hero but the hero does not seem to look like he is so small that he is out of the fight. Also we see the way they are both dressed in this shot, the villain is shown to be wearing dark clothing and the hero lighter, which emphasizes the fact that darkness will never prevail.

The next screen shot we see how sound is used to build tension. As agent Romanoff and Bruce are in a room together and Bruce is turning to the hulk. However the tension build is agent Romanoff’s leg being caught. The music changes first with a slow quite beat and then building quicker and quicker, as you know the Hulk will probably kill agent Romanoff. The music used is orchestral which is used in quite a few films as a way to build tension in a scene. 

Finally we see in this last shot is a extreme long shot of the city to show where the fighting will commence. Through watching many thriller films I have found that a lot of these battles have taken place in unrealistic settings but I believe that that makes for a better escapism film.

Create it- E.g. for a director of a film

Choose it- e.g. for a member of an audience

Understand it- e.g. for a student of a film

Horror

Cult

Sci-fi

THREE TYPES OF GENRE

-          Major genre- a dominant, important category, it should be obvious and easy to define

-          Sub-genre- a minor category or subdivision that is closely related to its major genre by being a specific type in its own right e.g. Bond film

-          Hybrid genre or generic hybrid- combination or major genre that sometimes create another type e.g. horror/western.

HOW DO WE RECOGINISE GENRE

Generic codes and conventions – these are signifiers that have been established through time and should be recognised in mise-en-scene, the characters and the storyline

Signifiers are the physical aspects that we see or hear in a film, such as the clothes or props. We interpret these signifiers create morning.

Western

What we see- guns baron land scape

What we hear- gun shots

Typical characters- Mexicans, native Americans 

Typical storyline- fight about land of people or things

Theme morals ideas- revenge

Examples- good the bad and the ugly

 

Gangster

What we see- drugs, guns, strip clubs, bar

What we hear- accent, engines, gun shots

Typical characters- strippers, mob leader

Typical storyline- mob members get into argument then whole gang gets in evolved

Theme moral ideas- revenge

Examples- god father casino

 

Sci-fi

Lasers, space, robots, technology

What we hear- lasers, robotic speech, mechanical noises

Typical character- captain, aliens

Typical storyline- an alien attack, so fight between planets or fight on earth captain resolves

Continuity:

When the audience should not notice when the cuts have been made. A sequence of shot that appears together and link each with other

Montage-political:

There are two types political and Hollywood political is the style from 1920’s and is used to make a meaning out of the shots used.

Montage- Hollywood:

The other types of montage is Hollywood which is used to present a story or important information in a short way they are often used at the begin of TV programmes to show what happened in the previous episode as a recap to the audience.

Transition:

A transition is the term used when the editor moves from one shot to another. There are many types in editing they are straight cuts where an image is suddenly replaced by another without it beginning visually changed . Face in where and image gradually fades into shot, fade  out where the opposite to fades out of the shot and many more.

Wipe:

Wipe is where one image is replaced by another without dissolving and it eliminates the first shot then replacing it with another shot.

Dissolve:

This is when one scene or image gradually moves onto another scene it is smooth transitions.

Action Editing

This is when the clip is edited in a certain way to make the film more  packed at appealing to the audience 

Media assessment: Psycho Shower Scene

 

Starting off we see that there is a shot of the shower where we have the diegetic sound that is there which gives the viewer the inclination that the murder victim cannot hear anything. As the seen moves on we get the mid shot of the woman showering and just through the shower curtain we see a dark figure appear through the door. This is where the tension begins to build. We have building orchestral music which is mainly violins the type of music that this is is non-diegetic sound that is added after filming is done mainly added in the editing room. Next we move on to the shot of the killer which is a close up and we see how the editor has used mise-en-scene to show that the knife is only a standard kitchen knife which means that the murder in not pre-empted. We also see that the lighting has been used well to hide the killers face. Moving on we see that these affects are used throughout the scene that the camera keeps site of the murders face and the lighting always seems behind the killer. Finally we with the last screen shot we see a spooky house in the middle of the night; I believe that this has been done because night is when bad things are meant to happen. By doing this as well adds to the mystery of why the murder has been done making the plot thicken and keeping the audience on edge.

Screen shot one this is the shot of the murder once the curtains have been pulled back this is a good use of a close up as although it is a close up there is a lot going on. We see a good use of mise-en-scene how the murder is dressed and the weapon that she/he is using, which is a standard kitchen knife. This shows the audience that the murder was not pre- empted and that the murder has not taken time over thinking how he will kill the woman. Lighting is used well as we see that the murders face is hidden which makes the audience want to know who the killer truly is these types of conventions are used a lot in thriller films due to the fact that they build tension and don’t make you scared like a horror but make you fear for the innocent person that the killer won’t get to them.

The second shot I have chosen to analyse is where the woman is being stabbed; we hear with non-diegetic sound that there is a slicing of flesh. We also see an Arial mid shot which shows that the woman is powerless as she is small than the murder and that there is no escape as she is enclosed by the walls and has no escape. 

The final shot I have chosen is where the director chose to use an extreme close up on the plug hole. Which I feel they have tried to represent the woman’s life draining away and the life being her blood. Is leaving her and she has no hope. I also like how editing was used on this shot as we have a swirling fade although slow paced to the woman’s eye which I feel is very effective as it moves you and you feel sympathetic for her and want to help.