Shot Lists

• Close Up - Nice photos of the girl (proffesinal)
• Extreme close up
• Close up of equipment
• Close up - dirty photos
• Pan of wall x 2
• Close up of feet
• Crain of body (slow)
• Mid shot, zoom into
• Close up of his feet
• Close up of her feet
• Close up of necklace and him looking at it
• Mid shot of them walking away (showing costume)

The Synopsis

The Synopsis
A middled aged man has set up an internet modelling agency for young girls between the age of 13 and 19. He has portfolio's online to give all viewers and intake of what his photography is all about. A young girl ages 17, applys and arranges to meet the photgrapher on a specific day to get her own portfolio as she has the ambition for a model and passion.
The two meet up, down a dark alley/pathway. The young girl turns up with a suitcase of outfits and is ready for her shoot. The man meets her, dressing well presented in a classy manner.
The shoot is taken and he arranges for her to return at a later date and not to worry about clothing as he has some professional costumes for her to look amazing in. He assures her she will get a brilliant portfolio out of these shoots and for no fee, under the condition she kept it ''their little secret''. He also promised her a professional modelling career if she agreed to the condition he had asked for, so she did.
When she arrived back to the booth at the later date, she was sexually abused and photographed inapropriatly. The young girl reports to the police. The police discover a wall of photographed victims, but is he caught?

Conventions of an opening sequence

Any thriller opening sequence always has similar techniques to others. A thriller's opening sequence includes this following things to make it a successful good thriller film:
- Eerie music
-Alot of close ups
-Hide crucial information from the audience
-Could include flashbacks
-Set the opening sequence in reverse order
-Twists
-Mystery's
-Something unexpected

Conventions of a Thriller Genre

In todays lesson we were introduced to the new brief which was to create the following: The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last maximum of 2 minutes. We was also handed our As Media Mmark scheme and discussed as a class that every part of the brief mentioned above needs to be at a excellent standard grding level 4's in each Research, Planning, Practical work and Evaluation.

We then expolred the conventions of a thriller, after establishing the difference between a thriller and a horror as they are very similar. An example of a major difference between the two genres was as followed; Thrillers have crime and murders withing but the audience is prevented from seeing this. The audience is made to feel scared and have to interpret what happened or is happening themselves. They need to be wanting t ask lot of questions and work out the mysteries alone(for a more sophisticated viewer).
Horrors on the other hand, make it very clear to the audience their murder and grime scenes, with extremely exaggerated movement. The audience is able to take it all in at once and not need to work anything out (for a less sophisticated viewer).

The conventions of a thriller:
- Jumpy at times
- Unexpected
- Suspence / Tension
- Up tempo music / Eary
- Spies / Detectives
- Dark / Night time
- Violence
- Questions?
- Shock
- Mist / Fog
- Crime
- Victims
- Actions
- Intelllegent / Sophisticated characters
- Split personalities

Analysis of Memento (Nolan, 2000, US) 15

Memento is a thriller film which includes all of the conventions of a typical thriller film. These things are the use of cinematography, sound, editing and mise-en-scene. Another crucial element that a thriller film must do is make us ask questions when we are watching the opening sequence. They hide information.

Cinematography:

• Close ups of the crime scene to hide information of the surroundings
• Close ups of the weapons
• In the opening sequence the main types of shots that we see are close ups. The reason for this is because they want to make the audience ask questions about what is going on.
• Camera shots vary so that the audience are intrigued into the movie and what to know more.

Sound:

• Eerie music being played within the titles
• The bed of music in the background builds up tension to get the audience engaged into the screen
• The music that we here being played gives off a sense of sadness
• Hyperbolic sounds

Editing:

• We are shown the opening sequence in reverse order
• This is typical of most thrillers because they try and confuse and twist the minds of the audience
• Black out when the man gets shot. Unexpected.

Mise-en-scene:

• The picture that the man is holding is slightly tilted
• This could represent that something is not right
• This could then relate to the person holding the picture that something could not be right about him and later on in the film we find out that he has an illness
• The blood dripping down the walls shows violence

What questions does the opening sequence make us ask?

1. There is blood on the floor but how did it get there?
2. What the picture is that he is holding?
3. Why is the opening sequence in reverse order?
4. Why did he kill the man?
5. Who is he?

The reason I like the above parts is because I was intrigued when watching the beginning of this film. These were the sections that stood out, really caught my eye and made me want to watch more.

The Brief

The brief of this course is to create titles and an opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of 2 minutes.

Including, Research and Planning, Practical work and Evaluation.

I shall be working with Paige Arnold and Nathan Kent.

My Preliminary Task