Thursday, 26 November 2015

Credit Structure 

"Panic room"  



     Timeline:



      After written by is : Director 

Sunday, 8 November 2015

 Thrillers - What are the conventions expected. 

What we came up with,

Task to do (solve a situation)
Setting : Dark time, Night 
Happy and the very beginning then sad
Chasing and running away 
Horror: Threat is supernatural
Blood 


Thriller convention consists of the following 

The protagonist will be seen is peril.
Themes of identity are common- mistaken identity, doppelgänger amnesia
The protagonist is fallible- has an a head/ weakness that is exploited.
The narrative centres upon crime (theft,murder).
The antagonist ensures the protagonist in an increasingly complex web, leaving the helpers and isolated.
The audience is placed in the ambitious position of vogeur.
A series of enigmas are established and resolved at the end.
Themes of seeing, reflection and mirroring.
Micro-elements combine in a build up suspense.
Extra-ordinary events in ordinary situations.



Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Rear Window suspense and meaning:
Dead Dog



Question: What do we learn about the world of Rear Window from this clip?

The man that broke his leg was sitting by the window, staring out as usual. Then, he heard a women scream. By staring out of the window for all the time, he saw  that all his neighbours stopped what  they were doing and started to wonder what was going on, just like him. The women screamed because her dog fell down from a high height and died. Everyone else in the neighbours are doing different activities. They all stopped and started to walk out of their houses to see the dog.

The world of rear window from this clip is that the man sitting still in the same post for all day long could monitor everything from his window.

Sunday, 1 November 2015

Downton Abbey Analysis


The four micro-elements are sound, editing, mise-en-scene and camerawork.
There was a scene that a man who seems to be powerful in the movie appears. This can be seen by the micro-elements because in the scene before he appears, people in the kitchen, both men and women all looks like they are rushing and preparing something for someone vert special. After this scene, the man then appears, showing that scene before is really related to him. The scene that the powerful man appears show that he is about to walk down the stairs to the dining room. The sound effect used in the scene are very strong and powerful which it gives a feeling that he is something that everyone in the house might be afraid of. The editing when this man walked down the stairs is a cut-shot and there are various mis-en-scenes that are a good indicator of this man's powerful image. First of all is the kind of outfit he wears. The outfit looks very neat and smart and expensive. Second is the dog that walks along with him. The dog also looks very clean so this shows that the dog is being well-raised by an owner who must have quite a lot of money to look after an animal, which is the man. The stairs of the house and the design are also big and modern. The camerawork used is the way that the camera always follow the man's movement so this suggests that he must be someone very important. When he got to the dining room and sat down, he also sat at the end of the table so ha must also be the head of the family.

There are three women on the dining table with him. One looks older so that might be his wife. The other two looks younger so that might be his daughter. The way the three of them dress is relatively the same style so they all must be part of that rich family. The camerawork does not really focus on the three of them so they might not be as important as the man. The rise-en-scene is the butler next to them. They all sat on the table with the butler standing and acting very patient.