Wallander

Cienmatography: Focus pulls you to the main scene where you see the taxi and the two girl characters that are 18 and 16 years old walking away from the car. The first shot is an extream long shot to a mid shot of the setting and location. It pulls you to the establishing shot. There is a black out at the start the the opening sequence focues in and it looks as if it is zooming into the action. The first shot of the characters is only of the back of the two girls heads and the car tracks on the floor. This compersition shot is very effective to the story line. Who are they? You don't see there face so it is misterious and the audience question the opeing sequence stright away. The compostion of this shot is what makes the shot so good. The use of over the shoulder shot when you see a bit of the taxis head and a shadow of the two character walking away in the background. There is a close up of the mans face with blood runing down it so you know he is hurt or even dead. All the shots are clear and easy to see. There is one point in the film where the two officers are loking in the car and it is a frame within a frame. You get a good effective eyeline match of the girl in the back of the police car looking at the police officer asd they are drivien to the station.

Mise-en-scene: The background is yellow and very bright when you see who is in the film and the title on the film. The use of blood on the girls and the sharp knife also around the taxi, makes you question what happend? The long shot in the begining sets the scene. The police woman tells you what has happend to the driver and she also tells the viewer the story to answer the viewers questions. The characters look dangerous and scared. You can tell who is the main character because of the positioning with in the frame. She is taller and closer to the camera where as the other girls is more blured to the viewer. The use of props are effective because you can see the taxi drivers badge so you know more about his character. The use of the knife also lets the audience know the girls used that on the driver. The prop of the keyring hanging is also effective because you think that is his son and that he may have been linked to the girls and why they hurt the taxi driver. All of the shots informed the viewer on what happend in this scene.

Sound:Lould strong sound when the camera gets close-up of the knife, it gives the mood to0 the story aswell. You can hear the water, the wing to make it more real and to help set the location. The sound track gets loulder as it get nearer to the characters. The foot steps of the girls, the sounds from the taxi radio and the girls breathing is lould and it stands out to the audience. The knife has its own sound mofit to show it is a key part to the scene. The sounds are low and restricted with a stight ecko. The music gives the mood of danger. The noise makes the audience feel as if we are zooming into the setting and the action, it is just stright cut.

Editing: The way you get a shot reverse shot of the back of the girls heads, the taxi driver then the the girls faces. These are very quick cuts that keep the audience intrested. The actor is behind the yellow title in opeing sequence and you get the action before you know who is in the film. This shows the audience that that police officer is good/bad cop in this film. The way we feel as if we are zooming into the action because of the use of music and how the camera tracks in, this is very effective to the mood of the film. The sound effect of the wind is real and you know you are by the seaside. The shape of the title was a match on action and it was also shaped like a knife. There are alot of good shot to keep you intrested in the film and to keep you wanting to watch.

How the opening sets the story: The use of props is effective to the story line becuae blood is always in thriller or a horror films. Also the way that you only see quick cuts of the character involved and they build your imagination to what has really happend to the taxi driver. The use of the rule of thirds makes the story stand out and be understood.


How the opening suggests the genre (thriller): The use of quick cuts so the audience is constanly asking themselves questions on what is happening. The good use of the camera when in the begining the camera looks as if it is zooming into the scene, but the camera is really on a helicopter and it is geeting closer to the setting. Then there is a quick cut to the action and what has happend. Alos the use of music is creepy and lould and fast so this is what you expect to hear when a thriller starts. This is how the opening sequence revels that this is a thriller.

Deadly Kiss Me

Ciematography: Close up shots of the two character of the man and the woman in the car, thought out the opening sequence the camera was also at an down wards angle. The viewer gets a birds eye view of the car and the setting when they get stopped by the police officers, this is effective because you see the location of the film and it helps you to understand the story. The good use of two shot is used mostly thought out the opening sequence so you can see the character and how they are with in the frame. Shout reverse shot is used at the begining when she stops the man in his car and you see both actors reactions. The way the camera is you feel as if you are the third person in the film and that they are looking at you. The first few shots are mid shots of her feet running to a long shot of her running down the road trying to stop cars as they go past her. The first establishing shot we see is the one where the two characters meet for the first time. Also there is a rule of thrids when she is standing in the middle of the road as she trys to stop the the character of the man in the car coming towards her. This also shows the golden mean to the film because you see her in the middle of the frame. The way that you are able to see her as she runs down the road is by a track camera as it follows the action of the actor.



Mise-en-scene: The mans white car is the main setting to the opening sequence of the film, this is where the character send most of there time. The costume of the woman is just a tranch coat with no shoes on and she has blond short hair. This show the woman character to be not very important and we should look down at her. The mans costume is a nice dark long coat, with a nice suit and shoes. The way he gives the boy quite a bit of money just to pull a bit of tree from the bottom of his car shows he is important and he is well off. The setting is at night time because you can tell this because the only bit of light you see is from the car shinning on the character. The characters become friendly very quickly almost stright away. She want to get to Los Angeles. The backgroung is dark and there is a small amount of light from the car.


Sound: Lould strong muisc to start the film off with(drums). The use of sound effects are very effective for example the sound of the car and the sound of her running and the way she was breathing was exagerated and it stood out to the viewer and from this you can tell she was destressed and out of breath from running so far. So from the way she was breathing it made the the audience question what is wrong with her? Is she ok? Is that a sound of relief? The music from the radio was diegetic and it stood out and made it real life.

Editing: The credits, titles and actors names are infrount of the two people and they are quite slow so you can see who they are as they drive off. The letters are in bold white letters to stand out to the viewer and too make the easier to read because the film is in black. The cuts are quick to get the film going. There is a short voice over from the radio as she walks over to the car to improve the mood of the film. All of the cuts where stright cuts thoughout the opening sequence. The car that the man actor drove was white so this is meant to tell the audience he is her hero. But the way the character acts dosen't put him in that light.

How the opening sets the story: It set the story because of the colour of the film is dark and scary. The way her breathing is lould. The way the film starts with her just running down the road like she is running from some one. The use of camera movement gave the audience the mood to the story line. The film is also action packed and fast so the audience don't get bord. The dialogue is also snappy and quick.

How the opening suggests the genre (thriller): This was done by the use of lould music. The film was made in the 1940's so it was to get the war off the viewers minds, so it was fast and thriller like. Also because the film is in black and white most things stand out for example: smoke, fog, steam and breath. This type of film is called a film noir. Also the actor is very femme fatile this mean she is a fatial female. The performance of the two character is very over the top. This film was a detictive film and in these types of film there is always a man/hero to help a helpless woman. Also the film was made from a book.

Brick

Analysis of Brick

Cinematography: The way that the camera in the begining has a lot of extream close-ups that fade into eachother so you get to see each character. The film start with you getting to know the character of the boy and then as you get more in to the film you get an eye line view of what he is looking at and you get a few close-ups of the dead girl and then you as a viewer start to ask questions on who is she? what happend to her? The setting of the film also helps you to understand that she is dead because it looks like a place that you wouldn't like to be. The use of the establishing shout is effective because you can see the boy on the left hand side the black tunnel in the middle and the dead girl on right hand side so you also can see a a rule of thirds shout. Also they way the camera changes though quick cuts of the boy and the dead girl help the audience to get to know the characters. Also the way that the camera focus pulls us to the next clip is effective. I also like the way that each shout gives the viewer an imagination.

Mise-en-scene: The way that you see what the boy is where for example the brown shoes, in the first shout you see them and then you see who they belong to. So when the film cuts to the school scene you see the brown shoes before you see the character but you stright away knoe whos feet they are. Also the use of mud on her shoes shows she didn't plan to get muddy so this gives the audience some thing to think about. I think the way the director wanted you to see the girls hand as she is dead on the floor then it fades into the shout of her hand agen but 'two day befor' and I stright away knew whos hand it was and it made me question what happend to her? The use of probs is also effective because you see a hand put the note in his locker and then you see the boy actor waiting for the girl. The note tells the viewer that. Also by the sound of the bell you know it is set in a school then you see where he is m,eeting her on a road.

Editing: The way that the first few shouts fade into the next to give it the mood of sadness is effective. Most of the shouts where fast and quick. Then as you get more into the film you see the effective way that see an eyeline match of what he is looking at and you get to see the dead girl on the floor.

Sound: The music is non-diegetic sound of bells which is creepy, slow and quite so it set a good mood to how the girls got killed and they way the boys feels as he looks at her. But then the differnt sound of a school bell is the diegetic sound because the next scene is two days earlier when they are at school.

Story- How the opening sets it: Its day time. Not a normal place to see a dead body. The girl looks dressed up so she didn't look as if she wanted to get muddy. She look like she was going on a date or to a party? The ending of the film is at the begining so it is replaying what happend to the girl and why she ended up that way.

How the opening suggests the genre(thriller): The way that you see the girl faced down on the floor with dirty clothes and creapy music in the back ground sets the scene of a thriller. She is dead on the floor but with no blood so this is how a thriller takes place. The setting of the story gives the mood of a thriller too because it is cold and scary, a place where girls don't get dressed up for. You also have all the questions going around in your head. Who killed her? Was it that boy? Who is he anyway?

For me as a viewer the film was produced very well. It mad me ask question on the opening sequence the whole way though, this is what a film should really be about. Im going to take some idears from this film and I am going to add them in my opening sequence thriller. With the use of the props to establish the characters, I want to use this because it is very effective to the mood and the layout of the film. This will tick all the boxes on my audience view of a thriller film, this is what was meant to happen and it was done with out us even knowing it.

Double Indemnity

Analysis of Double Indemnity

Ciematography: the use of the camera is slow and wide so you can see the whole set of the story and the mad driver. The way the camera follows the action gets the audience asking questions on who is in the car? And why are they drivin like that?The actor doesn't show his face for a few minutes of the film to it keep the audience intersted in the film and what is happening next, so the audience can tell he is a business man because of the way he is dressed and from the building he goes into. The way the camera get's a good shot of the factory inside of the hotel and you see the cleaner you are still asking questions until he gets into his office and it all starts to unfold. The title of the film takes up the whole screen in the begining and the shadow of the man with walking sticks get the viewers attension stright away. This helps the audience to understand the title of the film. The setting of the film is in 1944 in Los Angelas I no this because it is shown on the road sign in the opening sequence to the film. The way the camera is behind the actors in the life make you feel as if you are in the lift watching them, this gives a good mood to the start of the film.

Mise-en-scene: the use of colour in the film show that it was set in the olden times, because it is dull and not very bright. The main character where's a hat and a long coat, this is show to the audience that he is trying to hide himself from the audience, because for some reason he doesn't want to be seen. This make the viewer feel that he is a dark man that likes to hide in the night and is not to be trusted. Also the main character looks to have hurt his arm and you get a good mid shot of his bulit wond and so I think he is the man in the begining of the opening sequence.

Editing: The use of editing tryes to hide the main actor in the opening of the film, this tells the viewer alot a from his body language. The fast pace of the car driving fast thought traffic, then as the car stops at the hotel it is more of a slower pace and the man get out and walks to the door. At this point you still cant see his face so you ask questions

Sound: it is a non- diegetci sound so it is more of a sound track than real outside sound of cars etc. The music sets a mood to the film that it is old and scary. The sound is lould and sharp to make the viewer jump and sit on the edge of their seat.

Story- How the opening sets it: To begin with thye lould music sets the film to be fast paced with a lot of action to keep it intersting. The name and the title of the film make it work and do what the director wanted it to do. The charcter of the man is the one driving the car so I think in the first few minutes is he chacing after someone or trying to get away from someone? I am also thinking is he trying to get himself killed or trying to run down and kill?

How the opening suggests the genre (thriller): The use of music, fast paced shots and the actor with a bulit in his arm give all the signs to a thriller because it grips you in you ask questions and the mood is set by the scary music in the back ground.

Conventions of your chosen genre

These films are reasons why I chose the genre thriller. These film tick all the boxes for a good thriller. So I used these picutes to show this and what our film is set on.

A thriller film must always have these points so that the genre is clear to the audience and for it to be a successful thriller film.

• Quick cuts so it keep the viewer intrested.



• Camera angles to change thought the film.



• The music/soundtrack that gives the film a mood and tension to it.



• Good use of lighting such as shadows, dark, creapy and misterious.



• Objest/props that you don't expect to see in a carm film.



• Props to give the viewer an imagination.



• Strong colours such as red, black and dark colours.

Audience Research 1

My questionnaire

What we expect to see in a thriller film?

1. What do you expect to be in the opening sequence of a thriller?
2. Do you want the thriller to be slow paced so you get into it or fast paced so you get griped to the story?
3. What would you like to see in a thriller film?
4. Do you think the music has a big effect on the mood of the thriller?
5. Do you expect to understand the story line in the first few minutes?
6. In the first few minutes of the thriller do you expect your questions to be answered in the beginning, middle or end?
7. How and when do you think the characters should be presented to the viewer?
8. Does the costumes, props and make-up of the characters matter in making the thriller seem real?

Conventions of an opening sequence

The opening sequence is a very important part to a film it should tick all the boxes that I put together for what and opening sequence should look like to the viewer. It must also have these point:

• It must be exciting for the audience.
• Be draw the audience into the film.
• Must make the viewer want to see more.
• Have good titles that stand out and that are bold.
• To establish the setting.
• Make the viewer ask question on the character but not to give much away at first, so the viewer is intrested.
• Should be about an hour and a half long.
• Create an atmosphere.
• Have a soundtrack that will set the mood to the film.
• Make the viewer curious and griped to their seat.
• Let the viewer be able to gess what type of character is being played.
• Lead the viewer into the story line.

What titles? And Fargo

Analysis of FARGO
To understand the roles/ logos in the title sequence of FARGO- Directed by Cohen Brothers.

Job's: opening credits- actors names, MGM- advert, gold, black and the lion image.
Music by carter Burwell
Cinematography: Roger Deakins
Editing: Roderick Jaynes

Logo's: Poly Gram- flash of red light under it to stand out, fade out, big bold font, red, black and white. FARGO- title in bold black letters, working title films to show they put money into the film production. Three different titles but only to logos?

Mise-en-scene: snow, blue sky, cold, car in the back ground (main object is composed within the shot) good composition, the first establishing shot, long shot to a mid shot then to a close shot (as the car gets closer) the lighting was smooth and blue, this mad it real to the viewer. The sound track in the backgroung helped set the mood of the thriller, this made me as a viewer ask questions on the film.

Ideas for me to steel: true story information, use of font, cross dissolve (bird in the sky) the main actor has to have- good costume so you know what type of character they are, good performance so you know what type of person they are (shy, outgoing?) To keep the audience gessing and asking questions in the first few minutes of the film.

Five things that are good in this opening sequence:

1. Sound gets loulder then it stops when the opening location is set (the bar).
2. Shot/reverse/shot of the three characters talking in the bar.
3. The action make the viewer ask questions. Who are they? What are they talking about?
4. The way they just meet in the bar makes you feel as if they don't know eachother, then after the first few minutes they become friendly.
5. The good use of shot types: mid shot and close ups of Jery. The camera always gets the action. The conflict between the three characters. The main character tells the two men alot about his family (wife and father in law-not short of money!) The use of the 180 rule is effective, the viewer feels as if they are in the conversation, the way you can see all the main action in the first few minutes- the actors performance, dark cloves to see they are bad people, Jery's character tells alot about him as a person (shy, hunched over, quite)

My anaylsis of Fargo
This film helped me to find my chosen genre for the opening sequence to my own film.The way the characters are presented in the film to the viewer if effective and very well filmed. The use of the camera show there status with in the world of the film, and the use of shot reverse shot shows the audience who the characters are and what the film is based around. This film is a very good example of a thriller. So I will take a few of these idears and I will try and involve them with in my opening sequence thriller.

Location Research

1. This would be an interesting place to set a thriller film, because it is a creepy door in the middle of a fence. When you see it you think, what is behind this door? Where does it lead to? Who lives behind this door? So you start to ask questions in the opening sequence. This will get the viewers griped to the screen and wanted to see more.

2. This would be a good place to set a thriller because it is out in the open, so at night time it will be dark, scary and a good place to get the mood of a thriller.

3. This is a very good place to set my thriller because it looks like an old place, not a lot of people come here so you don't no what to expect. Also as you would walk down here you can't see around the corner so if some one jumped out on you then it would make the viewer jump too.

4. This looks like a good location for a thriller film because it looks as if some think or some one is under all of the rocks or it has fallen on someone. So this makes you ask question and sets a good mood to the opening. A bit of music and this would be the perfect place to set my thriller.

5. I thought this would be a good place to set my thriller because the gates are big, scary and you cant see behind them so you get a feeling that some think is being shut behind it and it isn't allowed out because it is dangerous and big. The cone also represent DO NOT ENTER! So in a thriller you want the viewer to ask questions and some would be. Are they going in? What is behind that gate? Is it a no enter zone? This is such a good place to set a thriller, because you can get so many ideas on what you want to happen in this opening sequence.

6. I thought this woud be a good place to set a thriller because the ice sets a good mood and it stands out and looks sharp and scary. This is a good location to set my thriller, because it is also intersting and different.

7. This woud be a good place to set a thriller because it looks too quite. So this would set a good mood for thriller film to be set hear.

Cinematography: My use of the camera in each shot was thought out before each shot was taken. I made sure that the mean of the shot was established to the view and from the pictures you could see the mood of each shot and this helped me to decide the best place to set my thriller film. I used mostly medium, long and wide shots in each picture. This help set the mood because I wanted the viewer to see what I did and to understand why these pictures where effective to the setting of a thriller.

Mise-en-scene: Each setting I used was effective to the viewer because it set a scary mood and this is what I need to make my film effective and real. The positioning of the main subject within the frame was hard to do because I wanted the pictures to have questions hidden in the and this would be more exciting for the viewer to see because they would think why? where? what? and this is what you need to have when making an effective thriller film.

Final Product

Evaluation

This is my evelaution of how my groups film would work in the real world.
I will also compare other films to my film and show how my group was inspired to make our own opeing sequence.

Planning

Memento – Analysis of the opening sequence

The title of the film- When and how does it appear on the screen?

The title appears from a black background and then the director cuts in an image of the main actor holding a picture and this time the title fades is in blue writing to make it stand out more to the viewer. This is a key part to the film because this is what the film is about the pictures that the actor takes so he can remember what he has done that day. This is an old fashioned camera so you have to shake it so the picture can form, but in this opening the picture disappears and this is showing that time is being reversed and as he shakes the picture it disappears and the story is rewinded. This is very interesting for the view to watch because it makes you ask questions and keep you sucked into the film.

When and how is the setting/location revealed to the viewer?

The setting and location are hard to see because of the use of camera shots. There are so many close ups' it makes it hard to see where the opening sequenced is filmed. So because of the dark and scary place you think people don't go there much, only if they are going to kill someone. So as a viewer you question where is this place? So you get more drawn in because you want to find it out. The only clues you get are that its dark, old because of the holes in the walls, and that is dirty because the screen grab of the man on the floor. So it is reveled to the viewer very slowly in the film and you only really know where it is set near the end of the film when he goes back to that place and it is reviled what he was really doing there, and then your question are answered.

Key props- what shot types are used to revel these to the viewer?

The key props are show in the as close ups' this is to show that they are important to the film. The main props that are used are the camera and the pictures of different people that the charactor meets in the film. The prop of the bulit from a gun is used to show how the person on the floor is killed and what the first picture represents in the opening sequence, this bulit is shown to the viewer in a close up so the viewer can see what it is and this prop helps them to put the story together in there head also as they see the quick replay of the gun going into his hand you know he took that shot and killed that man. The glasses on the floor are shown at a low angled shot that was close up so you could see the blood on them and for the viewer to know they belong to the dead man on the floor. This helps the viewer to notice in the film who the glasses belong to and this also helps them to put the story together more in there head. So from this sequence the main props are reveled to the viewer in a strange way but they will will get noticed stright away, because of the music and pace of the film.

Title font, placement and style- how do the actors' names, etc appear on the screen? Explain the connotations of the font choice for the title and the credits.

The use of font is bold, blue, in the middle of the screen and quite big so it is noticed. This is a good position to put the actors' names in because the viewer will see the names before they see the backgroung image. The way that the names appear on to the screen are sharp and quick so you can tell that the film will go in the same pace as this so you have to keep your eyes on the screen to know what is going to happen next. The difference between the title and the credits, is that the title is much bigger and spaced out so it show's that it is definalty the title and not an actors name. The credits are a bit smaller because they want the viewer to see the images behind the words but for then to not go unnoticed. This is a good use of the rule of thirds to open the film in such an effective way.

Describe the overall camerawork and editing in the opening sequence of 'Memento'

The camera is mostly in a still but close persion so you can get a close up of the actors' in the film and the main actors' hand and face. The use of reversing what is happening is a really good effect because it gets the viewer into the film stright away. Also the way the the picture disappears is really effective too because you want to see what is in the picture, and you can just about get to see what it is then it fades more and more. The best part of the reversing of the opening sequence is the blood on the wall. It looks as if it is going back up the wall moving away from the camera. That part as a viewer helps to set the mood of the film you to see why it is a thriller film.

How does the opening sequence relate to the rest of the film?

It does that by makeing the viewer ask themselves a lot of questions in the first two minutes of the film and as the film goes on you are able to answer the film and thought out the film you are going " oh yer, I get that now" so it gives the film a good build up to the action and the story line. But the best thing is you only get to do that at the end when you see why the main actor kills that man (teddy) so you get the long build up to the part your most interested about. So you just want to watch on. It also relates to the film because the use of pictures helps you to follow the story line of the film better when you find out what they are for.