Production Roles - Miss Miller

In the process of creating a film production, there are allocated roles with responsibilities in order to make sure the film being worked on is successful. Having a variety of roles for different people allows a less stressful time for each individual, and is alternatively quicker than having the same person for every single role. Also, having different roles for different people allows the quality of the work to be at a high standard too because there is divided attention to every detail within the prd.

Producer -Prepare and then supervise the making of a film before presenting the product to a financing entity or a film distributor. They might be employed by a film studio or be independent, yet either way they helm the creative people as well as the accounting personnel.

Directors- The Director is the driving creative force in a film's production, and acts as the crucial link between the production, technical and creative teams.  Directors are responsible for creatively translating the film's written script into actual images and sounds on the screen

Actors- Persons who perform in a film, programme or on stage.

Director of photography- the person who is responsible for all operations concerning camera work and lighting during the production of a film. 

Sound Technicians-alter and balance the levels of different sounds that are recorded

Screenplay Writer-A screenwriter or scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practises the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based.

Editors-the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film

When my group and I started to produce our opening credits we used a wide range of variety of names that we made up so that the same three names do no keep repeating themselves. However, despite the use of all the different names, we have all taken the responsibilities of each role and shared them equally so that it also doesn't look unproffesional or low budget.

I have been allocated the role of Mise-en-scene coordinator. I put myself forward for this role because I'm a creative person and therefore I believed that I would achieve the best for the group in this section of production. My group trusted me to look after things and keep the group organized with bringing different props and taking control of hair and make up. Hair and make up is crucial in our thriller as without the ideal appearance, the genre of our opening sequence may be unclear. This way I was able to dress our characters according to the atmosphere that my group and I have created and being able to look at make up for the characters meant that it would allow our targeted audience to warm towards our victims which is important because it helps our opening sequence to be successful because the audience would have created a relationship with the characters. I wasn't  allocated the role of director, editor or producer because my leadership skills are strong, but not as strong as the boys so we felt that therefore the boys would produce the better role.

We decided to allocate the role of director to Vasil because my group and I felt that he was the strongest speaker and was able to give clear direction to each role, Vasil is also very good at group work and conjuring creative and original idea's, so therefore my group and I felt that it would be Vasil's best suited role during this production. We also assigned the role of producer with Vasil as we felt he worked well and under pressure and produces affective results, however there was lack of orginisation and if the opportunity presented itself to re-do things in our production, Vasil would not have been handed such difficult tasks and my group and I feel partly responsible for this for perhaps our lack of communication with Vasil, but if there had of been an issue, he should have come forward and spoken to the group and I about this so we could resolve the issue quickly and effectively. Despite the clear lack of orginisation, Vasil achieved well for our group and so I am happy that our group allocated these roles to him.

Lastly, my group and I believed George would suit the role of producer, editor and sound technician. George nominated himself for these roles and we felt it would be best he done these roles due to his knowledge and background in these areas and would therefore produce the best results from this. George supplied the production with some excellent skills that he has learned and therefore applied to our production. I believe these roles were best suited particularly to George because he showed a lot of enthusiasm in doing these and making our opening sequence to the best that it could be, and actually, our production is very successful due to his work therefore Vasil and I were more than happy with allocating these roles to George.

I believe as a group, we worked together and bounced off each others idea's to create a successful opening sequence. As a group we were able to apply different skills that we have all learned and was able to make improvements to each others work with constructive criticism and therefore ended up with a successful end result. However, despite how our group functioned and worked well together, there were a few hiccups and if done again I would suggest more people in the production roles as it was stressful to share the roles equally without certain members being under more stress than the others. Also, I believe we would re arrange the role for Vasil as we know it was difficult for him to supply the group with his usual standard work and therefore his role with George fell more onto George as he then had double the work to do, so this was unfair. I'd also liked to have been allocated more roles in our production as despite my role of MES coordinator being a big role, I felt that my presence was slightly dismissed and so if done again, I would have requested more roles to feel like I had contributed more to the group as my lack of roles meant that I wasn't able to include as much work as the others.  But I am happy with our group and it was pleasant to work with them, and I am happy with our end result.

Director; Vasil Nikolov
Mise-en-scene coordinator; Danniella Cross
Producers; George Miller, Vasil Nikolov

Websites that have helped me in my research for this post:
http://www.creativeskillset.org/film/jobs/direction/article_3880_1.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_producer
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/director+of+photography
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sound-engineer
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/film+editing

Planning Editing Styles - Miss Georgiou

Editing styles within a thriller is important because it helps capture the audiences attention and allows us to demonstrate the three important elements of a thriller which are: shock, suspense and surprise. Editing styles also allow us to portray different emotions of characters and how they may view things for example when a low angle is used and to edit this, something like jump cut would be used and this is to create impact. In our thriller we will use four types of editing which will be listed below.

One editing style that my group and I will be using is fade. We believe that this will be effective to use as an editing style within our opening sequence for a thriller because we have seen it used in other successful thrillers and we believe that it signifies danger and warns the audience that something bad is going to happen, this prepares them for shock because of the tension that we have created. We have used fade towards the end of our opening sequence when Dave is in his car and the killer pops up next to him but from outside of the car and the effect this creates allows the audience to feel tense and experience suspense that my group and I have created. The use of fade in our opening sequence allows us to incorporate different elements of suspense, shock and surprise so we felt it would help us to include this type of editing.

Something else that my group and I included in our opening sequence is slow editing.  We have used slow editing when Stacey is walking towards her bedroom door but is aware that the person behind it isn't who she would like it to be. The slow editing emphasizes impact because the audience are able to pay attention to every important details of the scene and capturing reactions from Stacey who is the killers first victim. This also helps creates a relationship between the audience and her character because we are able to see her fate before she is able to herself, therefore allowing the audience to feel sympathetic towards Stacey. The use of slow editing is conventional to a thriller as it is something that helps convey the theme of fear and so we felt that this would be an effective feature to use in our own opening sequence.

My group and I also used jump cut in our opening sequence. This is evident in the scene where Dave returns home and enters the house, unbeknown to him that his killer is watching his every move and planning when to attack. This therefore allows the audience to build a relationship with Dave as they can see what's going to happen and want to warn him of the upcoming events leading to his death, yet they are unable to do so therefore proving that jump cut is an important feature for us to include as not only is it conventional to a thriller, but it also makes the audience feel scared as to what's going to happen and focuses the audience on the bad events that are about to take place.

My group and I believe that by using these types of editing styles, it will help us to engage our audience and make them want to know what's going to happen to each character and to become familiar with specific objects or characteristics of our victims and killer.

Planning opening credits - Miss Georgiou

Opening credits are important in a film because it introduces each actor/actress and gives credit to the people involved in the creating of a film. Opening credits also inform the audience what the film's about too. Opening credits are also important because if a specific director is known for a specific genre then it helps inform the audience who it is therefore indicating what the genre of the film is. My group and I have watched various opening credits clips in order to get some inspirations for our own opening credits in the opening sequence which will later be discussed.

Se7en Analysis

In the above clip showing the opening credits for 'Se7en' I found that the colour scheme used is mainly based upon grey scale with red occasionally contrasting, pulling the attention of the audience closer to focus on the red stained features of the opening credits. The scheme of colours used within these opening credits convey a grim and dull theme, perhaps a metaphor for how a life may be seen, that all life had been taken from it.

In se7en there is a clear theme portrayed through the style of credits. For example the credits come across as handwritten and sharp suggesting that perhaps the person writing these is angry and contains a lot of hate, this indicates that this is thriller and therefore makes the audience weary of the person writing this. Also, the credits are flickering showing not only the anger but the instability of the persons mindset doing it, however we could also infer from this that this is like a victims life how it's unpredictable and unstable because they could die at any moment. Something else that expresses a particular theme or emotion through the credits is the use of mostly white writing against the black background which is used to enforce the contrast between justice and evil.

 

The order of appearance in these opening credits show who has played each role and helped produces the film, in these opening credits the order of appearance of roles goes in: Company name, two actors, director, music, costumes, editors, production, camera operators, co-producer, producer, writing, director. This helps create a successful opening credits for an opening sequence, which is evidently the case in these opening credits for se7en.

 

Lastly in opening credits, there are often conventions of thrillers found in them. In this case for se7en, there is a consistent use of flashes with no identity shown, creating a sense of enigma. This helps the audience get a rough idea that the film is a thriller and that there will be a theme of enigma that runs through out the film because they will be unaware of a mystery person and what their plots are. There's use of iconography in the background under the credits, (scissors) which is sharp and can be deadly, therefore representing a convention of a thriller. Also, there's a lot of shadows and eerie music, this suggests and emphasises as discussed earlier the use of enigma ultimately proving that there are strong conventions of thrillers included in the opening credits for se7en. The dark, eerie music pre-warns the audience that something bad is going to happen and gives them a sense of foreboding.

Own Analysis

 

To carry on my research into opening credits to get some inspirations on what to include in my groups piece of work, I looked at the 'Black Swan' opening credits. Looking at the colour scheme of these opening credits, there is the use of very dull colours, such as black, beige, grey and mesh colour. This could be a metaphor for how the main characters life is, very dull, and the use of some of the dark colours such as black indicate that there could be a streak of badness or weakness on the main character. The slightly lighter colours such as beige does stand out against the dim background, however it is interesting that there is no white used. I can infer from the use of not using white (often associated with purity and innocence) shows that there is lack of innocence and that there is something wrong, therefore informing the audience about this and allowing them to know that there is a dark element in this film that they are about to watch.

 

I also saw the style of the credits and what ideas they convey to the targeted audience. There is a difference between the previous opening credits looked at in 'se7en' and 'black swan' this is because the writing is typed and clean cut, all in capital letters. This conveys the idea that the person in control of doing this comes across as strong and firm, but the capital letters used suggest that this person has a lot of anger. Also, the writing fades out blurrily, this suggests that the film could include a lot of maybe confusion, again pre warning the audience.

 

The order of appearance in these opening credits show who has played each role and helped produces the film, in these opening credits the order of appearance of roles goes in: Company name, two actors, director, music, costumes, editors, production, camera operators, co-producer, producer, writing, director. This helps create a successful opening credits for an opening sequence, which is evidently the case in these opening credits for black swan.

 

The opening credits for black swan also contain a lot of conventions of a thriller. For example, the music used at first comes across as soft and relaxing, yet as the opening credits progresses it changes to up beat and aggressive, making the audience feel tense as they continue on to watching the film. Also, there is no identity showing in the opening credits, just a hand drawing at first thin lines delicately, and then later on faster and more agggressively due to the faster pace music, this conveys the theme of hidden intentiy in this thriller. Something else that contributes to the conventions of a thriller in the opening credits is the fact that there is someone defacing something with chalk, I believe this is because the person is trying to express their anger, the fact that the audience do not see what the character is writing emphasises that there is an element of enigma.

 

Own Idea's

 

When my group and I make our own opening credits, we thought it would be wise if we included features such as similar credits to the writing used in se7en. By showing that the credits will be hand written shows that there is a sense of anger, which is conventional to a thriller and we want to do this because we feel it will help portray the genre of our opening credits to the audience so they know what kind of film they will be watching. Also, we thought it would come across at a proffesional level if we took inspirations from various film clips in order to create a successful piece of work, we also would like to include a dark background so that the audience can see that our thriller, if made into a film, would be very dark and scary. We feel that by using hand written credits on top of a dim background helps rise the level of shock, suspense and surprise in our opening sequence and therefore create a more effective reaction from the audience when events happen in our opening sequence with conventional opening credits running through out.

 

We also feel that by having the opening credits run through out our two minute clip, it allows the audience to not only see what was going on, but also to be able to focus their attention not only on the credits but the important events taking place in our opening sequence.

 

Also, the title of our opening sequence ' The Bloody Suit' is written in a unique style created by myself on photoshop and my groun and I felt that it would be best if we continued using my font to show the production roles in order to continue consistancy. By doing this, it creates the audience to be able to see a sense of consistancy throughout the opening sequence so that they are aware that nothing confusing is going to happen and that the layout of our opening sequence will be easy to follow, but we would not be able to show this without the opening credits that we will be displaying over the time that the opening sequence will be playing.

 

Sound Discussion - Miss Miller

Sound is important within a thriller because it suggests a feeling of a character or leads the audience into feeling a certain emotion. Often within thrillers, sound is used in order to add to the shock factor for the three S', these are Shock, Suspense and Surprise. By allowing this it makes the thriller affect the audience more and leave an impact. Sound gives a lot away about genre, for example eerie music will be used in a horror/thriller, cheerful music in an adventure film etc. My group and I have lots of ideas on what sound techniques to use in order to achieve a powerful reaction from the audience and these include:

• Non Diagetic
• Parallel Sounds
• Diagetic
• Off Screen
• On Screen
• Controversial Sound

We believe that using diagetic sounds during our opening sequence will emphasise how our character is feeling. For example, when our second victim, 'Dave' arrives home and is about to come face-to-face with his killer, the loud beat of his heart will be beating which will convey the idea to the audience that there is a strong sense of fear within the scene. Having a loud heart beat over the scene show's that the character is nervous which will gain the audience's sympathy at this point because it's showing a character in a vulnerable position. My group and I have decided to place this diagetic sound at this point within the scene because we felt that by this time, there is a stronge sense of enigma which indicates that this is conventional to a thriller film because thrillers like to give off the theme of fear and create a tense atmopshere aswell enigma in order to trap the audience into feeling how the character may be feeling.

Another sound technique we are using is controversial. We felt strongly about including this into a thriller because when we include this in our opening sequence when Dave returns home to see an empty downstairs, with the audience unknowing that something bad has happened, the audio of a radio playing an up beat song such as 'Mrs Robinson' creates the sense that everything is bad. My group and I believe that by including this within our own opening sequence it misleads the audience and confuses them because the scenes of which are happening are disturbing yet the upbeat music makes everything appear good and positive, therefore confusing the audience makes them unsure on how they should feel about a certain character. Also, despite what the effect this may have on the audience with relation to how the character is feeling, this sound technique can also represent the personality of our victim. The upbeat music portrays a happy and jolly side, which we felt would be a strong piece of music to use as it could allow the audience to infer from this that the character of 'Dave' is a jolly person. This is conventional to a thriller film because it's allowing the audience to subconsciously build a relationship with the characters and get to know what kind of personality they have. Further more my group and I felt this would be a good use of controversial music and feel that by using this, it will set the audience up for shock when something bad happens during the misleading music.

Off screen sound is another sound technique of which my group and I believed to be strong within our opening sequence. We will use this particular sound effect when Dave is on the phone to Stacey, and we are unable to see Stacey. This indicates to the audience who the character is speaking to, and allowing the audience to hear who's on the other end and what the conversation is about means that we are able to gain focus from the audience on the character on the other end of the line to show the significance of the other character. By allowing the audience to divert their attention to a different character, it is allowing them to pre-meet them the character and get an idea for their personality. Though this sound effect doesn't convey any emotion of the characters, it does allow a sense of knowing because it is involving the audience into knowing what the conversation is about showing a sense of trust and allowing the audience to build a relationship with the characters. This is conventional to a thriller film because it is allowing the audience to become attached to each character therefore meaning that if anything happens to them, the audience will be sympathetic towards the characters.

My group and I feel that by including Silence in our opening sequence will help produce a tense atmosphere amongst not only the scene but also amongst the audience. We will use silence when Dave is searching for his dead wife, Stacey, and before coming face to face with her, there will be a long pause of silence. The reason for this is because often where the is silence, the audience will be waiting in anticipation to see what has happened. This is conventional to a thriller because the audience will be in pure suspense, it also makes a sense of unknowing and therefore my group and I thought this would be useful to use in our own opening sequence.

Planning Cinematography - Miss Miller

Cinematography is very important in thriller films because it conveys different emotions and allows a tense atmosphere. Different camera angles are used to help portray certain emotions a particular character is feeling in a scene or to emphasise something specific that the audience may be required to pay more attention to. After studying the different camera angles in depth, my group and I decided upon using five that we felt were particularly strong to use within a thriller. These camera angles include:

• Close up
• Long shot
• High Angle
• Low Angle
• Point Of View

My group and I felt that by using these camera angles we would hold the audiences attention and engage them. The camera angles we will use are very powerful and do represent a lot of conventions in a thriller so would be very useful to use in our opening sequence because it would not only make the genre of our opening sequence clear, but also get the best reaction from our targeted audience.

We will be using P.O.V for the killer through out the whole opening sequence. P.O.V will  first be shown when entering the house after the wife has got off the phone from her husband. This means that when the killer enters the house, the audience is unaware as to who's entering the house, therefore creating a sense of enigma. Having enigma within a thriller is extremely important in a thriller because it allows room for more tension and ability to include shock, suspense and surprise. When the killer picks up a knife, it's allowing the audience to relate because it's showing what the killer's thought process is. P.O.V is conventional to a thriller film because of the enigma it creates, this means that there is a clear theme of mystery running through out and therefore my group and I want to include this within our thriller opening sequence.

Another camera angle that we will use is high angle. High angle's can establish the vulnerability of a character and make them seem weak or pre-warn the audience that something bad is going to happen. My group and I are going to use high angles when showing a vulnerable character alone and allowing them to come across as weak to the audience. The first time high angle will be seen to be used is when Stacey is in the bathroom right before her murder. This is to emphasise just how vulnerable the character is and to show how small she is compared the large, spacious room. This represents her insignificance and that she is trapped within her own comfort without knowing. Another time that high angle is going to be used is when Dave has come home from work and is travelling up the staircase about to walk past the bathroom. This shows the same weakness as what would have just been previously seen with Stacey. High angles are typical conventions of a thriller and my group and I felt that by using this technique it helps engage the audience and allows them to build a relationship with the actors. This shot is particularly conventional to a thriller film because the effects of it are to show a sense of helplessness to a character and conveys a fearful atmosphere.

My group and I particularly felt that a close up being used would be a good convention of a thriller film to include in our own opening sequence for our own thriller. A close up demonstrates a characters specific emotion and captures a clear facial expression in order to get a reaction from the audience, allowing the audience to build a relationship with the character, therefore making the audience protective if anything happens to the character. We are going to use a close up when Dave enters the house and comes face to face with his dead wife. The reason we are doing this is to capture the character's fear and convey the idea that his character is feeling nervous and fearful. It allows the audience to respond in the same and show a parallel feeling between the audience and the character. This is conventional to a thriller film because it shows emphasis on a particular feeling or emotion to the audience and helps build a relationship between the two in order for the audience to feel sympathetic towards a character.

Low angles will also be used in our opening sequence. The use of a low angle allows a character to appear as strong or significant to the audience because the character seems to be powerful or taller than what they are. My group and I are using this angle when our character 'Dave' is coming up the stairs. By using this camera angle is is showing that despite the eerie silence and background, it shows his bravery as he steadily makes his way upstairs. This is misleading to the audience because it comes across as his character is brave and not fearful, yet feels nothing like it which is conventional to a thriller film because it creates the idea of a character that should be strong, yet when something happens, feels the completely opposite therefore leading the audience into a false sense of security before something bad is going to happen.

We also decided upon wanting to use a long shot in our opening sequence. We are going to use a long shot when our character 'Stacey' is in the kitchen chopping vegetables. The reason for us using a long shot is to show the audience all the potential weapons with the different iconography in the scene. This will allow the audience to focus on specific objects within the background allowing a vulnerable atmosphere to be either exaggerated or to feel like a sense of security because it is within a film. Long shot's are conventional to a thriller because it helps establish all of the surroundings of a scene, and the background so the audience are able to see and get a feel for the scenery and layout of a place before something happens and can be used as an advantage to help create a sense of enigma, fear and tension when something bad happens.

Planning character representation - Miss Georgiou

 

In this post I will be discussing what my group and I are going to be using within our own thriller clip with the characters of which we will be using and why we are using them.

My group and I decided amongst ourselves that using three characters for our thriller film would be best suited because it would allow us to display a variety of things within our thriller, setting the mood and allowing the audience to concentrate on them one at a time.

Victim One
    Name: Stacey
    Gender: Female
    Age: 35
    Race: Eastern European
    Background: Stacey is an everyday home maker. She spends everyday looking after all responsibilities within the home. Tasks involving cleaning the house, doing the washing, cooking nice home made meals -which we discover in the opening scene to allow the audience to relate to the character and develop some sort of relationship with the character. Stacey doesn't have any friends and her family consists of just her, Dave and their two sons. The reason for this is because both her parents were murdered when she had just married Dave. Stacey was a hard working young lady as a school girl, but bad influences made her drop out of school and ever since, she had always kept to cleaning houses as she had no other qualifications.

How character relates:
Stacey's character appeals to the target audience. The reason for this is because at 15-18yrs old (stereotypically) girls are conscience of their appearance, and so to include a female character with very basic make up and her hair tied up shows a sense of vulnerability yet confident, giving a slight moral to the teenage girls that it's okay to look how you do. This makes Stacey approachable to the audience. Also, by her wearing an apron and having no make up on, her hair tied up.. it will make her look weak. By showing this to the audience, it's allowing them to have a prewarning of what could happen and that she is a weak character, and the scene's of which she is in will emphasise how helpless and weak she is. This makes the audience want to reach out and help, therefore allowing her character to appeal to the target audience.



Victim Two
    Name: Dave
    Gender: Male
    Age: 40
    Race: Eastern European
    Background: Dave is a solicitor. He is currently on a case working as a defendant for a victim against a well known criminal who is full of anger and revenge for anyone. Dave is happily married with his wife; Stacey. They have two sons, a nice house. The family are strict Christians and are strong believers in karma, this belief is why Dave has become a solicitor. Dave has grown up with both parents who are still with him to this very day, he has two older brothers who are twins, and one younger sister. Dave is a very family orientated person, and he guards his family with his life. He's had an easy time growing up, and he comes from a wealthy background.

How character relates:
The character of Dave appeals to the audience. This is because he comes across as a good soul who is willing to help. The fact that he is a solicitor and to do with the law, allows the audience to trust him because of his authority and would therefore hold him in high regard. His character also allows the male audience to look up to him as an inspiring figure and influencing a positive look on reality. The use of his outfit where he will be wearing a smart suit, along with a brief case show's that he is a sophisticated, strong character. It is important to convey the idea that this character is strong because it is a sense of security for the audience, therefore allowing him to appeal to the audience. The differene in clothing between him and Stacey shows the comparisons of a strong character and a weak character.


Killer
    Name:
    Gender: Male
    Age:
    Race: British
    Background: This killer is currently facing trial in court for attempt of man slaughter, he has no friends nor family. As a young boy growing up, he was around a lot of nasty areas where he saw crime take place right in front of him - the main crime he saw was knife crime -  and he witnessed his mother getting aggressively stabbed when he was 11. Since then he hadn't been the same, he had studied hard at school until he was 16 and then left to go and get a job. At this job, he was treated with no respect and was bullied by his colleagues both physically and mentally. Seeing his mother getting murdered and witnessing violence through out his life, as well as being bullied, violence has been a big influence in his life and his actions. He has killed 5 civilians so far, but yet is still blood thirsty.

How character relates:
The killer may not appeal to the majority of the audience. This is because this character is seen as violent and morally wrong in his belief. However, taking this attitude on the character works because in order for a successful thriller, we need the enemy to be feared for the audience to not want to relate to the killer. Yet, despite the audience not relating to this character, they still do. By this, I mean that the fact that this character is despised, it makes the audience want to know more and engages their audience with a film so still relates to the audience and appeals to them because it achieves an effective reaction.

Inspirations - Miss Miller

When creating your own opening scene to a thriller it is important to gather some inspirations to include in order for it to be successful. My group and I have got inspirations from different films that we felt were strong and contained successful conventions that if we incorporated in our own opening sequels, would create atmospheres of our choice in order to create shock, surprise and suspense.

The films that my group and I have chosen inspirations from are: Halloween town (1974) where the point of view of the killer when passing through the house cleverly is blacked out apart from two eye slits allowing the audience to only see what the killer see's. My group and I believed this to be a strong idea because it helps create a sense of enigma and allows the audience to feel vulnerable.

*insert picture of Halloween town (1974)*

Another film that we got our inspirations from are sixth sense. This will be evident when victim 2 (the husband) is about to get killed, and as he comes face to face with the killer, his breathe turns hot against the cold air. We thought this would be a good idea as it emphasises how scared the character is feeling which is clear to the audience.

*insert picture of sixth sense*

Scream 2 is another big inspiration to our opening sequence because it's what our thriller is based upon, with the theory of a phone call and the great use of a knife as part of the iconography. We felt this would be a perfect inspiration to make our audience jump and feel tense because by creating a tense atmosphere it would engage the audience more.

*insert picture of scream two*

Lastly, we have used inspirations from shutter island when looking at the music. This is because we felt that in shutter island when a character is scared, there is a non diagetic sound of the characters heart beating fast, we felt that including this in our own opening sequence it would allow us to emphasise on the theme of fear and really convey this idea to the audience that it's something that could happen to any of the audience.

*insert picture of shutter island*

As listed above, we have chosen various inspirations to include in our thriller, we chose these inspirations because we felt that they would work well with our idea in order to achieve the best reaction from the audience in order to make our opening sequence memorable. Though these inspirations are featured in our opening sequence, and may come across as something that is not our idea, we have made sure to make these features our own. We done this by mixing all of these inspirations together to create a new idea to base our opening sequence on. We felt by using these inspirations in different scenes it would show our understanding of how to create a specific atmosphere and our ability to turn these inspirations in to our own ideas, therefore showing how we were able to make these inspirations our own.

We felt that these inspirations were important because they all belong to well known thrillers. This means that these techniques used were successful, and therefore that means if we include them in our opening sequence, it would allow it to be a successful opening sequence also. By making them all our own it makes the effect of the inspirations even greater and more effective.

Our research was useful in the terms of getting ideas for our narratives because we was able to gain knowledge on how to incorporate affective techniques within our own openings sequence. We will take these ideas and develop them within our own opening sequence thrillers by adding a unique twist to them in order to sustain more concentration and feelings with the audience to the characters in the film.