Narrative Structure: The opening of this film uses a linear structure, although it is two story lines that are intertwined with each other. Lots of things are going on at once, which makes it quite hard to figure out what's going on and there is only a suggestion of a narrative. We can make out from the sequence that someone steals a wallet, from someone with the initals J.R.
Something is going on with a "box of frozen fish" that's not frozen fish, but something in a large grey box.
Thriller codes and convetions : enigma codes are sued as a key part of Redeye, the main questions asked are Who is J.R? What is in the container? And Who stole the wallet? These questions leave the reader on the edge of their seats and with several questions running through their mind. An element of the unusual or exotic is used within the film. This exotic thing is an unknown container covered in fish. We don’t know what is in the container or where it has come from and the fact that it isn’t a person makes it slightly exotic and mysterious.
Camerawork :Redeye contains a lot of quick shots that are often close ups. This is used to almost confuse the viewer so they ask a lot of questions. Panning and tracking shots are used at the start in close up to give a shot that shows a lot of detail up close that we can presume will be relevant to the story later on such as the picture of a girl and the wallet. There is never any focus on the characters faces within the camera shots but instead what they are doing or what they are using to do.
Mise-En-Scene-
Coustime - Gloves are used by the character who takes the wallet, this links with finger prints as many crime and thriller films have an element of trying to get finger prints to nail criminals.
Lighting- The scene is quite light throughout except the end with the van scene where it is much darker. This means all details can be scene that need to be but there is still that element of darkness at the end.
Actors- We don’t actually see any of the actors in the scene although there is some focus on the girl in the picture. This links with Pascal’s idea of Partial vision.
Make-Up- Although not specifically make-up, the fish all have red eyes which refers back tot eh title of the film.
Props- The wallet is a key prop in the scene as there seems to be a lot of focus on what is inside it and who it belongs to. The crate with the fish surrounding it is also a major prop as we wonder what it contains.
Setting- The scene is set in a variety of settings including a house, warehouse, van and then haulage yard.
Sound - at the start of the scene when the credits appear and the picture with the girl in it, suspense is instantly built by dark supernatural music which puts the audience on edge. The music is building throughout the scene and very dark and racy. The loud and full sounding music builds suspense in a scene that isn’t as dramatic as say a death or murder.
Editing -There are many parts in the opening where cross cutting occurs. The scene cuts between the two ongoing story lines, one about a wallet and one about a container. Quick editing and cuts keep the suspense up in the scene. There are some areas of match shots and continuity editing
Friday, 28 November 2008
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Jaws - The Opening Scenes
Narrative Structure
This film, unlike Se7en has a definite narrative structure. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. It uses continuity editing to create a prologue - a mini story which is hinting at the possibility of whats to come. It starts off with a party on the beach, there is a bunch of teenagers sat round a campfire, kissing, smoking playing music and drinking. It then moves on to a boy and a girl running towards the sea, taking their clothes off (suggestion of sex?) the boy is clearly drunk and never actually gets to the sea. The girl on the other hand gets into the water and swims out quite a way. It is then that she gets attacked, with the boy just lying on the waters edge ignoring completely what is going on. After she has been attacked, it goes back to the quiet sea, with the boy still sat on the beach.
Thriller Codes & Conventions
Partial vision is used in this opening scene, as you do not see the shark as it attacks the girl. It uses enigma codes to create lots of questions for the audience - such as, What exactly is in the sea? What will happen to the girl/boy? Another convention that is used is tense music to build up the idea of tension towards the violence, and the use of night time and an isolated setting also adds to the tension, which is commonly created in a thriller film.
Mise-En-Scene: The opening sequence is set at night time/evening time. It is filled with young students having a beach party carrying out troublesome tasks like drinking, smoking and kissing excessively. (Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll). The fire in the opening scene is the only bit of light throughout the sequence. It creates a great contrast between light and dark and creates shadows. It also shows the contrast between the size of the fire in comparison to the ocean, so that could create a sort of fore-shadowing in the sense that something bad about to happen involving the great, big ocean.
Sound:The beginning starts very quietly, then the middle part where the tension is building the music/sound becomes gradually louder and louder until the climactic ending becomes silent again. The silence at the end is a good representation of death. The screaming ans splashing about when the attack is happening is a great contrast to the boy lying peacefully on the sand near her. You kind of expect the boy to hear her struggle and the audience get a glimpse of hope that the boy will come and rescue the girl, but when that doesn't happen, the shark successfully kills the girl and the scene becomes silent once more.
Editing:Continuity editing is used throughout to help with the flowing of one scene to another. Match shots and shot reverse shot are used between the girl and the boy to show the sexual attraction between the two. Cross-cutting is used during the attack scene when it cuts back to the boy laying peacefully on the sand. This gives the audience a slight glimpse of hope that the boy might actually rescue the girl. Also, at the very end of the sequence two shots are dissolved into one. An early night shot is dissolved to a late shot to show the passing of time.
Graphics:The title is in block capital for emphasis. They credits are on screen as the film is playing and are centered in the middle of the screen.
This film, unlike Se7en has a definite narrative structure. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. It uses continuity editing to create a prologue - a mini story which is hinting at the possibility of whats to come. It starts off with a party on the beach, there is a bunch of teenagers sat round a campfire, kissing, smoking playing music and drinking. It then moves on to a boy and a girl running towards the sea, taking their clothes off (suggestion of sex?) the boy is clearly drunk and never actually gets to the sea. The girl on the other hand gets into the water and swims out quite a way. It is then that she gets attacked, with the boy just lying on the waters edge ignoring completely what is going on. After she has been attacked, it goes back to the quiet sea, with the boy still sat on the beach.
Thriller Codes & Conventions
Partial vision is used in this opening scene, as you do not see the shark as it attacks the girl. It uses enigma codes to create lots of questions for the audience - such as, What exactly is in the sea? What will happen to the girl/boy? Another convention that is used is tense music to build up the idea of tension towards the violence, and the use of night time and an isolated setting also adds to the tension, which is commonly created in a thriller film.
Mise-En-Scene: The opening sequence is set at night time/evening time. It is filled with young students having a beach party carrying out troublesome tasks like drinking, smoking and kissing excessively. (Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll). The fire in the opening scene is the only bit of light throughout the sequence. It creates a great contrast between light and dark and creates shadows. It also shows the contrast between the size of the fire in comparison to the ocean, so that could create a sort of fore-shadowing in the sense that something bad about to happen involving the great, big ocean.
Sound:The beginning starts very quietly, then the middle part where the tension is building the music/sound becomes gradually louder and louder until the climactic ending becomes silent again. The silence at the end is a good representation of death. The screaming ans splashing about when the attack is happening is a great contrast to the boy lying peacefully on the sand near her. You kind of expect the boy to hear her struggle and the audience get a glimpse of hope that the boy will come and rescue the girl, but when that doesn't happen, the shark successfully kills the girl and the scene becomes silent once more.
Editing:Continuity editing is used throughout to help with the flowing of one scene to another. Match shots and shot reverse shot are used between the girl and the boy to show the sexual attraction between the two. Cross-cutting is used during the attack scene when it cuts back to the boy laying peacefully on the sand. This gives the audience a slight glimpse of hope that the boy might actually rescue the girl. Also, at the very end of the sequence two shots are dissolved into one. An early night shot is dissolved to a late shot to show the passing of time.
Graphics:The title is in block capital for emphasis. They credits are on screen as the film is playing and are centered in the middle of the screen.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Redeye - The opening scenes
Narrative Structure- Redeye is filmed in a montage structure, all the images are random and don’t follow a set linear chronological sequence of events. In Redeye the montage structure works by running two story lines simultaneously; one about a container and one about the wallet embroidered with J.R. Due to this montage footage the audience is unclear who are the bad guys and who are the good guys if there are good and bad guys in it.
Thriller Codes and Conventions - Enigma codes are sued as a key part of Redeye, the main questions asked are Who is J.R? What is in the container? And Who stole the wallet? These questions leave the reader on the edge of their seats and with several questions running through their mind.Paired with this is Partial Vision. In redeye we don’t see who the wallet belongs to, J.R. And we also don’t have a clue who has stolen it. This is a great deal of partial vision which then leads to a whole set of questions (Enigma Codes).An element of the unusual or exotic is used within the film. This exotic thing is an unknown container covered in fish. We don’t know what is in the container or where it has come from and the fact that it isn’t a person makes it slightly exotic and mysterious.
Camerawork
Redeye contains a lot of quick shots that are often close ups. This is used to almost confuse the viewer so they ask a lot of questions. Panning and tracking shots are used at the start in close up to give a shot that shows a lot of detail up close that we can presume will be relevant to the story later on such as the picture of a girl and the wallet. There is never any focus on the characters faces within the camera shots but instead what they are doing or what they are using to do.
Mise en Scene -
Whats in the scene? Alot of things are in this scene, as there is lots of things going on. There is the wallet, which is stolen. The photo's of the young woman. The floorplan and photo's of the building (which is possibly a hotel?). The frozen fish which is concealing something within a box. The opening of this scene we can see is set in two different locations, somewhere near a dockyard, and then inside the rooms in possibly two different buildings.
Sound
The sounds in this sequence are very dramatic, loud and fast paced, not unlike the events that we are seeing unfold in the film. The music builds up to add to the tension between JR? putting down their wallet and getting in the shower and the wallet being stolen. When the title "Red Eye" comes up on screen, we hear the rushing sound of a plane taking off, which could possibly be a hint as to what is going to happen in the rest of the story.
Editing
To keep with the fast paced style of this film, lots of fast paced, cross cut editing is used to envelope the audience in the story and almost confuse the person who is viewing the film. The story cross cuts from the wallet storyline to the "frozen fish" storyline numerous times in very quick succession.
Graphics
The graphics in this opening are white on a black background to begin with. They then move around on screen over the top of all the action that is going on within the film. The title Red Eye is written in red, which has connotations of evil and mysterious things which links in to the opening sequence of the film and things that could possibly still be to come.
Thriller Codes and Conventions - Enigma codes are sued as a key part of Redeye, the main questions asked are Who is J.R? What is in the container? And Who stole the wallet? These questions leave the reader on the edge of their seats and with several questions running through their mind.Paired with this is Partial Vision. In redeye we don’t see who the wallet belongs to, J.R. And we also don’t have a clue who has stolen it. This is a great deal of partial vision which then leads to a whole set of questions (Enigma Codes).An element of the unusual or exotic is used within the film. This exotic thing is an unknown container covered in fish. We don’t know what is in the container or where it has come from and the fact that it isn’t a person makes it slightly exotic and mysterious.
Camerawork
Redeye contains a lot of quick shots that are often close ups. This is used to almost confuse the viewer so they ask a lot of questions. Panning and tracking shots are used at the start in close up to give a shot that shows a lot of detail up close that we can presume will be relevant to the story later on such as the picture of a girl and the wallet. There is never any focus on the characters faces within the camera shots but instead what they are doing or what they are using to do.
Mise en Scene -
Whats in the scene? Alot of things are in this scene, as there is lots of things going on. There is the wallet, which is stolen. The photo's of the young woman. The floorplan and photo's of the building (which is possibly a hotel?). The frozen fish which is concealing something within a box. The opening of this scene we can see is set in two different locations, somewhere near a dockyard, and then inside the rooms in possibly two different buildings.
Sound
The sounds in this sequence are very dramatic, loud and fast paced, not unlike the events that we are seeing unfold in the film. The music builds up to add to the tension between JR? putting down their wallet and getting in the shower and the wallet being stolen. When the title "Red Eye" comes up on screen, we hear the rushing sound of a plane taking off, which could possibly be a hint as to what is going to happen in the rest of the story.
Editing
To keep with the fast paced style of this film, lots of fast paced, cross cut editing is used to envelope the audience in the story and almost confuse the person who is viewing the film. The story cross cuts from the wallet storyline to the "frozen fish" storyline numerous times in very quick succession.
Graphics
The graphics in this opening are white on a black background to begin with. They then move around on screen over the top of all the action that is going on within the film. The title Red Eye is written in red, which has connotations of evil and mysterious things which links in to the opening sequence of the film and things that could possibly still be to come.
Seven - the opening scene
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE - At the beginning the first opening shots are all mainly close up with this mysterious character working on a book. We get hints of foreshadowing elements of the story eg - the peeled fingers to avoid finger prints.
Thriller Codes and Conventions - It uses engima codes and creates questions being asked - Who is this person? - Why is he/she doing this? - Why are they doing the same things There is partial vison were you don't see the face of the characters it focus's on the villains work which seems professional, meticulous, derranged, obsessive. The environment is very dark an there is a mysterious atmosphere building up with the music put into place.
Camerawork - Its mostly entirely made of close ups and extreme close up shots, with still camera work and restrictive vision; it focus's the audience on what the character is doing. The viewers are put in a situation were it becomes quite unpleasant with shots taken place.
MISE-EN-SCENE
C - costume - There are colours of black/white/red- blood, death, danger
L - lighting - focus's on sharp instruments, needles, razors/ pens
A - Actors - Pictures of for photographs of the victums
M - Make - up - There are lots of handwritting - cleverness/obessions.
P - Props
S - Setting Sound - low pitch bass/beats - creaks / screams - ghostly noises - at the end there is a song with the lyric, '' you get me closer to god'' - motivation.
Montage - not continuity Images super impoied on each other distroia. The images jump around Cutting from one image to another quite quickly Subliminal editing images flashing on the screen for a very short time
Graphics - Scratchy handwriting which links to the killers amateur handwriting. Closer to the film begging the start the main characters come first Then the title of the film. Then the less important people eg main camera man. But the the director always comes last with all the credits jump around
Thriller Codes and Conventions - It uses engima codes and creates questions being asked - Who is this person? - Why is he/she doing this? - Why are they doing the same things There is partial vison were you don't see the face of the characters it focus's on the villains work which seems professional, meticulous, derranged, obsessive. The environment is very dark an there is a mysterious atmosphere building up with the music put into place.
Camerawork - Its mostly entirely made of close ups and extreme close up shots, with still camera work and restrictive vision; it focus's the audience on what the character is doing. The viewers are put in a situation were it becomes quite unpleasant with shots taken place.
MISE-EN-SCENE
C - costume - There are colours of black/white/red- blood, death, danger
L - lighting - focus's on sharp instruments, needles, razors/ pens
A - Actors - Pictures of for photographs of the victums
M - Make - up - There are lots of handwritting - cleverness/obessions.
P - Props
S - Setting Sound - low pitch bass/beats - creaks / screams - ghostly noises - at the end there is a song with the lyric, '' you get me closer to god'' - motivation.
Montage - not continuity Images super impoied on each other distroia. The images jump around Cutting from one image to another quite quickly Subliminal editing images flashing on the screen for a very short time
Graphics - Scratchy handwriting which links to the killers amateur handwriting. Closer to the film begging the start the main characters come first Then the title of the film. Then the less important people eg main camera man. But the the director always comes last with all the credits jump around
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