Thriller mindmap/plan

I am working with Lewis Martin for my short thriller where we have began planning out the thriller, taking up the idea of a couple with a split personality and how their lives vary at home rather than seen by the public.

Thriller mindmap

Generic plan

·         Happy couple filmed being together and just being normal people.

-          Setting

o   Sheffield and train

o   Day time

·         As the day comes to an end they return home to enter their garage.

-          Setting

o   Garage

§  Tools and blood around, wooden chair

o   Sunset leading to night

·         Person is held hostage in the garage who has been previously tortured.

·         Torturing continues to show the split personality of the two people.

Mise-en-scene

·         Train and city scene

-          Filmed on a train and in Sheffield

-          Other people around on another journey

-          Main two characters well-dressed/smart

-          Visiting various shops and nice venues within the city

·         Garage scene

-          Normal, incognito garage

-          Opens up to a torture-like room

-          Used tools with blood on and around the room

-          Old, wooden chair in the centre

§  Beaten and bloody man sat on the chair (Weak/limp)

-          Crumbs and pieces of food left after being fed little as possible but still alive

 

7even textual analysis

Below is my textual analysis of the film, 7even, starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. It is a film about two detectives, with what is meant to be a final case unfolding into a series of murders.

7even textual analysis from BenLocking07

Lighting practice

We have been practicing a variety of shots with different lighting to create a specific effect on the viewer. There are a range of techniques that can be used to portray a character to be a protagonist, antagonist, or merely just a sinister persona.

Backlight

Firstly we practiced having a large amount of natural light near or behind our target in order to darken the scene and create some sort of a silhouette around them. This technique is often used before the reveal of the character, that may play an important role, to help build suspense and anticipation to who, or what, they may be.

Focused light

For this effect we used a torch to give off a direct beam of light towards the subject. This helps to darken out the rest of the scene and encourage the audience to focus on where the light is. This is often used in horror films when someone is in a poorly lit house or factory then a beam from a torch decides what the audience will see and where they will look. The fact of the audience having no control or what they must see creates suspense and fear as to what may happen next.









Close lighting

This technique involves using two different intensities of light to show both the focus character and a particular scene occurring in the background but with less focus. Here we have a bright, artificial light at the front aimed towards the main character to show focus on them but with a slightly darker light in the background on the other two characters to show that they still have involvement but may be a slightly less important role in the scene.









Birdman textual analysis