Preliminary Script

Script:

Female walks up to front of house, approaches front door and enters. She walks into a room with a round table and two chairs; a male sat in one.

Male:I knew you would come

Female: (Whispered) Why am i here? 

Male:(Shouting) You know why you're here! The time has come and now you must pay for what you have done!

Pandemic pictures Logo

Designed by Emma Bradshaw







 We decided to use darker colours because we felt they had horror themed connotations. We chose to have a black background because the image we chose is striking on it's own but in front of a black background, it stands out even more and draws the audience's attention in. We wanted to give it an uneasy but mysterious feel to it as we decided our company would be primarily horror/thriller. 
We had the idea of a gas mask to link in with the idea of 'pandemic' as something infectious but were unable to take our own picture as so we therefore found our image online. We didn't want to use someone else's picture so we changed and edited it make it our own. Emma changed the picture by cropping it and  putting a darker section to the left of the image as I suggested we could put our title to the left and along the bottom to make it look a logo from an institution. We chose a simple, plain looking font of Times New Roman because we felt it was easily readable and your attention was drawn to it due to the text being white and the background being black. 
We wanted to add sound effects for when our logo was at the beginning of our film and so we stuck with a similar theme by using bomb sirens and heavy breathing.  

Sound effect examples

I had a look at a few different examples of sound used in openings to give ideas of what to use in our own

Group Film Openings:The Ring

Part 1:

Part 2:

Movie Analysis:The number 23

Independant Film Institution

Movie Analysis:Titanic

Movie Analysis:Seven

Movie Analysis: This is England

Group Film Openings: Nightmare on Elm street

Reaction from both viewers used to horror and new horror watchers.

Scary, red font-death

Film Company

Title, flashing

Black tension, mystery

Small screen- focus more on action- important to pay attention

Can’t see face- bad intentions, looks like weapon.

Well known director- draw in audience, have high expectations for film.

Title zooms forward (chaotic) creeping up/attack

‘Nightmare’ in bold during title-importance, set theme for movie,

Screaming-unpleasant, scary

Girl, blonde, white night dress- vulnerable, innocent

Isolated, on her own-vulnerable

Bright light ‘@ the end of tunnel’ reference to death. Any other death references? Walking away from light- not going to heaven, hell?

Close up, half shadowed, anxious- something to hide.

Anything could be in shadows- zoom from behind- creeping up, attack

Sheep- comic relief, anti climax,

Face watched

Music-sinister, tense

Bars, pipes, trapped- concealing, restricting view.

Vast setting, extreme long shot- isolation.

Laughs, fear, sinister, sadistic

Camera following persued

Mist steam- hiding, restricting view

Red light- danger, death

Claws slose up, present danger

Ripping of cloth represent her being ‘ripped’/ killed

Trapped- fire represents hell “hers”

Caught then wakes up from dream

Dream- at home, safe setting, comfy, dark lighting.

Cuts on nightdress-

Group Film Openings: The Grudge 3

The grudge 3 opening analysis

Drop of blood- indidcate death, pain, danger- red

Non-digetic music- horror,loud-scare audience

Production company

Tattoo-setting,red,blood

Convention,danger,red

Actors names, who was first, why?

Hair, links to film-motif

Black and white, flashback,Cuts from credits-flashback

Actions, credits, why ?

Close up

Pale, innoncence

Tells story, expenation

Low angle shot of boy watching.

Point of view of girl when drowning, sympathy, victimising her.

Man killing cat presents him as crazy, psychopathic, ruthless

Don’t know where boy is when he is hiding

Back to present- same establishing shot but house has more run down/abandoned look. –gates tied

High shot, someone looking down/ watching them.

Coming down stairs, tademark

Sorrow for girl is lost when she kills boy.

Reverse

Table of Film Openings and conventions of openings

Normally the opening of a film will take the form of one of the following;

• Flashback
• Panning on Landscape
• Narrations
• Chase scene
• Fight/shoot out
• Title Sequence

Though some are used more often than others, they are all used to draw the audience into the film and the plot or characters. By choosing the right opening for a movie, it sets the mood and genre of the film. It usually sets up a basic plot and gives the audience an equilibrium. We studied a few films and took notes of the openings.

Film	Genre	Conventions	Style of opening	Info in credits	Narrative/story line of film
Pretty Woman	Romantic/comedy	Non-Digetic music-piano sets up romantic genre, characters, pan of landscape, titles	Panning of landscape/scenery. Shows audience location-	Production company	Aimed at women, love story.
Dark Knight	Action/superhero	Non Digetic Music-dramatic, builds tension. Introduction to a main Villain.	Action, robbery, fight. Introduction to character, The casual introduction of violence so early in the beginning of the movie suggests that violence is going to be a constant thing in the movie.	Style of credits has been changed to suit style of genre. production company	Hero VS Villain
Final Destination	Horror/thriller	Non-Digetic music- sinister and creates tension, pan of fairground, Digetic sounds of fairground rides/games –make it familiar but they are loud and therefore, make the audience feel uncomfortable.	Title Sequence,, introduction to characters	Designers, producers, actors-main members of cast and crew.	Fate/destiny – suggested by the cards
Pulp Fiction	Comedy/action	Title sequence, Introduction to  characters	Character introduction	Actors, title	Crime stories
The shining	Horror/thriller	Non Digetic music builds tension and fear due to its resemblance to wailing, Title Sequence	Establishing shot, view of landscape-sets scene, shows audience the isolation- far out in the middle of the mountains. Titles over the top of opening shot.	Actors, key crew members, producers	Shows house is in the middle of nowhere-car driving for a long time-isolation, raises question

Media introduction

Media Introduction

Advert analysis

Denotation:
de·no·ta·tion

Noun:

The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. The action or process of indicating or referring to something by means of a word, symbol, etc.

A denotation is a direct meaning of something not what is assumed by association with a word or a thing. 

Connotation:

con·no·ta·tion

Noun:

An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning. The implication of such ideas or feelings

A connotation is an idea or meaning suggested by being associated with a word or thing

For example: 

This is an advert for a 'Eternity' which is a perfume by Calvin Klein. 

Denotations: 

There is a woman holding a child and looking at him. He is looking back at her and has his hands either side of her face.

Both of them are wearing white  

The picture is in black and white. 

The word "Eternity" is written in capital letters at the top of the picture and is in a long thin sans serif font. This is also at the bottom of the page for the words "Calvin" "Klein" and "Perfume". 

There are hills and fields behind the two people   

Connotations:

The word eternity is written at the top in capital letters to show the importance of the word and that that is the name of the product. It shows importance and makes it look strong and ever lasting as the word in its self suggests. This reflects on the product as it is advertising that you can smell it long after it is applied. It makes the product look classy and elegant. The hills and fields gives us the impression that the product has a natural smell and is clean and fresh. This is also shown through the choice of white clothing representing purity.

Preliminary Task

During our first session when discussing the genre of our preliminary and coming up with ideas, we came up with many different types of films that we could do. One of these ideas was to do a Silent film and have the dialogue written inside a frame such as the one on the right hand side:
However, we decided against this as it would take a long time to edit, to find music to fit and we wanted to concentrate on the mise-en-scene and camera shots and angles for the preliminary so we had an idea of what worked and what didn't. Our second choice was to do comedy. Our idea was of a prank gone wrong. We eventually decided against this idea as we thought it would be more useful to do the horror genre because then we would be able to practice appropriate camera angles, mise-en-scene and sound that would create a horror atmosphere, helping us make our main task more polished.
Once we had decided on horror we started brainstorming structures for our scene. We decided to stick with concentrating on mise-en scene and camera shots and so decided we did not want a complicated narrative. When we were thinking of ideas for our scene, we were struggling with which shots to put first and so I suggested that we should block out our shots before we wrote them down so we knew roughly what order we wanted them to be in. It was then suggested that we film our progress of ideas so that we did not forget what we had discussed before we had time to write it down and also to help us discover what was a practical way to use the camera and what wasn't. This is my group coming up with the basic ideas and then developing them further with a few of the shots we thought of. There are some written ideas of other shots that we added in to help us remember roughly what order to put them in. Once we had done this and then looked back on our findings, we drew up our storyboard.