Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Product research - Buried- By Samantha Recknell

Theme of stalking - By Samantha Recknell

Theme of psychotic behavior - By Samantha Recknell

PLANNING IDEAS

These are some of the rough ideas that we have come up with, that fit it with our traget audience. There are some of the genric conventions of a thriller film along with some ideas of our own that are to be considered for our own final opening sequence. We are also going to limit these to a few ideas and then explain them in more depth of what and why we are using the idea.

Eerie music – wind chimes, nursery rhymes, orchestral music

Existing locations – abandoned woods, school, park, house, film in London/police station

Times of day – early morning, late at night (creepy)/dark cloudy

Costumes – regular dark clothing (more realistic)/ Halloween outfits

Props: blood/make up/ knife (at the end of the scene?)

Editing effects- jump cuts/black and white/ shadows/flashbacks

Characters- villain/ victim/ heroine

Possible actors-
• Kieran Roche
• Rajiv Patel
• James Willoughby
• Gareth Grigg
• Roshi
• Lauren Rouse
• Ruby Lawrence
• Antonia Roberts
• Rosanna Shaw
• Tori Rosenbaum

STORY LINES

Kidnapping
Murder
Attack
Lost
Stabbing
Stalking
Psycho
Trespassing

Monday, 7 February 2011

Interviews



These are the questions we have decided to use in our interview. We have used qualitative and quantitative questions so that we have a variety of answers that state why they like certain things as well as simple questions that are easy to graph. We will be filming our interviews as a group discussion so we have more in depth answers. Also we think that person to person interviews will help us in achieving accurate information from our interviewees.

Saul Bass


Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences. During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. He created the the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho, that we mentioned in the Alfred Hitchcock analysis slideshow we have made and we have included in this post. We are considering basing our own titles with inspiration from Saul Bass's work, to keep our theme of a Hitchcock-esque thriller film opening.

Analysing Hitchcock thrillers