Research Into Sound for Thriller

Research for the Music that we Wanted in our Thriller

As a group we knew that we wanted music that was quite slow, without too much of a beat, possibly a piano piece.  The reason for this was because we didn't want the music to contrast too much with what was going on the screen, and as we knew that we wanted some of the clips to be in slow-motion we thought a fast temp piece would be too distracting

I remembered a piece that my sister used to play on the piano that I thought would work well.  It is quite a slow piece, but upon listening to it a couple times I thought that it might be just a bit too distracting and maybe a bit sad sounding for our thriller.

         

Stick It: Opening Tile Research

16.01.2015

With the help of Crerar in our group we studied a scene from the Jeff Bridges film 'Stick It'.
           
We decided that the majority of our sequence will be based around the beam because we felt that this apparatus is the most terrifying and shocking for the audience which will help to build the tension for our thriller. 
There were a few main areas within this sequence that we felt stood out to us as a group and that we could potentially use withing our opening sequence.  These included;

• Crerar came up with the idea that the  Kaleidoscope effect  demonstrated the gymnasts corrupted psychological mental state.
• The close up on the tear falling onto the beam in slow motion really stood out to me and we thought that instead of a tear we may turn it into a bead of sweat falling from her head to show the stuggle that she is going through in order to perform.
• Finally, this scene allowed us to come up with more ideas on what types of shots we were going to have within our sequence, and different lighting that may be effective.

The majority of our sequence will be based around the beam because we felt that this apparatus is the most terrifying and shocking for the audience which will help to build the tension for our thriller. 

Research Into Gymnastics

29.11.2014

Gymnastics

In our sequence we wanted to include as many different gymnastic elements as possible, so I began looking into different elements that we could use that would look good on camera and also look good from lots of different angles.

Illusion

Stag Jump

Helicopter to Wenson

Back Walk Over

First Draft Storyboard

       First Draft Storyboard For Media Coursework

Sound Analysis: Kill Bill

Analysis of Sound: Kill Bill

In class we were asking to watch a scene from Kill Bill Vol. 2, and the first time we watched it we had to close our eyes and try to guess what was going on in the scene.  As I had never watched the film before I found that this experiment was very effective as it made me understand how important the use of sound is when making a film.

The sequence begins with the sound of loud banging, which is overlapped by a western style short piece of music, which is further overlapped by the sound of heavy breathing which progressively gets louder and louder as the sound of both the bagging and the music stops.
I found it quite difficult to really understand what was going on, but the heavy breathing indicated to me that someone was in some sort of distress.  When watching this part of the sequence I found that I was correct about the distress, and the reason for it became clear when I found out that the heavy banging was the sound of them being enclosed in a box.

The next noticeable sound that we hear in the sequence was something that sounded like thumping, or something falling on top of something else. The loud breathing has stopped by this point, but then begins to pick up again with the beginning of the thumping sound.  This sound continues in short periods within the sequence gradually becoming quieter as if it is getting further and further away. The reason for this thumping sound doesn't become a lot clearer when watching the who sequence with my eyes open, but the title of the clip states that she is being buried alive and therefore the sound must be the sound of earth being poured on top of her.

woman's screaming becomes more urgent and hysterical, she has short bursts of screaming and it sounds as if she is bagging on something.  When watching back it can be seen that she has pulled out a torch and is banging on the box that she is trapped within in an attempt to escape the situation.  

The scene ends with all the sound cutting out to create a very tense and suspenseful ending.

When putting the who sequence together with my eyes open I found that being able to see what was going on didn't really make the whole sequence that much more suspenseful as the director hadn't put many shots of what was going on and a lot of the time the screen was black anyways.  This proved to me the importance of sound within a sequence in that it can give a lot more away than what the actual images show.

Final Idea

25.11.2014

Gymnastics Sequence

In our second meeting as a group we reviewed each others ideas and after discussion amongst ourselves as well as with Adam, we decided although the ideas for each of them were good and interesting, the practicality of each of them weren't so good.

 

We then decided to scrap our ideas and began looking at some of the previous years title sequences and eventually and collectively we came up with an idea of our own that is completely different to  what any of us had initially wanted.

We have decided to base our sequence around gymnastics as although a very beautiful sport, there is an underlying sense of danger about it, a feeling that anything could go wrong at any point.  Another reason that we chose this was because of the amount of camera work that we would be able to use on the day of filming.

We believe that by simply having one gymnast doing a lot of different elements with a gymnasium and also in a dark studio we will be able to create a title sequence that a) doesn't give too much away about the movie and b)will be appealing to watch to any audience.

Top Two Thriller Ideas

11.11.2014

My Top Two Thriller Ideas:

Idea 1: 

Whole Movie:

My main idea for the movie is that it would be based on the conspiracy theory that all the children that go missing are taken and sold to wealthy people who then send them out into forests and hunt then as a pleasure activity. My movie would follow the story of a young girl who ends up in one of these places but doesn't know why.  She gets killed but her soul won't rest until she finds out the sotry beind how she got there. I would probably end it somewhere on the lines that she had never actually been abducted but in fact her parents had given her up for money.

Opening Sequence:

My initial idea for the sequence was that there would be a group of children laughing and playing in the woods.  'Ready of not would then be heard' coming from a mans voice,but we cant see his face.  i would have then put in a change of atmosphere as the children frantically run around in an attempt to find a place to 'hide'. The camera would have then shot to a pan of a mans legs walking through the woods, and a close up on a gun hanging down at his side.  screams and shots would have been heard, and the sequence would have then cut out of the song 'If you go down to the woods today...' but the eerie version.  As the screen fades to black the title, 'Ready or not' would come across the screen and the same time that a gun shot is heard.

Changes:

People liked the initial plot of my movie once i had presented it to the class but the point was made that i was giving too much away within the opening title sequence, so I went away and came up with a less complicated idea of how I could open up my movie:

Little girl running and laughing in the wood, holding a toy.  Held camera following her around and she keeps on looking backwards, happy music but a distressed face.  There is a loud bang and the scene fade to black.  If you go down to the wood todays begins playing, camera shot of her toy on the floor, ‘Ready or not comes onto the screen.’

Idea 2:

Whole Movie:

 A girl, who, for the first 14 years was isolated from any human contact in her bedroom.  She has nothing but a mattress on the floor and deprived form any human contact.  She never saw her parents but only heard their voices, only thing she has seem are there hands as they pass food under the door.  One day whilst her parents out she managed to escape, when they return she is no where to be seen .  years pass and the father dies, the mother is left alone in the house, when the daughter one day returns.

Opening Title Sequence:

Nice house but there is a loud banging coming from upstairs, playing nice clam classy music. Suddenly cuts to a grey room, we can see the young girl, jump cuts as she frantically looks around the room.  She is screaming and tries to get out, parents not paying attention. Shots of left over food on plates and a dirty matress on the floor.  Zooms into the childs face, cuts out and then the words 'Isolation' come up onto the screen.