The end result

evaluation task 6 summary

what have you larnt about tehnologies from the process of constructing your prodct?

what technologies have you used?
In the process of designing, filming and editing i've been encouraged to use a variaty of different technolgies such as websites like survey monkey and slide share http://www.slideshare.net/ and survey monkey  http://www.surveymonkey.com/MySurveys.aspx in order to preform market researh and to easily transfer my presentations on to my blog.the blog itself I have managed to finally compreehend this year and with a struggle I managed to post most of the planning and development that went into the movie on the internet via blogger. I now have internet accounts for blogger, prezi, survey monkey and slideshare so after this year of media it should be pretty easy for someone to steal my identity.during production I leant how to use a digital still camara to take shots of are filming locations and to use a video recording camara to help film are preliminary task and to test how we were going to film the shots of are real thriller with regards to distance from the actors, angles and the length of the shots when editing at first I had almost no idea ho to operate an imac computer at all however over the course i have leanrt a huge ammount as to edit a film with the help of the final cut express programme editing all of the preliminary task and most of the thriller product. I learnt how to use the live type progamme in order to import screen titles for our film and also to compose a piece of music on garage band which I was also able to import then onto the film and over lap the music into the parts of the film we wanted I learnt how to create the ident and then  murge that in with our film to give it a more proffesional look wheather I wanted to or not I have leant a wide body of all things technological in this corse so much so that for this evaluation task and task 7 the video we made form them I managed to edit, modify its settings, upload to you tube and the post on my blog all in the space of 2 afternoon lessons which is a big improvement from being a complete computer novice

Evaluation task 7 (summary)

looking back at your preliminary taskwhat do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to your final product?

in the begining when we were first starting up our blogs and we didn't know what are preliminary let alone our thriller was going to be abot o we hurriedly through together some story and got our friends calum thake and parvinder bakhar to star we just wanted somthing quick and funny lik two guys having a normal conversation with some poor dude getting beaten in the background and we actually did a pretty good job of that we had parvider getting punched kicked and strangled with a telephone chord .....................until tom taped over it.so we came back from christmass break finding that we had half our preliminar task missing and that we all looked pretty different esspecialy me having lost about six inches of hair length we tried many different ways to recreate and salvige our film we even thought about starting from skratch but in the end it waas drawing nearer to the time to film the real thriller which we had not even planned so we through together a last minitue ending which dosnt work very well but got the job done.

as you can probably assume we did far better with the eventual filming of are secondary thriller.we made sure that we wern't going to make the same mistake twice so at first we said tom wasn't alowed to film but me and ryan both had to act becuase tom refused and we all agreed no one else would be in it but us to save all the hassel and stress of the preliminary so tom filmed and we got all the filming done in under a week and started editing the next week we cut it close becuase we had left it quite long to start filming but we did get an end result and I am quite pleased with the finished product.

Evaluation task 6 & 7

Evaluation task 5

Copy of Evaluation task 5: how did you attract/adress your audience on Prezi

evaluation task 4

Evaluation task 4: who would be the audience for your media product? 

This is a wordel it is similar to a brainstorm in how it outlines targets and objectives that we have set out to achive and how we could get them done. At first we needed to define our target audience we new are thriller was going to be a mystery action type and we needed to know who if anyone would be interested with our initial idea (what would they like to see, what would entertain them. We also needed to know how we were going to attract our target audience through advertising, viral campaign or use of techniques (e.g. 3D) we carried out interviews to find our key target audience we asked them question about their movie going habits (how they prefer to watch films, how frequently they tend to go to the cinema)

we also made a survey asking similar questions that can be seen below

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/76DXSH6

the research we did into target audience paid off as we found that the people who would most likely want to watch our thriller is 16-25 year old males. sum of the results of our survey are shown here in a venn diagram which indicates our target audience

after we figured out our target audience we took it into consideration when filming our final thriller we wanted to make sure that we appealed to this group and that they would be interested and want to watch on past the initial 2 minutes. To see if we had achieved this goal we took a secondary survey and asked people to give their honest opinion on what they thought of our thriller and what they thought was good or bad and what they would improve on the link to this survey is below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FQ79ZFX
we also held a secondary set of interviews to get audience feedback from our thriller.  we asked people from our target audience to assess our thriller and tell us what the thought.

This is our feed back on the Thriller the following question was asked

What did you like about the thriller?
What did you like about the use of sound?
What would you improve on in our Thriller?
What did you like about the location?
What did you think overall of the Thriller film?
Would you go and see it at the cinema?

we also had some positive feedback on the comments section on you tube such as:

overall i think we did reach the goals we set out to achieve as we deduced who our target audience is

we made our thriller accessible, entertaining and interesting for them. Most of the feedback we got through our surveys and interviews was positive and the opinion of our piers should as what we had done right, were we had gone wrong and what we could improve on.

Evaluation task 3

Evaluation task 3

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Evaluation task 2

Evaluation task 2:How does your media product represent particular social groups

Our thriller doesn’t contain any social groups as such as it only has two characters in it but it does contain stereotypes of characters in a thriller the character being chased is a young male protagonist who has been pushed to his very limits by the pursuing force this is a conventional and stereotypical thriller character type used in films franchises such as the Bourne films and the Mission: impossible series the character chasing him is the antagonist and is brutish and aggressive and around the same age sent by a higher power to get rid of the protagonist.

We used mise en scene as a way to stereotype the characters more as we had our protagonist dressed in a white shirt and our antagonist in a black shirt the two colours always associated with good and evil so whilst also creating a bit of symbolism we stuck to the thriller convention of the villain of the narrative dressing in black and trying to stop the protagonist on his mission. although our film does not represent any social groups we could attract certain social groups like the use violence in our thriller could attract younger audiences who are more intrigued by violence and therefore more likely to watch the thriller
 here is an example of action in our thriller  we could also attract the attention of younger views which are our key target audience by advertising on social networking sites like Facebook or popular sites that are often used for advertising blockbuster films such as you tube 
  
these sites are used by millions of young people everyday so if we displayed the trailer of our film on these sites then our film would get huge exposure.
we also thought about making different trailers and posters for different social groups like the ken loach film looking for Eric and the 2008 microwave film shifty
we could have trailers with fast paced editing  and loud fast music to emphasise the action and exhilaration of our film for younger viewers and we could play this trailer on the internet and T.V. channels designed for younger viewers like E4 and BBC3  and in the trailers at cinemas and we could also make a slower paced trailer in black and white which displays the mysterious and psychological aspects of our thriller to appeal to an older audience.

Here is a wordel of all the different social groups  and other things taken into consideration when we were filming our thriller.

Evaluation task 1

Evaluation task 1

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target audience research (survey)

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formatting titles

Media Studies (OCR)

AS Coursework G321

Robert Clack School 12127

Thomas Glanville (1) (Candidate Number)

Dale Stevenson (2) (Candidate Number)

Ryan Martin (3) (Candidate Number)

A Film By - NoTom Productions
Male ActorS - Dale Stevenson, Ryan martin

Music By - Mobygratis, Garageband
Editing By -Tom Glanville, Ryan Martin, Dale Stevenson
Director of Photography - Tommy Glanville
Director - Tommy Glanville, Dale Stevenson

Editing the thriller

Finally today on the 29th march we have finally finished editing our thriller we only now need to make sure the music is is more sync with what's going on in the picture, in total after all of the editing we have done there is 3minutes and 50 seconds of footage, but is still quite long and may need tweaking or cutting down depending on what the rules are, i feel like our thriller is suitable for all age groups and Theres no specific genre we have made it towards.

Problems while filming the thriller

Problems we faced when filming our thriller was the filming process took over 3 days but the first problem being the weather changed and because our thriller is based outside in the day time the littleness things like the clouds also cars in the car park one minute there was one and then there was more.

The way we resolved this was by being patient and waited for the perfect moments to arise, there was still little bumpy touches like there was more cars in the car park then there originally was but what we did was we filmed round it, and not getting the cars in the film.

Our thriller surroundings

Our thriller surroundings

These images are what we are filming are thriller based movie. It's based on top of a car park because it feels remote and it was very quiet just like what a thriller usually is about.

health and safety and risk assessment

• No filming in inappropriate locations
• Check safety of locations e.g. roads.
• Minimise risk of theft of equipment
• When filming on loction ensure teacher or responsible adult know where you are and have telephone number and when you will return
• Check all equipment is working before you leave
• Ensure you have permission for filming if necessary
• Always film with at least one other person
• Ensure you have the permission of those you are filming.

these are some of the health and safety issues we need to be aware of and rules we must abide by

risk assessment for filming coursework

Programme Title - Still yet to be decided

Client - Robert Clack School

Writer - Dale Stevenson

Producer - dale Stevenson

Director - Tommy Glanville

Actors- Dale Stevenson, Ryan mart

Major Issues - We are filming along the street & the possible risks are; 

•  Traffic
• Weather
• Permission of private property
• Theft
• Safety(of everyone around us)

Solutions - The solutions for these issues are;

• Having a lookout to watch over the traffic, parking cars etc.
• Check the weather before going out to film, so that the camera does not get ruined.
• Having 2 people with the camera at all times 
• Regular contact

Contacts - The people we can contact in case of any emergencies are;

• The School
• Parents
• Friends

Emergency Services - The local emergency services avaliable are;

• Metropolitan Police at Dagenham East
• Queens Hospital

Thriller characters

the two characters we plan to have for our thriller are 2 mysterious loners one will be chasing the other as he as the antagonist and the protagonist will be desperately trying to get away from the other we have not given them names as we don't want to reveal much about the narrative in the opening scene but I wil play one of them and Ryan Martin will play the other one will be wearing a white shirt and the other a black to give the characters contrast and to differentiate between god and evil

animatic

This is our animatic of our original storyboard drawn again very poorly by Ryan Martin

our ident

surveying for target audience

priliminary task

our preliminary task although it is not quite we hoped it would be we have succsesfully filmed and edited it incorperating

Shot/reverse shot

180 degree rule

eyeline match

match on action

there are 8 separate shots and it has all been edited on final cut express on an apple imac computer
we hope that we have learnt from this, our first encounter with this technology and type of work and we hope that we can form a more complex and overall more cinematic thriller

the techniques of filming

there are many things to take into account when film and many techniques that can be used such as carmra,sound, editing and mise en scne.


mise en scne is whats on the screen what is the image you are trying to portray and this consists of five main factor

• costume,hair and make-up
• body language & facial expressions
• sound
• settings and props 
• positioning

you can minipulate these factors into giving a happy feel or a more sad tone or make it really fast passed or more slow burning but how do we get this theory of mise en scen to work.

we have to use skills such as camra techniques like knowing the various shots nd when to use them:

• long shot or establishing shot-where the camara is far away from the action normally at the begining of a thriller it is used for establishing the setting
• midshot- usually used to show people to a normal scale,can be used for seens of diologue or action
• close up-a oomed in shot at one specific thing or person to draw attention to it
• extreme close up-usually used on peoples faces to show more deeply there emotion
• panning shot-this is when the camara move from left to right or the other way on a fixed axis this is normally used from a far away distance as an establishing shot
• a tiltshot-this is the oposte to a panshot this is where the camara moves upwards and downwards on a fixed axis
• high angle shot-this is ued to mae the person on the screen seem vulnrable
• low angle shot-this is made to make the person on the sceen look powerfull and in control

inception

inception

noun

[in singular]

the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity

 yes,inception the Christopher Nolan's exillerating confusion fest staring that guy who was in a film all about a boat.inception is a psychological/action thriller staring Leonardo Di Caprio the alien kid from "Third rock from the sun" (Joseph Gorden-levitt) and Juno aka Ellen Page but apart from including alot of double barrol names what is the contence of this film? Well the main plot revolves around this idea that their are certain people like Cobb (Di Caprio)and his partner Arthur (Gorden-levitt) who can enter other peoples dreams although it never really goes into any kind of details as to how they do that. Obviously these powers were ment to be used for the greater good to benefit mankind but kobb prefers to infiltrate peoples dreams to steal their secrets and comit coporate sabotage in the begining scene he and arthur are possing as sort of dream insurence sales men for idea theft. Giving a well rehursed pretentious speech on how the world runs on ideas whilst secretly attempting to comit the crime there trying to sell pretection for.they are envetably caught in the act but instead of being repremanded they are offered an alternative a near impossible mission of inception and hence are title.so Cobb soon assembles a team to preform this impossible task of inception,the plan is to build a dream within a dream within a dream.................yeah.each person in the team is hired for a specific reason because of the skills they own much like common heist movies such as the italian job and oceans eleven so we get a mix of that and si-fi and an action thriller all in the one.although it goes mainly for the psychological aspect with the idea of dream penetration and the query of how do you know if your dreaming or not but it does have some very decent action scenes the best of witch has got to be when arthur is in the second level of the dream fighting someone in a hotel room and in the first layer his body is being hurtled around in a van so he has no centre of gravity.

analysis of past students work

in order to learn and gain a perspective on how to film are thriller we are analysing past students work to see what they did and either try something similar are selves or make sure we dot make the same mistakes they did

this first video we looked at is titled "hide and seek" and was made by Beth Berrett, Tom Mason and Daniel Lawrence

although the acting is something to be desired the film is edited very well especially for the quick flashy cuts at the end.although there isn't meant to be much dialogue in these thrillers there is only about 2 lines in the whole film leaving a few lose ends in the plot.other than that it is a good opening to a thriller with dramatic music and the fading to black to show the credits although it does this so much that it feels like theres more credits than film time.

this next piece of coursework is unimaginatively but fittingly called the stalker the whole film is in black and white although i don't really know why there is nothing to indicate that it os set n the past or that it is a flashback so i don't get why it is.the movie starts off with slow subtitle music but then leads into a very "sienfeld" like base guitar tune as we see this young man on screen following these girls around.

the plan for are priliminary task (storyboard)

I am in group 22 with tom glanvile and ryan martin. and are priliminary task is detailed here in this storyboard made by ryan martin.

film openings memento,brick and zodiac

the opening to a film is often key because if people lose interest in the beginning there not going to want to watch the rest of the film.i have analysed the beginning of three films the first of witch is momento

momento is a one of a kind film in witch it tries out a structre completely different form any other movie it esentialy plays backwards we get to see the end of the movie at the begining of the film so the opening is the ending we see a man waving a poloroidwhich slowly loses focus and becomes more blurry this gives us a suspicion witch is then confermed when we see a gun from the ground rise up into his had like it was being dropped in reverse then we see a dead body rise to its kees and a bullet retract forom its head and flow back into the chamber of the gun just before the scene ends we here the scream of the man before he was obviously shot. we then cut to a black and white scene (which suggests flashbacks) of our gun man is lying on a motel bed we here him talking but it is a non - diagetic voice over descibing to us what it is like to have memory loss it then cuts to a scene of are gun manat the frount desk of the motel room where he is piked up by a friend the deadman from the first scene.this really puts the audience into unfamiliar teritory as the fist scene seemed to be being rewound thiss scene contrasts as it is playing perfectly normaly only the man is still alive him and newly named lenard drive to an abbandond building to look for clues to somthing. lenord reads a meesage on the back of a poloriod and then we see him shoot him.so we have made a full cyicle thus intising the audience wondering what will happen next? will it show us why he shot him?its all very suspenseful in a strange backwards kind of way witch is what makes the film so compelling.

the second film is zodiac a creepy cepearish crime thriller set in early 70's san fransisco about the real life investigation of the famous zodiac killer.the filmstarts with a nice mellow yet some what forboding opening piece of music we see a small statement saying that the events are baased on case files before opening to a shot of the golden gate bridge in twilight san fransiscoon the fourth of july with dozens of fire works quietly going off already establishing an eriee feel for this film.we see mid shots of a small normal suburban households from the view of a car whitch we see is being driven by a women to pick up her date. after deciding not to eat the couple head out to a small quiet spot on the top of a hill near a woods if 50's si-fi has told us anything thats a baaaaaad idea but dont worry its not the attack of the three headed thing from mars thats going to get them we all know from the get go its going to be the killer witch is what builds such tension.a bunch of teenagers drive by in a car throwing fire crackers making a false alarm or a red herring building a sense of inpending doom.the mise en scen in the scene is unsetteling the old clothes hair styles and cars bring you back to 1969 all you can see is the light around the car surrounded by darkness like their on stage and someones shining a spotlight on them.then another car which we can not see the driver of slowly pulls up and just sits there sielently as the young couple worry after a few seconds it drives off seeming like another faulse alarm but just as they begin to get comfurtable the car does a u turn, comes back, stops a tall dark figure gets out and shines a light in there faces and then proceeds to shoot both car pasengers in the face i think the scene ends briliantly as the diagetic sound of the radio which has been playing low the whole time increases in volume and basicaly becomes non-diagetic sound as we see an arial view of the two cars as we see the murderer get back into his and leave the spotlight.

the final opening im going to talk about is the film brick.brick opens at a close-up shot of flowing water witch the camara follows to a close up shot of some shoes of someone crouching down it then focuses out and then back in with an extreme close-up shot of this persons eyes we then cut to a shot of a girl lying dead in a drain with the man crouched on the other side staring at her all the while this very slow quiet and ever so slightly unsettling non-dieagetic music playing in the backround finaly the camara cuts to a close up shot of the dead girls wrist where we can see she is wearing an unsual bracletthe whole scene then changes with the use of a graphic match where we see the same bracelet on someones wrist opening a school locker.

oh and if you think im just sitting here moaning on about the openings of a few fairly intresting sounding films without showing them to you well think again!  oh and erh the momento one is in spanish for some reason                                    
  brick

momento

zodiac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBu8BdhUnmE&feature=player_detailpage

structure and formulas of thrillers

The use of continuity editing helps the audience understand what is going on because if a film didn't run in the correct order it wouldn't make sense. The clear establishment of 'cause and effect' plotting which establishes character motivations and helps tell an interesting story which proceeds logically and steadily.

it's................................................SUSPENSE!

alot of people miss the point of thrillers they think its all about shock horror and big explosions like the average mordern day blockbuster but there is a difference between shock and what thrillers do withc is build suspence

shock: is the form of sudden action whitch is often just thrown unexpectedly at the audince and has a quick short lasting effect a good example of this is the opening to the 2006 movie "children of men" where the audience is shown a normal day in a kind of world very similar we see a news report that is being watched by a mon who the camera follows out the door we then see suddenly a very large explosion and her screaming.

altough this is an very effective opening to a thriller it does not follow the convention of build suspense rather than going for shock value.

suspense: is difined as A quality in a work of fiction that arouses excited expectation or uncertainty about what may happen.this can be built up by a series of hints and clues to whats going to happen not just in the story of the film but in the audio and the mise en scen as well this shows us that the film may be leading to somthing but often it is never clear what that is and this creates the suspense.

an example of this is in alfred hitchcock's 1948 film rope in which two wealthymen kill their friend just to see if they could get away with it,the suspense is built whenthey invite guests to a party with the body still in the room not so safely concealed in a trunk in the middle of the room, the audience knows this so they are constantly on the edge of their seats not knowing wheather or not the body will be found.

enigma?

an enigma is another technique that thrillers incorporate to confuse and disorientate the audience so they don't see the final twist coming which increases the entertainment value twice maybe even thrice fold.an enigma refers to a puzzle or something mysterious and inexplicable.this riddle is normally meant to be solved by the protagonist and normally formulated by the antagonist.this is normally resolved by the duration of the narrative but sometimes it is left open to make the audience think an example of this is inception we do not know why the wife of the main character "kob" keeps trying to attack and dismantle his dreams we find out that its because he and his wife were stuck in dream limbo and when they escaped she killed her self because she thought she was still dreaming, at the end of the film we see kobs totem a spinning top start to topple but we never see it fall so we the audience do not know whether the whole film was a dream or not. this is also a good example of a cliffhanger

red herrings or is it?

red herring is a convention of a thriller where the audience are given a false trail to follow.where they are lead to believe somthing that isn't quite true.often this will involve in a false hero that betrays our protagonist at a curtail moment it could also be a person who we believe to be dead who then turns out to be alive or even a character who you think may be the villain distracting you from the truth a good example of this is Eva Marie Saint in "north by northwest" where we are unclear on witch side this fem fatale stands

cliffhanger

films sometimes end without an ending.where the final result is unknown where the film is left open to interpretation or preparing for a sequel.this often features the main character in a precarious or seemingly inescapable situation with makes the audience hang on to the edge of their seat as they wonder how the hero or heroine will get out of this difficult dilemma.

manchurian candidate vs manchurian candidate

"two films?" you say "surely he's mad!" no I am not ever heard of a remake yes nasty, horrible little things want to poison the younger generation and destroy all that was but fear not this one is not like the others and I’m going to tell you why. The Manchurian candidate is a 1962 film that was remade in 2004 it was originally a 1959 thriller novel written by American novelist Richard Condon ha ha guess what the other kids called him at school. The original movie stars frank Sinatra

I know what you’re thinking "this guy can act? I thought he just hung out with mobsters?" yeah well apparently he can and I have know complaints I think he works well as the seriously stressed out captain Benet Marco man who is having very strange dreams about him and his troops being part of some strange experiment after his triumphant and much publicized return from the Korean war. Janet Leigh yeah remember her from psycho she’s back playing Eugenie rose Chaney who captain Marco meets on a train (as they always seem too in these old movies)and tries to help him uncover the secrets of his dreams and take down the people they believe to have brain washed him. The film also stars Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury, you know from murder she wrote and also really surprisingly the teapot from beauty and the beast who knew?
Anyway these two play the most screwed up mother and son I’ve ever seen Eleanor Shaw Iselin and Raymond Shaw now if you don’t like the sound of that last name then seriously don’t watch this film because it is repeated constantly over and over Raymond this Raymond that I mean he’s not even the main character the film focuses mainly on Marco, it's like these people will literally forget Shaw’s name if they don’t keep saying it. Raymond was part of captain Marcos Company and because he was such a stick in the mud he was not very popular however when they return home all the soldiers agree that Shaw was extremely brave and single handedly rescued the whole company from an enemy assault. What we later find out is that all the men in the company were being brainwashed by united communist forces hence the name the Manchurian candidate when Shaw arrives home his mother an overbearing manipulating women and her idiotic no-necked husband(Raymond’s step father) senator john yerkes Iselin offer Raymond a job where they can keep an eye on him but not wishing to be controlled by his mother any longer Raymond refuses we later find out that Eleanor ruined Raymond’s only true shot at happiness because she didn't approve of his choice of girlfriend and little do we know that she is not going to stop there for she is the link to America from Manchuria she is the component that will take the brainwashing to a whole new level getting her carefully molded new son to kill off certain individuals in order for her and foolish obnoxious husband into the White house. The remake is slightly different it stars Liev Schreiber as Raymond and Denzel Washington as Marco yeah notice how they change the skin color of the main character they do this with a lot of the characters I don't see why its necessary to put loads of black people into a film which had an original cast with no black people maybe it was just to bring it in to modern day society and to be politically correct. They change quite a lot of stuff in the remake not just to bring it into the modern day but to make it generally more interesting because sadly people just aren't interested in politics today. Raymond is the one being pushed into the White house by his mother as vice president and not his step father which makes for some good scenes of Marco going crazy and attacking Raymond before being restrained, the remake has Raymond still commit the same acts and murders but the playing card initiation is completely ignored by some just saying his full name, HOW STUPID IS THAT! I mean the guy is running for vice president did they not think at all that there was a possibility of someone saying his name. What about someone announcing him on a talk show or something is he just going to start killing everyone there wouldn't that liven up the one show on a Wednesday afternoon. they also change who it is controlling Raymond as I said before in the original it is the communist party from china but in this its a national weapons manufacturing corporation called Manchurian global I suppose they called it that so they could keep the name  "the Manchurian candidate" rather than big evil brainwashing conglomerate candidate although I think they did do well at sticking to the original storyline whilst showing a modern day interpretation by showing what society is fearful of now rather than something we've long since dismissed. Denzel Washington's performance is very good as you would expect but I honestly think Live Schreiber out shines him he plays the soulless robotic outer exterior of Raymond Shaw extremely well but he also makes you believe that he fells strongly for the senator's daughter and that he's fighting against this hypnotism he has been put under the film leads to a suspenseful climax where Raymond has one the vice presidential election and at the celebrations Marco is set up with a sniper also being controlled by Manchurian global to kill shows running mate the newly elected president so that Raymond will then fill his seat as president and complete Eleanor Shaw’s plan but Raymond fights against his hypnotism and moves in to the presidents mark taking his mother with him as Marco shoots he kills them both with the one shot, Marco is about to commit suicide as part of the plan before Eugenie "Rosie" Rose (yeah remember her from the original ) shoots him in the shoulder disarming him. It doesn’t tell us how it ends up for the characters but we can assume that the FBI took down Manchurian global for their nefarious misdeeds. The final scene just shows Marco finding the place where he was kidnapped and brainwashed and walks to the coast near by and throws a picture of his platoon along with his major medal in a poetic and fitting ending.

psycho! hitchcock thrillers strike back!

 Hitchcock said that a good thriller allowed the audience to dip their toe into the pool of fear and psycho is certainly no exception to the rule. This horrifying tale of brutal murder and suspense so sweet is viewed as one of the greatest movies ever made, many believe it was the first of the slasher genre because we have the POV shots out of the killers eyes as they slash their victims we have a mysterious setting the bates motel and the dusty old house on the hill muck like camp crystal lake or elm street, we actually have the slashing motion of the killings, the cliché screams ad it definitely has a body count so this could have been a start of a hole new line of scary thrilling movies and their terrible sequels and even worse remakes. Psycho itself has two sequels which I’ll talk about later and a terrible remake which I will get out of the way with one sentence. Vince Vaughn as Norman bates! Yeah enough said. Let’s talk about the original. The original psycho was made in 1960 and stars Janet Leigh as Hitchcock’s blond target for destruction this time but she excels her self to new levels in this film which far out pass her predecessors such as Eva Marrie Saint and grace Kelly even though she is killed off in the first half of the film leaving boy friend Sam (john Gavin) and sister Lila (Vera miles) to pick up the pieces she still portrays a seemingly ditsy yet overall mysterious character who at first seems to be just an average pretty faced secretary but then "oh no!" this b*!@h is crazy she goes ahead and lives out the dream of the average day person by stealing $40,000 from her boss and just hitting the road but then finds herself living out the nightmare of the average day person by stopping for the night at the bates motel. Well I wont want to spoil the film for you so that enough about the story. Let’s talk about how it was made. Psycho was made. It is slightly unconventional for a thriller it is a lot slower and dramatic and is missing the fast passed action that is the norm this is why many would call it a horror film there certainly isn’t a large body count by anyone’s account but the murders are slow and drawn out it makes it seem like more action is actually happening the most famous scene not only in the movie but in the entire world of cinema is when Janet Leigh is hacked and stabbed to death in the shower. This setting of a young girl on the run in a empty motel room naked and vulnerable in the shower washing her hair with her eyes closed completely unbenkownst to what might happen to her and as the water is gently flowing there is a very eerie build up the in no diagetic sound only the noise of the tap and silence until we hear the screeching of that violin and the shower curtain is ripped back by a siloet looming over us brandishing a carving knife. The score of the movie plays as Janet screams as she is helpless to do anything as her body is mutilated back in the 1960s this sort of brilliant film work making the film so realistic and horrifying must have had people across the globe craping themselves. Not as much praise can be said for the second murder, the one of the privet investigator Arbogast that Marion’s concerned sister Lila has hired. he is slowly walking up the stairs and we see a door at the top of the stair way slowly open as it does are yet to be identified psycho shadow jumps out we hear the violin screech again and its a real shock scene gets people jumping out of there seats. Although this is where it gets real silly are murderer clearly runs and then stabs him in the chest we can see this from a birds eye view from the top of the stairs although when it cuts to a close up of Arbogast he has a huge gash in his face which really wouldn't even be enough to kill him or even make him fall down the stairs in that ridiculous way. Falling down the stairs whilst standing vertically upright with your arms out stretched and a face like you've just had to listen to an entire Amy Whinehouse album
although lets give the guy a break he did just get slashed in the face or stabbed in the chest its not very clear well at least are darkly villain runs down to finish the job or this pretty poor scene may have tarnished the films reputation. Ok lets quickly talk rubbish sequels before I conclude there was a psycho 2 and 3 not bates revenge or pshcyo-er just psycho 2 and psycho 3 although they might as well of given it an old hash horror movie sequel name like that because these films suck harder than a Muslim vampire after fasting for Ramadan. the strap line for psycho 3 is "just when you thought it was safe to go back in the shower" yeah needless to say Hitchcock had nothing to do with these films and didn’t even live to see them get made psycho 2 came out three years after he died, it's most likely that he was fighting it until the day he died but someone must have persuaded someone to commission it because 3 years later we have this terrible movie on or hands I don’t want to ruin the fist one for you if you've not seen it and so the less said about the sequels the better although I think Alfred is probably in a perpetual state of rolling in his grave because of them.  if anyone is thinking of just watching this film for shock value then you will be shocked (no joke intended) to find out that its not just things jumping out at you the foundation of this film is a lot more firm than that, its the first of its kind the first to show innocent normal people being killed off one by one by a mad person its that whole Hitchcock idea of making you terrified every time you next take a shower or see a gathering flock of birds like I said at the beginning Hitchcock wanted people to dip their toe into the pool of fear and that’s exactly what psycho allows. It's not blood and guts and screaming, it’s the screech of the violin, it’s that dark shadowy figure, its the unknown so next time you decide to spend the night alone in a creepy old motel at the side of the road watch your back!

lets get down to business

The preliminary task is not awarded marks. However, if it is not completed the examiner will not accept my main task (Thriller opening).The preliminary task is a demonstration of continuity editing.
It must show you can successfully use:

• Match on action.
• Shot/reverse shot.
• 180 degree rule.
• Eyeline match.

Match on action is when we see a character start an action in one shot and then see them continue it in the next.
The 180 degree rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the sames scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other.
Shot reverse shot is where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.
Eyeline match is when a character is looking at something off-screen, there will then be a cut to the object or person at which he is looking. For example, a man is looking off-screen to his left, and then the film cuts to a television that he is watching.
In the sequence we should see the following unfold:

• Character A walks towards a closed door.
• Character A enters through the door and crosses a room to where character B is seated.
• Characters A and B exchange a few lines of dialogue.
• Either Character A or B exits the room.

another quote from some person

'The thriller is a very difficult genre to pin down because it covers such a wide range of films. Thrillers are films of suspense that are supported to install terror into the audience’.
 

this foxy little lad is Susan Hayward,

 Key Concepts in Film Studies.dosnt really look like she"d know much about thrillers does she but i sopose that just goes to show dont judge abook buy its colour