THE MUMMY TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR

The title sequence I choose is The Mummy Tomb of the dragon emperor.The first thing we see in the title sequence is a plain black back ground with an old China's culture dragon which comes up to look directly at the words that are put next to it. The first title is the director which is Rob Cohen, the colour of the writing is in white to stand out with the black. The colours which are used for the dragon are red, orange and yellow. Then next title is the writers which are Alfred Gough and Miles Miller, with the title showing we see red and orange lines which lids us to the next title. For me the red, orange and yellow represents the sun and fire, which two represent heat. All the titles are linked together because all of them lids to the next title sequence. After that we get lidded to a soldier which is shown in black/ shadow and its looking at the title which shows the executive producer Chris which is Brigham. The reason I like this title sequence is because all the images are painted and if we think about it what have we got left from history is mostly paintings, so it represents past/history which the film is based on . You can see the paint brushes marks which creates a great effect on the images. In the title sequence, the camera shots are all most zooming in or out so there is not a lot of editing in it because all the sequence are linked together. I really like the way the people/ soldiers are represented by using shadows because it like the shadows are the past of china which they are still there with their shadows.

Shooter

The font used in this poster is a Sans Serif font and conveys a very bold feel that stands out and is easy to spot from a distance. I personally really enjoy this film as it is about a Sniper who is set up by the Government and is forced to fight his own country. The font features very sharp edges and overly long horizontal lines on each letter that creates an elongated feel. It is almost as if each individual letter is a bullet lined up one by one, it is simplicity and precision and nothing more, exactly like how a trained sniper would have to be. It would be rather odd if the letters were done in a flamboyant style and it would loose its harsh nature.

Casino Royale

The title sequence i've chosen is from Casino Royale. It is done in a rather comic style with bold colours with the classic black and red colours seen on cards. One of the first names and words we see are the main actor's name which is Daniel Craig and the name of the film which is Casino Royale along with Albert R. Broccoli's EON Productions LTD. The titles are placed cleverly so that they do not obstruct the 'mini' story that the audience can see or where they can they incorporate the titles into the sequence itself for example like the 7 of hearts and two zeros being shot next to the seven making 007. There is a wide range of shots used from extreme long shots to close ups for example the extreme long shot of a character in black and white that we assume is James Bond and later our thoughts are confirmed that it is Daniel Craig as James Bond and close ups of a handgun shooting red hearts. I like this title sequence because it is quite tasteful in the way it is done with the use of the hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs as bullets and blood. It mixes together the stereotyped idea of guns, money and class which is ultimately what the audience sees alot of in Casino Royale.

The homework you set?

Sir i've attepmted to do the homework sevral times but, the title sequence needs a software for the clip to play on. The software is callled Quicktime 7 and ive tried to download it but my Norton protection software wouldn't let. So i tried to watch the clip on another laptop and the Quicktime 7 software crashed the laptop. So sir i wasnt able to do the work you set.

how to create suspense in the opening thriller

When there is something worry in the scene example a bomb, I am going to be panning the room or the location the shoot is in and look for some thing that would create suspense. In my thriller I am going to edit a lot of the shot because when the editing is fast it creates tension. If I am going to use point of view shots in my opening thriller I will need to make sure that the character is looking directly at the camera because when a men is looking at a women and I am taking it in the mans point of view I need to make sure the women looks right into the camera and then with the editing I will cut out the close ups of the men and then go into his point of view. I am going to us a lot of close ups when something important happens. It makes the audience know what is happening. I am going to keep the story short because by doing it shot you can create suspense’s very easily out of it. To create suspense’s I need to be in the audience place and us easy story so that the audience can follow the story. When I am going to create the characters in the opening scene I need to do the opposite the things people think example like blonds are not smart for a lot of people an this is shown in a lot of films and TV dramas , so I want to turn the dum blond into a smart blond. This will catch more tension because it is unusual. The best thing to do to create suspense is to put two unrelated things happening at once. The audience will be focuses on one moment but then get interrupted by the other scene. The biggest thing that creates suspense is showing the audience what the characters don’t see. If something is about to harm the characters I want to show it at beginning of the scene and let the scene play out as normal because this makes the audience think ‘ what’s going to happen next’ and it pulls in the audiences to the film and creates tension . Suspense is build up when the character do not know what is going to happen but the audience does.

DEEP BLUE SEA

The film that really appeals to me is deep blue sea which I picked to analyse it. Deep blue sea is directed by Renny Harlin. The film’s genre is horror and thriller. The structure of the film’s opening is titles on a plain background and followed by the narrative opening. The opening starts with the music which creates tension and then shots of a scene which builds up tension immediately to the film is just about 1 minute into the film. At the beginnings the film production company’s was in their own representation but the music was that played was from the film ,its more like a sound build which links the production company’s and the film together. And then we have shots of a boat which is in the middle of the sea and its night. At the background there is music which is played in the film shot and then there is two music playing on nice and fun but the other is scary and creepy. There are four teenagers in the boat which are partying and then suddenly the shark comes out of no were and brakes the boat. Then after the teenagers jump off the boat and are in the sea which with this happening the music gets more dramatic. But just then a man which works on sharks safes them and the music slows down with it.

When looking at the poster of the film , you can see that its about sea and sharks. The picture of the shake is overcastted and you can not see it really good, I think this is because the sharks are very fast and you can not see where they are going and because of the speed you can not see it properly. The font which is used is blond and it really looks hard. Its sold but its not soft . When looking at rocky its hard , sold but its looks soft in the same time which shows it hard but it has human feeling in it. The font is colours in which black and red, the black is at the top of it and then it gets all red. Red is mostly used in thriller to represents blood and death but in this it represents danger which as you go down into the sea the danger gets more and more worse. There is death going on in the film but I really think it represents the danger under the sea.

SAW 1

A thriller horror film I watched and really like was Saw. The genre of the movie is horror, mystery and thriller. The synopsis of the plot, two working men wakes up seeing them self’s in a place they do not know and do not know how they got there. The two men sit opposite each other in a very dirty, disgusting bathroom which they are chained to the pipes by their ankles. In the middle of the room there is a died man which is lying down on the floor with a guy , with blood all around the die man. So the story is based on the two characters life which these two men did not even know each other are actually have a link but they do not know. The thing I like about this film is the saw guy who know a lot more then any thing even the characters that are in the film even more then the audience, the audience and the two characters learn together at the end of the film. I think this is because so that the audience can be in the characters place. In all of the Saw films , the film starts at the middle of the story and then with flashbacks we know then what had happen to the victims. The music and the sounds play a big part in this film and the first thing we hear is a water with no shots, more like a sound bridge and then the film gets tension with the banning and its squeaking noises like two piece of mental are scratching each other. There is a lot of shouting happening when the characters are scared and does’t know what’s going on. When the lights are flashing the lights make a electronic sound which is a very strong noise to have. When the lights go on does not make noise like that, which the film is stereotyped with the exaggerating of the light‘s noise. There is not much music in saw because there are tapes which are played and diegetic sounds. We as the audience saw a lot of blood and dirt in the scenes which represent how the two characters lives are out side the bathroom, it represents there dirty in there life which audience do not see if the man was not in the place the characters are in. The sounds in the film are at a very high volume, it creates tension a lot more then the music that plays in some of the part in the film. The diegetic sounds are more effective then the music because in the film there is constantly killing going on so tensed music will not really work more then diegetic sounds.

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The photo I pick is representing the city. The reason I like this photo is that it represents how the city is, busy and people running around the train station. It has a refection of two people reading the metro which is common in London. It makes me think of the problems of the city and how misses the city is with the builds and people.

Confusion

This image was meant to convey confusion.

I think it works because of the expectations that are contained within the audience of what a corridor should look like and that expectation has been challenged by the presence of a roll of toilet roll laid out on the floor. This leads the audience to wonder why and how the tissue paper got to be in the hall. Confusion is also made more obvious by the fact that someone is standing over the toilet roll with their hands in a rather frustrated manner.

With this shot the photographer used a low angle shot, to capture sinem’s full body. The effect of this was to get her emotion from her body language. Also the shot was taken to display a mysterious active.

Quick

This photograph I chose demonstrates Quick. To capture this picture I took it whilst the person was in motion to make it look like the person was in a rush. The fact that image is blurred shows the quickness. The blurred aspect of the picture also makes it look slightly ghostly. The figure in the image is wearing black, this also gives it a dark feel.

How is suspense crteated in The Shining

How is suspense created in The Shining?

The film The Shining is a 1980 psychological modern horror masterpiece directed by Stanley Kubrick and is based on the Stephen King novel called The Shining. The film is about a caretaker called Jack Torrance and his wife Wendy and Physic child Danny. Jack aspects a job supervising a hotel for the winter; as his family get use to there new home, paranormal things begin to happen uncontrollably. This makes Jack want to murder his entire family.
Suspense is created in this film through different technical elements to amplify the drama going on around it. For an example:- when the black character return back to the hotel to help Danny and his mother Wendy. The use of non digetic music made the suspense of his death more sinister. The cut leading up towards his death was lengthy, this made the sense gripping. Also the return of the Black character showed a stereotype “the black guy dies first.” The filming shots towards the build up to his were done well. The use of medium long shots played well with the background music. The music and the shot types lead up well to display his death. As the rhyme of the music intensified the faster the cut types were. Until it the views witnessed his death; a cut on action shot was used. The audience saw Jack raise the axe, and then jumped to an extreme close up the weapon, then the weapon striking him. The slow start of this sense directed the brutal dramatic ending of the character.
Though the music was the same through out the film, the pitch of it changed due to what was happening in the sense. This made it slightly boring if you were aware of this happening, because you would know when the music was bound to come. Even though the music was a down fall for the film; the film had great camera shots which made it fit into its genre “modern thrill.”

the shining/ suspense

Today at media , the class was watching ‘The shining’, a horror thriller which was filmed at 1980. The film was directed by Stanley kubrick. In the film there is a lot of suspense created by the music, camera and the mise en scene. The camera uses different camera shots/angles/levels that looks scary and creepy because the camera shot in different angles and it like you are the character which is in the film. Example. In one of the scene were Danny is riding his bike around the hotel and the camera is just behind him in the floor level (which Danny is) and the shot gives the audience a feeling that something is going to jump up to Danny but it will be like something is going to jump up at us (the audience). In a lot of the scene’s the camera is tilted and this beings more tension to the film. The camera some times does not show the full place so it does being more tension init because the audience just see what the character see and I say this because if you were to get into a hotel with a killer in it you will not just look at half of the room you will look very were but by not showing the full place of where the character is it keeps it sample and it makes more tension. In this way the audience say to them self ‘oh my god, he is there look around’, to the character which is about to get killed. In the film a lot of the shots are taken from the back of the character which makes it look creepy. The shots are very still and there is not a lot of editing going on but the film is slow and by the slowness it creates suspense.

The music and the sounds creates the big part of suspense. In music plays when the characters are in danger and this makes more tension on the audience. The music plays in a lot of the scene and its all ways the same kind of music playing , like bass which is playing most of the time and then there are screaming and heart beats. The music gets louder and louder when some thing is about to happen or it just goes quiet that you can not even hear nothing and this just makes the audience worry that some thing is going to happen. Example , as jack, Danny and Wendy gets closer to the hotel the music gets louder and louder. In the music there are sharp noise as well as screaming going on. In the scene were Danny goes to the play room to play and the music is slow and not loud but there is a sharp squeaking noise playing and then the sharp noise goes louder and then when Danny looks back he sees some thing and just then from mid shot it get to extreme close up of his face really quickly and in the some time the music stops and then plays again. By doing these it creates a dramatic scene. An example of the music stops at a scene that there is danger is when the black man comes to the hotel to help them and see if they are fine just then jack jumps into the black man with his axe and kills him but in this scene the diegetic sounds are at a high volume.

There is a lot of props that creates suspense because the props that are used in the film are more of things to kill a human. Example Jack has a axe which he uses to try to kill he’s wife and son but actually kills the black man. Wendy which uses a knife and a bat to make Jack stay away from them and scare jack from him which does not work.

After passing the four mirrors outside the Gold Room, Jack sits at the bar and again is unable to escape his reflection due to mirrors behind the bar. So he covers his eyes and offers his soul for a drink. When he opens his eyes again the mirrors are cluttered with bottles of alcohol and his reflection has been replaced by Lloyd, the barman. The weird conversation that follows is basically a visual metaphor of Jack speaking to himself. They’re both wearing maroon coloured jackets and have a similar cheeky smirk. Once Jack gets into the swing of his dialogue the camera stays on him and we see nothing of the barman. This shows that jack does know this place before they moved because the barman looks he is old fashion ,which this is again creates suspense. The connection with the ghost was all presented at the beginning of the film were Danny talks to Tony with is like a ghost but you can not see him.

I chose to analyse "Arlington Road," this wasn't my favourite title sequence but there was more technical elements to comment about. Arlington Road made in 1999 directed by Mark Pellington and written by Ehren Kruger. The film is about a college Professor called Michael Faraday, who suspects his neighbours of terrorism and is obsessed with their attempts of terror attacks.

Mise en scene- The tile sequences was shot in a domestic home type of setting; on a suburban road. The houses were semi-detached. And because of the special effects, it wasn't clear to see if the house was a newly built or a old house. This would have set the scene better if this was clear.

Music and Sound- The soundtrack over took the title sequence; it was loud, shocking and distorted. The soundtrack sounded demonic and alienist, there was a use of dialogue in the music to make it sound more sinister. This made the title sequence gripping and some what scary.

Lighting- The lighting was different colours, which made the viewing look blurry and poorly filmed. This made unappealing for me to watch because i would assume the film would have elements of this in it throw about.

Camera- Most of the shots from the camera was shaky ones. Though there were close up on the people int the title sequence. Also there were low shots when the camera was placed neat the grass. This was to make the house look even bigger.
Editing- Fast blurred cuts, to show the images were moving at the beat of the music. Jump cuts were used to make the title sequence transitions move faster. This technique contrasted with the light and made short clip difficult to watch for me. This was because too much things were happening at once.

Special Features- The whole of the sequence was shot in a negative type of effect. There was use of inverted colours to make the setting seem weird and most of all to give the sense of a thrill. It makes the viewer what to aspect next when watching it. The colours were also filtered this made it seem mess and jumpy.

Panic Room

I like this sequence because it is rather subtle in the messages it puts across and the lack of complexity can actually make the audience more anxious about what the movie is about. It is set using shots of buildings and bird’s eye views of streets and floating block letters can be seen among the structures with no explanation for why or how they are there, this could make the audience uneasy. Coupled with the use of diegetic sound of cars and horns and sirens. There is also the deadly non-diegetic sound of a cello and violin playing deep low tones that keeps the audience intrigued. The music then changes where the violin is dominating along with a clicking sound similar to a clock which creates the sense of suspense building up. Mise en Scene is not widely used even though there are many different objects, the director is unlikely to have gone out of his way to acquire those. When the music changes we are also shown more of the streets and things closer to ground level such as people, bill boards and cars. There is also a point where there is a billboard clearly visible for the audience to see depicting a man and perhaps his lover or wife and is used as a challenge to the audiences expectations of a deadly atmosphere approaching. Lastly when we see a shot of New York’s Times Square, the names of Patrick Baucha and Paul Schulze are cleverly placed to the far right where there is not much movement going on while on the left there is a busy street and multiple bill boards visible to see. This also leaves the words ‘Fears’ obviously clear to the views eyes when it flashes up on the electronic billboard. Then as we near the end of the introduction sequence the viewers are shown a ground level view of a park where all the people’s movements have been sped up which makes them almost sudden blips on a screen before disappearing again. This again creates a sense of unease in the audience before their thoughts are challenged again by the deadly music and odd angles being suddenly cut off and we see a woman walking down a street while talking naturally. This creates the sense of wonder of what could happen in the movie after having experienced that sudden contrast of feelings.

No Country for Old Men

The title sequence that I chose to look at was ‘No Country for Old Men’, made by Joel and Ethan Coen, a crime thriller, which was released on January 18th January 2008. The opening sequence consists of a police talking about his job and family, this plays as added background sound as the image shown is of a desert landscape. Within the title sequence, the only title that shown was at the very beginning of the movie, this showed the company that made the movie and cut straight into the landscape shot, no titles were shown.

The reason I liked this title sequence is because it is simple and effective as it goes straight into the movie. The voiceover is a subtle way of introducing the violent nature of the movie without giving too much away, this also helps viewers to get an insight into one the characters mind set. This also will make the audience feel sympathy for him, as he is a police officer, a sheriff just like his father. The camera shots used such as establishing shot to show the landscape gives the audience a chance to see where the characters are. The accent of the man talking suggests that he is from the country. As the sequence goes, the sheriff is seen putting a man in the back of his police car so we then suspect that something is going to happen involving the man being arrested.

The title sequence for ‘No Country for Old Men’ is effective and doesn’t put viewers off, as some movies have long over extended title sequences that might cause viewers to lose interest. In the opening along with the voiceover there is an instrumental, it is orchestral but doesn’t over power the voiceover as it is the most significant part of the opening.

The Shining

Suspense is created in the Shinning through the use of overly long scenes, very little cuts and the use of music that is repetitive. For example the sound similar to that of a beating heart could be created by beating a drum repeatedly or the chiming of bells that leads up to the end off the suspense. Another way that the movie creates tension and suspense is the scene where Danny is riding his tricycle around the hotel we can hear series of very loud sounds where Danny rides over wooden flooring and very soft sounds where he rides over carpet, this creates a huge contrast between volumes. The camera is also very low to the ground and following Danny from behind turning sharply as he goes round corners this introduces the audience to another location very suddenly making whatever they see all the more unexpected. Another key element in the scene was that the audience was shown the route that Danny took on his tricycle three times which builds up the expectations of the audience of what each part looks like if they were asked to visualise the route in their minds. This makes the point where Danny comes across the two girls who are obviously ghosts all the more effective as it breaks the audiences expectations.

The Shining

Suspense is created in 'The Shining' through a build of emotion and tension because we know that something is going to happen. The scene through the maze as Danny was running away from Jack saw a build up of emotion causing suspense as we didn't know if Jack was going to get Danny. There are many different times within the movie where suspense has been created, this makes it more interesting and keeps viewers attentions.