Lesson 21/02/12

In this double lesson we have got quite a lot done. We finished our Story board, took pictures of it and uploaded them on to the computer. We also uploaded our indent to the blog and evaluated it. On the other hand we also researched music for our film opening and uploaded some screen shots of them on to the blog and wrote why we have chosen them and where about's we could put them in the film.

Music Ideas!

Here we have an idea of a suspense moment for our film opening. We found that it would fit well when the witch would take the teddy or when the girl walks off and finds the teddy with the witch.

Again, here we have another suspense sound. We thought that this would also fit in well when the witch takes the teddy bear. Also, it could fit well when the witch picks up the teddy bear with the girl as it would give the audience a scared affect as they know something bad will happen to the girl.

Here we have a sound that is called "Flurry". We found that this sound would fit well when the girl is running to try and find her bear. On the other hand, we found that it would also fit well when the parents are running around trying to find the daughter.

This sound effect is called "Alien Impact". We found that this could tie in well when the parents have realised that the daughter is missing and start to panic. However, it could also be used for when we have a close up on the witch's feet and see her facing the daughter indicating that she is going to capture her.

Again here we have another sound effect that could fit well with when the parents have realised they have lost their daughter. On the other hand, we believe that this sound effect could be used when the family are walking up the hill to the setting of their picnic, while the witch is watching them. This could indicate to the audience that something horrible is going to happen to the family.

Here we have looked up on youtube the song "Teddy bears picnic". We are using this song in our film opening because we thought that it fitted in well with our film because it is a family going for a picnic and the daughter has lost her teddy bear. Also, as we researched horror/thriller music we found that most thrillers have songs that are usually known to be innocent but when put into a thriller they then have a new twisted vibe about that which affects the audience mentally and when they hear that song they will remember all the thriller things that happened in the film.

In this sequence of the film Se7en, the camera does a numerous amounts of close ups of a variety of different objects in the film. This can show the audience what is happening at the start and trying to make them think what is going on. The first image we see at the start is of an old book which looks quite beaten up as the pages in it look faded and crisp. Also at the same time a bit of text comes up stating that the film is present by "New line cinema".
They have used quite odd font which seems to have been written over a couple of times with a pen. This gives a sense of anger or maybe frustration. Also it fits in with the music which is in the background, the music in the background is a thunder sound but with scratching. This ties in well with the font as it looks as if the font has been scratched quickly and messily to created a sense of rush.
This font relates to the film/ genre of this film as it is a thriller and the text looks as if it should be in a thriller based film because it looks sketchy and as if someone wrote it quickly to try and get out of somewhere they are trapped. Also, the font gives off a jumpy vibe when the title sequence is on because it jumps when it is on, which a connotation of this could be that it gives the audience a sense that something is wrong or something is going to happen which isn't going to be good.
On the other hand, throughout the sequence the camera has filmed in a low lighted room which gives of dark colours for example, black, a dark faded blue, grey and a faded green. This fits in well with the genre of the film because the conventions of a thriller are low lighting and dark colours which gives the sense that everything isn't going to be happy in this film.
However, the images used in this sequence work well together as it shows the audience that a man making something, cuts himself with the needle, puts a bandage on it and then starts to write something in the book that was shown at the start. It then goes on with an image of a boy and the character crosses the boys in the photo eyes out, which could signify that the character is going to go after that person in the photograph and try to get rid of him.
After that is shows images of the character making some sort of book and he is cutting out the word "God" to put into it which indicates that the character is a religious man.

Frame By Frame Of "The Ninth Gate"

Frame 1: In this frame the camera is doing a wide shot, which is when the subject is taking up the full frame. With this shot it has showed us what is in the room that the character is in to try and give the audience a grasp of what the character is like.

Frame 2: In this frame the camera has closed up onto the chair to signify that something is going to happen with it. From the carpet and furniture around it, you can tell that the character is old fashioned.

Frame 3: In this frame the camera done a tilt angle going up which then gave the audience a close up shot of a rope to indicate that something bad has/ going to happen with it.

Frame 4: In this shot, the camera done a jump cut to get to this angle of the man. From this angle you can see what the man is doing and what is in the room. For example, The photograph next to the man could signify something.

Frame 5:Again, in this shot the camera has done another jump cut to the man's feet to show that he is walking towards the chair in the previous shots. This indicates that the man is going to get onto the chair.

Frame 6: In this frame the camera done a jump cut to the man standing on the chair and grabbing the rope. This shows the audience that he is about to commit suicide by hanging himself.

Frame 7: Here the camera done another jump cut to the man's feet to show that he is rocking the chair to try and make it fall over so that he can hang himself.

Frame 8: Here the camera done a jump cut again to the lights flashing as when the man jumped he broke the light with his force.

Frame 9: In this shot the camera jumped cut again the show that the man is not stood on the chair any more and is hanging himself. It shoes you a close up on his feet, to show the audience that he isn't touching the floor and having a fit when he is loosing his life.

Frame 10: With this shot the camera has done a tilt angle where it moves upwards to show the audience the desk of which the ma was sat at, at the start of the clip.

Frame 11: Here the camera zoomed in on the letter, which the man was writing on at the start of the clip. It then follows on with doing a close up of the letter, as it does this is then uses a shallow focus shot.

Frame 12: In this shot the camera done a pan shot, which means it made moved right to show the audience what is in the room. As it does this shot it then follows through with doing a mid close up of a book rack in the room.

Frame 13: After the close up in the previous shot, the camera continues to do a panning shot to show the audience that the character had a book collection. However it could also indicate that the character was well educated and quite intellectual.

Frame 14: In This shot the camera done a close up of the missing book place which then lead us to another place which is called a graphic shot.

Frame 15: In this shot the camera is zooming in where the missing book was, which then leads the audience into another place that we don't know what it actually is. Which then opens another door to another dark place which then shows us just the names of the actors in the film.

Richard Kelly

James Richard Kelly was born March 28 in 1975. Richard is an American film director and writer, best known for writing and directing the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001.
The film Donnie Darko was given a budget of only $4.5 million. This was his first feature and was nominated for 21 small awards, winning 11 of them, including a nomination for a Saturn Award. This film was then later number 2 on Empire Magazine's list of 50 greatest independent films of all time.
Richard Kelly's fourth film and second feature, Southland Tales, a rough cut of which screened in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, was released November 16, 2007. In this film was a numerous amount of stars such as, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Kevin Smith and Miranda Richardson.
Even though Richard Kelly's films differ between characters and settings, they all share the same themes of time travelling, existentialism and spirituality.

Brad Anderson

Brad Anderson Was born in Madison, Connecticut 1964. He is the son of Pamela Taylor Anderson. He is an American film director that mainly does thrillers, horrors and television projects. He is best known for directing "The Machinist" that came out in 2004, who starred Christian Bale.
His two most recent films were the well-received Transsiberian, that came out in 2008, a thriller starring Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, and Ben Kingsley, and the horror film, Vanishing on 7th Street, that came out in 2010, starring Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo and Thandie Newton. However, both Transsiberian and The Machinist were funded by Anglo-German production companies.
In 2002 Brad Anderson was one of the members of the dramatic jury at the Sundance film festival.
Also, at one point Brad was one of the candidates to direct the Paranormal Activity sequel.
On the other hand, Brad Anderson has not only directed films but he also does television series. for example he has directed a numerous episodes of the series "Fringe" as well as two episodes of "The Wire".
For the future Brad Anderson is planning to direct another film called "The Living And The Dead" which is based on the novel by the same name of Robert Tinnell and Todd Livingston. Also after working together on The Machinist, Anderson and Bale currently plan to collaborate again on an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel, Concrete Island.