Opening to 'Vertigo'

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo's opening scene is a rooftop chase, i assume there is a criminal because there is a police officer chasing the man and another man who is also chasing the criminal but is not in police gear.

As he jumps over to the next roof the third man falls and is hanging on to the roof, the policeman tries to help but in doing so he falls over the man hanging on and falls to his death.

The camera angles in this opening sequence is very good because as the man who is hanging of for his life looks down, the screen makes it look like its moving further away, making the fall larger than it is. This is a point of view shoot so this is what the man is seeing when he looks down, which shows that he is fearing for his life.

Suspense

Suspense is anticipation regarding an outcome, such as a mystery, an example of this is in old cartoons when they tell you to tune in next week this is creating suspense.

Chuck Jones and 'The Rules'

Chuck Jones made a list of rules to follow when he was creating the road runner gags, the following rules are the ones he created:

1. The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “Beep-Beep.”

2. No outside force can harm the Coyote - only his own ineptitude or the failure of the ACME products.

3. The Coyote could stop anytime - if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim” - George Santayana.)

4. No dialogue ever, except “Beep-Beep.”

5. The Road Runner must stay on the road - otherwise, logically, he would not be called a Road Runner.

6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters - the south-west American Desert.

7. All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the ACME corporation.

8. Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy.

9. The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

MacGuffin

A MacGuffin is what drives  plot forward in a film, a macguffin helps the film continue for example in psycho the woman steals the money and leads her to the motel in which she is murdered, so if she did not steal the money she would not have travelled to the motel and there would be no film

Collateral

This film is about a cab driver who is basically taken hostage but the main character, Tom Cruise, he is taken hostage to drive the kidnapper round while he kills his targets and he must find away to save himself and the last victim.

This film was one of the first to use the digital cameras while filming, so this meant that it could easily be set up and the could film spontaneous events such as the wild coyote, if the wasn't using these cameras by the time they had set everything up to film the animal it would have gone.

Collateral was nominated for 2 oscars, and also won 17 other awards and was nominated for 36.

 This video is the trailer for Collateral, when watching this trailer you get a basic overview of the whole film because you see him met the last victim get kidnapped, and so on. This gives you sympathy for the cab  driver, and makes you want to go and watch the film because you want to know if he is able to survive.

Moby Gratis License Request

This is my request to download a non-copyrighted song being accepted by the website Moby Gratis, this song will hopefully be used in our thriller, this song is called wait for me and I think it will help us build up the tension in the beginning of the thriller, which we are hoping to create.

Source Code (2011)

Source Code is a film about a solider who wakes up in an unknown mans body and finds that he is apart of a mission to find the Chicago bomber.

The director of this film was Duncan Jones, the writer was Ben Ripley, and the main stars was Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga. The budget of this film was $32 million and its gross has ended up being $54,696,902.

The film is a very good film although through it I did become slightly perplexed as i did not know what was happening or I did not get the story line. But apart from this, it was an exciting, and entertaining thriller from begin to end with non-stop action.

At the beginning we believe that the person we see waking up on the train is going to be the main character but when the bomb blows up on the train it throws us because we was expecting him to be the hero, but as we think that he then reappears strapped into a some sort of machine. 

     
This image is a very peculiar one, but i believe it to be representing him breaking the time loop like he does at the end of the film,  i think this because he is smashing through some sort of glass wall, so it could mean this. 

Focus Group

We had to plan a focus group to ask four people what they thought of our ideas, also they choose which idea they liked the best. We set it up so they were opposite us when we was telling them our ideas and questions about them. After we finished we asked them which one they thought was the best and they stated our best idea was our thriller about crime.

Camera Angles

There are many types of camera angles used in films. These shots are used to show the audience what is happening in the best way it also shows how the actors are feeling. The camera angles  are long shot, close up, point of view shot, close up, mid shot, extreme close up, low angle point of view, high angle point of view, extreme close up, black frame.

Lighting Exercise

Today we done a light exercise, this exercise was used to show all the different lighting techniques to make different moods, silhouettes, and gave us the understanding of the different lighting techniques. To do this assignment we needed to use torches and a dark room, we needed the torches so we could use them as our lights, although they are not as professional as what they use in movies, it is still good to show us the different moods that lighting can make if you put them in the right place. We needed a dark room so that if we needed it to be ark we could easily do it.

When filming to make it as easy as possible we used one person to sit down and do the lighting around him, we did not have a story to this because it was hard enough to do the lighting =, so it would have made it much harder to do a story as well.