Section Three : Brainstorm of Content and Classification of Flim

The certificate our group has chosen for our film is certificate 15 becuase we are not legally aloud to watch 18 rated movies. We think a 12 would be to young as it contains horror and some gore. In the opening scene disturbing images may be shown that would be to scary for a 12 or 12A but wouldnt be that scary to a 18 rated film. Also the violence in our film wont be to strong, but if we had violence in a 12 rated film it wouldnt be allowed.  The BBFC is the Britsh Board of Film Classification. sets the age of each film and gives them an age.

For a certificate 15 the regulations are :
Suitable only for 15 years and over
No one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.
Discrimination
The film as a whole must not approve discriminatory language or behaviour.
Drugs
Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example, aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.
Horror
Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.
Imitable behaviour
Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.
Language
There may be frequent use of strong language. The strongest  terms,  may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.
Nudity
Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context.
Sex
Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour, but the strongest references are unlikely  to be acceptable unless justified by context. Works whose primary purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.
Theme
No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds.
Violence
Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also unlikely to be acceptable. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and have a strong contextual justification.


Mind Map of our Plans

Section Two : Research into Examples of Comparable Products

Seven

Narrative Structure : 

When the camera cuts from Somerset to murder scene, it instantly relates them.

Thriller Codes and Conventions: 

Heroic Romance- Somerset looking very ordinary in first scene.

Transformed City- constant city background noise.

Camera work:

Somerset centre of focus- walks around the edge and when he is laying in bed, you can see the door frame as if someone is looking in on him or watching him. Over the shoulder shot when he is tying his tie it shows his face. Body all in the shot, see everything camera moving upwards is ped shot.

Depth of field- type of depth in shot. Somerset taking up half of the frame, fridge taken up third of the shot and out of focus people in the background.

Framed in a certain way so another hero could be introduced.

Opening title - focus' on variety of objects and pictures.

Mise-en-scene:
Costume/makeup, setting , lighting, props.
Somerset is the first charcter shown, we associated him as a main character.
boring colour, mostly white.

Neatly organized props on dressing table this shows his personality is clean cut, organized, dark gloomy, low key lighting creating the mood.

Blocking where a charater stands shows something might be behind them

New character introduced bigger on screen becuase of the framing

Sound

cars- digetic sounds of the city trafic sirens- constant throught scenes this shows a transformed city.
Being introduced to the main characters, introducing themselves to each other.
Opening scene- creepy music .
Editing
Cut from Somerset to murder scene this is relating somerset to the murder.
Cuts to black- signify end of sequence
all very dull colours.
disolve two pictures merged together
red- danger, blood.
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Jaws
Narrative Structure
Shark attack on the beach.
Thriller Codes and Conventions
Tension music, expects something to happen and dosnt
Consealment & Protraction - dont see the shark but knows it is there.

Transformed City - turned into something extraordinary.

Camrea Work
Worm view under water to show there is a shark

Point of view from the shark

Crab to right on campfire - stops on boy then the girl, shot reverse shot making connection.

Shot to establish that it is the beach

extreme long shot of the ocean - Chrisse is only taking up a small about.
Shark point of view getting closer creating suspense.
Mise-En-Scene
Water,campfire .
Underwater- low key lighting auto tension
Warm orangy yellow colours.
Woman are vunerable- stripping off her clothes is a metephor to stripping of her protection.
Fence are like bones, bite marks in them.
Drunk boys are useless, no one to protection.
One in the sea one on the shore.
Shows Chrissie has gone without a trace.
Killer shark is still free.
Sound
Theme sound- starts of very slow then the tempo ups. Guitar.
When shark is near tension music.
Very begining- submarine soundish.
Minor keys to cause tension, mimicing a heart beat, Faster when shark is near.
the music stops dead which is associated with the shark. Non Diagetic to Diagetic oposit cheerful music.
When the bell rings its like the funeral bell.
Graphics
White on black background. Capitals, very plain.

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Silence of the Lambs
Narative Structure
Department dealing with behaviour, very offical.
Thriller Codes and Conventions
remote on its own

Mazes & Ladbryths - through the forest, long shot from behind

Words on threes - hurt agony pain

Camrea Work 

Match on action on feet when she runs
Trees making a tunnel to focus our attention

When looks around, see more of her, view point of killer

Crab left establishing shot of the buliding, zoom into window, where the action is taking place.

Looks slighty off camrea slow zoom.
Mise-En-Scene.
running an assault course.
FBI tranning , man with the hat.
Woods in the winter mountains mist fog, low key light
Guns set the scene still running important - high fives girls sticking together.
challenges ideas about sterotype
looks small , male are over powering all in red, she is in blue, dosnt fit in with males.
Department dealing with behaviour.
in a male dominated are.
Sound
Opening- mystery magical.
Suspense building when she runs. Birds squarking.
Digetic - heavy breathing
Creates tenion in office
Graphics
Woods near quantico, isolcated woods.
black stands out
credits slightly stand out.

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Red Eye

Narrative Structure

Someone taken a wallet , 'JR'

Florida - ID fish crates ID is an old man

Picutre of daughter in wallet.

Sinthea tells people why she isnt there. Grandmother has died

City Lisa- hetic life.Daddys girl

Red Eye - last place home, tirering least buyist. Travelling to miami

Triller Codes & Conventions
Heroic romance -Lisa
Concealment of wallet
questions and answere model with create
transformed city
Camrea Work
Contenuity man exists on left wallet gets stolen from right
zoom in on waller zoom on JR on wallet.
Establishing shot of hotel
Moved in on villans eyes.
Mis-En-Scene
see main character young honers and graduation inteligent.
Sporty side whos ever person is , they are very proud
Something kidden inside the fish and ice.
Pictures of bulidings
Fish not travelled far.
High stess job security is invloved Hetic lift of lisa - good at making situations
reference to security identity to lisa and dad with wallet, house is been decorated.
Knows wallet is missing important Do anything for her dosnt want to lose her
introduced to a character old lady, angry man, lisa handsome man wants to protect women.
Sound
Criminal uneasy music tensiony ticking beat deep building suspense. Plane taking it - non diagetic building up and disperse. plance taking off non diagetic.
Building up and disperse trail of sound. Suspense music buliding up, building up pace.
Graphics
Black background - white text getting smaller lika a plane down a runway.
Red Eye- colour red, bulky, capitals, red- danger anger .
Editing
Cutting technique
Cross cutting
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Watch Men

Narative Structure

Man sat in his flat,

another man kicks the door down and seems to be angry and wants to kill the man whos flat it it

Thriller Codes and Conventions

Conelement and Protraction of the killer.

Camrea Work

Zoom in on televison

in the hall way, zooms in on the door and gives the impression that someone is walking down the hall .

Zoom in on the mans face then zooms into the gun instantly linking them

Close up on the knives

Makes a clear connection to the badge.

Mise-En-Scene

Man on the moon on the televison.

flicking through differnt TV programms

Man looks at the shadow of the feet under the door

Kicks door down.

When the man gets thrown out of the window the badge falls after him

Sound
Relaxing, the song unforgetable.
The music is still playing when they are fighting
Editing
Everything turns into slow motion when he kicks the door down.
everytime the man gets hit it goes in slow motion
slow when he is flying through the air
blood slowly splashes onto the badge
Graphics
Low key lighting to give suspense

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Inception

Narative structure

Washed up on a beach, found by one man

Thriller Codes and Conventions

The Exotic the item in his back pocket

The answere and question model, you dont know where he is, why he is there.

Camrea Work

Cuts to the sea, high shot of him on the beach

worm view of man who finds him

Mise-En-Scene

Set on beach

man laying on beach, asleep or knocked out.

Man walks up to him, and prodes him with a stick

lifts up his top to find the item in his back pocket.

Sound

tension, getting faster and louder water crashing against the rocks

when he sees the item the tension becoms more and quicker.

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Section One. Thriller Genre

Genre is a French word which simply means category or type. This is used in many different ways, for example video games, television programs, books and films. A thriller genre uses tension, suspense, excitement and mystery as the main elements.

Some sub genres of thrillers are disaster thrillers which uses earthquakes, floods, hurricanes as an artificial disaster. A good example of a disaster thriller is 'A Day After Tomorrow'. Another sub-genre of thriller is a crime thriller, this normally a hybrid of both crime films and thrillers. They normally focus on the criminal rather than the policeman and usually involve serial killers or murders. A good example of a crime thriller is 'Silence of the Lambs'.

A thriller genre keeps you in suspense, and always asking questions. A thriller normally shocks or scares the viewer and plays with the mind. Different from a horror which focus on blood and gore, a thriller would focus on the story line. A thriller may also include tension and mystery, which will drive the narrative and would appeal to the audience.

Martin Ruben 'Thrillers' in 1999 has a series of theories to make a successful thriller.

C K Chesterton - ' The Transformed City' uses the idea of a modern ordinarily city and transforms is into an extraordinary city.

Northrop Frye - ' The Heroic Romance' This is when a normal everyday person has to become a 'hero' like person when they are faced with the problems and circumstances, 'moves the world in which ordinary laws and nature are slightly suspended'.

John Cawelti - ' The Exotic'.  This is when a modern city is turned mysterious. An introduction to the unfamiliar, this could be a person, artefacts, objects, locations and sometimes more popular in the earlier thriller movies are props from the Middle East orient.

W H Matthews - 'Mazes & Labyrinths'. This is origins of the Greek mythology, and it’s when the hero in the thriller finds them selves in a predicament. This could be a metaphorical maze like when the person finds problems which would be a metephoic dead end, or a clue which would be a corner closer to the exit or an actual maze like a corridor. The audience are presented with the hero’s puzzles and problem solving.

Pascal Bonitzer - 'Particle Vision'. This is a theory about the audience seeing part of something, and some elements are hidden. The blind spot create suspense and asks the audience questions. What we don’t see is just as important as what we do see, for example, in a murder thriller, sometimes if you see the killer at the beginning and know it is the killer then it may ruin the suspense for the whole film. This when the characters are places in an 'unlimited prison'.

Lars Ole Sauerberg - 'Concealment and Protraction'. This is when the suspense of the thriller can pull the audience in different directions. Concealment is when the films hide something on purpose and protection is a deliberate delay of a suspected out come.

Noell Carroll - ' The Question and Answers Model'. This is when the audience is asked a question to keep them in suspense. It is a probability factor, a sure thing is not as good and doesn’t hold suspense as well as a battle against the odds. This means when the audience knows something for sure then they won’t have to question it, a battle against the odds means that it couldbe between two or more things.