Our plot for our thriller opening is a young girl around 17 has fallen into debt due a drug addiction a drug addiction that started from the bad influence of her boyfriend as a 'one of' thing of trying heroin but sadly ending up as a cold addiction. Finding it ever harder to beat the addiction a go cold turkey she splits with her boyfriend who is the one who is preventing the narcotic dealers from forcing the girl to pay the debt. So with no boyfriend to keep the heat off her she soon finds herself being threatened by the gangsters for the money she is in owes them. This ends nastily as the gangster known as tony kills the girls family ( mother and young brother) as the girl did not take the threast seriously and still found it hard to stop her addiciton.
This plot will be told between cuts of the young girl in the near future walking down a beach in black and white looking 'rough and hagard'. It will contrast to the filming of the past memories as they will be shot in colour as this connotates a vivid memory of the mentally scarring event in contrast to the present that just seems like a black and white blur and a wash of surrialism. This is the plot summary of the introduction but the introduction of the film is the end of the film as a whole cronnologically.
For our locations we have decided to use holkham Beach in North Norfolk for the wandering girl in black and white and then use my house for the flashbacks.
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Monday, 20 October 2008
My Advert
This is my original image of my model. I used photoshop to extract just the models body from the background. I used the magic wand tool and also the rubber to take away the door and wall.
Next I put the image into black and white using the greyscale mode. I then had to save the image and re-open it in RGB mode so i could then add the 'lipstick'. I used the Magic wand tool again to select her lips
I used this picture that i found on the internet to be my background. I needed to edit it though to get the desired effect of a focus purely on the model and even more intensely on her vibrant lips.
I got this effect from using a blur effect on the whole picture so making the background out of focus in contrast to the model being in focus. Also the black and white again denotes a contrasts with her bright green lips. The connotations are of a person who stands out from the others. Literally in this advert standing out from the crowd.
i then lastly used a picture of a stick of lipstick that i edited to have a green lipstick end.
Last of all i added my text. This is also a more colourful and unique font again connotates individuality. I named my company 'Independant Lipstick' because of the target audience. The green font is just to mimic the green lipstick. The words 'Show off your colourful Character' are to try and intise more colourful and unique people in and show that it is good to stand out and be different as big cosmetic companies are promoting the idea.The end result of the advert denotes a crowded area blurred out of focus with an in focus girl with bright green lipstick and a small section of writing to promote individuality and the name of the lipstick and the company at the bottom. It connotates a powerful individual who is not affraid of sticking out from the crowd and taking a risk also they are pioneering for bigger things and future aspirations.
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Film Study
1. ‘Fistful of Dollars’, Dir. Sergio Leon, 11th June.
2. Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg, 24th July 1998.
3. ‘Equilibrium’ Dir. Kurt Wimmer, 6th December 2002.
I chose all the above films but chose to focus on Equilibrium as it is more stereotypical of a thriller film and uses many conventions and codes of media language.
Narrative Structure
The opening to the films is a narrative explanation of the cause and effect of world war 3 and the introduction of a drug to stop human emotion to therefore stop all wars. The narrative is constructed with disastrous images of the 20th century wars and disasters. The grammaton Cleric is mentioned who’s purpose is to irradicate all trace of human emotion as this is what has led to all wars. Also it mentions the drug now being used to stop people feeling emotion. Then it cuts to an abandoned house with a ‘rebel’ dashing through a door shouting “police”. The rebels then start arming themselves with the stereotypical ak47’s. They are all surrounded by lots of famous pieces of art work which they start to try to hide before the gun fire starts. As the fighting brakes out they are easily over thrown by the grammaton cleric who proceed to go inside to this abandoned house and clear the building. Then two men proceed to enter the building played by Christian Bale and Sean Bean. they are greeted by a policeman who explains there are men in a room and the doors bolted shut Christian Bale goes on to say shoot the bolts as I run to the door and turn off the lights. There is a moment of suspense as you see all the men ready themselves. He proceeds to run towards the door and at the right moment the men shoot and he goes throught the door and there are a few shots fired and then silence and a black screen. Then the rebels talk and ask one another if they have shot him and there is a moment of suspense. This is ended as Christian bale starts to shoot and kills all of the rebels. The men are looking for something and this revealed as they pull up some floorboards to reveal the mona lisa and the equilibrium is disrupted as you see them burn the mona lisa with a flame thrower.
Character
The characters in the film are John Preston played by Christian Bale and Errol Partridge played by Sean Bean. John Preston is a gun kata fighter who searches out symbols of human emotion and destroys them. So this makes him seem very evil destroy symbols of what makes us human and what makes up everyone’s personalities. Errol Partridge is also a fighter against human emotion but he turns to the rebel side as he himself indulges in symbols of human emotion such as reading Yeats’ poems.
Sound
Starts with a very bassy and throbbing note and a high pitched note from synthesised sounds which naturally sounds alien to us and not very nice. This dies out to a cello playing a piece in a minor key so very sad sounding. This is accompanied by a English voice. The sound of gunfire through out the next few scenes fills your ears and then goes back to the alien music. As the fight stop and a search is taken out a church like choir is played and is very tranquil in comparison to the start until they find the Mona Lisa and at this point it then goes back to the strange alien music which builds as they take up the floorboards and reveal the picture.
Mise en scene
Stereotypical scenery; abandoned house
Stereotypical props; the rebels dressed in rugged clothes armed with AK47s and police in blue with M4s or Sub machine guns with protective bullet proof vests.
Inside the building is very dark. How the lighting is used gives a noir effect.
Shots
I like this shot of the abandoned house being shot at. It implies someone being shot as you see the bullets arc down around the window and there is an edit to a man at that window so you know someone’s there and you know the bullets would go through the thin walls so you get the whole picture without seeing the gory section.
1. ‘Fistful of Dollars’, Dir. Sergio Leon, 11th June.
2. Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg, 24th July 1998.
3. ‘Equilibrium’ Dir. Kurt Wimmer, 6th December 2002.
I chose all the above films but chose to focus on Equilibrium as it is more stereotypical of a thriller film and uses many conventions and codes of media language.
Narrative Structure
The opening to the films is a narrative explanation of the cause and effect of world war 3 and the introduction of a drug to stop human emotion to therefore stop all wars. The narrative is constructed with disastrous images of the 20th century wars and disasters. The grammaton Cleric is mentioned who’s purpose is to irradicate all trace of human emotion as this is what has led to all wars. Also it mentions the drug now being used to stop people feeling emotion. Then it cuts to an abandoned house with a ‘rebel’ dashing through a door shouting “police”. The rebels then start arming themselves with the stereotypical ak47’s. They are all surrounded by lots of famous pieces of art work which they start to try to hide before the gun fire starts. As the fighting brakes out they are easily over thrown by the grammaton cleric who proceed to go inside to this abandoned house and clear the building. Then two men proceed to enter the building played by Christian Bale and Sean Bean. they are greeted by a policeman who explains there are men in a room and the doors bolted shut Christian Bale goes on to say shoot the bolts as I run to the door and turn off the lights. There is a moment of suspense as you see all the men ready themselves. He proceeds to run towards the door and at the right moment the men shoot and he goes throught the door and there are a few shots fired and then silence and a black screen. Then the rebels talk and ask one another if they have shot him and there is a moment of suspense. This is ended as Christian bale starts to shoot and kills all of the rebels. The men are looking for something and this revealed as they pull up some floorboards to reveal the mona lisa and the equilibrium is disrupted as you see them burn the mona lisa with a flame thrower.
Character
The characters in the film are John Preston played by Christian Bale and Errol Partridge played by Sean Bean. John Preston is a gun kata fighter who searches out symbols of human emotion and destroys them. So this makes him seem very evil destroy symbols of what makes us human and what makes up everyone’s personalities. Errol Partridge is also a fighter against human emotion but he turns to the rebel side as he himself indulges in symbols of human emotion such as reading Yeats’ poems.
Sound
Starts with a very bassy and throbbing note and a high pitched note from synthesised sounds which naturally sounds alien to us and not very nice. This dies out to a cello playing a piece in a minor key so very sad sounding. This is accompanied by a English voice. The sound of gunfire through out the next few scenes fills your ears and then goes back to the alien music. As the fight stop and a search is taken out a church like choir is played and is very tranquil in comparison to the start until they find the Mona Lisa and at this point it then goes back to the strange alien music which builds as they take up the floorboards and reveal the picture.
Mise en scene
Stereotypical scenery; abandoned house
Stereotypical props; the rebels dressed in rugged clothes armed with AK47s and police in blue with M4s or Sub machine guns with protective bullet proof vests.
Inside the building is very dark. How the lighting is used gives a noir effect.
Shots
I like this shot of the abandoned house being shot at. It implies someone being shot as you see the bullets arc down around the window and there is an edit to a man at that window so you know someone’s there and you know the bullets would go through the thin walls so you get the whole picture without seeing the gory section.
I like this shot as it the first of many when the director uses a small amount of light to highlight something. The backlighting connotes how Christian Bale is strong and dominating due to the denotation of the Low angle shot and the backlighting highlighting him and producing a silhouette. This is the point when Christian bale storms through the door. After this shot there is a moment of suspense. The feeling of suspense comes from this shot and then guns are heard being fired from the rebels in the room, as the guns are firing the screen goes black. The black screen holds us in suspense as we can not see anything or hear anything so we are not sure if Christian bale is dead or the rebels, so we don’t know what is going to happen next. The guns die out and then the rebels start to talk asking if they have shot him. Then suddenly you see Christian bale light up from the light of his guns. This scene is very well filmed as you don’t see any gore or anyone actually die. All you see is the small amount of light coming from the guns and either Christian Bale shooting or the rebels falling back. I like this scene as it’s cleverly shot to imply a situation but not actually show the whole situation living it to the audience to work out
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I like this shot as is uses the effect of key light again to highlight something. In this case it’s the main characters eyes. I think Christian Bale’s eyes look sinister and dark opposed to Sean Bean’s eyes that look more welcoming and less evil. This is due to the emotions you find out Sean bean still feels later in the film whilst Christian bale is emotionless.
I think this shot is where the equilibrium is disrupted. This is the point when the Mona Lisa is burnt. This makes the audience feel horrified as it’s a symbol of human beauty, artistic nature and intelligence. And to see it destroyed in a flash makes you feel hatred towards the police force, the grammaton cleric.
I think this shot is where the equilibrium is disrupted. This is the point when the Mona Lisa is burnt. This makes the audience feel horrified as it’s a symbol of human beauty, artistic nature and intelligence. And to see it destroyed in a flash makes you feel hatred towards the police force, the grammaton cleric.
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