Certification means that a film will be suitable for a certain age that is approved by the BritishBoard of Film. U means universal, it also means that the films are suitable for anyone over the age of 4. Some examples of films that are suitable for all ages are; Toy Story, Bee movie and many more. PG stands for Parental Guidance, it means that a parent should watch the film first and decide whether or not their child should watch the film. PG films are generally suitable for most viewers but some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children. The main difference between the two is that 12 films are videos, blu-ray and DVD's where as 12A films are for the cinema, people younger that 12 must be accompanied by an adult when watching the film. Certificate 15 is suitable only for 15 years and older. 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. 18 means that no-one under the age of 18 can watch the film in cinema, buy or rent a 18 film and that any 18 film is definitely not suitable for children.
Our first idea is to shoot in Hainalt forest- a deserted area, a group of friends with something or someone following them. They get separated. They must each try and find an escape from the forest along with each other.
Our next idea is Lost In London- someone is escorted to London knocked out or blindfolded, they wake up alone on a bench, they try desperately to get home asking for money and directions. TWIST it is a dream they wake up but there is no family around, keep looking everywhere there is no one anywhere, there are despaired and distraught TWIST its another dream, a dream within a dream. They wake up screaming and their family run in, its over...
Our last idea was Isolated. A person i a light, small room, there is no dialogue. There are doors that lead to light or dark rooms, once door is opened other one disappears, stuck to their choice. They must pick the right door to their freedom and back to real world. Riddles to influence the door choice they must with the choices they made somehow make it back to reality.
The plot of the film is something that makes the film go along, it is the basis on what everything revolves around. Cause and Effect are terms that allow the action and theme reveal itself throughout the film, the Cause is something that starts the action, because of this the Effect must take place the effect is the actions taken to solve the problem that the Cause has created.
A plot refers to;
A series of events.
A foundation that starts the action or reveals itself as the problem.
A situation that causes drama.
Peaks and dips of action that involves a person over coming difficulties.
A climax where the most important part of the film is shown, it is normally the height of tension or suspense.
The aftermath of the climax where the action normally dies down a little bit till the next peak of action or difficulty.
The ending is where all the action has been resolved and the story is coming to an end.
An enigma is a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or
difficult to understand. Cinema trailers and posters are a good
example of the use if enigma codes to try and tempt their target audience to watch the film. Enigmas in films is when a question that is not immediately answered is asked and the answer draws the audience into the story.
This guy is clearly something special, I personally don't see it, his face take up the space on the film poster, this was a technique used to make people want to see the film, just because he is obviously in it. His name was so big when this film came out they put his name in the same size as the title, his co-stars name and even the directors name are barely visible just shows a bit of desperation in my opinion. Now personally I despise Tom Cruise I don't know what it is about him but in none of his films I just can't connect with any of his characters, he just seems to do the same thing over and over again.
Anyway Collateral a film that stars Tom Cruise along with Jamie Foxx. the film came out in 2004 it was one of the first and major films to be filmed with digital cameras. Directed by Michael Mann he didn't do a bad job in making a thriller, throughout the film the audience has to ask themselves questions, why was this done? What was the purpose of that? All questions a thriller should draw out of the audience. Michael
Mann chose to use the Viper
Film Stream High-Definition Camera to film many of the scenes of Collateral. The use of a digital camera is clear in some scenes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTSpjUfcKE this scene shows the use of digital camera's if a camera that uses reels was used then they would not have been able to capture it on film as it would have taken too long to get lighting set up to see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LyAp5jL6ok This is the trailer. Max is a cab driver he picks up Vincent who flashes cash and says he will give Max and attractive sum of money to drive him around to 5 stops, not knowing that Vincent is a hit-man who is killing a person at each stop, once he realises he tries with all his might to get out of his deal with Vincent much to his failure, in order to save the last person he rushes to her rescue and is able to get away from Vincent briefly until they are left face to face with only a door between them, each armed with a hand gun, who will come out on top, a man who never held a gun until that night or a professional who's job it is to kill people? The film did ultimately bring success from the box office grossed
$24.7 million its opening weekend, ranking number 1 at the box office. This scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQWu0gDpO4 is when Max (Foxx) gets pulled over, he is forced to think fast, he is under pressure from Vincent (Cruise) to get rid of them or else he will be forced to kill them. The scene shows that Max is struggling under the pressure he is fumbling around he is trying hard to concentrate, when the officer notices the blood on the front window, you can see the panic set in on Max's face and eyes in particular, we also see Vincent preparing to take over and get the job done his way, but fortunately for the cops they are called away. The officers use their torches, the light comes from them, it can represent that they are the good guys, its ironic they are the only people that would be able to help Max but due to the circumstance he is in he knows that he is endangering their lives and his, the light at the end of the tunnel is fading and Max is left on his own once more with Vincent. The majority of the film is in poorly lit area's giving a dark and cold feel to the film which also adds to atmosphere.
This is our preliminary task we had to do a series of recordings of; match on action, shot reverse shot, and the 180 degree rule. We purposely broke the 180 degree rule to show that if you cross the line the characters look like they have switched positions. Match on action is when one shot is taken from one scene, and continues into the next. Shot reverse shot is when the camera moves from one character to the other.
This is our sound exercise where we filmed a conversation between two people we cut after every question and answer so we could move the camera and get different angles to make it look more like an interview or chat show.
Dialogue is a form of communication consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people. The conversation can be one sided one character might do all the talking. Monologues are also a form of dialogue but this involves one person talking.
When the sound we hear should usually go hand in hand with the image on screen. This is known on Parallel sound. For example if we were to watch a horror film and we are about to witness a murder, you would accompany some dark, fast tempo music with the action.
There is a certain skill of direction well. Directing is good storytelling, the ability to plot a story in the most fascinating way for the audience to see. Plotting a filmed story means deciding which events, actors and settings will be seen in the shots, what elements will be shown to gain maximum dramatic effect to engross the viewers, the directors job is to ensure that all the filming elements (mise-en-scene, sound) are drawn together to best suit the story being told. Different directors film in different ways, Quentin Tarantino is known for his use of the camera he uses fast panning for his action films. He has been nick named a "director DJ", comparing his elaborate use of mix-and-match genre and music infusion to the use of sampling a DJ exhibits, morphing a variety of old works to create a new one. Pulp Fiction, since its release in 1994, has remained one of the most iconic films in history. Tarantino maintained the depiction ofviolence, for which he is known, as well as his non-linear story lines.
Starring Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton.
An ex-con seeks revenge for his brother's murder following a bank heist that went wrong. In the first 5 minutes of the film we see Driver (Johnson) talking to a judge but we hear what he hears and he blocks out the words and focus' on the sound of the clock the ticking and counting down to his freedom, the ticking fades and the next shot is him being released, he goes for a run which is followed by a tracking shot, it is a good shot from the side and back of him. So Driver has been out of prison for a matter of minutes and what is one of the first things he does? He gets his car drives to a business walks in past reception finds who he is looking for and shots him without a word, something tells me he likes prison food. So 10 years of prison and now he's looking for a couple of life sentences one thing I can say is that Driver does not do things by halves.
Whilst being hunted by the cops Driver also has to avoid being killed by an assassin who is meant to be one of the best but is somehow out run by Driver on more than one occasion, what assassin lets his target get away even once?
After failing his mission the assassin decides to hang up his gun and leave it for another person, yet his failure starts to eat at him and tear him apart, he breaks his promise to his wife to be and sets out to finish what he started.
Driver is on a serious mission to avenge his brother, he marches into a hospital where his target is already fighting for his life he just walks in to the operating room and shots him whilst he is being operated on then leaves. Cop (Thornton) follows him but is outwitted by Driver and as a Cop goes to turn the corner Driver is right in his face tension builds in this face to face moment with darkness around both characters suspense build as Driver decides whether to shot Cop, the electric flickers throughout the confrontation and both characters are one second lit the next in the shadows, this can reflect there characters as Driver wants to do good by his brother which is him in the light but him in the shadows is him currently doing bad by breaking the law. Cop can be seen as good and bad because he tries to do his job and be there for his son who craves his attention but he is a "dope" addict he uses drugs and uses any money he has to beg for some.
The legal thriller is a sub-genre of thriller and crime fiction in which the major characters are lawyers and their employees. The system of justice itself is always a major part of these works, at times almost functioning as one of the characters. A famous legal thriller author is John Grisham. John Ray Grisham, Jr. (born February 8, 1955) is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers The Pelican Brief is a 1993 legal crime thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham. A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. The Pelican Brief
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0107798/ The link above takes you to the IMBD website, which gives you an overview of the film and tells you about the plot of the film.
Chinatowna story about the seedy corruption behind securing land and water rights for southern California during the 1930s. A beautiful woman hires private eye Jake Gittes to look into her husband's possible infidelity, drawing him deeply in to her web of corruption. But after learning he's been swindled, Gittes becomes all the more determined to get to the source of the scheme. He soon uncovers a conspiracy between a corrupt municipal water chief and a well-connected tycoon who'll stop at nothing to advance his economic interests.
A political thriller is usually about the politics and trying to win votes to run the country between good and evil. Usually a political thriller gives us mystery, an interesting plot, sometimes political thrillers have assassinations. The Manchurian candidate is a prime example of a political thriller. In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes. It opens with a group of soldiers cheering in a bar in Korea as their commander, Sgt. Raymond Shaw appears to inform them that they are to be back on duty. Whilst on patrol, Shaw and his company are assaulted by Korean troops. After being kidnapped by the Korean troops, and then released, commander, Sgt. Shaw is welcomed back to USA as a hero, he accepts a medal of honour for his services, with all of his troops that he served with being supportive all but one, Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) suspecting that something sinister happened whilst they were in Korea, a brainwashing of some sort.
Cinematography is mainly to do with the camera and lighting departments, the person operating the camera is the cinematographer. Director of photographyis the chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, and responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image. Camera operatoris responsible for physically operating the camera and maintaining composition and camera angles throughout a given scene or shot. Focus pulleris a member of a film crew’s camera department whose primary responsibility is to maintain image sharpness on whatever subject or action is being filmed. Clapper loadertypically has a very high responsibility level on any given set, because they are more or less the only person on set who directly and physically oversees the state of the undeveloped negative. Lighting department (gaffer and sparks) the gaffer is the head of the Electrical Department, responsible for the design and execution of the electrical distribution and lighting plan for a production. Sometimes the Gaffer is credited as Chief Lighting Technician. Grip department (riggers) grips are trained Lighting and Rigging Technicians. Their main responsibility is to work closely with the Electrical Department to put in the non-electrical components of lighting set-ups required for a shot, such as flags, overheads, and bounces. The Key Grip is the chief Grip on a set, and is the head of the Set Operations Department. The Key Grip works with the Director of Photography to help set up the set and to achieve correct lighting and blocking.
The aim for thrillers is to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats. Central to the plot of a thriller is that one character will feel injustice has been carried against them, some thrillers will have a blurred line of good and bad, they will have red-herrings and cliff hangers and plot twists. A thriller provides the sudden rush of emotions, excitement, sense of suspense sometimes at a constant. Common methods and themes in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. . More common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the who done it technique. Common elements in psychological thrillers are mind games, psychological themes, stalking, confinement/death-traps, horror, and obsession. Threats to whole countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins and electronic surveillance are common in spy thrillers. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces – the threat is sometimes unseen. An atmosphere of creepy menace and sudden violence, such as crime and murder, characterize thrillers. Thrillers often present the world and society as dark, corrupt and dangerous. But in Hollywood they usually feature upbeat endings in which evil is overcome. The tension usually arises when the character is placed in a menacing situation, a mystery, or a trap from which escaping seems impossible.
The opening to Kill Bill 2, repeats what happens in Kill Bill 1, it shows us the pasts and present through Uma Thermans character's eyes. Although bad graphics when she is in the car it is still powerful as her monologue, she maintains eye contact through the camera to make it more personal and direct. The word "massacrer" shows the audience the violence and coldness of the character. The scene again like the first one is in black and white a device used to add tension.
Before any sound you can hear footsteps approaching, heavy breathing and cries.
"do you find me statistic" are the first words heard, they imply that the speaker is powerful and smart.
The scene is in black and white, this adds tension and suspense it is more affective than if it were in colour.
The camera angle is as if from the person standing over her's point of view, crouching over her body watching her suffer, wiping her brow in a comforting way then putting a bullet in her head, yes I'd say he was "statistic." The fact that we never see the guys face adds the element of suspense, the mood set by his actions are menace and murder.
U means universal, it also means that the films are suitable for anyone over the age of 4. Some examples of films that are suitable for all ages are; Toy Story, Bee movie and many more.
PG stands for Parental Guidance, it means that a parent should watch the film first and decide whether or not their child should watch the film. PG films are generally suitable for most viewers but some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children.
The main difference between the two is that 12 films are videos, blu-ray and DVD's where as 12A films are for the cinema, people younger that 12 must be accompanied by an adult when watching the film.
Certificate 15 is suitable only for 15 years and older. 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. 
18 means that no-one under the age of 18 can watch the film in cinema, buy or rent a 18 film and that any 18 film is definitely not suitable for children.
