Film Idea - Sarah

Film Idea - Sarah

preliminary exercise

Storyline

Genre; Physcological thriller

• Starts off with the main character being in a Physciatric ward.
• It then flashes back to how he got there. As a child, him, his mother and his father all lived in an old house. His mother and father argued alot due to him being very abusive towards her.
• One night, his mother and father were arguing about him finding out about her having an affair with someone else. 
• This then pushes his father over the egde, causing him to aggresively pick up a knife and stabbed her numerous times, which the main character witnessed.
• He then drops the knife, realising what he has done, however, due to the main character witnessing this, he runs for the knife and stabs his father.
• After several days, the police turned up at his house due to the neighbours nearby being extremely worried - they find his mother and father dead in the room, and him sat looking at them on the floor.
• He then gets transferred to a Physciatric ward due to him being to young to go to prison, however, they then find out he has developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from this, which has made him go insane.
•  He spends around 2 years in the ward, with the help of medication to try and make him forget what happened, however, it makes him forget who he is. 
• They then let him out into a foster family, to trial his behaviour and see if he has changed.
• After a few weeks have gone by, he seems to be getting back to normal, as his attitude and behaviour has improved dramatically due to him settling down in his new family.
• One day walking home from school, he passes an old house and suddenly gets a really weird feeling that immediately overtakes him, a feeling that he has been there before. 
• He then sees that it was his old house, however, had to change it into a museum as noone wanted to live there. He goes in and pays the price of admission. On the tour of the museum, he gets a constant, almost insanifying deja-vu. 
• He walks past one of the rooms and remembers a certain memory, but cant seem to figure it out. The memory is of his mother and father and what he did.
• The tour guide then mentions the name of his Mother and the main character has to be escorted back to the Physciatric ward due to him going insane as he cannot remember what had happened, however, remembers his mothers name so this results in him becoming even more crazy. 
• Due to him going back to the ward, he then becomes even more obsessed with trying to figure out what happened, making them put him on more medication. However, this makes things worse as he then starts to hear his fathers voice in his head due to him being abusive to him when he was a child, which becomes too much for him to handle.
• This then causes him to committ suicide as he cant live with what his father did, but mostly what he did as he blames himself for the death of his mother.

Storyline

Genre- Psychological Horror

• Starts off in a therapy session with the main character talking about the recent killings in the woods, the therapist states he has to re-live what happened. 
• The murderer of six people is officially unknown but the main character states it was someone on the trip who he had to kill in self defence (we believe his story.)
• It all happened on a camping trip over 12 hours, there was a myth of a serial killer who used to live in the woods and murder anyone who went there and the group wanted to find out if it was true.
• We go to a flashback of the start of the trip, people are setting up tents and talking, we get to know the characters, there is one shady character who we begin to suspect. 
• We get to see how each character is violently killed but we only ever see a shadow or the outline of them, never there face. We are confused and believe it  was either the ghost of the man who lived in the woods before or the person we suspect.
• There is only the main character and the person we suspect left so he kills him in self defense and rings the police. Only his body is found and all of the other victims bodies have disappeared.
• As the main character is sleeping some of the memories come back and it shows him killing his best firend and we see he was obessed with the myth of the serial killer and killed each of the people like he did.
• It is revealed that it was the main character who had killed everyone but had no control of what he was doing as he has multiple personality disorder and can't remember. 
• The therapist figures this out as well but before she can tell the police he kills her to protect himself. 
• It finishes with him remaining innocent and the final shot is him reading a newspaper article about the killings stating that the myth of the serial killer is still true and people should be aware.
  

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Title sequence analysis

Title sequence analysis

Fifty Shades of Grey - Title sequence Analysis.

                                            Fifty Shades of Grey Title sequence Analysis. 

From watching the opening scene of the film it gives you an impression of a slightly dark film with no hints leading to what could happen. It focuses on the two main characters in the film which are Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson). The opening sequence gives a feel of dramatic film however, it doesn’t give the sense of a romance film which is what the film also is.   

The first two shots that are shown are the distribution company of film who are Universal Pictures and Focus Features. Both of these  companies logos are shown at the start of the film.

         As the Focus Features logo is shown as it fades in from black and becomes more clear using a focus pull to draw attention to the logo.

 Throughout the opening two minutes there are a range of different shots. One of the first camera shots that is shown is an helicopter extreme long shot of Seattle showing where the film is mainly set. During the series of establishing shots around different parts of Seattle the names of the main cast members appear on screen allowing the audience to know who is in the film. Panning is also used with the shots to shot more in-depth to the city.  

The first time Christian Grey is introduced is through a long shot through the door of his walk in wardrobe.  The camera dolly’s in towards Christian as he is tying his shoes. More long shots are used to show Christian running around the docks. Tracking long shots are used to follow Christian as he continues his morning run. Anastasia is first introduced through a long shot of her walking down the corridor of a school.

Close up, dolly backward shots are used to show Christians feet when he is running, when he is doing up his cufflinks, selecting a tie and fastening his tie. These shots are used to symbolise certain parts of the film which  become symbolic later on through the film, such as the tie selecting and fastening along with the cufflinks is symbolic to how Christian dresses and the ties also become more symbolic later on. 

             There is one medium shot throughout the scene which is a medium close up of Christian putting on his shirt. 

The editing throughout the sequence is slow paced with each shot following on smoothly from the each other. Cuts are the main transition used throughout the opening sequence. There is elliptical editing during the first scene of Anastasia as the scene jumps from her walking down the corridor to her walking down the outdoor steps. Also there is a montage of Christian getting ready using a series of closeup emphasising the details of the clothes. 

         Continuity editing is used to create a sense of reality and time passing as Christian is running and getting ready.

Throughout the scene the song ‘I Put a Spell On You’ by Annie Lennox plays which set the tone of the film. The song links with the film as it adds to the dramatic feel and also hints to the romantic side of the film.  

The film is set in Seattle and Portland which are established within the opening sequence, through the helicopter extreme long shots, it is also set in Christians pent house in Seattle. Natural lighting is used throughout the sequence keeping the dark tones of a rainy day present.

           The costume of Christian is typical of a business man living in America, a grey suite, Anastasia costume is more of a middle class college girl. No props are used within the opening sequence.

Shot definitions

180 Degree Rule - An imaginery line which the camera can't cross to maintain continuity within the scene and keep the same background throughout.


 Match on action - where one action is continued smoothly in the next shot.





 Shot-reverse-shot - commonly used for conversations to show facial expressions and is usually filmed over the shoulder.