Seven - Opening analysis

• Movie starts with 'New Line Cinema'

A man is shown coming in the kitchen doing a bit of cleaning and then adjusting his wrist collar while going out of the room. The scene then shifts to the person adjusting his tie and slowly the camera moves upwards showing the face of our first character. The man as soon as he is done adjusting the tie he gets his necessary things. He takes his coat and switches off the light. The scene then shifts to two people talking about a murder case, the bodies are shown. The man then looks around here and there to see if there is anything. The second character then moves into an opposite room while a third character is coming up the stairs. As the third character comes and is shown looking for someone and introduces himself. The scene shifts to a building from where a body comes out on an ambulance bed, with the first and third character coming out while talking and then walking. First character is shown lying on the bed and reading a book, the camera then swiftly moves from him putting down his spectacles to a nearby tick-tock instrument. Then the sound of rain for a while. Finally the title scene comes.

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - opening sequence

• The movie starts with the official Walt Disney pictures and then Walden Media.
• The movie then starts with eclipse as shown.
• By using the aerial shot the scene slowly moves at first from the eclipse towards the castle with a slow mysterious type of music.
• The music then fades away with a women screaming and crying. The camera then moves quite fast towards the castle into the room where the women screaming and crying.
• The shot is then shifted from the women crying and screaming to another women who is putting pressure on her head as to calm her down.
• It's shown that a women entering the room with towel and with a jug of water (as presumed by the audiences), who hurries towards the bed where the fourth women is.
• The fourth women then asks for the towel with the women screaming because of the pain during pregnancy after a few seconds she calms down as the baby is born.
• The baby is then crying on the arms of the fourth women who is there smiling in happiness because of the birth of a child
• Slowly the fourth women hands over the baby to his/her mother while the baby still crying whereas the mother is very happy and smiling and then hugging her/him.
• The room is then shown with the three women standing near the bed while the mother is resting with the baby in her arms.
• The scene then shifts to the gate of a room in the castle with a man (solider) coming inside and going towards another man who is standing near the window looking outside.
• During this scene the surrounding is shown.
• Then the man who was entering is shown in a medium shot, then shifting to the man near the window showing him looking at the moon.
• At 1:50 the man's face is half shown
• And again goes back to the man (solider) by using the shot reverse shot.
• The scene then shifts to the corridor of the castle where we see a solider coming out of a room looking suspicious and checking if anyone was there or not.
• As he goes an old man in a clock is running towards the room from where the solider came out, in mysterious way.
• The old man comes into the room and as soon as he comes near the bed he first put his hand on the person sleeping, who at first grasps but as he sees that it is professor and gets relived.
• They have little conversation through which the audience finds out that he is the prince.
• The prince then is hiding in a cupboard which has a hidden passage while inside the cupboard he sees many soliders coming in inside his room and surrounding the bed, ready to shoot arrows in order to kill the prince.
• In the background the music is at first with the bird chirping out load and as they finish shooting arrows a sign of relieve music is there.
• The prince then hurriedly goes down the stairs with the professor.
• The next shot is shown as the prince taking all the equiments required for a solider.
• The next scene is shown as the prince sitting on a horse
• The title sequence then starts to play
• As the prince is riding with credits going on there are fireworks as the prince's aunt gave birth to a son.
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Research on Psychological Horror

What is a Psychological horror?

It is one of the sub genre of horror fiction. These are often based on video games [as a narrative for example 'Resident Evil' (1996)]. This mainly relies on the characters' fears and emotional instability to up the tension for the audiences. There even novels based films in this genre for example Psycho (film) is directed by Alfred Hitchcock which is actually based on the novel with the same title by Robert Bloch.

Some examples of psychological horror are:-

• Black Swan
• The Blair Witch Project
• Stalker
• The Mirror
• Sinister
• The Omen
• Paranormal Activity
• 13
• The Ring

 

Target Audience - Psychological Horror

Questionnaire

Name:- 

Age:-

1. What is your favourite movie genre?

2. How do you watch films? (DVDs, Netflix, Download the movie?)

3. What is your favourite film?

4. What do you like the most about your favourite film

5. What do you think a psychological horror film should involve?

6. How would you feel if you were the main character of our film plot?

Credits - Catch Me If You Can

Credit sequence:-

                                       

Title sequence:-

• Production Companies

It handles budgeting, scheduling, scripting, crew members/actors, production itself, post-production, distributor and marketing. For example, Dreamworks - e.g. Catch Me If You Can, the ring & the ring 2, Shrek series, Kung Fu Panda, in television - Freaks and Geeks United States of Tara, Falling Skies, Smash, The Americans, Lionsgate is a completely independent company and some of its movies are the Hunger Games series, the Spy Next Door, Happily N'Ever After, in television - Mad Men, Boss, Five Days To Midnight, etc, 20th Century Fox - some of its movies are Avatar, X-Men series, fantastic Four 1 & 2, the Simpsons, the first two Star Wars, in television by this Fox includes New Girl, 24, How I Met Your Mother, Glee, etc.

• A film by/director

One or more people who direct the making of a film. For example, Walt Disney - The Jungle Book was his last movie and was released a year after his death (i.e. in 1967), Phyllida Lloyd - is best known for her work in theatre and as the director of Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady.

• Cast

Main/lead actor/actresses in the film to television, etc. For example in this opening scene - Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks.

• Title

Films name or logo of the film, as shown.

• Featuring Cast

It consists of other supporting actors and actresses in the film or TV, etc

• Casting director 

It is who finds the actors needed to fill in roles in films, television shows, theatrical production, commercials or even corporate and music videos. For example, for this movie the casting director was Debra Zane.

• Co-producer 

It is who works under the direction of the producer i.e. he/she acts either as a second line producer or as a higher-up association producer. He/she could also be a representative for an investor in the film and also could be a writer who might have given their novel as to be produced into a film.

• Based on novel/book/play/true stories, etc. 

For example, the Harry Potter series is basically based on its book series by J.K. Rowling, even this film 'Catch Me If You Can' is based on Catch Me If You  Can by Frank Abagnale with Stan Redding.

• Titles

In this title sequence Kuntzel and Deygas are the ones who have created the opening credits.

• Music Composed by

It is who creates music for film/TV/album. Some of the famous ones are Colin Willsher, a British composer., Justin Crosby, an American TV and film composer some of his works is in Castle, CSI Miami, Top Gear, the horror hit feature film The Crazies. For this movie it was by John Williams.

• Costume designer

It is who designs costumes for a film/stage production. They basically create the characters and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. For example, Sandy Powell did costume design in The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator, etc. For this movie 'Catch Me If You Can' the costume designer is Mary Zophres, she even worked in Interstellar.

• Film editor

It is who puts the pieces of the film together. It is the part of creating post-production process of filmmaking. As the technology is rapidly increasing over the years the process of editing had changed. A film original editing machine.

• Production designer

Are responsible for the visual concept of a film/TV/theatre production. Example, Interstellar - Nathan Crowley, for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 & 2 - Stuart Craig, etc

• Director of photography/Cinematography

It is who has control over the camera and lighting crews in a film/TV/other live action piece. Example, Janusz Kaminski did work in this film, Wally Pfister - The Dark Knight, Steven Soderbergh - Ocean's Eleven, etc.

• Co-executive producer

They are who work under the direction or supervision of a executive producer. Example, Daniel Lupi - Catch Me If You Can (CMIYC).

• Executive producers

Who enables the making of a commercial entertainment product. Example, Barry Kemp, Laurie MacDonald, Michel Shane and Tony Romano - CMIYC.

• Produced by

Though individual people but have the same function as the producing company. Example, Steven Spielberg and Walter F. Parkes.

• Screenplay

Who writes screenplays on mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games. Example, Paul Schrader - Taxi Driver.

• Director

Who directs the crew members in making the film. Example, Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg.

FEED THE FISH

This is the preliminary sequence with the title of 'Feed The Fish' and it was done as a part of the coursework by me and three others from the group.

What went well?:- 

During the recording of the video various different types of camera movements were used for example shot reverse shot, over the shoulder, long shot, medium shot, low angle, high angle, etc. The camera shots in this sequence are edited in a smooth way as continuity editing. The flashback was a way to inform the audience that what exactly happened which made the audience engage a bit with it. The music in the video is a slow sinister music which creates enigma in a good way. It determines the genre of this preliminary sequence nicely. This video was straight to the point

To improve:-

The shots in this video are cutting quite quickly. The cuts are jumping from one to another. In the background during the conversation the tripod can be seen clearly and this wasn't noticed by my group during the shooting time but was noticed during editing.

What do i think?:-

Overall i think that in the future i'll take care while filming to see if everything is perfect. This preliminary sequence was good in some shots, editing, filming, lighting, etc. In the future i hope to make better opening sequences and also hope to learn from mistakes in the future.

Opening Sequence of Step Up Revolution

• Movie title "Step Up Revolution" in golden bold capital letters
• Revolution slowly fading out
• Location informing the audience that it is near the beach, with fade music
• Chattering in the background
• Car engine roaring
• A girl shown walking with a suitcase, by boots it can be recognised
• Car stopping
• A man moving a coconut stall with camera
• First character shown looking sideways
• Second character shown talking with the first one in the car, again car roaring
• Third character, the girl with suitcase seen looking sideways
• Lots of car horns as in traffic
• The second character making a few horns as a signal to start the dance
• The girl opening the suitcase
• Car blocking the road
• Music 'Lets Go' starts this tells that the movie revolving around dance 
• Dancing starts
• This tells that the movie is about a group of dancers 'The Mob'