
Monday, 26 October 2015
Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 10

Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 9

Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 8

Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 7

Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 6

Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 5

Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 4

Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 3

Sunday, 25 October 2015
Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 2

Friday, 23 October 2015
Opening sequence textual analysis: Casino Royale SHOT 1

Thursday, 22 October 2015
Textual Analysis: Mise-en-scene: Soylent Green (1973)

In this picture from a scene in the film Soylent Green, a huge crowd and a scoop truck is seen with a building as the backdrop. This suggests that the location is an overcrowded city from around the present day. In the film this city is New York and it has a huge overpopulation problem. The size of the crowd in the frame suggests a larger one hidden of frame making the audience feel surrounded.
The costumes of the people would suggest that this is poor city which is also given by the outfit of the police who look cheap and unsupplied.
The lighting is slightly low key and has a green tint which is used to create a feeling of illness and uncleanliness. Adding a tint over a scene is quite typical of the thriller genre to help create a mood, like discomfort.
This image from Soylent Green shows the protagonist in a Soylent Green factory. His costume suggests that he is part of the many poor people in this version of humanity which could suggest that he is inferior to the world he is in, making him an underdog which makes the audience want to relate to the protagonist.
There are many props in his scene that help to create the factory feel of the location such as the giant funnels and the substance containers in the right of the frame. On the conveyor belt many packets of Soylent Green are being transported which are being used to make the character look inferior in numbers and power to Soylent Green.
The lighting is a mixture of low key and high key which is used to suggest the characters rush of fear and confusion.
Monday, 19 October 2015
The key features of a thriller movie opening
Key features of a thriller opening:
Will Savill
- Mystery: Every thriller movie opening has to have an element of mystery to it because it’s the main tool for building up suspense and a good story. It is incredibly vital to ensure that the audience is invested into the movie and it could also be a set up for a twist later on in the film.
- Introduction to a key plot point: This could mean introducing a character or macguffin device or important location that would be a significant plot point for the movie. This is important because it sets up the story to come.
- Excitement: This is crucial if you want to give the audience a thrill which would invest them into the movie to see if more is to come and help build tension. This could be a useful tool if foreshadowing something because you want to make the audience exited for what is being hinted at or a grande finale.
- Sound: Sound is important because it can help build the environment being shown on screen and the activities taking place in that environment. Sound is also an important tool that can be used to create a variety of feelings as well such as fear if a loud bang is heard but it isn't seen where it came from or what caused it.
- Close up shots: This can be used to great effect to show a characters emotions and hide the background which is a very useful technique when building tension because alot can be unknown by the audience.
- Editing: Editing can be used to play on any of the features listed above meaning it to can create a mood or setting. for example fast editing could be used to create excitement and tension or clever editing could be used to suggest something that isn't true.
- Music: Music could be included to suggest a certain mood and could stop to increase tension plus many other techniques. along side camera placement/movement and editing this could be the icing on the cake in terms of creating a certain mood or emotion which in thrillers cases are usually fear, tension and suspense.
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Monday, 12 October 2015
Textual Analysis: Camera Shots and Angles in Jaws (1975)
Jaws was made in 1975 by Steven Spielberg. It features many diffrent camera angles, shots and movements during the film to great effect to help raise the tension and increase the exitement of certain scenes.

The film also features many over the shoulder shots to help raise the exitment and tension of certain scenes. It is effective at this and also allows for many detailes to be shown to the audience and similtaniously see the reactions of the characters. Here are examples of some over the shoulder shots in Jaws:


Thursday, 8 October 2015
Camera Shots
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Evaluation of Prelim
I believe that our Prelim was a success because we met all the requirements.
Match on action
Match on Action
Shot reverse shot + over the shoulder + 180 degrees rule
Shot reverse shot + over the shoulder + 180 degrees rule
Fading out instead of cutting
Wide 180 degrees rule shot
From our Prelim task, I feel that we have develouped are ability to function as a group and have managed to film, edit and complete our task.
Match on action
Match on Action
Shot reverse shot + over the shoulder + 180 degrees rule
Shot reverse shot + over the shoulder + 180 degrees rule
Fading out instead of cutting
Wide 180 degrees rule shot
From our Prelim task, I feel that we have develouped are ability to function as a group and have managed to film, edit and complete our task.
Preliminary task
- match on action: Walking up to the door, then cutting to a shot of the person's hand opening the door.
- shot reverse shot: During the conversation we put the camera over the top of the characters shoulders and every time the speaker switched, so did the camera.
- 180° rule: The camera always stayed on one side of the characters unless a shot was used to show the transition from one side to the other.
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