Researching ideas for our thriller;

When trying to decide on what our thriller was going to contain and deciding on the story line, we watched a few thriller beginnings that we had lying about at home. This helped us choose what we wanted to do and how we were going to do it. This is an image of the films that we watched the beginnings of. 

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we came to our main conclusion when watching 'Flight plan'. Viewing this gave us the decision that we wanted a kidnapping.

Preliminary Exercise;



To get used to our cameras and editing our videos for the future we carried out a Preliminary Exercise which was to create a video of someone coming through or opening a door and using a range of different types of shots, such as point of view, over the shoulder and pan shots. The Video above is our preliminary exercise, made by my partener Georgia, and me.

When making this video we filmed different scenes and editing them to make them fit together looking as if it was all filmed together. This is continuity.  

Storyboard;

The following video shows the storyboard of our preliminary exercise.

Manchurian Candidate;

The Manchurian Candidate was released on 24th october 1962 in the USA and directed by John Frankenheimer. This film contains many well known stars such as Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh.

In the film it shows a form of brainwashing. In the characters nightmares they see some of their colleages killing other colleages, this is as of a brainwash set off by a unknown person. The Brainwash is set off by the character dealing a set of cards, they are brainwashed in and out of the nightmare.

The Manchurian candidate was effected highly by the cold war, which was just threats and no action. This is as during the cold war many people suffered from paranoia, which many characters in the film have been shown to suffer from, as their reoccuring nightmares caused it. Another aspect of the film that shows it was effected by the cold war is that the characters were made to choose what political side they were supporting.

This Film was also effected by senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. This was as Senator McCarthy made many claims about the government trying to brainwash the public. After Senator McCarthy if anyone makes claims that someone is not what they appear to be that is now called McCarthyism. 

Vox Pop;

About Vox pops;
In our previous lesson we learnt about Vox Pops and produced our own. Vox pops can also be known as Vox Populi with the latin meaning of voice of the people. 


The Making of our Vox Pop;
In our Vox pop we carried out a number of interviews and asked the people three questions, these questions were; What is your Favorite Thriller? What do you like about the Thriller Genre? and finally What makes a great Thriller?


When filming these interviews (making our Vox Pop) we found a problem. This problem was that the sound was not working at all and you could not hear anything the people were saying. Therefore in our next lesson we re-filmed two interviews and made sure that there was sound and these interviews came out successful.


What I found out;
Carrying out these interviews I discovered many things that the public like about thrillers and many examples that could help my group to carry out our thriller. 

Video;
when trying to upload our vox pop, there was a problem in the process, therefore I am unable to post it. However we created another;

Mise en scene;

Mise en scene is the french meaning of 'what is in the frame'.
When working with mise en scene you should consider the following five things;

• Hair and make up
• settings and props
• sound
• lighting and colour
• where things are placed in the frame.

Different Shots;

ECU: Extreme Close up
Pan: Camera at a fixed point and moves horizontally across following somethings actions.
Tracking shot: When a camera is on a set of 'tracks' following the action.
Tilt shot: When the camera is at a fixed point and tilts to either side, up or down.
Crane: Camera is lifted to higher than eye level.
These are just a few to name.

Low angle; makes the character seem 'big' and powerful.
High angle; makes the character seem small and vulnerable.
There is also; Long shot, midshot and close up.
Point of view; the camera shows a characters point of view.
Over the shoulder; camera is looking over the character's shoulder.