Film Production Company Research

Hammer Film Productions is a british production company who specialize in gothic 'Hammer Horror' films but also produce sci-fi, thrillers, film noir and comedies but also some TV series'. they were founded in 1934 and were financially beneficial in their most successful years when they dominated the horror film market between the mid 1950's until the 1970's. their logo is as shown.

20th century fox is a U.S production company which was founded in 1935 their most successful productions were the Star wars saga, the Chronicles of Narnia and Avatar they are claimed to be one of the 6 best production companies as of 2011 they also produced TV Series' such as the Simpsons and Family guy their logo is shown to the right

Fox Searchlight Pictures are a low budget production company who were established in 1998 and specialised in independent or indie and british films one of their most famous films were Napoleon Dynamite which was a low budget film it used around $400,000 to film and produce

Beth's AS Media: Preliminary Task - Our Interrogation Scene Video

Beth's AS Media: Preliminary Task - Our Interrogation Scene Video: This is our version of an interrogation scene from a film called '6 Ways To Kill Your Husband (Or Wife)'. We used all of our planning and research as a guide for filming this scene, including types of shots, angles of shots it was then edited and turned out to be extremely successful. this is our preliminary task re-blogged from beth's blog

Interrogation script

Film Noir Lighting Tips Research

i researched how to light the scene when casting a film noir thriller and these are the notes i made on it

Thriller Mood Board

i used pictures that represent a thriller and even some examples to create sort of a brainstorm of that a  thriller could contain.

Se7en Title Sequence

to get a feel of how to edit we have placed pictures and clips into final cut and experimented with effects to give off the same atmosphere as what Se7en does.

Match on Action research

the continuity shows that the clip shows the same picture in each frame whilst an action is taking place.
basically match on action is when something happens in a scene but then cuts the next scene is also showing the same action but from a different angle or perspective this helps the audience to understand what is happening in the scene. Above is an example of match on action.

for research on shot reverse/shot see 'Becky Gordon's' blog.
also for research on the 180 degree rule see 'Beth Funnell's' blog.

Conventions of a thriller Moodboard

opening title sequences 20th September 2011

Media

Notes on the functions of a thriller

name of thriller: Taken

The film shows functions of a thriller when it shows mystery by showing a young woman getting kidnapped by a shadowed character. The target audience are people from 18 and up mainly male, it is rated 18 but it still appeals to teenagers from around 16 and up. the storyline is set out like a thriller because from around 8 minutes into the film a celebrity gets kidnapped by a shady character but the main character saves her, later on in the film the main character’s daughter gets taken by a gang of Albanians, it follows the kidnapped daughter’s dad as he goes to france in order to get his daughter back but many people get in his way. The various characters include; the girl’s father who is a retired CIA agent, his daughter who gets taken, the gang of Albanians who are the kidnappers, a french CIA agent who is the father’s friend, the victims mum and step-dad and the gang kingpin who is the Albanians boss.

Monday 19th September 2011

Taxi Driver

• Slow classical music
• Extreme Close ups of a character showing just his eyes and his emotions.
• The camera moves through a foggy/misty location
• It also shows various blurred lights from a city street
• and also has a dark atmosphere when it shows the black background and the dim lights.

Usual suspect notes

• Slow relaxed music
• White text stating title, directors, actors etc fading in and out
• Dark atmosphere light reflecting off of the water in the lake which change from white to a shade of blue but doesnt show where its coming from.
• After the opening credits the scene fades to black and shows the location where its placed (SAN PEDRO)

Usual suspect mise-en-scene recording