22nd September 2011

In class Mr Barton went over with the class what the art of the title was. This is what i will remember when I think of it now:

Art of the Title - DESIGN!!!

- How you design the title

- Images ( that are related to the thriller genre)

- Composition, so it is visually appealing

- Visual Effects

- Animation of the title

- Font of the title

- Editing effects

In the rest of sir's lesson we were getting used to using a program called Final Cut Pro. He showed us how to add pictures, pieces of videos and how to add and animate the text. This is what we will be using to produce an opening sequence that is 30 seconds long by Thursday next week.

Thriller - Themes and Synopsis

Out focus for my lesson with Mrs Bryant was to look at

- the typical synopsis of thriller films.

- the history of Thriller films

- Iconic directors

We done an exercise to point out the sound, camera, editing, and mise-en-scene aspects from the opening of Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock. This is what I found:

Sound

- The background music consists of some drums, trumpets, trombones and some other instruments that I couldn't place.

- The music was quite cheerful. Showing that all thriller films dont have to be dark and scary.

Camera

- It was a city scene of an american apartment block courtyard.

- There were close up of the pictures on the mans wall, which suggests he's a photographer.

- It was all one scene with panning around so you can see into the other people's apartments.

- There is an extreame long shot,which would also be counted as a point of view shot after you have seen the film.

- The opening credits are a still shot.

Editing

- The words and fonts were edited in the opening credits.

- The words were made to fade in and out.

- The shots were panning around the scene so this would have been edited too.

Mise-en-scene

- There was a man with a broken leg that suggests he would be looking out the window a lot.

- The director purposefully had the still shot of the window for the opening credits.

- You saw the whole apartment block, which would include how people would live their daily lives which suggests this has something to do with the films plot.

In my group there is Andrea Nicholls, Georgina Ladley and myself.