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Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Thriller opening notes

This is basically me typing my notes up from class from a while ago. They are on three different thriller openings. So, here goes...

The book of eli:

Setting of the scene with eerie whistling sound effects and then a bang accompanied by a white light.Then shadows and fog in a murky forest. The camera pans over an empty gun (hope perhaps gone, even blullets couldn't help). Then we see a dead body, bringing a macabre effect to the scene. There is plenty of trees and the camera pans across these, giving the imprssion of perhaps bars and entrapment. There is a hiddden face with a gas mask and eerie breathing and they have a strange weapon trianed on an abnormal creature, mystery is extremely prevailant and the creature too is abnormal adding to this mystery. It ends with a death.

Brick:

Running water , dark tunnel and a close up of the man's face. Strange noises, teasing, tantalising with underlying tension. An alarm bell is going off as well. We're introduced to death imnstantly and the girl too has a hidden face and the guy looks very traumatised and upset, he's focusing on her features. The bracelet is focused on too, could be significant. It cuts to him by the lockers, looking very isolated. Then another scene where he is isolated by the telephone box which is ringing, and it shouldn't ? And thus follows an awkward phone conversation where she sounds upset and he doesn't sound too pleased to hear from her and she is evasive and rambling and it's clear they have a past together. Then the phone goes dead as a car roars up and a cigarrette is chucked out. The driver remains anonymous so we only know 2 characters still.

Gothika:

Starts off blurry but then focuses and there is violiny, dark music. There's drwan out sound with an eeri voice mentioning the devil. There's a good recollection from her. She is clearly crazy and has suffered a brekdown and is crying during the interview. She's also angry and traumatised. They're in a cage, isolated and barred away from the world. The conversation is intense and deep. The detective is very professional and is trying to extract information however the crazy woman is unwelcoming. Us looking at the scene also feels like intruding some big secret.

1 comment:

  1. Glad you've posted these notes now Jamie. You could, perhaps, re-watch and add more detail to your analysis. You have picked out some of the conventions well, but it would be useful for you to consider how these might inform your own planning.

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