As a group, we took inspiration from the film 'Se7en', a thriller, starring Brad Pitt. We really felt that the constant close-ups of the Antagonist's work and actions created great suspense, without revealing his identity, therefore the audience have to watch the film to discover who he/she is. To us, we have really decided to take Se7en as an inspiration due to the sequence, as the quick pace sets a tone for the rest of the film. We believe that the tone can play a vital role into making our opening sequence succesful. Se7en uses a very quick, sharp, fast pace, however we believe that this could be even more effective if we were to employ quick flashes of close-ups alongside a long, slow, tension building pan shot for instance. We believe that close-ups creates tension, and confusion as we only see the protagonist's hands therefore keeping his identity secretive, thus more mysterious, we have opted to make close-up's of both the Antagonist's face, hands and work (plotting of a murder) to create tension, just how Se7en does. We would also like to take inspiration from the lighting used in the film. The use of hard lighting when on the madman's character creates dark shadows, which have connotations of evil and death, indicating what he may do. There is also some soft lighting to show clearly what the madman is doing.
We would like to include a spooky, messy desk, as if it is a madman's of strange and suspicious writings and pictures, similar to the one seen in the protagonist of Se7en. We have used the protagonist in Se7en as our inspiration for Charlie's protagonist role in our film.
Shutter Island
Shutter Island's opening sequence has great effect, and we believe that the soundtrack is what has such an intimidating effect on the audience. When we see a close-up of a character's face, a different sound is employed, a dramatic 'whoosh' noise is applied to show a character's importance or an element of thrill. Subsequently, we as a group would like to apply a dramatic soundtrack to contribute the thrill element of our film. When making the soundtrack, we would like to use a dramatic soundtrack in addition to the close-ups of Charlie's (antagonist) face which would act as an enigma code and signify to the audience who the antagonist is, and further underling his evil aim. We believe that the soundtrack is vital into the creation of tension as certain noises can be associated with certain characters therefore, the audience are aware of when danger and the protagonist is ready to inflict pain. The noises all tend to be very electronic as the film is fairly modern, so a piano effect for example wouldn't reflect the rest of the film as well. Our film too is contemporary, so a more electronic soundtrack would be better suited as well as for our target audience (16-24 year olds) who would be more modern in their interests. The lighting tends to be soft when focusing on main character played by Leanardo Di Caprio to show he's a good character, however when in moments of possible danger/focus on certain people a hard lighting is used to show they could be bad or something is going to occur.
Sherlock Holmes
The video above is from Sherlock Holmes' ending credits, and we believe that the effects are what sets apart these ending credits from any other film. Sherlock Holmes is set in Victorian Britain seen in the very formal costume of suits and bowler hats, which is not part of our modern-day film. However, we feel that we can really take influence from the effects employed. The director ( Guy Ritchie) along with his editing team, they have taken scenes from the film including specific characters which have frozen. When frozen, an effect of an old paper background alongside the character produces an effect as if the characters are in a book which could have been done on purpose by Ritchie to reinforce the fact that all the main characters are from the book, and they haven't been altered since the creation of the film. We as a group really liked how the audience can establish a link between the character and actor. Furthermore, we felt that the titles of the actors names was excellent, as the writing is in quite an old-fashioned style, reflecting the time in which Sherlock was set. Therefore, the titles and screen freezes of actors alongside the 'paper' effect, have inspired us to have freezes in our opening sequence of characters in addition to roles of people too. However, we did feel that the writing was almost too fancy and hard to read, thus we would like to go for a more simplistic font which would reflect the era in which we are filming in too. This reflects our target audience (16-24 year olds) as the modern approach would be more likely to mirror what they look for, because the target audience are more modern and contemporary.
Ripper Street
Ripper Street is a BBC production series which tries to recreate the horrific murders of Jack the Ripper in Victorian London's Whitechapel in 1889.
Ripper Street fact-file:
- Producer: Stephen Smallwood
- Executive producer: Greg Brenman, Will Gould, Simon Vaughan, Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney
- Cinematography: Julian Court, PJ Dillon, Peter Robertson
- Production company: Tiger Aspect Productions Lookout Point
- Distributor: BBC Worldwide
Ripper Street has been a very big inspiration for us as it revolves around crime, which we are trying to replicate by the murder, of Protagonist, Laura. Yet, what we most liked about Ripper Street opening sequence was the effects and props. The main effect employed is an overlay of characters over a brick wall (reflecting the Victorian buildings) in addition to a red coloured effect. We like this red effect as the connotations of red include: blood, death, anger and danger, therefore we feel that if we were to implement this red effect in addition to overlays of Charlie and Laura, the audience can then relate the red effect as an enigma code, implying danger and murder between these two characters. Furthermore, when Charlie is seen in his office working frantically we would like to use the red to indicate that he is in fact planning something very sinister. The red effect we would like to employ would be placed alongside another blur effect to give an impression that the footage is CCTV, thus indicating the audience are spying on Charlie and shouldn't really be seeing what evil actions he is plotting. CCTV is obviously quite a modern invention and is quite a big part of society nowadays, subsequently the use of a CCTV-ess effect would mirror our audience (16-24) who would be aware of CCTV and it's usage.
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