As time is ticking by and the deadline is drawing ever CLOSER... We are glad to be able to say that..... The filming of our thriller is complete!! Even with the numerous character problems, we have done it! It just means that i ended up in the film!
The next step!!
Having all the footage now means we can get EDITING, then finish making our music so that it fits around the different events in the film.
The only problem is... the stupid school fire alarm thing has left us with out our double lesson on Thursday (14th) and I shall be missing the double on Friday (15th) due to a textiles exam having to be rescheduled!! So i guess it is down to Katie on Friday!
All we can do is hope the next week has no Interruptions!
Goodbye for now!!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Plot so far!!
Hey people!!
Right well, our Thriller will hopefully go a little something like this.
The idea is that two childhood friends had a fall out/disagreement/fight when they were young, and whilst one friend has forgotten and moved on from the event and thinks they are still great friends, the other hasn't and wants revenge.
This will probably have been going on a while, and the opening scenes will flick between walking around the friends house (who has moved on) and more recent past events that are occurring in the characters nightmare.
The events in the nightmare are that of the character being stalked whilst on holiday in France. The stalker though wont be revealed to the audience in the opening scenes.
Let us know what think of our idea!! Any Ideas/improvements are welcome to, please feel free to make some.
Right well, our Thriller will hopefully go a little something like this.
The idea is that two childhood friends had a fall out/disagreement/fight when they were young, and whilst one friend has forgotten and moved on from the event and thinks they are still great friends, the other hasn't and wants revenge.
This will probably have been going on a while, and the opening scenes will flick between walking around the friends house (who has moved on) and more recent past events that are occurring in the characters nightmare.
The events in the nightmare are that of the character being stalked whilst on holiday in France. The stalker though wont be revealed to the audience in the opening scenes.
Let us know what think of our idea!! Any Ideas/improvements are welcome to, please feel free to make some.
Monday, January 28, 2008
How are Hitchcockian themes motifs and devices used in 'Psycho' (1960)
A majority of Alfred Hitchcock's themes, motifs and devices can be found in his film 'Psycho@ (1960). In his films Alfred often includes peoples mothers, in psycho the mother of Marian Crane is one of the first people mentioned when Sam and Marian are in the hotel room, and although she is dead she is still a controlling figure and “will be turned to face the wall” if they go there. Norman Bates mother is also a controlling figure and it is this that has taken over Norman (revealed at the end of the film) and caused him to do what he did. This makes Norman, in a way, the innocent victim, as he is the victim of his own mind, being another of Alfred’s themes, motifs and devices. He is also the ‘likeable criminal’.
Suspense is a key aspect to any thriller film, and is created in a variety of ways, for example through concealment in the narrative, narrative retardation, dramatic irony and the music/score. In Psycho suspense is created by the concealment of never seeing the mother, therefore being un aware that she is really Norman Bates, so when Marian is heading down into the basement the audience are subconsciously thinking “don’t go in there”.
Alfred Hicthcock also often includes stairways in his films, and in Psycho the private investigator is killed in the stairs by the ‘over controlling mother’. He also uses very imaginative camera shot in his films, for example in Psycho in the stairway scene when the private investigator is walking up the stairs there is a pan from behind the investigator moving into a BIV (birds eye view).
The whole of the beginning of the film with Marian and the $40,000 she stole from her work is a MacGuffin (an aspect of the narrative appearing to be of utmost importance, but functions to intentionally misdirect the audience, before it fades into the back ground and ends up being trivial, irrelevant, or incidental to the film’s story), the main focus of the film is really Norman Bates and his ‘over controlling mother’.
Voyeurism is also a theme in many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, in Psycho this is done by Norman Bates spying through a whole in the wall in the parlour at Marian Crane in room 1 next door. Showing his affection for ‘Pretty women’ and in this case a blonde woman, again one of Alfred Hitchcock’s themes, they are referred to as ‘The Hitchcock Blondes’.
Sexuality is also a theme portrayed in many Hitchcockian films. Norman Bates shows this in Psycho, he dresses as his mum when he is killing all of his victims. Alfred Hitchcock also appears in all of his films as a Cameo, and in Psycho he appears at the beginning of the film as a man standing on the pavement outside Marian Crane’s work place.
Suspense is a key aspect to any thriller film, and is created in a variety of ways, for example through concealment in the narrative, narrative retardation, dramatic irony and the music/score. In Psycho suspense is created by the concealment of never seeing the mother, therefore being un aware that she is really Norman Bates, so when Marian is heading down into the basement the audience are subconsciously thinking “don’t go in there”.
Alfred Hicthcock also often includes stairways in his films, and in Psycho the private investigator is killed in the stairs by the ‘over controlling mother’. He also uses very imaginative camera shot in his films, for example in Psycho in the stairway scene when the private investigator is walking up the stairs there is a pan from behind the investigator moving into a BIV (birds eye view).
The whole of the beginning of the film with Marian and the $40,000 she stole from her work is a MacGuffin (an aspect of the narrative appearing to be of utmost importance, but functions to intentionally misdirect the audience, before it fades into the back ground and ends up being trivial, irrelevant, or incidental to the film’s story), the main focus of the film is really Norman Bates and his ‘over controlling mother’.
Voyeurism is also a theme in many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, in Psycho this is done by Norman Bates spying through a whole in the wall in the parlour at Marian Crane in room 1 next door. Showing his affection for ‘Pretty women’ and in this case a blonde woman, again one of Alfred Hitchcock’s themes, they are referred to as ‘The Hitchcock Blondes’.
Sexuality is also a theme portrayed in many Hitchcockian films. Norman Bates shows this in Psycho, he dresses as his mum when he is killing all of his victims. Alfred Hitchcock also appears in all of his films as a Cameo, and in Psycho he appears at the beginning of the film as a man standing on the pavement outside Marian Crane’s work place.
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