Notes from class

1: how does this relate to the course work?

We are remaking dexter tv drama opening sequence

2:what does it tell you about that character?

-Male

-not a villain 

-doing everyday things 

3:what symbols are there (what can you read into) reading into it?

Getting ready for his day

 twisted way of a normal routine 

~different ways to kill people 

-Flow- stranglingor hanging someone, 

-cutting someone the blood 

-stabbing someone 

-sufforcating someone

-Smashing someone head 

-Other themes:

Music didn't change 

Extreme close up

Blood 

Meaning behind cutting the meat

Has mystery

Has a theme do killing people

-Shopping List:

Stove/hob

Frying pan, plate and cutlery

Bacon and meet

Egg

Coffee thing

Thin top

Orange

Sharps k

Shoelaces

Fake blood

Hand razor

Time line for Silence of the Lambs

Notes from lesson

What thrillers title sequence need

Establishes better then set the scene

Characters

Legal production 

Builds suspense 

What the story is about

Isn't a full film

 

napoleon dynamite remake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaLt8PaKy9c

Spolier for Usual Suspect

The Usual Suspect came out in 1995. Directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuaerrie.  This film stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri. Kevin Pollak, Pete Postletwaite and Kevin Spacney.

The film begins with a boat exploding, we also see a man dressed in full black who we then see drop a cigarette on the floor to set the boat alight. There are five men lined up for questioning about the event, they're made to repeat a sentence. The first man on the right is in question about the whole event. We get show what happens through his flash back to the night of the event. We are made to believe that there is a man called Keyser Soze, he's displayed as a man who would kill anyone who gets in his way, even his own family. Roger 'verbal' Kint is very scared of this man and gets very uncomfortable, even to the point he gets emotional when the ditective is questioning him abut this man. We are believed at this point that he is a victim to all of. The flash backs he keeps on having makes us believe that he's the victim, it doesn't come together until the very end when we are shown that he is actually protending to be someone he isn't, we find out that he's actually the villain. He has made such a disks of himself then he even went as far to pretend he has a limp. We are very mislead through this whole film as it has a lot of mystery to it's storyline.

Spoiler for Shutter Island

Shutter Island is set back in the 1950s, just after World War 2. It's set on an Island so none of the patients can escape from this mental island.  There is a patient on the island who pretends to be somebody he isn't. The doctors let him believe that he is someone he isn't to see whether he can remember who he really is and if he remembers why he is on this island. He plays the role of a detective investigator and is someone called Eddie, he has a work partner called Chuck who is played by one of his doctors. They create this fake escape where a patient escapes, but they only way off and on the island is by ferry and that's all overlooked, so there is really no way of anyone escaping. The man who believes that he is Eddie has been told that he is asked over to the island to try and gain information of an escaped patient. Throughout the film Eddie has flash backs to this woman who was his wife, at this point we are told that his wife died/got killed by a man called Andrew. He also images a little girl which we later discover to be his daughter, whenever we see him she always says 'you should've saved me'. It doesn't fully get summed up until the end when Eddie realizes he is actually Andrew and was brought over to the island because he killed his wife who drowned his three children. The wife tries to blame her drowning the children on him not getting her any help for her illness.

Questions from lesson

What is the sound telling us about this character?
He's becoming more and more aggravated as the sounds produce. He reacts to the sounds of the fly. He seamed rather nervous, worried and stress about something other then being held up in traffic.

How do we know this is a Thriller?
We know that this is a thriller as it has some non-diegetic sound and diegetic sound.

What is the role of the opening of a film?
The role of the opening to a film is that is sets a scene to the viewers. Building suspense to the viewer so they want to carry on watching to find out what happens.


Sounds we can hear:
-Children screaming
-Car horns
-Angry men arguing
-Radio
-people getting very angry
-Children screaming
-fly buzzing
-car horns

Saul Bass