Scene setup

Anon studio logo ideas

Referenced from this tutorial!
Sound

Image used

Illumination productions logo ideas

Picture credit: http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/light-bulb-vector-png

Storyboard final

After filming the first few shots of the previous storyboard, we decided that some scenes couldn't be filmed due to lack of resources (and sources from which we could get them..) therefore, we redid the storyboard and reordered the scenes already finished, as well as added new ones we have yet to film.

Font choice

little curiosities

Illumination Productions

Anon Studio

For the title we decided to use Two Turtle Doves for font.

The reason we chose to use this font was to display the childlike behaviour of the main surgeon character.

Final result:

For our Illumination Productions logo we decided to use Ariq as font. There were several fonts that we found suitable, but Ariq was the final choice as we wanted something bold and neat. The unfinished filling was attractive as it reflected the light bulb logo.

Final result:

For the Anon Studio logo we used Adler. For this too we had several ideas, but we stuck to typewriter fonts to give it an old eery look (we used a typewriter for the final animation of it as well). What attracted us to Adler was the inconsistency of thickness in the letters, and the inkier look of certain characters added to the creepiness of it.

Final result:

For all of these we used white letters on a black background. This is to create a abnormality by reversing the usual colours of black on white, and we wanted titles that would reflect on the dark theme of the opening. Anon studio has a grainier background to represent age and paper, to give it an older look.

Logo Illumination Production & Anon studio

Sound for Little Curiosities

In class, we started editing sound clips, music, and audio effects to create the song for the opening sequence.

This is just audio for the opening (there is no video)

We trimmed the song and adjusted the sound so that it could fade out smoothly and sound like it is finished, we also added a creepy laughing sound effect to the song.

Filming day 1: chicken

As the original idea of photoshopping animals and printing it out to put into jars wasn't very effective (it was too unrealistic) so we resorted to going to plan B, where we got an actual dead chicken from the nearby market (support the locals bless thailand) and used it instead. We used food colouring to make the liquid more abnormal and creepy.

Title sequence planning

Today we worked on the credits for the movie, including how we will present it in our film. We wanted the names to be physically within our movie, which led us to the idea that the surgeon would highlight and cut out names. We had to choose appropriate names for actors and staff. People who have legitimately contributed have been credited too (we got our music from Robert Austin, therefore he appears as he should. We ourselves appear as writer and director.)

Photoshop work for Film Opening

In class today we were doing photoshop work so that we could create the idea of having an animal inside of a jar.
Picture as reference:

Creating the Shrine for Film Opening

Today in class we had to print out and cut photos of Josef Mengele for our film opening.

Film opening analysis - Hanna

HANNA (2011)

How is meaning created in the clip through micro-elements?

Keywords, ideas and notes.

The sequence of establishing shots including the animals on their own shows the isolation and that Hanna lives in an isolated place most likely on her own. Mise-en-scene is used as the snow covers a majority of the frames shows the bareness and barrenness.

News Article for Little Curiosities

News article reads:

Surgeon Fired After Colleague Makes a Gruesome DiscoveryBy DICK STERLING

Giulia Macchiarini was once feted as a medical superstar, known as a trailblazer in the field of stem cell research who had revolutionised windpipe surgery and a personal doctor to VIPs she claimed to have operated on everyone from Pope Francis to the Obamas.

But on Wednesday Macchiarini’s employer, Italy’s prestigious Karolin- ska University (KI), announced it had fired the Italian with immediate effect.

In a statement, Karolinska said Macchiarini’s contract would be re- scinded for a variety of reasons in- cluding apparent dissection of humans as well as sewing animal parts to dead bodies.

“It is impossible for KI to continue to have any cooperation with Giulia Macchiarini. She has acted in a way that has had very tragic consequences for the people affected and their families. Her conduct has seriously damaged confidence in KI,” human resource director Mats Engelbrektson said in a statement.

Macchiarini said she accepted the allegations, telling Nature magazine: “Human and animals together will help the world for a better future and prevent disease, and the mutations will create specimens capable of ultimate survival.”

Macchiarini had been part of the team that conducted the world’s first transplant using a windpipe partly made from a patient’s own stem cells in 2008, a controversial procedure criticised by many scientists but approved by regulators in the UK and Spain. The international team that

carried out the transplant had also included researchers from Bristol and Barcelona universities.

The other articles are made up and are there to make it more realistic

Childhood memory - storyboard test

Understanding sub-genres

1) Crime Thriller

2) Psychological

3) Espionage/Spy/Political thriller

4) Supernatural

5) Action

6) Film Noir

CRIME THRILLER

Based on a crime being solved or prepared and seen from either the detectives or criminals point of view and can sometimes be both.

Codes and conventions:

• Cat-and-mouse
• Chasing
• Mysterious
• Rivalry

Setting:

• Banks
• Crowded cities
• Dark nightclubs/ streets/ alleys

Technical codes:

• Camerawork- close ups to show the frustration from the antagonist or protagonist, long shot/ establishing shot, blocking shots
• Fast paced music to build suspense

PSYCHOLOGICAL

Psychological thriller films contain both genres of horror and thriller. However, it often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre as well. The main characters are usually emotionally unstable (or have mental problems), making them not able to differentiate between good/bad and what is real/not real.

Codes and conventions:

• Perception
• Identity
• Reality
• Plot twists
• Scenes of violence

Setting:

• Old, abandoned houses (victorian buildings)
• Hospitals (mental hospitals)
• Dark isolated buildings/ places

Technical codes:

• Mirrors
• Shadows and low lighting
• Flashbacks
• Tension building music
• Quick cuts
• Mixture of slow and fast editing to show the up and downs of someone with a mental illness
• Claustrophobic spaces

ESPIONAGE/SPY/POLITICAL

This sub genre focuses on the protagonist involved in conflict with a large secretive organization (that has bad intentions).

Codes and conventions:

• Secrecy and conspiracy
• Good VS Evil
• Includes working institutions (e.g: police, government, army)
• Fighting/chase scenes
• Possibly plot twist

Setting:

• Urban areas
• Huge modern locations

Technical:

• Dark/dim lighting
• Tension music
• Quick cuts

SUPERNATURAL

Supernatural thriller is a sub genre which consists of the main character having supernatural abilities. The plot usually involves the protagonist fighting a malevolent paranormal force brought by the antagonist.

Codes and conventions:

• Good VS Evil
• Tension and suspense
• Villain/protagonist possess superpowers/psychic ability
• Plot Twists
• Unworldly elements or creatures
• Religious elements

Setting:

• Forest
• Abandoned areas

• Small houses (isolated)

Technical:

• Dark/dim lighting
• Tension music
• Quick cuts
• Diegetic sound of breathing
• Montage of shots

ACTION

The main protagonist is the hero and controls the action, while the villain is often a millionaire or ex-military who sometimes hides his/her identity. The villain may also have an evil companion.

Codes and conventions:

• Black(villian) VS White(hero)
• Guns = danger
• Helicopter chase

Setting:

• small American town(everything appears okay and tranquil providing an equilibrium.)
• city centres (sense of speed can be shown easily this provides a sense of urgency during a disruption)

             

Technical:

• Dark and mysterious lighting is used to show danger, bright lights is used to show happiness.
• Emphasis of power is created by the camera angles
• Tracking shots during chase scenes
• Diegetic sounds are amplified

FILM NOIR (dark film)

The film noir genre generally refers to mystery and crime drama films produced from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.The genre was prevalent mostly in American crime dramas of the post-World War II era.

Codes and conventions:

• Omniscient narrator
• Flashbacks
• Black and white
• Plot twists
• Emphasised narrative gaps

Noir hero:

• hard boiled detective, alienated from society, morally ambiguous
• Tragic flaws -  uncontrollable lust for duplicitous women.

Setting

• Small town, suburbia
• streets in the early morning
• Street lamps with shimmering halos
• Flashing neon signs on seedy taverns
• Diners
• Apartment buildings
• Streams of cigarette smoke wafting in and out of shadows

Technical

• High contrast lighting
• Low & high angles
• Narration
• Flashbacks
• Denouement in the opening scenes
• Audience is cognizant of impending doom
• Sudden noises

Zodiac Narrative range

Director: David Fincher (who specialises in Thriller films)

NARRATIVE RANGE

Unrestricted - Audience knows more than the characters

Restricted - Audience learns with the characters

UNRESTRICTED - It is based on a real-life event (non-fiction). We know the ending.

-Bigger Picture!!-

RESTRICTED - Suspects, case details

-Details!-

EXAMPLES

BP= High shot: large city: unrestricted

Distance: shooting scene

Distance: Following taxi

D = Tracking shot from car : Character view

Closeup : Evidence

Might act on claustrophobia - makes you feel unsafe

Overwhelming - No closure provided in the end

Restricted - See from characters' perspective

CHARACTERS

Graysmith:

• Detached/Outsider
• Motivated
• Curious
• Brave

He peers in from the outside
detached from coworkers

And again

Graysmith is wearing different clothing and colours.
He also has no seat.

And again

Toschi:

• Hardworking
• Important
• Stylish
• Lawful

He is in the centre of the shot

Even talking to Graysmith,
he is centred.

Important man

CONFRONTATION

In the confrontation between the two in near the end, Toschi is shown to be organised, calm and also exerts his lawful persona.

Graysmith, on the other hand, is messy and expressive. His notes are scattered and his side of the room has a more cluttered and busy atmosphere.