WELCOME TO MY BLOG. MY NAME IS FLORIAN I AM STUDENT FROM ALDENHAM SCHOOL. THIS IS A PART OF MY COURSE WORK, WHICH CONTAINS ALL STEPS OF MY OPENING SCENE THRILLER VIDEO AND EVERYTHING ABOUT THE GENRE THRILLER. The final name is THE DARK VENGEANCE
which is a different type of opening scene. It is a mix between animation and historical atmosphere. It is a kind of Thriller, which units Crime/ Action and Historical sub-genre in a single Thriller. The Actors are Roberty Downey Jr. and Judth Law.
They used always a real shot of a Character or scene, which disappears then into painting on a really old yellowed sheet of paper, which looks a bit like a newspaper from 1800´s or a old sketch pad. This is a really good idea for linking the old historical aspect of Holmes and Doctor Watts with the reamake. they tried also to show a part of the printing process of that time period
using the linotype machine and woodblock type headline compositions. As location for this special paper and printing atmosphere they used a printing museum and set up several still shoots to get all the material they needed for storyboards.
This show´s the moment of Character Sherlock Holmes, when the shot of him dissappears into a painting. As you can see they tried to emphasize the old touch with the inc of a fountain pen.
In the Opening scence are the logos of Warner and Village Roadshow Pictures. It is made up really clever it show th elogos integrated into the streets. These sufacing of the street is made up from cobblestones, which was the most common material for streets in city in these period of time, e.g London in Sherlock Holmes.
All the cobblestones are well-crafted 3D instead of real. So the whole sequence is actually created by human hands and with computer software's.
Consequently, it is again not the best example for my own Thriller, but it showed me a nearly perfect opening scene and provided me with knowledge about the importance of a Opening scene and the titles. I learned from this video that the Start needs always to be completely suitably with the whole film. So, I should have a rough idea of the plot from my thriller to link it carefully to my opening tableau.
Analyze of the opening scene with a scene, which uses all props of the different Avengers.
Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Iron Man, The Hulk, and Cap — an assembly of Earth’s mightiest heroes. That is what The Avengers is all about all super heroes from the Marvel Univers in a single film. So the opening scene show´s all the different special props, weapons, shield or armour.
for Exmaple the armour of Iron Man e.g. the picture I added above it show the special amour from him and with a link to the actor, who plays Iron Man in this case Robert Downey Jr.
Another Example is are all the gifts, prop´s and item, which the audience know from the film "Captan America" so in the opening sequence are many items used to create a link to all the films, where the different charcaters are from, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Captn America, Thor and so on. So the audience is provided with known pictures of their heros. Consequently, each character must be given their due and have a moment with their on-screen credit.
This is the moment of David Banner, the broken glasses represent his conversion into the green Monster Hulk.
BUT, this is a exmaple of a opening sence, which dosen´t correspond my own vision of my thriller scene. This is the cause, because prefer a opening scene with a proper plot and not just a collection of known items. This start of the film with the titles is nearly a mashup of pictures.
This is a great option, if there were parts of a film before and the opening scene is used to remind the audience on special things, but in my case I create a new film and my aim in the opening scene is to create suspense, tension and curiosity.
This is really helpful, because it shows me a nearly perfect exmaple of the MEDIA STUDIES AS Coursework.
Furthermore I watched many Music Videos, to get idea´s for Editing and Camerawork.
1) Rap Videos of German Rappers
2) I watched from Drake - Headlines, as well. Music Videos are a good option for get some ideas, becuase they are short videos, which are used to show as many different shots, which providing the audience with information. This is similar to my two Minute Thriller.
The thing is at the moment my thriller genre is not picked yet. So I cannot say what influenced my Thriller-genre at the monent.
But, I watched some thriller in the recent weeks, which provide me with enough knowledge to made a choice for the fitting genre for my thriller.
I don´t really chose a sub-genre for my thrille yet, but i watched some opneing scence to get some idea´s. I think I will tend to the genre´s action, crime, historical or pyscho.
First movie I looked at was Vantage Point, I only found the full movie one youtube, but it still provides the first secne´s.
The used Long takes and establishing shot´s to show the whole City were the film takes place, in this case Salamanca, Spain. It show shot´s from the whole audience and the media teams, which are their to carry the announcement of the President out to the whole world. This ensures that the audience understand, that the peace summit is really important for the world.
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I was really inspired by NAVY CIS, CSI MIAMI or Hawaii Five-O this have a typical scheme. The always show a short action at the beginning, but not with a clear end. After the opening scene of these series you always see a died person, which was killed. This person was always included in the opening scene and/or is related in a special way to the dead.
1) In my opinon my favorite thriller is "The Taking of the Pelham 1 2 3", it it a mix between crime and actiona thriller with Denzel Washingtion and my favourite actor John Travolta.
This is a shot from my iTunes library, You can see the Actor´s, short Information and the Director.
The film starts with Walter Garber (Denzel Washingtion), who is a worker in the New Yorker Underground. His main job is to direct the Undergrounds. During his day, the train Pelham 1 2 3 i kidnapped by Ryder ( Travolta). Ryder trys to receive a ransom for all the hostages in the train. His main aim is not the ransom, his is looking to rise the Stock and Shares of a Company were he purchased earlier massive parts of it. Ryder only wants to talk with Walter to explain him his special insistences. During the thriller the Hitchcock style suspense is built up, that is what I really enjoyed.
Walter uses his skill and knowledge of the Underground-network to outsmart Ryder. Trailer:
2) My second favourite Thriller is "Vantage Point" 2009
This a amazing film, because it show a assassination on a President from 7 different views of different people which are all in a special way invloved. The main actors are Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox and Forest Whitaker.
This is again a shot from my ITunes library
Plot: Vantage Point is about assassination on the
President of United States from 8 different viewpoints of eight
different characters. This set of eight characters includes people in
charge of the President’s security, the media, civilians and the people
taking out the attack.
The film starts off with Rex Brooks (Sigourney
Weaver), the director of a TV station, broadcasting the President’s
speech. The only information this scene divulges is what meets with the
eye. The film then rewinds a few minutes to Thomas Barnes, a
secret service agent in charge of protecting the President. The film
tells all eight characters’ view in a short span of time and keeps
rewinding to the start of the event for each character.
Howard Lewis
(Forest Whitaker) is a civilian video-taping the event to show to his
children that he was actually there at special event. He
captures what he believes is the picture of the assassin.
For the
audience it’s a case of piecing together eight different clues arising
from eight different perspectives to unravel the truth behind an
assassination attempt. Trailer:
This is an American psychological thriller. details: 2009, USA, Cert 15, 138 mins, Drama / Thriller, Dir: Martin Scorsese
With: Ben Kingsley,
Elias Koteas, Emily Mortimer, Jackie Earle Haley, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Mark Ruffalo, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Sir Ben Kingsley, Ted
Levine
Cover:
Picture of the scene when the two U.S. marshals Daniels and Aule arriving at Shutter Island:
Shutter Island is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island's fortress-like hospital for a criminally insane.
Which Thrillers are considered to be the 'best of all time" ?
1) PSYCHO:
Psycho is a horror thriller from 1960 produced by the American director legend Alfred Hitchcock. A really important role in this film is the genre of suspense, which was created by Hitchcock. He used a lot od cut´s and sounds to create massive tension in his movies to keep the audience thrilled in front of the TV. The film is mainly about a encounter betweeen a secreatry Marion Crane and the a Motel owner and manger Norman Bates. Psycho, is about Marion Crane,
who after stealing a lot of cash, leaves town and ends up at the Bates
Motel where she meets the troubled Norman Bates who seems to be
dominated by his mother. In the end Marin Crane is murdered in the shower ( this is probably one of the most famous thriller scene´s ) http://florianberberichasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013_01_15_archive.html ---> watch the famous showe scene in my post from 15th January.
Trailer of Psycho: really In-Depth
2) SE7EN
It is a American Thriller film which was produced 1995 it contains the sub-genre of horror an neo-noir. Star actors are Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. The plot of this thriller is mainly about two detectives in person of Davids Mills ( represented by Pitt) and William Somerset ( represented by Freeman), but the latter is a nearly retired detective and Pitt is a really new one. The get involved in a sadistic serial killer, who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
(these aspect also add a bit of historical thriller genre i.g in "Illuminati".
The film was really sucessful with $327 million box office.
3) PANIC ROOM
The director of this crime-thriller is David Fincher. The Plot is actually a really easy buildt up: A woman (Jodie Foster) and her teenage daughter become imprisoned in the panic room of their own house by 3 criminals.
4) Unkown Identity
It is again with one of the best actors of the Action-/Mystery-thriller genre: Liam Neeson, which is actually in every recent crime/action thriller the main character. The director is Jaume Collet-Sara. A man awakens from a coma, Dr. Martin Harris ( Similar to the Jason Bourne triology) after he arrived in Berlin for a biotechnology summit with his wife. Finally he discoverd that someone has taken on
his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With
the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
1) RYAN NEESON, the Actor from "Taken" and "Taken 2". Liam John Neeson, Born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, UK, Liam Neeson
worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant
architect and an amateur boxer. He had originally sought a career as a
teacher by attending St. Mary's Teaching College in Belfast. However, in
1976, Neeson joined the Belfast Lyric Players' Theater and made his
professional acting debut
in the play "The Risen People". After two years, Neeson moved to
Dublin's Abbey Theater where he performed the classics. It was here that
he was spotted by director John Boorman and was cast in the film Excalibur (1981) as Sir Gawain, his first high-profile film role. Interview with Liam to Taken2.
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