Thriller Actors and Costumes

At this point in our development of our thriller idea we will have three characters. Firstly there will be the secretary of who will have a strong american accent so we are thinking of using Alexandra Werner from lower sixth. She should be dressed in a light colored blouse suggesting innocence with a bow coming out of the collar and a long pencil skirt with short stumpy heels. We are looking to create something similar to this image. Her hair should be done up something like in the picture. Knowing Alexandra probably has clothes which would be suitable for her character, otherwise we can see if we can borrow anything from the dramas costume closet or perhaps try looking in some charity shops to see if we can see if we find anything similar.

The second actress we are hoping to use will be an A2 girl Russian girl called Dyanna of whom we think has a time-less look which we think will go well with our theme. We would like to give her a similar look to an old actress called Veronica Lake with wavy full volume hair as well as bright red lips. We want our actress to show that she is wealthy, so therefor in my opinion should be something of which is in fashion. Perhaps a fur coat or a fashionable dress. Our group thinks that our actress will have these clothes otherwise we can look in the costume closet.

Lastly the man who will play the detective will be wearing a suite although bits of his clothing will be around the room hanging on a rack such as a trench coast and a hat. The picture is the exact look we are going for. His hair should also be stuck back.

Catch Me If You Can

Time:              Text which appears:                           What that person/person's roles(s) is/are:

0: 10 Kemp Company/Spendid Pictures Production Company

0: 15 Parkes/Macdonald Producers

0: 21 Steven Spieberg         Director 

0: 27 Leonardo Dicaprio Leading Actor

0: 31 Tom Hanks         Leading Actor

0: 52 Christopher Walken Actor

0: 57 Martin Sheen         Actor

1: 01 Nathalie Baye         Actor

1: 08 Amy Adams         Actor

1: 19 James Brolin         Actor

         Brian Howe         Actor

         Frank John Hughes         Actor

1: 23 Steve Eastin         Actor

        Chris Elis         Actor

        John Finn         Actor

1: 34   Debra Zane/Terri Taylor Casting

1: 38 Devorah Moos Hankin Co-Producer

1: 41 Stan Redding/Frank W. Abagnale Writer

1: 45 Kuntzel Deygas         Title

1: 52 John Williams         Music

1: 57 Mary Zophres         Costume Designer 

2: 01 Michael Kahn, A.C.E         Film Editor 

2: 04 Jeannine Oppewall Production Designer 

2: 09 Janusz Kaminski         Director Of Photographer 

2: 14 Daniel Lupi         Co-Executive Producer

2: 19 Barry Kemp/Laurie Macdonald Executive Producers

2: 22 Miche Shane/Tony Romano Executive producers

2: 27 Steven Spielberg/Walter F. Parkes Producers

2: 32 Jeff Nathanson         Screenplay

2: 36 Steven Spielberg         Director 

Through the opening sequence of Catch Me If You Can, 

What are thrillers?

Thrillers are movies that often excite and shock the audience. They make the person watching want to get them selves protected by blocking their ears, closing their eyes, hugging a friend and etc. Thrillers mostly relys on the use of emotions to make them have suspense or excitement and have a lot of tension within them. Their main idea is to create tension, excitement and fear and to keep the audience on the edge of there seats as the plot builds up to the climax. Thrillers can be made into a lots of diffent types of sub genres for example crime, horrow, spy, psychological or conspiracy.

For example the supernatural thriller which has an fantacy element (from another world) mixed with suspense or plot twists. Often a main character has some kind of ability or superpower. There is not always much action in thrillers, instead they focus on the building up of tension through twists. Often the ability to see dead people or goshts is a main feature in a supernatural thriller, a good example of this is The Sixth Sense or the TV drama Heroes.

Psychological thrillers on the other hand focuses mainly on the unstable emotional states of characters. It typically incorporates mystery and drama elements, often overlaping with the horror genre. Unlike in action-thrillers characters are reliant on their mental resources to overcome their enemies and not their physical stregnth, their battles may be with a formidable opponent who is trying to either demolish their mental state or two or more opponents preying apon one anothers minds by playing deceptive games, or the battles is with the characters own mind. A typical psychological thriller would be Inception, it plays with your mind.

Again in contrast to both of these we have the spy film genre, which is mainly the subgenre of thriller and action, dealing with fictional espioange, either realistically or or as a basis for fantasy. Usually spy films show the espionage activities of government agents at the risk of being discovered by their enemies. Spy films have always been popular with aduiences worldwide, offering a combination of exciting escapism, technological thrills and exotic locales, the spy film combines the action and sci-fi genres, presenting clearly-delineateed heroes for audiences to root for. A good example of a spy film would be James Bond and Hannah which we have studied in media studies.   

 

 

Good fellas

Targeted age group for good fellas I think the targeted at young audience age between 18 and above male because they are the ones that are interested in gangster movies like this.

The movie is about how a teenage italian boy turned into a mafia then durg dealer. In the movie there are a lot of shooting and bad use of language, all these facts in a way represents gangsters therefore their main targeted audience would be 18 years old + male.

Audition

The opening shows a girl sitting on the floor next to a telephone. With a bag containing something in it which we don't know about. This scene is shown by a long shot. The very little lighting given durning this scene makes the audience feel the dark mood the women is in. With her black hair covering her face; it will make the audience think that she has  a dark and dangerous personality, and is trying yo cover it with her hair.

We don't know who this girl is, we don't know what is in the bag and why she is hiding her face. This makes the scene even darker and mysterious.

Slowly dark music gets louder, which gives the audience the feeling that tension is building up, the audience now thinks that something bad is about to happen. Suddenly all the tension gets broken by a phone ringing, then the shot zooms in on the telephone, showing that the call is important.

From that point on the pace speeds up, with the music having different beats. The editing also speeds up, with the scene of a finger in a glass of water, and a random woman staring at a syringe injection. All of this gets the audience more focused by the fast action pacing trailer, still including a tint of mystery because there is no dialougue.

Afterwards we see a midshot if the woman injects the syringe into a man's stomach, with a reaction shot of the man in pain. This little clip then hints the audience that this could be a horror film because in a way it is asking the audience, whether to kill the the man or not, and why she would do such a horrible thing. All of this leaves the trailer full of mystery.

Thriller opening

My thriller opening I want it to be miserable, I don’t want to give out too much information because if I do, it won’t be that interesting anymore and people will start to lose interest in it. The location will be in a VIP room of a club with 2 men in suit talking (I don’t know what kind of convocation yet) one of them takes out a bag out and opens it, then the camera zooms into the bag and inside the bad there are a lot of cash then he hands it over to the other man, when he is giving it to the other guy the camera zooms in to the bag once again then this guy takes a bag of white powder and camera zooms into show the power then he hands it over to the other guy, and they shake hand with each other, one of them stands up and walks out of the room, at this moment you will see a bunch of guys in suit following behind him, in the scenes before you won’t be able to see that cause of the camera angles and it ends when the door shuts.

Prelim Task

Last week I had to shoot a prelim task with a group of people, I was the cameraman, I really enjoyed it. Because i got to experience being a camera man but at the same time being a camera man can get really tiring because if one of the scene   wasn't good enough, you have to keep on shooting it until it's perfect. During the shooting I learnt that you always have to bubble the camera before you do anything then you have to focus before shooting, and every time i press play or stop I can't do it too hard because tripod is really sensitive. Our group worked quite well together everyone put effort into it and about my self I would say i contributed quite a lot. We made a scene of a girl getting peer pressured by her friend to take cocaine but she ended up blowing the cocaine of the table. This scene is to create drug awareness to teenagers and showing that how a lot of teenagers got into drugs because of peer pressure because they want to blend in, because they want to look "cool".