contacts sheet 2)
contact sheet 1)
Contact sheet 1) shows the types of cinematography I used for some part of my opening sequence. There are many extreme close ups and point of view shots to indicate that it is a thriller. These close ups and POV shots also send an adrenalin to the audience because they fear for the victim. The 1st contact sheet is of my opening sequence, the second one is of Seven, 3rd one is the opening sequence of Sins. My contact sheet shows that I have used many thriller conventions, this is because the other contact sheets are very similar to mine. I tried my best to make each shot a artistic and well composed like Seven and Sins.
My media product uses many conventions a thriller opening should have, these conventions being used helps the opening sequence be more like a thriller, the conventions are non digetic sound, hyperbolic sound, close ups different types of cinematography, the mise-en–scene. Me and my group have been influenced by many different thriller opening sequence, I was mainly influenced on one main opening sequence which was ‘Se7en’ I really liked the use of cinematography which was extreme close ups and close ups of a evil character carrying out his horrific actions, such as cutting paper with a blade poking someone’s eye which is a printed face on a paper. I really was inspired by the use of angels with the cinematography because I feel that as an audience I elt afraid and felt a little cringed. Due to the sharp tools because the close ups really enhanced the details of the sharpness. The mise –en-scene in my opening sequence was really well thought about because I wanted it to be very similar to Se7en and the opening Sequence of Sins. I used a black matt on a table, worked on top of that. The reason for me using a black mat was so the scene was dark. This connotes danger and unknown; at this point the audience would feel very suspicious and confused with what is happening because it sets a mysterious feeling. They would think why is it all blacked out? After the opening sequence continues they would realise its because this is a character who is planning to kill and is a crazy, psycho.
I used many low-key lighting in many of my shots this was to enhance the mysterious, danger feeling. The way I used the camera to film was very delicately because I needed many extreme close ups and close ups. This was very important for my opening sequence because the killer wasn’t shown however the audiences are only able to see his arms and hands. This made them want to find out what really happens and who is this killer, is it a psycho man or a friend?
The props used was very carefully thought about, I wanted each prop to show meaning, each prop was carefully thought about what its purpose is. Straight at the beginning of my opening sequence, there is a close up of a red candle, which is lit up. The camera zooms out this red candle represents evil, which is present with this character, and he is not by him self, he has his devil with him to help him. Also the flame of the candle represents hell. Usually peoples thoughts and hypothesis of hell is burning fire, which is the punishment of bad people, this is what the candle represents.
The knife indicates killing, the knife is purposely used to sharp the pencil because it shows how unusual this person is, also shows that he is very much messed up in his head because he isn’t using a sharpener like a normal person would. The conventions of a thriller are used carefully at this point where I had experimented with the camera. I made sure I did not use just one shot to show the knife, I used a point of view, with this an extreme close up and close ups to portray the dangerous knife. Being influenced by Seven and Sins I made sure I used similar shot types. This was because the Se7en is clearly telling the audience that their movie is a thriller with the use of light and props.
I used the pins because; pins are usually used to pierce through a paper so it keeps it stable against something for example a wall. However the pins in my opening sequence shows how dangerous this character is, the motion of the pins indicate to the audience that this character has already played with a knife and he is very much capable to stab someone. The movement of the hand and knife represents slow killing. The character does his movements slowly which indicates that he knows what he is doing and he has it all planned, therefore he slowly kills her.
Also being influenced by ‘Brick and Double Idemnity’ I was carefully thinking about the framing in my opening sequence. The type of rules such as 180 degree was used in Brick and Double Idemnity. I made sure I had some of the conventions such as the non-digetic sound. In both opening sequence it had a purpose, it wasn’t just placed there. The sound in my opening sequence was carefully thought, I really liked the sound in the opening sequence of ‘Sins’, which was used. It was very eerie and made me cringe; this feeling matches the performance on the frame. Sins is also very much similar to Se7en, it use very similar conventions and cinematography.
My final Media piece called Seized.
Preliminary Task
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