This movie is set in 2027.
We can compare this from the location and setting. London in 2027 and London now have many things that is different, such as:
London now is not that dirty, not much pollution, clean and doesn't look like China (globalisation) culture. City is untreated and full of people but still looks lonely and sad.
We can see that it is new-age because the television which is more like flat back and the advertisement.
What shows that he is a protagonist?
We can see that he is the last one out of the coffee shop before the coffee shop explode, he is the only witness. The scene when he walks in and out of the shop he seems careless this is because he is familiar with this world of crime and death. The other reason that he seem careless is that he may lost his hope because the youngest children die which is aged 18 so there may be a problem of why they can't have a baby. When he walks into the centre he is the only one moving and buying coffee where everybody is standing in silent listening to the news. His face is expressionless and ordering black coffee means that he is a harsh person. After coming out of the shop he put in alcohol into his coffee, it can means that he is broken somewhere inside and he drinks it to just forget everything in the pass. He can't deal with alcohol and can't deal with coffee it self so he mixed it together.
Camera angle
The other reason is that when the movie is started, he walks into the centre of the shop where camera follows him which is a match on action. There are limited cuts because as we can see from the video it is more like the camera follows him from when he comes in and after the explosion.
Enigma/Question :
- Why can't they have baby?
- Why is the war going on?
-Why did the shop bomb?
- Why doesn't he care?
- Why did everybody else care?
- Why is it the target?
What is Target Audience?
Target Audience is a particular group at which a film, book, advertising campaign, etc., is aimed.
1. Target audience in media and how it is sold
For example :
- Maze runner, Hungergames --> Teenager and acts like model. What will we see and have to face in the future and how to survive in that kind of situation.
2. Target audience also separated into Segmentation : there are 4 main types which is
- Age target marketing
- Income sensitive
- Gender
- Interests
They are all separate into tiny groups.
This is the timeline of which comes first of the credits : Panic room.
To summarise:
1. Columbia pictures : Studios ( big film company who funded)
- Ideates : to form an idea or image --> opening Disney film after columbia picture
2. Production company : A Hofflund / Polone
3. Stars : Jodie Foster
4. Name of Film : Panic room
5. Co - stars : Kristen Stewart
6. Casting Director : Laray Mayfield
7. Costume Designer : Michael Kaplan
8. Music Composer : Howard Shore
9. Film Editor : Angus Wall
10. Production Designer : Arthur Max
11. Producers
12. Writer : David Koepp
13. Director : David Fincher
Panic room opening
Dexter Opening - Credits
Dexter is an American television crime drama mystery series.
Dexter is a Serial killer or as we can say he is sociopath because his feelings are not the same as normal people. For example, as we can see in the clip how he fried an egg, how he eats it and the ketchup. When he was 3 years old his mother is murdered in a shipping container so Dexter is adopted by the Miami police who knows that he is sociopath the police men taught him how to act like a normal person and don't get caught and also taught him to fight in a constructive way which is only kill other serial killers or violent criminals. When he grows up, he works as blood spatter analyst for the Miami metro police department. Doing this job is challenging for him because as we know that his feelings are not the same as normal people so he have to keep up with normal emotion and his appearance.
Denotation is a word's literal meaning - for example when we search up the word "Rose" in the dictionary if it is denotation we usually get "a bush or shrub that produces flowers, usually red, pink, white or yellow in colour"
Connotation is word's underlying meanings (associate meaning) - for example when we search up the word "Flower" instead of Rose what we will get this time is many types of flowers but what also come up is rose which is associate with beauty, romance and special day like valentine day.
Denotation and Connotation from Dexter opening credits:
Denotation: - getting ready for the day --> doing his daily routine
Connotation: - blood, flesh and murder --> shown to be.
From the opening:
Denotation: Doing his daily routine --> Connotation: Murder
Denotation: Cutting Ham --> Connotation: Cutting his skin
Denotation:
Mirco Elements:
C - Extreme and close up
E - Jump cuts , unsure/ fragment
S - Diegetic: amplified sound
M - Use of everyday to make things normal - everyday routine
Used of Shapes
Every shapes have meanings such as:
- Circle: it has no beginning and ending and it represent the eternal whole
- Triangle: represent action, and aggression(it can be stable when they sit on their base and unstable when they're not) and shows bad sides or evil
- Square or Rectangle: it shows that it is powerful, strong and stable
This is the opening of Rear Window, it shows what Jeff do in the opening of the movie.
From the mind map above, this is what we learnt about Jeff in the opening scene of Rear Window.
Rear window opening scene:
What have Se7en and Rear Window got in common?
- Victims
- Urban Suburban
- Male protagonist, vulnerable/flawed (Mills anger issue, Jeff broken leg)
- Killer X Protagonist interact for short time
- Cynical,cold, uncaring world
- Killer in control
What techniques does Hitchcock use to create suspense in this seen?
Hitchcock shows us Jeff's perspective as we can see what Lisa is doing in the scene and what is going to happen. What is the lady doing, what happen in the apartment and when the old man is arriving to his room. Hitchcock crate tension which makes our heart beat faster and scare that she will got caught.
Also the point of view that Hitchcock uses is that he start with close up of the character and then zoom out after that he then cut to a shot of what they're seeing. For example, In the clip, Jeff is looking at Lisa but first Hitchcock shows that image of Jeff looking(starring) at something then there is a cut which shows the image of Lisa starting walking to the stairs and start to climb up. After that Hitchcock then cut back to the actor which is Jeff to see his reaction, as we can see through the clip when the old man arrived and going into the room we can see that Jeff facial expression is telling Lisa to stop and come out of the room.
When does Thriller become a Horror?
- Gore, Blood
- Supernatural ?
- Lack of mystery - little manipulation of information.
When does Thriller become Action?
- Little story
- Excuse for action (set pieces)
The antagonist ensnares the protagonist in an increasingly complex web, until the protagonist feels isolated and helpless.
The negative centres upon a crime. eg. theft, murder
The protagonist is fallible and has an Achilles heel that is exploited
Themes of identity are common mistaken identity, amnesia is doubles/gangsters
Theme of seeing, reflection and mirroring - manipulation of perspective
A series of enigma are set up - only to be solved at the end
[The audience is placed in the ambitious position of voyeur]
Protagonist will be in peri/danger
[The narrative present extra ordinary things in ordinary situations and settings]
[The micro element are used to build suspense]
- Gore, Blood
- Supernatural ?
- Lack of mystery - little manipulation of information.
When does Thriller become Action?
- Little story
- Excuse for action (set pieces)
The antagonist ensnares the protagonist in an increasingly complex web, until the protagonist feels isolated and helpless.
The negative centres upon a crime. eg. theft, murder
The protagonist is fallible and has an Achilles heel that is exploited
Themes of identity are common mistaken identity, amnesia is doubles/gangsters
Theme of seeing, reflection and mirroring - manipulation of perspective
A series of enigma are set up - only to be solved at the end
[The audience is placed in the ambitious position of voyeur]
Protagonist will be in peri/danger
[The narrative present extra ordinary things in ordinary situations and settings]
[The micro element are used to build suspense]
1954 - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
(39 steps, Vertigo, Mamie, Psycho, Birds, Suspicion, Strangers on a train, North by Northwest.)
Jimmy Stewart - Jeff
Grace Kelly - Lisa
Raymond Buss - Lars Thorwald
Ethel Ritter - Stella
Information to:
1. Characters?
2. Audience?
Creating tension
Jeffs. (Subjective camera)
1. When the Vuller is returning. Jeff knows, We knows, Lisa doesn't.
2. We know + Jeff knows - helpless --> his fault and guilty
3. Call the police - We knows the police are coming - do they set there on time?
4. We didn't know what they are saying + sligthly conclude - in the Vuller flat. We don't know Lisa is handling it
How far is the killer going to go?
5. The killer realise he being. Watch - what is going to do.
In this lesson we studied about sound mixing and adding sound onto the video. We look at the timing of the video and choose the right sound. They provided us the video without sound so what we have to do is adding sound to the video such as "Boom" sound where there is explosion and beeping when they're running across the street.
Seven part 1 Urban City
Location & Setting
Director: David Fincher
Location: Place geographical
Setting: How its portrayed atmosphere, time period.
Location: Apartment --> looks like prison / unnamed city
Time period: --> 90s
Atmosphere: --> dark, polluted, cars + traffic --> colour are dirty green & dark brown. Dank rain
Canceros & grimy
Crime - Siren (diegetic sound)--> realistic world
Vensimlitude - Realistic in friction world
the "real world" --> Realistic --> not hiding anything.
Rough area --> bars and windows
--> people wall posted --> dead bodiesA
Aggressive - place
--> Milly got bumped into no one / apologies and reason
Part 2 Somerset Flat
Classy - antiques furniture, neat - anal
Lives alone - no family. --> surrounded by people but alone
have knife: - Protection?
- dangerous place
- connotation crime
- nasty
- flip knife
Flat: You can hear people in another room talking / neighbour
: can hear siren and traffic (beeping)
Part 3 Tracey and Somerset
Location: Restaurant --> bells ringing - sound of people walking into and out of the restaurant
: people walking outside
: traffic, car and beeping sound
Women is kinda stress
World of SE7EN
- that bringing in a new life is reason to wring
- Become the "World" is such "Terrible" place
- Consideration is "abortion" --> Somerset (destroying the new life)
- pathetic
Mills
- Restles full of energy --> Eager - wants ti make stuffs happens
- Anger - how do we know? --> Attitude, Aggressive --> man handles photographs clam stain
- Big toddler - slave to his emotion, no control.
- Impulsive --> Emotion taken over, kick the door
- because he is emotional
- Passion
- wants to get stuffs done
Somerset
- Wise - want to understand meaning of crime
- Calm - facial expression
- the way he talk
- Cant impose what he wants to happen
- Quitting
- Simple, organise ( flat scene, when he lay and organise his stuffs
- emotionally mature
- Avoids confrontation
- lost his way
Somerset
- He's giving up --> because people don't care about the problems so he decided not to care but he should be.
- Wornout
- Experienced
- Tired, Seen too much
Mills
- He has hope,Believes that it will change
- try hard - thinks he can make a different
- "I do not"
- "I can't"
Location & Setting
Director: David Fincher
Location: Place geographical
Setting: How its portrayed atmosphere, time period.
Location: Apartment --> looks like prison / unnamed city
Time period: --> 90s
Atmosphere: --> dark, polluted, cars + traffic --> colour are dirty green & dark brown. Dank rain
Canceros & grimy
Crime - Siren (diegetic sound)--> realistic world
Vensimlitude - Realistic in friction world
the "real world" --> Realistic --> not hiding anything.
Rough area --> bars and windows
--> people wall posted --> dead bodiesA
Aggressive - place
--> Milly got bumped into no one / apologies and reason
Part 2 Somerset Flat
Classy - antiques furniture, neat - anal
Lives alone - no family. --> surrounded by people but alone
have knife: - Protection?
- dangerous place
- connotation crime
- nasty
- flip knife
Flat: You can hear people in another room talking / neighbour
: can hear siren and traffic (beeping)
Part 3 Tracey and Somerset
Location: Restaurant --> bells ringing - sound of people walking into and out of the restaurant
: people walking outside
: traffic, car and beeping sound
Women is kinda stress
World of SE7EN
- that bringing in a new life is reason to wring
- Become the "World" is such "Terrible" place
- Consideration is "abortion" --> Somerset (destroying the new life)
- pathetic
Mills
- Restles full of energy --> Eager - wants ti make stuffs happens
- Anger - how do we know? --> Attitude, Aggressive --> man handles photographs clam stain
- Big toddler - slave to his emotion, no control.
- Impulsive --> Emotion taken over, kick the door
- because he is emotional
- Passion
- wants to get stuffs done
Somerset
- Wise - want to understand meaning of crime
- Calm - facial expression
- the way he talk
- Cant impose what he wants to happen
- Quitting
- Simple, organise ( flat scene, when he lay and organise his stuffs
- emotionally mature
- Avoids confrontation
- lost his way
Bar scene
Somerset
- He's giving up --> because people don't care about the problems so he decided not to care but he should be.
- Wornout
- Experienced
- Tired, Seen too much
- He has hope,Believes that it will change
- try hard - thinks he can make a different
- "I do not"
- "I can't"
FEAR
*- The media uses real fears repackage them as entertainment and sells them back to us*
Why do we watch scary films?
Zolf Zillman
- Excitation theory
- By experiencing negative and scary imagery: we intensity the positive
- We enjoy seeing the negative images being vanquished
Aristotle
- Aristottle believed in CATHARTHIS - we watched negative images to purge suppressed emotions
Glem D. Walters
What makes a film scary?
1. Tension & Suspense
- Created using narrative and filming techniques
2. Relevance
- The fears explored are relevant to the audience. They 'Believe'
3. Unrealism
- We know we are safe
- We can experiment & explore.
