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Thriller films vs Horror films  Differences in: 1. Narrative: •  Horror films can have a mini-plot (multiple victims) or arch-plot, featuring a single protagonist . The Thriller typically has a single protagonist.  2. Themes Controlling ideas (themes)  A story’s  controlling idea  (sometimes called the theme) is the lesson you want your reader to come away with. It’s the meaning they will assign to your story, usually unconsciously. A prescriptive or positive story is about what we should do. A cautionary or negative story is about what we shouldn’t do. Horror  •  Prescriptive: Life is preserved when the protagonist overpowers the monster/antagonist and becomes the  hero.  •  Cautionary: Death or a "fate worse than death" results when the protagonist fails to overpower the monster and is succumbed to defeat.  Thriller  •  Prescriptive: Life is preserved when the protagonist unleashes their special gift/power •  Cautionary: Death or damnation triumphs when the protagonist fai

Feedback  • Loads of ideas • Need to figure out casting and the props  Possible movie reference: • Killing Eve  Possible titles: • stitched • death by tailor • death by Mr. Tailor  • stitches get stitched - most creative 

 

 Film Openings  Film Openings give the audience an understanding/overview of the main plot of the film and what they’re expected to watch. There’s various ways in which film openings can impart information to the audience without fully giving away the full information. 

Introducing Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was an English film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is one of the most influential and widely studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.    Known as the " Master of Suspense ", he directed over 50 feature films  in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his  cameo roles  in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology  Alfred Hitchcock Presents  (1955–65). His films garnered 46  Academy Award  nominations, including six wins, although he never won an award for  Best Director  despite five nominations. In 1955, Hitchcock became an American citizen. Born in  Leytonstone , London, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a  title card  designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph-cable company. He made his directorial debut with the British-German silent film  The Pleasure Garden  (1

Credit Structure   The Task we had to carry out was to analyse the opening credits to identify what type of credits you get in a typical Hollywood film and in what order they are shown in, and therefore what should be included in our own opening titles.  Time Stamps: 1. Production credits i.e. the studios  2. Lead actors/actresses  3. Movie title  4. Supporting actors/actresses  5. Pre-production credits  6. Post-production credits  7. Cinematography, written and directed by (main production)  majority of the credits play for about 4-5 seconds

What are your fears?   Things that scare me:   Darkness  Growing up  Change  Something bad happening    Things that scare my parents:   Uncertainties    Things that scares society:   Darkness Serial killers, murderers, etc.  Uncertainties  Failure  Change  Loneliness  Unknown mysteries — aliens, ufo’s, the Bermuda Triangle, etc.   End of the world   

Sub-genres of thrillers  Most  common   sub-genre's:  Psychological thriller  Action thriller Crime thriller Political thriller Mystery thriller Horror thriller  Supernatural thriller     Psychological thriller:   Psychological thriller is a genre combining the thriller and psychological fiction genres. It is commonly used to describe films that deal with psychological narratives in a thriller or thrilling setting.   Conventions:   Mystery  Morality  Mental illness Substance abuse (drug abuse, alcohol abuse, etc.) Multiple realities (alternate)  Suspense  Political conspiracy  Pursuit Murder  Serial killings    Typical characters:   Criminals, stalkers, assassins, private i’s, victims, psychotic individuals (mental illness), sociopaths, secret agents, terrorists, and cops    Themes: crimes   Ransoms Captivities  Heists  Revenge  Kidnappings Dirty investigators/cops  Spies   Narrative:    Action is suppressed and the 'thrill' factors are provided instead via investigations o

Why we watch scary films  The different theories: Dolf Zillman Excitation-transfer theory purports that residual excitation from one  stimulus  will amplify the excitatory response to another stimulus, though the hedonic  valences  of the stimuli may differ. The excitation-transfer process is not limited to a single  emotion . [2]  For example, when watching a movie, a viewer may be angered by seeing the hero wronged by the villain, but this initial excitation may intensify the viewer's pleasure in witnessing the villain's punishment later. Thus, although the excitation from the original stimulus of seeing the hero wronged was cognitively accessed as anger, the excitation after the second stimulus of seeing the villain punished is  cognitively  assessed as pleasure, though part of the excitation from the second stimulus is residual from the first.   Catharsis (from Greek  κάθαρσις , katharsis, meaning "purification" or "cleansing" or "clarification"

Thriller definitions    https://celadonbooks.com/what-is-a-thriller/ “ A thriller is a type of mystery with a few key differences. As its name suggests, thrillers tend to be action-packed and fast-paced with moments full of tension, anxiety, and fear. Without fail, they are plot-driven stories. Whereas a good mystery may provide a deep dive into the clues that lead a detective to solve a crime, thrillers give you just enough information to provide a convincing motive for the characters to get back to the action. All thrillers are mysteries — readers want to know how the world will be saved or how to escape a serial killer — but not all mysteries are thrillers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre) Thriller  is a genre  of fiction , having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterised and defined by the moods  they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense , excitement , surprise , anticipation  and anxiety .   https://nofilmschool.com/thriller

Task 1 Thriller Openings Similarities: All these movies have the thriller genre in common. They all feature aspects of horror/thriller films such as jump scares, cliffhangers, build-up of tension and mystery.  Malignant  is the latest movie from the Conjuring Universe. The movie features a young woman, named Madison, “who is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying real-time”  Malignant’ s trailer is gruesome with it starting with the young woman’s paralysis of the murders happening before her eyes. The scenes happen relatively quickly with fast-paced editing and metric montages that gradually build tension through each shot onscreen. The trailer shows a video footage or   Home video of Madison, before the tape whirs and shows another footage that seems as though something was missing and another footage of her creepily looking at the camera is shown (cut).  The next scene cuts to a tape

Pure Cinema - Hitchcock Video: PURE CINEMA: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock (25 min) Directed by Gary Leva from Gary Leva on Vimeo . Pure cinema: Pure cinema — using strictly visual means, not dialogue, to get across the emotional impact, the feeling of a shot or sequence. Donald Spoto, Hitchcock Biographer  Pure cinema is what we see/hear and finding a way to express that without describing it, literally. Randy thorn.   Pure cinema is communicating through pictures; give the audience something only movies can give you - get words from radio and books, music from records, cd’s and orchestra’s, able to get these somewhere else but only the movies can give you moving pictures. David steritt  A chase sequence is pure cinema, you can’t do a chase in a novel, can’t do it in a painting or a stage. That’s pure cinema. William friedkin It goes behind storytelling, it goes into the creation of atmospheres, and moments that are unique to cinema. One of those moments can be Jamey Stuart followi

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)  Analysis Genre : comedy  Comedy-drama   Narrative:   Binary opposites — comparisons    Narrative range (unrestricted/restricted)    Barthes — enigma codes   Construction: Most of the shots are filmed from a car or in a transportation of some sort (plane)  The shots don’t show the characters until the end  Cuts in between the different stories to show their perspectives  Show, don’t tell Cross-cutting suggests the events are happening simultaneously      2 different stories of celebrities: comparisons through cross-cutting     A star — Margot Robbie  A celebrity - Leo and brad  2 different cars/transportation — plane and cars  They all reach their destination — house and the bar 2 different shoes — brands, subculture, interests, etc.  Drinking and smoking and partying — In the plane and the smoked cigarettes dropped out of the car   Margot Robbie’s character — the star: Partying on the plane (possibly coming from an international flight a