Risk Assessment

Tripping over branches or logs in the forest- to ensure this doesn't happen, before filming, we will ensure that the space provided which will lead the antagonist down her pathway, is clear to prevent any tripping and any injuries from happening. 


People walking through the subway whilst filming- to ensure noone walks through any of our shots whilst filming, we have located a later time, scheduling the filming at a later time when our location is less busy.


Items falling off a shelf- to make sure no items fall on any of our heads, to cause injury, we have placed them into position where there is no chance of them falling off and causing damage.


Should anything major go wrong, we have people on site at hand, that can help with these situations. If they are unable to do so, the emergency services will be called.

Phonebooth Trailer

This trailer is very successful, as it portrays the use of mise en scene in the very opening scene. It defines the location and the use of props, which is obvious in the title of the film. The trailer communicates the narrative towards the audience, and almost leaves the trailer on a cliff hanger. This leaves the audience hung on what is going to happen, thereby this engages the audience to want to go and watch it.

Phonebooth

Storyline:

"A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth

 is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding"

Phonebooth in particular does not play towards the conventional codes. It avoids darkness and shadow, thereby the only way to link it to standard conventions, is to say that you view the narrative from the killers point of view. The film is made to make the viewer feel sorry for the male protagonist, by showing the use of flashback and quick passed editing. As this thriller doesn’t include the main conventions, in various ways, it may not be classed as a thriller, but instead classed as an psychological thriller, as it plays with the viewer’s mind. 

The film 'Photobooth' has a film certificate of 15. The reason towards this is because it portrays clips and images of Sex & Nudity, Violence & Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking and frightening and intense scenes. 

'PhoneBooth' has an estimate proximity budget of $13,000,000. This means that a lot of expenditure has been taken place in this movie, to make it as successful as it is. 

Copyright Holder

© 2002 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Within the opening to the thriller it has been decided that the sub-genre shall take the form of a psychological thriller. After watching thrillers and gaining a grasp of their portrayal it appeared that the most intense were the ones that needed some intellect to fully grasp their narrative. 

The primary target will be those of an intellectual background that also have an interest for suspense and tension. This is because the physiological aspects of the filming will sometimes require a certain amount of knowledge and interest into solving the narrative. Also targeted will be the primary audience which will consist of a young studious majority. The protagonist featured within the opening to the film is portrayed to be a young, full of life and have a care free attitude. Those members of the audience that have no interest in the physiological aspects mediated within the film can then relate to the protagonist. Finally a tertiary religious target audience is then met, through the symbolic religious connection found in the film people of a religion can feel portrayed. 

Use of narrative:

To allow my production team to emphasise the key thriller conventions and heighten suspense the key idea behind my thriller is mystery. The beginning scene takes place. The beginning scene takes place in a forest when the protagonist is making a journey home. It begins to get dark and a worried parent phones to check where our victim is. At various points in the narrative noises behind the camera can be heard, this creates paranoia within the victim and signifies to the audience that she is being followed. The journey home quickly becomes a chase and gradually the antagonists figure is introduced to the audience through extreme long shots. When looking for an exit in the underground a vague figure can be noticed in the distance and my victim is knocked unconscious. This figure then engraves  religious scripts on the wall of the underground.  Queue title sequence. These scripts are the antagonists way of redemption against everybody that lives a life she can not. 

Mis en scene:

• Props: Torch,  and mobile phone.
• Make up: 

Antagonist:  White ghost like skin, exhausted look- dark eyes, bony face structure and blood stained face.

Protagonist: Radiant glow. Flawless face that gradually dissolves as she becomes worked down by the antagonist.

It was key to us as the producers to make it noticeable who is the enemy and possible heroic icon from the opening of the film. Thrillers rely on the audiences desire to continue watching and to find out the conclusion. We have accomplished this technique through creating a mysterious antagonist. The unknown character will create tension and anticipation within our target audience. 

Use of enigma’s and codes:

Quite simply in the film opening is the symbol of revenge which is portrayed through the form of a religious inscription. This meant that the narrative was provided with a key theme of mystery to unfold later in the plot. Also the portrayal of revenge can have no limits, if a character wants more than forgiveness a new level of extreme ideas can be met. 

Use of character types and motifs:

Psychotic killer Character becomes unemotional and inhuman. They are no longer part of the world and have no limits and understanding of what is right and wrong. This creates tension within an audience because of how unpredictable the character becomes. The personality was also chosen simply because of the fear the unknown creates. The fact that there isn’t a clear portrayal for this character frustrates the audience but also places them into an uncomfortable position.

Innocent vulnerable female Was selected purely for the annoyance and frustration that occurs with every actions she takes. Everything she does will be amplified in the audiences mind in fear of something happening to her. This character is the main tool for tension; anything that happens will surround her or even happen to her.

Todorov’s stages of equilibrium:

The narrative within the opening to a thriller film takes a slightly more distorted version of Todorov’s idea of narrative. This is because our film is made to be more tragic than fairy-tale. For instance our narrative begins with a disequilibrium that only escalates into a worsening of problems. This narrative outline was chosen because it allows an ambiguous ending that satisfies no body. Within the film seven John the murderer wins and accomplishes his seven deadly sins, my narrative takes a path like this.; the whole narrative will come to end with the pinnacle conclusion.

Research of Film Certificates

Character

Seven Camera Shots

I went onto youtube, and typed in the last scene of Seven. Whilst viewing the last scene, I print screened screen shots of the different camera shots, to be able to show my understanding of the camera shots used within the film. Different camera shots give a different atmosphere to the film, giving it a fluid flow, and a different perspective from the different characters in the film.

The Silence of the Lambs- Official Trailer

The Silence of the Lambs- Vladimir Prop

Clarice

 Hero- within a thriller genre, they are known as solving the case, and catching the "bad guy". In Silence of the Lambs, Clarice becomes the narrative hero, by taking the knowledge off Hanniball Lecture in order to track down the murderer of three women found dead.

Buffalo Bill
Villian- The villian within a thriller genre is normally stated as the murderer. In Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill is the incredible intelligent murderer, who hides his cover, by identifying himself as a women in his home. He see's girls as an object, in which he kills them to make his very own women suit.

Catherine
 Princess- In a thriller genre, the princess is disguised as the innocent and helpless person. Vladimir prop believes that the princess is a beautiful blonde haired, fair skinned women, who means no harm to anybody. They are also normally married to the hero, which in this case, Catherine is not married to Clarice, and before the case, they did not know of each other.

Hanninball

False Hero/Donor/Helper- These are known as the person who helps the hero, but in another situation, are also bad themself. Hanninball is a very intelligent surgeon, who is locked up in jail, due to the fact of him murdering people by eating them. In Silence of the Lambs, he helps Clarice with hunting down the murderer of the three women. In some ways, the audience creates a love emotion for him, as he helps Clarice throughout her case.

Vladimir Prop believed character had the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. He stressed completely the importance of characters to the narrative, naming 8 individuals within. These being, Hero, Villian, Donor, Dispatcher, False Hero, Helper, Princess, Her Father. People follow his theories in every genre. His theories are what makes a narrative distinguished.

The Silence of the Lambs symbol

The Silence of the Lambs

Storyline

Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator have the answers to their questions to help locate the killer. Clarice must first try and gain Lecter's confidence before he is to give away any information. Written by Sami Al-Taher

I thought this film was absolutely brilliant. The storyline was magnificent and the way the
characters are presented using mise en scene and characteristics, had been used significantly.
Although Hannibal is supposedly a serial killer himself, I found myself becoming quite fond of his
 character and almost developing some sort of love for him, as he continued to help Clarice
throughout the film. After seeing this film, I plan to watch the next two following on from this film
as I am intrigued to find out how Hannibal became the way he is.   

Media Opening sequence feedback

After showing our title sequence to the rest of the class, this is the feedback we recieved.

For the mise en scene we included into our sequence, the feedback we got back to how well it was executed, was good. They commented on the use of costume we coorperated, saying it was good and used appropriately to give the eery thriller atmosphere.

The use of camera angles and lighting had a good response as it was commented on being used sufficiently. Improvements to be made, would be to make the beginning part of our sequence lighter, to make the protagonist fully clear when she is running down the subway.

The feedback we recieved for the props and costume were exceptionally well. The costumes were very good, as you could tell the difference between the antagonist and the protagonist. This allowed the audience to be able to seperate them as individuals viewing them as completely different characters.

The location wasn't as successful, as the feedback we got back from the film, commented on not understanding why the film was set under the subway. This is very unstandable as we haven't filmed the rest of the footage, to add onto the beginning to explain why she is running away. This will be fully focused on.

We were told that the enigma was created very well. It gave an eery background of the unknown, giving the atmopshere on what is going to happen next. This could be improved to make the enigma more secretive, therefore to give the audience more of a challenge to unveal the mystery .

Vladmir prop comes into theory. This was a good feedback to get because we didn't believe that we had included it.

The narrative storyline recieved a very good atmosphere from the audience. Many people within the class wanted to know who the girl in the white nighty was, and why she was lurking beneath the ground. They also wanted to know if the other girl was dead, which meant they wanted to continue watching.

The equilirium is used well.

We got a few critisms for the sound as they thought it didn't time well with the filming. A part which stood out the most was the clip when I am running into the puddle in slow motion. After watching it back a few times, we have noticed it as a group, and have taken it into consideration for it to be a improvement made.

Good use of non- diegetic sound. It runs along side the filming nicely, and fits well with the appropriate clips it needs to be added into.

Overal, the feedback we got was very good. There are improvements to be made, which we have taken into consideration, in order to make our film at the best standard and quality that it can be at.