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.

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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.