Research of directors

                                           Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky was born in February 12, is an American film, director, screenwriter, film producer and environmentalist. Darren is known for his film, "Black Swan" which was released in 2010. I chose Darren Aronofsky to research as I wanted to find a successful thriller film so that I could get more of an understanding of this genre. I am very interested to see this film as it looks good and it fits to my chosen genre for my opening.
From watching the trailer of the "Black Swan", I can see that Darren has made sure the colour of each scene is dark and sinister and the credits of the font is bold with black feathers for the background. The music in the trailer has also different tempo to hold suspense and keep us on edge. It starts with a creepy music box, but this quickly changes to a fast beating rythem to suggest the different scenes of the film. These small strategies all help to a successful thriller film.





David Fincher

David Fincher was born in 1962. He is an American director and producer, notably for films, television series, and music videos. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 2010. He is also known for having directed the psychological thrillers and crimes such as "Gone girl" and "Zodiac".











David Ayer

David Ayer was born January 18, 1968 and is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. This year he directed a film called "Suicide Squad" with a thriller/ superhero genre. All of these directors have thought hard about directing their films with a thriller or crime theme. I will need to do as much research into these themes so that I can produce an opening for my film with the correct and relevant content.

My finished preliminary task

This is my finished preliminary task. I chose an easy interview scenario with a cliffhanger at the end.

Finishing my preliminary task

Today I finished filming for my preliminary task and now I am starting to edit. I am very pleased with my work as it was more straight forward than I had imagined and I think that I showed match on action clearly. I am looking forward to seeing my end result of my preliminary task.

My Collage

Techniques For The Preliminary Test

Today in our media class we started talking about the preliminary task and we learnt that there are 3 main camera/editing techniques to complete this task. This are: Match on action, 180 degrees rule and shot reverse shot.

I have researched each of these 3 meanings and found some examples so that I am clear exactly what they are.

                                                                Match On Action

Match on action is used in film editing and video editing where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action, maintaining a flow and continual link.
An example of this if a person comes through a door, the camera shot would be behind them. As soon as they walk through door, the camera shot will go in front of them.

                                                               180 degrees Rule

The 180° rule is a guideline that states that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another . When the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line and the shot reverse.

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                                                             Shot Reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

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First Plan for film opening

Lauren and I have decided we are going to work together and have just finished planning for our film opening. We have agreed to go with a mixture of action, drama and thriller as we think it is very interesting and we have come up with a good plot for it. Now we need to watch as many films as possible with action, drama and thriller, to get ideas on how they shoot each scene.

Jurassc Park- Film Review

Last Night I watched the family classic Jurassic Park, a science fiction/ adventure film. This is a great film as although it my be unsuitable for young children its still a film that kids, teens and adults can all watch together. I went with the family to watch it at Pinewood studios in the gardens on a big screen with a superb sound system. Even though I have watched this many times I still managed to jump at parts that I knew where coming due to the fact of the booming sound and the way Steven Spielberg's directs it to make each and everyone sit on the edge of their seats.

The film was made in 1993. Dinosaurs had walked the earth 26 million years ago and that is why this film is so special as it isn't like anything before as everything looks realistic especially for a film made  this long ago.
Jurassic Park is about dinosaurs that were brought back to life thanks to a man called John Hammond (played by Sir Richard Attenborough). By doing this he creates a park on a island full of different species of dinosaurs, so that one day he would be able to open it to the public. He invite a couple who study dinosaur fossils, along with his two grandchildren. This soon turns into a disaster as the original and amazing park becomes life threating as the dinosaurs escape from their encloures and hunt and dominate as they would have done.

This is such a thrilling film to watch and even though I have seen all of the Jurassic trilogy plus the newly released Jurassic World, I still absolutely love it and the special effects of the dinosaurs are so good that you really believe they are watching you, which is quite terrifying!