Animatic

Recce Shot's

Planning meeting 6/1/11

In the meeting paige, alex and lily.
Talked about what story line we are going to use.


Risk Assessment 

Sixth Sense Essay

The sixth sense is a thriller that was made in 1999, directed by M Night Shyamalan, and starred Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette. It is about a young boy Cole (Haley Joel Osment) who Communicates with ghosts who don't know they are dead. His mother (Toni Collette) picks up on this and seeks help for him with a child psychologist, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis).














At the very start of the film we see a sequence with Malcolm and his wife, it shows us an evening with the two of them. During the evening, one of Dr. Crowe's old patients breaks into his house and shoots Malcolm and then himself. As we don't see him die and we see him later and throughout the film we assume he is alive.

Malcolm and Cole become close, despite Cole rejecting Malcolm's help to start with. They work together and find out what Cole needs to do, he realizes that the spirits can't pass on until they have given a message to someone, they can't go because they have unfinished business or things they haven't been able to say to loved ones.

At the very end of the film it goes back to the same scene that we see at the very start of the film with Bruce Willis (Malcolm Crowe) only this time the sequence carries on so we get to see that he actually dies. This adds a huge twist at the end of the film, now knowing that all the way through Malcolm Crowe, Cole's psychologist has actually been a ghost himself.

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List of thrillers of last 20 years

The Silence of the Lambs
Fatal Attraction
The Sixth Sense
The Usual Suspects
Signs
Syriana
La Femme Nikita
Speed
The Game
Flightplan
Eagle Eye
SALT

Own Definition Of A Thriller

A thriller is a production of television or film it is part of the term genre. The aim of A thriller is to literally "thrill" the audience is any way they can, using angles of fear, hope and suspense, this is very affective as it can appeal to many audiences on a wide scale as thriller does not need to type cast itself to a certain plot or narrative, this makes the thriller genre very versatile and easy for directors to adapt to. The thriller genre has made millions as the thriller cinema experience is very popular, now especially through the use of HD and 3D we can experience the film at its best.

North By Northwest analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fNabF8bq_o

Images:

This sequence opens with animated vertical and horizontal lines crossing, whilst the credits appear flying across the screen. They use the features of a compass for example the arrows used in the lettering and to direct the words across the line sequence. Finally he lines that are on the screen whilst the credits are flying across fade into the lines of a building.

Words: They are no words in this opening sequence, only the lettering for the credits. There is no dialogue in it, but there is music throughout all of it.

Sounds:

Throughout the whole opening sequence there is music playing. The music is very upbeat and jolty. There is a high-pitched flute, which is an uncomfortable sound along with trumpets, which adds a rhythm to the sequence. Also there are scurrying sounds along with big brash sounds, which represent the setting, New York City, very well.   

Analysis of Se7en

Analysis of Se7en:

Images:

In the film opening you don’t see any faces, only hands. The first image you see is an open book, then you see a drawing of an old mans hands. It looks as if they’re giving you hints to what is happening, you then see an extreme close up of a man using a razor blade to scrape the top layer of skin off his finger tips and bandaging them up. In between clips it cuts to extreme close ups of a cup or tea being made and the titles. Every image is very choppy and close up. This doesn’t show us the full picture, it’s all small images we have to put together in our head and try and make sense of.

Words:

It shows a page of writing about pregnancy and some of the words have been crossed out in black marker, it is enticing and gets the viewer intrigued. You see a lot of different clips of books and pages of writing, which leads you to believe he is investigating something.

 

Sounds:

There are a variety of sounds such as, machinery, cogs, turning, squeaks, wind chimes, a symbol and lots of robotic and industrial sounds throughout the sequence. There is a structured tone running through the sequence using a fast beat. The setting is very eerie, this is why they have used sounds like wind whistling, it also gives us a feel for the film and the character.