Shot List For Our Thriller

1. Vanishing point of girl walking down the raod
2. Panning / tracking shot up body
3. Long shot of girl
4. Close up of man's feet
5. Over the shoulder shot of gilr entering the park
6. Mid shot of girl walking and looking over her shoulder and on edge
7. Mid shot of the man on the side in a hoodie uinder a steet lamp
8. Long shot of girl walking around a building and over the band stand
9. Side mid shot as she walks past the pond
10. Close up of the man's feet, reverse shot gouing from close up of his feet to hers get to the end of the reverse shot and the girl begins to speed up
11. Close up of the girls face as she looks over her shoulder, the mam has dissapered.
12. Close up of the girl taking her heels off and starting to run ascross the feild
13. Shots of her running and looking over her shoulder
14. Mid shot of the girls chest and her running into the man.
15. Close up of the girl's face looking up at the man, panicked. " What do you want? "
16. Mid shot, going into long shot of the girl walking backwards
17. Long shot of the gril running away, running back the way she came
18. over the shoulder shot of the man watching the girl run away
19. Over the shoulder shot -> mid shot -> long shot of the man slowly walking towards the girl.
FADES TO BLACK

Preliminary Task and Questions

What planning did you do for your filming task, and how did this planning aid in the filming?

Before we started to film our preliminary task we had to make a storyboard, a shooting map and a shot list. We made these because it would help us through the process of making our short film. We made the story board because it would help us to see what shots would have to be used and what angles we would film from. The shooting map helped us plan out where we would want our character to enter and where to leave, also where abouts they would have to walk to meet the other character. The shot list helped us to try and use as many as different shots as possible in our film. We used a variety of different shots, including long shots, extreme close ups and shot/reverse shots.

What camera and editing techniques and codes did you use in your film and how do they influence the audience’s understanding of the film?

At the start of our film, we decided to have the camera following the feet of our character, Ellie, as she walked down a hall way. As she turned a corner we used a over the shoulder shot, which then became a long shot of her walking down the hall way and turning a corner. We also used a close up of her get again as she was walking down some stairs, which became a mid shot at the bottom of the stairs. We used a long shot when she was walking down the second set of stairs. Whilst our characters were having a conversation, we decided to use a shot/reverse shot of the two characters talking. When Elie was speaking we filmed it from over Liam's shoulder ( the other character in our film) and the same for when Liam was talking, it was filmed over Ellie's shoulder. We tried to use a wide range of shots in our preliminary task so that we could practise them for when we come to film our thriller.

How did you use new technologies in your construction, planning and evaluation (eg. digital camera; non-linear editing software; youtube, blogger) and what skills do you have at using this technology? (strengths and weaknesses eg. steady/shaky camera; variety of shot types; smooth/clumsy; independence when using technologies...)
When we filmed our prelimary task we used a digital camera and a tripod. Whilst filming me and my partner decided to take the camera off the tripod so that we could try and get the best result from our shots taht were being used, with us doing this it resulted in a few shaky scenes, so now when we come to film our thirller we know not to take the camera off of the tripod as we want to get the best result possible. Whilst filming ou can hear people talking in the background, off camera. When we edited the preliminary task, we used adobe elements, which is video editing programme. At first we found it hard to use as we had never used it before, but as we used it more and more to edit our video, it became a lot easier to use. Whilst filming our preliminary tasks i noticed things that didn't look so good as other parts in our video. After editing and finishing off our film we then uploaded it onto yourtube, and then embeded it on our blogs. I think doing this preliminary task will help us a lot when it comes to filming our thrillers because we can look back at our preliminary task and see what shots we didn't do well, and then try to improve them and make them of a better quality in our thriller. Also whilst filming our preliminary task we have realised that recording a video whilst holding the camera results in shaky scenes and having shaky scenes doesn't make the video look good, so in our thriller it would be best to keep the camera on the tripod as we would want the best quality that we can get.

Story board and shot list of preliminary task

This is the story board that we had to creat for our preliminary task that was set. The shot opens up with an extreme close up of a girl's feet then it slowy moves to a long shot of her. Then an over the shoulder shot is used as she goes round a corner, then a long shot, which then turns into an extreme long shot of her as she walks across the balcony then she vanishes and walks around a corner. There is then a close up of her feet as she comes down the stairs, which then turns into a mid shot of the character. A close up of the character's hand as she opens the door, then a long shot of the charcter walking to a table where the second character is sitting. Then a shot reverse shot of the two characters having a conversation, about a missing phone. Then a long shot is used as the character leaves the room.

Opening narrative shots and title lenghts of thrillers

Taxi Driver Marting Scorsese; 1976

Camera, frame, movement and angles; There is an extreme close up of the characters eyes and then there are a lot of shots of the city and of smoke when the camera shows us shots of the city.

Sound; At the opening credits romantic and soft musics is being played when the camera is on the mans eyes but when the shot is of the city, the soundtrack then changes to a tense and deep, loud music. You can hear the diagetic sound of the phone ringing when the man enters the office.
Mise-en-scene; During the opening credits you see an extreme close up of the man's eyes in the rear view mirror and shot's of the city, it then cuts into a shot of a man walking into the office with a phone ringing.

Heat Michael Mann; 1995

Camera frame, movement and angle; There is a long shot a train coming into the station. Then a close up of a man walking into the station. There are also extreme close ups of the mans face to show his expressions, his expression is quite stern. Then there is use of an over the shoulder shot of him going to the escalator, then a tracking shot when the man walks into a hospital and a long jumpshot of all the patients that are being treated and a lot of doctors bustling about.

Sound; As the scene opes there is quite soft music but then the train breaks through it so you hear the diegetic sound of the train coming into the station. When the character goes into the hospital there is siegtic sound of heart monitors, patient's voices and the doctors shuffling about.

Mise-en-scene; A train coming into the station and crowds of people who are 'business like.' Then a shot of the man in the hospital, heart monitors, patients and doctors.

Identity James Mangold; 2003

Camera frame, movement, angle; There are a lot of jumpcuts in the beginning of old files, and pictures.

Sound; Sound of thunder and lightning outside of the window. Two men talking, asking questions, almost like an interview, and you can see a tape recorder.

Mise-en-scene; The jumpsuts shows a lot of files and drawings which look like children's drawings. Then from innocent drawings the camer jumpscuts to violent images of murdered people. The mise-en-scene also shows the man working, and the lightning is also shown outside the window.

Opening credits; The opening credits is like 'typed font', font ou would find on important documents, and its quite small, capital, simple and formal. The font is in the corners of the screen as the jumpcuts are happening.

Red Road Andrea Arnold; 2006

Camera frame, movement and angle: Quite a lot of close up's of the female character's face which gives us a clearer image of her expression. Mid shots of her head, and shoulders. Camera shots of security cameras' and the quality of these shots are blurred and are bad quality.

Sound: Diegetic sound of her pushing buttons and the sound of her breathing and laughing softly.

Mise-en-scene: The mise-en-scene is of the woman working and the images on the screen that she is watching. The woman is sitting in darkness, and the glow from the screens lights up her face and there is also a non-ambient lighting on her face.

Opening credits: Blurred camera moving around with small informal font.

Life On Mars

We watched the opening to Life On Mars and commented on the difference between society in 1973 compared to our society today. Our main focus was mainly on the difference's in the police head quarters.

Ethical / Politically incorrect;

• People smoking in the office.
• Drinking alcohol in work time.
• Reading porn.
• Meeting the press in the pub.
• They mock the murder victim.
• Sexist jokes. " You're as white as a ginger birds arse"

Technological differences;

• Piles of files and paper work.
• Type writers.
• Old phones.
• Izal toilet paper.
• Black and white TV ( Channels 1, 2 and 3 only )
• Switch board operator.
• They didn't know how to do finger prints.

Actions that were acceptable in 1973 / Cultural context;

• Beating workers up.
• Evidence from crimes are brought in by hand.

London to Brighton analysis

The opening scene we see a middle aged woman and a young girl bursting into a public toilet, in London. The lighting that is being used is very dim. The young girl is crying her eyes out, her clothes are ripped and her make-up is smeared over her face. The older woman has a black-eye which is swollen. She is wearing a mini skirt and a very revealing top. At this point in the film we don't know what has happened to both of the females, but we can see that they are scared. We hear the younger gril crying, and from her emotions we can tell that she is scared and worried. As soon as they get into the toilets, the older woman shuts the door and quickly locks it. The older woman turns to the mirror infront of her, and only just realises how much danmage has been made to her face.

"Gotta get if off ya" These are the first words that we hear in the film. The older woman starts to was the make-up off the younger girls face. Sumding the lip-stick and eye make-up off. The woman then moves the firl into a toilet cubical and tells her to lock the door. When this happened we could tell taht something has happened or something bad is about to happen. The older woman locking the young girl in the toilet shows us that she is hiding from someone.

"Go in and don't let anyone in 'til I get back" This is a simple command that the older woman tells the young girl to do. " Where are you going" replies the young girl, who sounds scared, as she doesn't want to be left there by herself. The older woman replies; "To get some money so we can get a train outta 'ere"

The auidence at this point is left wondering where they will be going.

Before we can see the next shot, we hear the sound of cars driving past. As it cuts to the scene, we can guess it will have something to do with cars. The shot as the next scene comes in, is of a very gloomy looking road, with lampposts shinning bright down a road, where we see young girls in mini skirts. We can hear the older womans heels as she is walking up the strret, towars a parked car. We then learn how she will get the money for the train. She will get her money by sleeping with the man in the parked up car.

Life On Mars TV Analysis

Life On Mars: Episode One

Representation of place - past/present. Life On Mars. (Manchester 2006)

The opening sequence in episode one cuts between the credits and an extreme close up of the front wheel of a car going at high speed on a main city road, in present day, Manchester. The colour palate us grey ( use of grey filters) which connotes bleakness, monotony and technology. The car is also a masculine signifier, and is an object characters identify with. ( The car represent Sam Tyler) The grey steel is unforgiving textures, reliant on technology, washed out colour. The use of the rule of thirds and the rule of diagonal creates a sense of movement and perspective. The medium close-up shot of the terraced houses junxtaposed with the tower block that dominated the mise-en-scene. The tower block connotes the crime and to some a hostile environment. The terraced houses connotes community, neighbours, more control and in the shot they represent that past. Life over towers block because it is more modern, Mars is over terraced housing which could suggest another dimension. This could mean that the past and the future are so different we associate the past with terraced housing roof which creates a sense of movement and dimensions. Cloud over the tower block ( modern day weather ) and reflective light over the terraced housing ( representing another dimension) They grey clouds over the tower block could suggest that the director finds modern day boring and the light over the terraced house more interesting.


Tyler's associated with the suits, smart cars and he is the middle of it all. He is shown to be very stylish and modern. Tyler seems to act like a machine and that he has lost part of himself and has become cold. He has quite robotic feelings, and is dismissive which is proven when he speaks to his girlfriend. It is clear the the couple are having problems, but when she tries to speak to speak to him, Tyler says to her " What use are feelings?" Which show she he is cold and robotic and is lost in a materialistic world of technology and smart suits. Tyler's girlfriends clothes are the same colour as the clothes he is wearing and the colour are also associated with police colours and technologies, grey, cold colours.

The low angle tilt shot of the police headquarters and Sam Tyler's car indicated the importance of the police headquarters in the narrative and the importance of Tyler. The dominant grey tone reinforces the contemporary setting which is hard metallic surfaces. The use of the tilt shot represents confusion and disorientation. The police car is beside Tyler's car which shows us that it is the police headquarters.


In the interview room they rely on technology, they use a tape recorder. ( This also resembles something from the past ) They also use a laptop to show the criminal a picture of himself, in which the victims have identified as the attacker. In the interview room everything is blue and grey. The police are very hard on Colin ( accused of being the attacker) and the social worker tries to stick up for him, because he has an alibi, as he was with her at the time of the attack. At this point Tyler is felling angry because this was the only lead to finding the attacker, and this puts him back to the start of his investigation.

After the interview and after Tyler had acted harshly towards his girlfriend, he receives a call about a crime scene. The crime scene is set in a child's park surrounded by tower blocks, and grey clouds. The park is set against the tower blocks which brings innocence into the shot, but the shirt that Tyler's girlfriend was wearing was covered with blood and it is draped across the swing. At this point Tyler is feeling upset and guilty as his last words to his girlfriend were very cold and dis hearted.


In the next shot it focus's on Tyler's face and his expressions, as he is upset that his girlfriend has been either kidnapped or murdered. His last words to Mia were cold hearted, unloving. He used robotic personality while sowing emotion for his girlfriend. There is a shot of his ipod, which is very modern and 21st century. The song changes to David Bowie - Life On Mars which brings the 70's into the car and the scene.

Don't Look Now analysis

The scene opens up as the Bells of Venice, a man humming the it fades into black. The scen then opens outdoor's and soft music is playing. A shot is then shown of the little girl throwing her ball into the shallow river, this could represent the outcome of what may happen. There are a lot of water shots and refelections of the little girl in the river. The girls father is in the house looking at images and there is an image of a church with a little girl sitting in a pew. The little girl outside is wearing red, he then begins to link the two things together and starts to panic. There is then a shot of their little boy playing outside on his bike, and he falls off, this is when feelings start to kick in because you know something bad is going to happen next. The music is playing inside the house, but the camera shot stays outside. The shot outside is of the little boy running to save his sister, because he has seen her fall into the river, drowning. Inside the house, their father is still looking at the image, hand water leaks onto it, linking everything together. The colours of the images begin to smear together which gives the idea of the little girl falling into the river, and drowning. Their father then panics and jumps up and rushes outside to the rive, where he hears his son shouting 'Daddy' He rushes over to river and jumps in to find his little girl. The camera stays on him trying to find his little girl, and his son overlooking, trying too see what is happening. When the man has finally found his daughter he reaches the surface and lets out a scream, at this point the scream cuts across the sound. The shot then shows the man staggering out of the river with his daughter in his arms. As he lays her down onto the river bank and tries to resuscitate his daughter, his son is looking anoxiously looking over. Their mum is inside the house, unaware of what has happened, until she looks out the window at the camera and lets out an almighty scream. Her loud screaming then lead into the next scene of a man drilling into the wall.

Analysis of Leon

In the opening scenes of Leon, its pans across trees and water. The camera then carries us across a landscape and cuts into a city road. The camera then moves into a dark doorway, which leads into a shop. It then leads into a room which is lit very dull, where 2 men are sitting at a table. You can only see one man. You can only see the other mans dark glasses and his hands, in which he is holding a glass of milk. The shot then carries us through into a hotel where we see a stocky gangster. From the opening scenes we can see that there will be some sort of gangster trouble as there is use of dark lighting, and dark shades. We first see Leon in his shades, but the rest of his identity remain hidden. In the opening of a scene we can see spiral staircases, these are used to create a mystery because we can't see who is coming up the stairs but we can hear them. The opening of the scene shows a stocky gangster in a hotel, who is having sex with a blonde girl, and is dealing with drugs. Leon kills all of the gangster's bodyguards, in a clever, but simple way. The shots show how he kills the bodyguard's but still they don't reveal his identity. There is a moment when the stocky gangster tries to escape, but Leon has cleverly blocked him in the room, meaning that the stocky gangster can't escape. We then see Leon emerge from a dark doorway and put a knife up to the stocky gangster's throat. After Leon has finished with the stocky man, he goes back to his apartment, where Matilda, a young innocent girl is introduced. She is sitting in between the railings of the spiral staircase, looking down, smoking a cigarette. The young girl is shown to have been beaten by her father. When Leon arrives back at his apartment, Matilda confides in him.

Street font poster

This is my street font poster. The aim of this was to find fonts that we thought were 'street' The 3 down the left hand side are the sorts of fonts that you would find on graffiti walls.