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.