Selecting the sound was (in my opinion) the hardest job, as there was no “perfect” sound that matched the sequence.
One day whilst editing, the song Cradles by SubUrban auto-played on YouTube and it was a match!!! Not only the beat of the song but also the lyrics matched the story of the opening sequence.
Once I added the song, I reduced its speed by 13 percent and cut out the first 8 seconds of it just to match the beat drop with the scene when the antagonist comes behind the protagonist.
There are two main character in this opening story. The female protagonist, Aliyah and the male antagonist, who’s name is not disclosed until the very end of the movie, Ali.
Aliyah is just another girl from Karachi who loves getting dressed up. She has a 9 to 5 job at a textile company as a receptionist. Before she came to Karachi she lived in Multan, where she had a harsh past and had done multiple unimaginable things, for money.
Maham Nadeem will be acting as Aliyah and Farishtey Ali would be acting as Ali.
In this movie, Ali will be portrayed as a mysterious character, someone who is very anxious and suffers from social anxiety but is a great hacker. He has a split personality disorder due to which he is going to come after Aliyah after all the years. This character was inspired by Mr Robot.
There are multiple props that will be utilized in the making of this opening sequence.
Firstly the makeup products such as the makeup brush used to apply blush, a mascara wand and a red lipstick. Next a pair of ear-rings and a necklace will also be used as the actress will wear them.
The dressing table will also be there which would have all the props mentioned above on it.
A phone and a mirror will also be used along with a South Asian cultural dress and a hoodie in the making of this opening sequence.
These are elements that come together to produce meaning in a media text. Codes include every thing in the Misen-scene (frame).In the Misen-scene there are three kinds of codes
Symbolic codes include
Technical codes include
Written codes are everything that is mentioned in the Misen-scene, this includes text of every size, font and placement.
The ‘Big Six’ collectively command approximately 80 – 85 percent of US & Canadian box office revenue. These ‘Big Six’ are: 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures & Walt Disney Pictures. Of these, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures were part of the original ‘Big Five’ who operated during the Golden Age of Hollywood (late 1920s to mid-1940s). The other three –Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures & Walt Disney Pictures earned the market share much later.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures stands at the forefront of the entertainment industry. In 2013, Warner Bros. ruled the movie world with a market share of $5.03 billion globally*. Some of the biggest releases of the studio this year include The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Gravity, and Man of Steel.
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox is the world’s second largest film studio after Warner Bros. The studio has distributed various commercially successful films, including Avatar, Ice Age, X-Men, Die Hard, Planet of the Apes, Night at the Museum, and Fantastic Four, securing them their position as one of the Big Six studios of Hollywood.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures is the longest operating major studio in Hollywood. It has a century of experience in finest production services from development of story idea to post production.
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures or Universal Studios is best known for three of Steven Spielberg’s biggest hits – Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park, each of which became the highest-grossing film ever at the time of its release. The massive backlot of the Universal Studios is used by other film studios including Walt Disney. Parts of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and the recreation of Whitecap Bay for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides were both shot at Universal Studios backlot
Sony Pictures Entertainment (earlier known as Columbia-Tristar Pictures)
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Walt Disney Studios
The Walt Disney Studio’s multi-faceted film division produced some groundbreaking films, such as Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated movie, and Pinocchio, a film with intricate levels of technical brilliance in animation, that made the studio stand apart. Over the decades, Disney Studio introduced numerous technologies in animation & live action films
A thriller is a type of genre that is designed to create suspense within the viewers using suspenseful and sensational action. In my opinion Thrillers strive to startle, shock and scare, but that doesn’t need disgust like the conventions of a typical horror movie.They stimulate the viewers mood by giving them high level of surprise, anxiety and anticipation.
The plot is concentrated on quickly moving action, danger, and high stakes. The main characters always have something threatening their lives and it is very much a rush against time. The characters do not lead a normal everyday life, or at least if they started out leading one of normality something comes along and changes it. Conventionally, the narrative in a thriller is usually in non chronological order to confuse and build tension for the audience.
What does a thriller film need to achieve?
A thriller film hooks the audience and keep them on edge, building tension and suspense and t does this by hiding information or identities from the audience to heighten the interest of audience. For example it will include misleading information to take the audience off track and confused.
Conventional Themes and Characters of a Thriller include:
Technical Elements:
Crime Thriller
The thriller genre may include sub-genres and hybrids. This is defined as the merger of one genre with other genres such as mystery horror and more.
Ok, so taking all of the above into account, a crime thriller is basically a thriller that concentrates on the impact of a crime on the protagonist. It is not always necessary that the perpetrator of the crime be kept secret, though this can also be a staple ingredient. This is inclusive of the mystery genre as well!
My opening sequence uses this sub genre as the antagonist is not shown through out. I had hidden his identity through out to give an adrenaline rush in the audience, thi i believe would make them interested and interred toknow what happens next.
When we got into further depths of the formation of a film (the pre-production process) we were asked to analyse colors and what they meant.
Here are a few examples:
Action, Crime, Drama
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller 8.5 Rate 85 Metascore
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.
Director: Michael Mann
Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
Director: Ishirô Honda
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi
These were some facts about my favorite movies!
My film is about the return of an old “nemesis” of the (main) female character. It shows the extent the “nemesis” goes to just to take his revenge on the female character. He does this by bringing back the past actions of the female character by hacking into her phone, that she had left behind before moving to a new city.
The genre of this opening sequence is thriller and horror. The scene will be shot at my house and my friend will be acting in it. The props involved would be; makeup products, a mobile phone, the jewelry worn by the actor, her costume, the mirror, the dressing table and the lights and boxes in the background.
The scene opened with a panning towards the face of the female character, who is getting ready for an occasion. There are several extreme close-ups on her face, that show her applying the makeup to different parts of her face and wearing jewelry. Suddenly she gets a text message on her mobile phone, from a random number. The camera here shows an over the shoulder shot of her reading the text message (which is blur).A black figure then passes from behind her. She then suddenly turns around and with a closeup of her shocked expression the screen decreases into the title of The Return.
I was asked multiple times, “why crime?” , “why horror?” or “why thriller?” Most of the times i did not have the answer to this, but when i sat down and thought about it i came to a conclusion that these are my favorite genres. I thought about the movies i watch and the other kind of media i consume and realized that unlike the “typical 16 year old girl who is into rom-coms,” i like horrors, thrillers and movies with crimes in them more.
So for a match in September filmed a video for the official college page using my phone and edited it using iMovies.
ALIZAY IMAM RIZVI
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think”
My name is Alizay Imam Rizvi. I am (almost) 17, so technically 16. I would describe myself as an extrovert, who is extremely out going and loves to make friends. I really like makeup and sports, a weird combination I know but it is what it is. My favorite product of all time might be the Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance Palette. I have been in my school basketball team since Grade 4 and I have also been rowing for around 4 years now. I am not very selective and opinionated when to comes to genres but my 2 absolute favorites are Horror and Rom-Coms. I enjoy writing poetry aswell and have my own page on Instagram.
https://instagram.com/alizayy.imam?igshid=1bnmbg2noy3yz
Choosing Media over sciences was a pretty easy decision for me but not for my parents. It was very hard for them to explain to my grandfather that now in the 21rst Century there is a scope for everything but my grandfather proved with evidence of my good grades that I should be a doctor. But I stood my ground and decided to do what I was interested in Media, Psychology and business. I want to do a major in Psychology and use my knowledge of media to have either a Youtube chanel or a blog that would cover all aspects of society.
Well thats all most everything about me. I hope you enjoy the Blog!
Once classes started our first assignment was to watch Birds and analyse it. I thoroughly enjoyed the way Hitchcock brought elements of suspense, horror, drama and thrill into the movie.
The one thing that really caught my attention was how initially the audience believe the film is a comedy as Hitchcock makes us as the viewer get an understanding of the characters back story before unleashing the terror in the rest of the film. The film was very modern for its era and the use of Technicolor added to the horror during the film because it was very new and towards the end the lighting and color created a dark atmosphere. The film also produces an amazingly compelling story line and for those reasons Hitchcock will never be forgotten for his amazing works.
It was one of the most successful suspense films of its time and possibly all time, directed by the Master of Suspense. This made me feel Hitchcock deserved to be called the master of suspense although others may feel this is not one of Hitchcock’s best films because of bad visual effects I think it is worthy of being in the top five of Hitchcock’s films.
Here are 8 narrative elements of a film that i was taught about:
Alizay Imam Rizvi 