misc en scene in Psycho

Psycho

Marion in  the motel

When Marion stood in that room ranting you can easily identify the objects in the room. One area of misc en scene is props. The props are used in an innovate way to portray to the audience true character of Marion. The birds of prey should the alter ego of Marion. It shows how the birds prey on their food Marion prays on the young lady. 

The owl is a nocturnal animal, meaning it only preys at night. The owl being the most obvious could mean the director wanted to show the audience that the alter ego of Marion was to be most prominent at night.

Furthermore, the candle that was in the middle ground is not lit up. This can represent the 'cold' atmosphere in the office and this an indication of the tension between the two characters.

Title sequences

Pink Panther 

The production company is the Mirisch company presents a Blake Edwards production - The Pink Panther. The titles to this movie is presented in intercut shots. The order of how the titles are presented are of a normal movie. The production company comes first following a series of the main actors. Then finally comes the movie name in big letters. The last people to be shown were the producers and director. 

This title is a real good example of how a movie intertwines themes of the movie within the actual title. For example, the colours used show the link to the Pink Panther. The text looks cartoony and informal showing that it is an animation. From the start you can see a very comical Panther, who is the main character. You can get clues about what the movie will be about from the title. There is a little man who looks like a detective trying to find the Panther. This could show that the movie can be a mystery theme film. Overall the film from the title attracts the audience well and as an animation it looks fun and exciting to watch.

Art of the Title

Art of the Title

This website was a great source of information on how title sequences are put together. The website was graphically well laid out and consisted of great illustrations. It gives us information on how each title sequence was made- (all the people who made the title sequence give their own comments of how they conducted the music, animated movements and many more).

Website lay out 

Star Wars

A very unique title sequences that  interest me is the title sequence from star wars. This unique as the moving text slides upwards different from any other film. It can represent how slow time everything moves up in space as thats where the film is supposed to be set. The font is clear and easy to read. It is big bold and moves slow. This so the audience can pay attention to the opening lines. 

The next title sequence is from the movie spectre. This is a James bond movie which could indicate it ould taker factors from other bond title sequences. This could be things such as the calm soothing music the accompanies the title sequence. There is many attempts to evoke motion out of the audience through props and fire. The titles have a fixation on octopuses which could be a metaphor for a clue in the storyline of the movie.

Spectre 

3 initial ideas for Thriller Opening

3 initial ideas for Thriller Opening

We had 3 thriller ideas these included a mafia thriller, action thriller and comedy thriller 

1. Mafia styled thriller


This is an idea where we had an idea of two rival mafias. When these two mafias meet it doesn't go down very well. The story entails a exchange of a bag. When the exchange doesn't go to plan the rivals go at each other. 


2. Action thriller

This idea has two people in the car, who search around the urban estate for any trouble. When they come across a rival enemy they get out to start a chase. There is a small fight scene in the alleyways to create action. The enemy retreats back to home territory and is able to get help. One of the rival gang members betrays the other leaving him all on his own. The thriller stops there


3.  Comedy thriller 

Third idea is a comedy thriller where there are three friends just having fun on the streets and they they go in a car and start driving around and just having fun they crack jokes mess about with each other and everything goes really well until suddenly there is a car crash and everyone is badly hurt. 

Our ideas on paper

Location sheet

Location Visit Sheet Programme Title: Hunter Hunted Client: Writer: Altin,Eric and arbaz Producer: Josh Byrne Director: Arbaaz Date:

We took this when out doing some field research on where to film. This area was perfect for our location as it had the tower block and alleyways we needed Tower block Access to location via:  driving distance from school Name and number of location contact: The area is called heath park it is in Dagenham, London

Health and Safety Issues to note: The health and safety issues are that there could be people that do not want to be filmed or have the flat being filmed. We don't want to invade anyone's privacy. Also we will be carrying around baseball bats so we need to be careful as they can inflict harm.

Potential Filming Problems : If we are filming and something happens to the camera we will not be able to film also if the weather changes and rains to hard for example we wouldn't be able to film. If someone does not have the same clothes as they did in previous shots then that can be a filming problem.

Camera Techniques evaluation

Evaluation

I believe that our attempt to recreate different shots went really well. We tried from the easiest to most difficult shots. Our most successful shots consisted of those where you didn't need specialist equipment for example, the medium and close up shots.

We experienced some difficulties with the moving shots as we didn't have the equipment. We only had a basic tripod. For example when we were performing the tilting technique. As the camera was tilted, it looked a bit shaky and it was supposed to move smoothly. The tilting technique was a little hard to shoot as the camera man has to keep the camera steady. Also, the camera tilted to the left side- it would've been better if the camera was tilted to the right side as well in order for us to see how the image looked on both sides.

Tripod we used

Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the product ?

In the preliminary task, were given a list of camera shots that you can use effectively to make a good thriller opening. In the completed thriller, we were using these techniques more innovatively to build an opening to a thriller. 

This is our shot reverse shot

During the progression from the preliminary task to the completed thriller, I have learnt how to demonstrate Match-on-action, 180 Degree Rule, Shot/Reverse shot, Eyeline Match and we had performed some of these techniques successfully. I have also learnt how each of these shots generally make the thriller more interesting and engaging for the audience to watch.

From there we went on to adapting the shot so that it suited to our thriller and its needs 

So, in our thriller it wasnt effective to do shoulder to shoulder in a moving car. It wouldn't work. So we made a progression where you can see both shoulders in the car and still listen to the convo that is happening. Facial expressions can also be interpreted.

The skills i gained was that i was able to know what would work well in different shots and what did thats why we took many shots just in case so when we looked at the editing we picked out the best angles and what worked well with the film.