Memento Opening Scene...

Saw Opening Scenes..

Plot of "Help"

How much do you really know about the people you talk to online?

Who will you turn to for help?

Our story revolves around Fiona, an average 16 year old girl. Like most girls of her age she spends most of her time at home, online, on chat rooms and instant messenger. One night the dangers of this world come crashing down upon her with the simplest of things, having a new contact added to her msn.

After Fiona's parents leave the house she heads straight to her bedroom, as usual. She signs online and finds she has a new contact, she begins to talk with this new contact, at the beginning things are fine but then things begin to get a little strange. At first this new "friend" seems fine but then the conversation starts to become a little personal. She's getting messages stating "I know your alone" and "I'm coming over". This person couldn't possibly know this, was it someone messing her around or was this for real. Fiona states " You don't know were I live" the conversation goes dead!

She begins to hear banging on the door, SUSPENSE, when she moves to the door to find that there is no one there but from the reflection of the glass she sees a cloaked being right behind her. She moves for the door only to be grabbed, she struggles pushing the attacker down revealing his black shoes. She finally escapes from her house to run next door. She bangs on her neighbours door for what seems like a century until finally the creepy teenager that lives next door, Ethan, answers her calls.

He opens the door slowly and looks at her fearfully. "Something's happening! there is some guy in my house." Ethan invites her in, She notices his big black shoes, before she has any time to react he closes the door and looks at her with a sickening pleasure building in his eyes. She tries to push past him and run out screaming. He grabs the Fiona and pushes her into a darkened room. There is a strange silence as Ethan locks the door and walks away leaving Fiona in the room.

Fiona begins to panic and notices the only light in the room is illuminating from a computer's screensaver. She gets up from the ground and wakes the computer only to see the conversation on the screen that she had with the stranger earlier that night. He was the person that added her, he was the stranger in her house! She acts quickly as she has no phone, and her parents wont be back until the morning, she adds her friend to the messenger that is still running. Thankfully her friend is online and she has just enough time to key in "Help!" before Ethan busts in and grabs her again. She is dragged off screen. All the audience can see is the computer screen of the girls friends messages coming up and all they can her is the screaming of the girl.

Suddenly the screaming stops. Heavy constant footsteps grow louder and louder until we see Ethan appear on screen again before the computer. He begins to key into Fiona's friends conversation and the movie fades out.

Inspirations

In the pre-production part for task we have been asked to think about our inspirations in what we are about to set out to do. Most of the inspiration that i have for the creating of the main task comes from movies that i have seen and there are certain openings and particular scenes from these movies that i would love to capture aspects of in the production of our coursework.
Some of these videos are seen below.

Thriller

For our main task, we have decided to take the challenge of creating a thriller opening. One definition of the thriller genre that we have found is as follows,

Thriller: Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains.

Even from reading this definition we can see how this genre has some specific conventions and common characteristics that come with it, we feel that if we are to take up this genre for our main task we should identify some of these conventions in order to see which ones we may apply to our movie opening, or ones that we may challenge.

Below lies a list of what we have found to see seen in most movies of this genre.

• Thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas
• The heroes in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" accustomed to danger: law enforcement officers, spies, soldiers, seamen or aviators.
• Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots.
• In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened.
• In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process.
• Thrillers have been increasingly influenced by horror or psychological-horror exposure in pop culture, an ominous or monstrous element has become common to heighten tension.
• The monster could be anything, even an inferior physical force made superior only by their intellect, a supernatural entity, aliens, serial killers, or even microbes or chemical agents.

In creating the plot of our movie we will decide from this list what conventions we should take on to give the theme of a Thriller movie and the list above will help us in constructing our story.

Media Studies Project

This is a blog dedicated to the production of our coursework. The coursework is as follows:

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of
music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

Our group will try and create a great piece of video, learning from our mistakes made in the preliminary exercise and also using the techniques that helped us succeed in the previous task.