Preliminary task

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Initial Ideas!

My group consists of Deniz, Hannah and I. We decided to make our story-line very simple and easy to understand. We start of with two girls in separate house who are out getting ready to go out. These two girls are Natalie and Deniz. Deniz will ring Natalie and there will be a close up shot of the phone ringing. The girls will then decided to meet at a train station, however Deniz gets told by her mum that she must walk the dog before she leaves. Next the camera shows both girls leaving and follows their footsteps. Deniz then gets followed through the park by an unknown character. Her dogs runs away and the unknown character brings the dog too her. As the character unveils herself it turns out to be someone Deniz knows.

Meanwhile Natalie has arrived at the train station and is waiting for Deniz. As she bends down to pick something up the camera zooms in on a hand that is about to grab her. Deniz then arrives at the train station to find Natalie is not their but and item from her person is left at the station.

The last scene is Deniz and Hannah two of Natalie's friends, sitting around a radio listening to a news report about Natalie's possible abduction. Deniz tried to call Natalie again and the camera flashes to a scene of the same hand from the train station reaching to pick up the phone and then it ends.

Working on Final cut pro for the first time.

My first time working on final cut pro was a much easier experience than I thought it was me. I naturally took the leading role and made sure that I knew everything and made sure that I had my go with everything. I instinctively took the leading role and took control of the computer as no one else wanted too.

Working on final cut pro was very interested as you got to learn step by step just how precise and careful you have to be when editing and putting together your own film. 

In the first part of the lesson we had to watch all of our shots and name them all and then label them best take, good take etc. This proved to take a very long time. All in all it took about 20 minutes minimum for us to get all of the takes in and labelled. This taught me about just how detailed the process is.

Next it was implementing the best takes and getting them all next to each other. this also proved quite simple as it didnt really take much time and all you had to do was tell the computer where you wanted it to play and drag.

I feel that the hardest part was continuity. It was hard to get everything perfect every time and this proved to take a lot of concentration and patience.

Lastly we added the title which was very straight forward.

New Line

New line:

The new line was established as a film distribution company by Robert Shaye in 1967. One of the companies earliest successes was the distribution of the 1936 anti cannabis propaganda film 'Reefer Madness'

List of 10 thriller films:

• A nightmare of elm street 
• The Texas chainsaw massacre
• Final Destination
• Blade: Trinity
• Freddy vs Jason
• Friday the 13th
• Alone in the dark
• The Freddy krueger special
• The nature of the beast
• Heaven's prisoners

List of 10 successful films:

1. Hairspray
2. Son of mask
3. Love and Basketball
4. My sister's keeper
5. He's just not that into you
6. Wedding crashers
7. Dumb and dumber
8. The lord of the rings
9. Sugar and spice
10. Dance of love

New line Cinema Corporation operates as an integrated independent film company worldwide. it engages in the production, marketing and distribution of theatrical motion pictures, home entertainment, television, music, and theatre. The company also provides licensing, merchandising, marketing and distribution services. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in New York, New York. New Line Cinema Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

They are in partnership of entertainment conglomerate AOL Time warner. The company has a television arm, music division and New Line Television. New Line are are an international releasing co-ordinates marketing and publicity for their overseas where he company does substantial business.

Thriller Directors

Alfred Hitchcock
Full name- Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Occupation- English film maker and producer
Born- 13th August 1899
Died- 29th April 1980 (aged 80)


Hitchcock's career is dated from 1926 to 1976. 


Trademark

• Hitchcock's trademark was to always make a cameo appearance in his films. It was almost a game for the viewers watching the film to spot him. He usually made his appearance in the beginning of his films. 
• He also like to include close up shots of women's hairstyles. 
• Almost fascinated with the acronym BM which stands for 'Bowel movement' he always found a reason to have a scene in a bathroom. Whether it was a hiding place or simply for love making the bathroom was the scene. 

Things he is well known for:

• For using a mistaken identity theme in his movies.
• Always formally dressed wearing suits on the film sets.
• He inspired the term Hitchcockian for suspense movies.
• Had dark sense of humour when it came to murder. 
• He hated to shoot on a location, he preferred to shoot scenes in a studio where he had full control over the lighting and other factors

Famous films and his salary:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/bio

Psycho (1960)	60% of the net profits (salary deferred)
North by Northwest (1959)	250,000 + 10% of the net profits.
Vertigo (1958)	$150,000 + 10% of the profits +film negative ownership
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)	$150,000 + 10% of the profits +film negative ownership
Rear Window (1954)	$150,000 + 10% of the profits +film negative ownership
Notorious (1946)	$7,000/week
Suspicion (1941)	$2,500/week
The Lady Vanishes (1938)	$50,000

Thriller actors and the thriller films they come in.

Laurence Fishbourne

• Born- 30th July 1961
• American
• He is an on screen actor, director, playwright and producer.

Laurence has starred in all of the matrix films and also in CSI- Crime scene investigation.  Also to add to the list he also came in:

1. Mission Impossible
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
3. Miami Vice
4. Death Wish 2

Sir Thomas Sean Connery

• Born - 25th August 1930
• Scottish actor and producer
• Has one an academy award, two baftas and three golden globes.

Sean Connery played James Bond for seven successful films between 1962 and 1983. 

These seven films include:

• Dr No (1962)
• From Russia with Love (1963)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• Thunderball (1965)
• You only live twice (1967)
• Diamonds are forever (1971)
• Never say never again (1983

A few other films that Connery has starred in are:

1. Murder on the orient express.
2. A bridge to far
3. The wind and the Lion

Walter Bruce Willis

• Born- 19th March 1955
• Born in Idar Oberstein, West Germany
• He is an actor, producer and musician. 

Bruce Willis is best well known for the role he played as John McClane in the Die Hard series.

He also starred in a number of other films, some of which are listed below:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Armageddon
3. Sin City
4. The Sixth Sense

Charlize Theron

• Born-  7th August 1975
• Actress, producer and director
• South African
• Fashion model

Charlize has starred in many films such as:

1. The devils's Advocate
2. Men of honor
3. Trapped

I feel that this particular actors and actresses were chosen for films and are regularly chosen for films as they are not just good performers they are good looking and of a high standard of attractiveness. If the protagonist is a male It's a way of getting the audience to almost fall for characters as women will be thinking they would like to be well acquainted with a male actor, whilst males could be thinking they would like to be them. On the other hand if the protagonist is a female women could be very happy that for once it's the woman doing the cliched male thing and that would therefore help with marketing and selling movies.