Parity remake notes

When filming Ashleigh and Max were the actors in the film, and I did the filming and camera angles. To help us we had Max's and Ashleigh's phone. On Max's phone we had the still shots which were on the year 12 blog, and on Ashleigh's phone we had the video we were remaking. This helped us shoot the camera angles correctly, and helped us replicate the original video. 

Some difficulties we did have, was that we couldn't get the 'blood' on the wall of the toilets because we did not own the toilets, and there was a risk of it staining the walls. We overcome this problem and  decided to put blood on the sink instead, as that would wipe off easily, and was in the right position to work well. 

During the filming, we were limited on time as we had to get to form, or our next lesson, so some of our shots were rushed, and we didn't have enough time to perfect them.

9 Frame analysis

Panic Room
I screen shot the frames which i felt were most important and had meaning.

The frames show sights from New York, setting the scene in a busy City.
1) what happens in the scene?
there are various camera angles of buildings in New York.
2) how does it set up the story?
it doesn't set up the story, however it does set up some of the scenery. The film is about a mother and daughter being trapped in their new houses panic room, while men break into their house. so, there is hidden messages of the different types of buildings, and rooms inside them.
In one of the frames, there is a billboard, which has a happy couple on hugging, this could relate to the mother being divorced and her relationship problems.
3) how does it introduce the key characters?
it doesn't
4)how does this relate to the ending?
it shows different houses and buildings, and the ending is of the mother and daughter looking for a new house

9 Frame analysis

Se7en 
After watching the whole of the Se7en movie, i have done an analysis of the opening, and screen shot what i feel are the most important shots of the sequence.
(i dont know how to make better looking 3x3 photos, but here was my best try)

1) what is the purpose of the opening of a film?
-to give an insight to what is to come. There may be hidden messages that the audience won't pick up on until after they watch the film.
2) how does it set up thriller conventions of characters, story, mystery, Enigma code? 
-it does not reveal any faces of the characters, which gives mystery, because you can only see fingers, and movements of objects.
-it gives us clues to what the movie is about, for example the frame of when the person is cutting off his fingerprints suggests that he is hiding his identity or running from the police, and the disturbing pictures of a persons face being drawn over suggests that the person does not want that person to be alive no longer/wants him to be removed. The frame of the photo of the person being tortured foreshadows what is to come in the rest of the film.
- all the frames are dark coloured, with only black, brown, off white and some red slides. These colours are all linked to murder, especially the red representing blood. The other colours are dull, which you don't get in genres such as comedies, or romance.
-at the end of the frames, there is one which is someone removing the word 'GOD' from a newspaper, or book, this relates the book to be something to do with religion.
- mystery is created throughout the whole of the title sequence, because you won't know what is going on if you hadn't seen the film before (like me).
-Enigma codes: the answers we wanted to know while watching the opening/film. Who is the murderer? Why are they doing it? What is the meaning? How are the other people going to die?
3) What makes the audience want to watch the rest?
-the audience would want to find out the questions asked above. Like who the murderer was, and how are the other people going to die? The suspense and mystery is keeping them interested. Or Brad Pitt....

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