Thursday, 18 October 2012

Research

Callum's analysis of Se7en

Callum's final analysis was on the horror thriller Se7en directed by Kyle Cooper. His analysis is below. 




My Evaluation

Callum states how the opening of this opens with an ambiguous tone through extreme close up shots of an anonymous character. He also mentions that an interesting technique which has been used in this opening, whereby lots of graphic images appear on screen for a few seconds. But because they are so shocking, that is all they need to stick in your mind. If we decide to make a horror thriller we might want to consider using some of these techniques ourselves to create an ambiguous atmosphere and add a sense of fear to the audience when they watch our opening.

Callum also describes how an edgy and tense mood is created through loud, disjointed, non-diegetic sound, connoting danger, or perhaps it might be an insight into the characters mind. We might want to consider using this idea of using sound to portray aspects of a particular character in our coursework. 

Callum goes on to talk about the mise-en-scene, he states that there is a dark atmosphere, which from my research I have learnt this to be very popular in many thriller film openings. This is generally used to connote some kind of danger. 

Finally, Callum talks about the titles. He describes how the font looks like handwriting which could be related to the action within the frame (a man writing in a book). The technique of linking these two together might be an interesting idea we could incorporate into our own coursework. 

3 comments:

  1. A good reflective post Rachel!

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  2. Your blog as of today (21/10) is excellent Rachel. I have included some things you could do to help you reflect upon all your learning from the research to prepare for the Planning stage.

    Remember to mix up posts-so audio and video posts are always worthwhile and save time!

    Well done!

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  3. Thank you! Ok I'll try and include some audio and video soon to mix the posts up

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