Research and Planning

Script for preliminary task.


Shot 1- This shot is a mid shot of a girl walking from from the camera.

Shot 2 - Shot 3 is a long shot of the girl walking towards the camera down the corridor.

Shot 3- The Next shot is a Point of view shot of the girl walking down the corridor.

Shot 4 - A point of view shot showing the girl about to open the door.

Shot 6 - Long shot of the girl walking through the door into the classroom.

Shot 7 - There’s a tracking shot of the girl moving around the room to sit on her chair opposite another girl.

Shot 8 - Twin mid shot of two people sitting at the table having an argument about boys

Shot 9 - Over the shoulder shot of girl trying to calm the other girl down.

Dialogue

Rachel: What do you want from me

Sophie: Where have you hide the bodies

Rachel: If your so clever you tell me

Characters Name-

1st Girl - Sophie

2nd Girl - Rachel

Research and Planning

Pre-lim Story Board 

Planning and Research

Opening Sequence Analysis the difference between Panic Room and Se7en

• Camera Shot/Angle/Movement
• The difference between the opening of Panic Room and Se7en is that in Se7en you get a lot of short camera shots that show different objects that look like would kill people which makes the character look evil/ a killer. Although in Panic Room has lots of long establishing shots which tells them audience more about were the film is going to be set. Both Panic Room and Se7en are directed by the same person which is David Fincher.   

• Sound
• The sound in the opening of Panic Room is all non diegetic until you get to the and when you have some dialogue with the two women talking who are walking through the streets. Although in Se7en their is a lot of diegetic sound. You hear what sounds like a saw/ knife being sharpened, also what sound like a women screaming. This adds a lot of tension to the opening scene.   

• Editing
• The editing in the opening of Panic Room shows a lot of long cuts which shows the audience a lot of information amount the film. Compared to Se7en where there are a lot of short cuts which makes the scene more intense and gives it a more scary effect about the film. 

• Mise en Scene
• The lighting in the opening of se7en is all artificial lighting/ yellow light which gives the effect that it has been filmed inside. The props used are all very evil like a someone is getting ready to kill. The setting seems to be in like a basement. The lighting in the opening of Panic Room is all natural light/ white light. This is due to it has been filmed outside and tells that audience more about the film. The setting is set in New York. 

• Characters
• The character in the opening of se7en we only ever see their hand. Which look to be male. In the opening of Panic Room we hear and see the two women talking which gives us the impression that these two people are going to the main characters. 

• Locations
• The location in the opening of Se7en seems to be in a basement. Which is dark, damp and seems like an unhappy place to be in which makes us feel sorry for the person who has be be in  the scene. The opening of Panic Room is set in New York which is a busy city and makes us feel that the film is going to be set in and around the city of New York. 

• Narrative/Plot
• Because the opening of Se7en focuses on the activities of the antagonist the audience can assume that the narrative and plot based around time and the consequences of his actions. This differs from Panic Room in the way that the tall building of the city dominate that opening without giving us any sort of really sense of the main character.         

Planning and Research

Se7en 

Opening Sequence Analysis of Se7en 

• Camera Shot/Angle/Movement
• The camera angles, shots and movement of the opening scene of se7en seem to be mainly a close up of a mans hands and other objects like books photographs. Using these camera shots and angles they build tension throughout the scene. Also at the beginning of the scene their is a high angled shot of a set of deformed hands.   

• Sound
• The sound in the opening scene is mainly non-diegetic sound. But in the middle of the scene you hear like an electrical drill which also sounds like an women screaming. Also the non-diegetic sound running throughout the scene seems to keep in time with what you see on the screen. 

• Editing
• The editing in the opening scene uses straight forward cuts for example at the beginning of the opening scene you see a set of hands flicking through a book, then they cut to the credits to tell you who is in the film, then it goes back to the book but this time it is open and with an high angled shit of the hands and then back to the opening credits. 

• Mise en Scene
• The Mise en Scene in the opening scene uses very dark and artificial lighting. Which makes the scene feel dark, gloomy and quite frightening. Also it seems like the light is focused on one particular point in each shot. Also the props used are books, photographs, a razor blade and a very strange prop to have is a tea bag in the scene. Their is a person hi-lighting words in a book and colouring over peoples faces. The opening scene to me looks like the character is processing a photography film to put into a book that they are making.  

• Characters
• Throughout the opening scene to the scene you only see one character. You only see close up of the characters hands, which look like a mans hands. We have no idea of what the character looks like but i would think that he is going to be the main character in the film.   

• Locations
• In the opening scene you don’t get much idea of where the character actually is. I would think that the character is in an basement or a laboratory. Somewhere that is not easily assessable. 

• Narrative/Plot
• The narrative plot in the opening scene death. Also i feel that it is about an unknown curial killer that kills people throughout the film. 

• Themes
• The themes running through the opening scene look like they are going to be death, suffering possible serial killer. 

• Visual Style
• In the opening of Se7en there are so many cuts in the first 35 seconds and we still don’t no really what is going on in the scene or what the main character looks like.  

• Genre
• I feel that the Genre in the film se7en is a thriller. I think this as all the scenes you see are dark short cuts that created a dangerous feeling to the film.  

Research and Planning

Panic Room           Opening Sequence Analysis for Panic Room 

• Camera Shot/Angle/Movement
• The camera shot is the opening scene of Panic Room used lots of establishing shot. The scene used lost of panning shots that look like to be taken in America. The camera angles in the oepinging scene are high angled shots looking up at the buildings which gives the viewer a feel of how tall the buildings and and the other camera shots and low angled shots looking down at the city.  

• Sound
• The sound in the opening scene on Panic Room is non-diegetic sound. The non-diegetic sound adds to the tension the in opening scene and gives the viewers an on edge feeling. 

• Editing
• The editing in the opening scene of Panic Room their is simple cuts between scenes and a sound bridge at the end where you can hear the two women talking but cant see them then the camera zooms on and we can see were the sound is coming from. Also the text running in front of the film this editing is a special effect.   

• Mise en Scene
• The Mise en Scene in the opening scene to Panic Room shows us the buildings which gives the viewers an idea of where the film is going to be set. Also the lighting in the film is natural daylight. The two women at the end of the opening scene are dressed in business like cloths as if they were going to work.  

• Characters
• The only characters in the opening scene of Panic Room that the audience see are the the two women who seem to be walking to work. This gives the audience an idea that the two women may be the main characters throughout the film.   

• Locations
• The location setting in the opening scene of Panic Room seem to be set in a big city like New York. We may think this as you see big sky scrapers and busy streets that look like what you would find in New York.  

• Narrative/Plot
• Unlike the opening of Se7en their is no clue of what is going to happen next of what the film is going to be about. 

• Themes
• Unlike Se7en the opening to Panic Room doesn’t give much away about what the film is going to be about. Although you have scenes of New York which gives the audience an idea that the film is going to be set in the city.  

• Visual Style
• The opening of Panic Room really doesn’t give much away about the film at all. Un till write at the end of the scene you actually see the characters.