Shot 1
This screengrab is supposed to set the opening of the story, with a line of crack cocaine and an unrolled roll up of a cigarette. This shot was intended to create dark eeire mood of the opening which would continue on in the film, which is a thriller convention we used to help indicate the genre of the film. The extreme close up is the first shot of our film and we began by a fade in of this shot followed by a pan to the left to an extreme close up of the drugs and tobacco. This shot also could create assumptions for the audience watching, for example, who the drugs and tobacco belongs to, which creates a stereotypical view of the character. The audience may assume that the film could be related to drugs due to this shot. The choice of an extreme close up was because of the importance that the drugs and tobacco contains (negative conotations). We wanted to create a link of the drugs and tobacco to our antagonist to make the audience realise he is a wicked character. Overall, the shot uses conventions well especially the darkness of the shot and also sets the opening of the story well.
Shot 2
The shot used here demonstrates the camera work and editing. The antagonist is the character being revealed here through a faint lighting showing his silouette in a close up shot. We challenged a thriller convention here, to let the audience know who the main character is and the role they would play in the film. This shot also tells the audience what character the film will evole around and as we challenged this convention, we thought this would attract the audience as it is dfifferent to the usual narative and convention of showing the protagonist first. Furthmore, we also would expect this to have an impact on the audience too. The shot is presented in darkness to create an uncomfortable mood, which creates tension due to the evil look of the character conveying to the audience that he will be influential on the plot of the thriller film. Furthermore, the situation of the antagonist also reflects his role in the film; he is in a dark room potraying a dark and sinical person and seems to show no emotion to the darkness as though he likes evil. The shot also includes a title of our film and is presented in the top right of the frame. The font of the title is worned out and damaged which we intended it to be as it feeds in well with our opening and the frame.
Shot 3
This shot shows a clock ticking away on the wall. We adjusted the lighting to reveal the seconds ticking alsmot to show that the film could be time related. It could also show that time is a key aspect of the film say, for example, the antagonist may be up to something wicked or has a time limited to escape. The focus whilst we were filming was to show the dial ticking away making the audience link shots together to create a storyline in their head. We also intended this shot to create questions for the audience to be considering. The mise-en-scene was key here and focus was heavily put here to construct the slight low angled shot.
Shot 4
In this slightly high angled shot, the setting and location of the opening is presented here, with the antagonist staring at a fuzzy tv. Again, the use of lighting was minimal; we only used the tv's lighting and closed the blinds in the room to create a tense mood, with the light from the tv being able to show the characters facial expressions. We can tell the setting is in a bedroom, with a bed with no duvet and pillow. Just by seeing this, the audience can guess the type of person he is and intentially, we had done this to enchance the thriller genre. It would also confuse the audience as there is no pillow and duvet, which is not a usual aspect of sleeping. The darkness in the room traps the antagonist and it seems as though he is looking into the tv's light in order to seek some help. On the other hand, the antagonist could have his room as a sort of hideout which is common in thrillers in particular, crime thrillers. The reason for this is becaues its dark and it seems as though he wants to be seperate to others.
Shot 5
The title of our film is called 'mind games' which is the next shot in the 9 frame. The effect used is a flying motion when the film title is presented forcefully which was purposefully done to put across to the audience the seriousness of the film. Another point is that the title is in bold and in a red and black colour which is contrasting to the white colour to the other titles. The colour red denotes violence, danger and fear and these are aspects of our film which links to the title and is reflected too. Furthermore, the titles also seem as though they have been battered and bruised, representing our film, creating tension again and mirrors the thriller genre we have used, a crime thriller. We took time to select carefully the font of our titles as we wanted it to suit well with our thriller sub-genre which I believe does fit in well.
Shot 6
This frame of an extreme close up shows the products used by our antagonist in our film. You can clearly see there is a rizzla, some sort of drugs prescribed for him and a wristband from a hospital stating the antagonists details. We managed to use an extreme close up by putting the camera inside the drawer and the stability was not effected due to the straight surface of a drawer. The shot again was to emphasise the importance of the antagonist and helped with the prgoression of the characters identity. The audience may assume that he is a controversial character due to the use of medicine and a wristband from a hospital. Moreover, we can assume that the antagonist may have been involved with a scenario where he ended up in a mental hospital and has now escaped, just by looking at the medicine and wristband. The rizzla indicates to the viewers that the character smokes and may be addicted to it, revealing the type of lifestyle he may live. The conventions of a thriller is used here as the products in the drawer shown here can imply to the audience that it belongs to the antagonist which was shown earlier.
Shot 7
In this shot, the antagonist is holding a knife as he looks to hear whether the protagonist, who is the policeman, is approaching his door. He acknowledges this because he hears a car door slam shut and looks outside the window to see the protagonist. Here we create suspense during the opening by the facial reaction of the character, who is looking serious portraying a main character. This medium shot was purposefully used as it would show the antagonist with the knife looking to create havoc as he prepares to kill the protagonist. The knife is a prop we used which generates tension as the audience would want to know whether he will use the knife or whether he gets caputred. All sorts of question would be running through the head of our audience just by looking at this shot. This leaves the audience on a cliffhanger as they would be restless to find out what will happen as the scene continues with a cross cutting of the policeman walking up the flat towards the door of the antagonist. The use of editing was also effective as suspense as well as tension was built up from the cross cutting between the policeman walking up the stairs and the antagonist in his room.
Shot 8
Here is another inroduction of a chracter. This is the first time the audience sees the protagonist and may feel a sense of relief as the 'hero' is here to save the day. We used a police hat to represent the protagonist as a policeman and gradually brought him into the scene by first showing him looking into the mirror in the car. This was purposefully done as it is a sort of sneak peak to slowly break the tension created previously by the shots and actions.
Shot 9
In this shot, we can clearly see the antagonist in the middle of the frame, showing his dominanc and intimidating presence he has. A long shot was used here as it shows the setting of the film too. The policeman has his back to the camera which may make the audience feel as though he is determined to solve any problem and catch the antagonist. The protagonist is also wearing a white t-shirt which is what protagonists or good chracters where as it prtotrays a sense of purity and cleanliness.
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