Reservoir Dogs Intro - Little Green Bag

Reservoir Dogs

Opening Credits:

• A Film by Quentin Tarantino
• Harvey Keitel
• Michael Madsen
• Chris Penn
• Steve Buscemi
• Lawrence Tierney
• Eddie Bunker
• Quentin Tarantino
• and Tim Roth
• Reservoir Dogs
• Randy Brooks
• Kirk Baltz
• Rich Turner
• and the voice of Steven Wright
• Casting Ronnie Yeskel, C.S.A.
• Music Supervisor Karyn Rachtman
• Costume Designer Besty Heimann
• Editor Sally Menke
• Production Designer David Wasco

At the very beginning of the opening credits, they use an establishing shot to set the scene of the film. What you see is a diner, and in it a table full of men in suits, one gradually standing up and walking away from the table. After this, the remainding people at the table stand up and follow him out of the diner, the scene then fades to black.

The next thing you see after the black screen, is a long shot of what looks like a parking lot, with a pick up truck in the background, as you slowly start to see the men come into shot from the right side of the screen, all walking together in a big group.

The camera then makes a fast paced cut onto what seems to be the leader of the group, with a close up of his face, it then adds the credits of the actor, and begins to jump between all of the group one by one, informing the audience of the actor in the film. The whole clip is in slow motion as the men walk towards two cars parked on the pavement across from the diner.

Eventually the scene draws to a close, with the shot fading to black, and the rest of the opening credits coming up.

The Purge Opening Scene

THE PURGE

                       

Opening credits:

• Universal Pictures presents
• A Platinum Dunes/Blumhouse/Why Not production
• Ethan Hawke
• Lena Headey
• Adelaide Kane
• Max Burkholder
• Edwin Hodge
• Tony Oller, Rhys Wakefield
• Arija Bareikis, Chris Mulkey
• Casting by Lisa Fields
• Costume design by Lisa Norcia
• Music by Nathan Whitehead
• Edited by Peter Gvozdas
• Production design by Melanie Paizis-Jones
• Director of photography Jacques Jouffret
• Co-producer Jeanette Volturno-Brill
• Produced by Jason Blum, p.g.a.
• Produced by Sebastien K. Lemercier, p.g.a.
• Produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
• Written and directed by James Demonaco

During the opening credits, what the viewers see is a series of clips, in the style of CCTV. This is to show the audience that all the crime has been captured by CCTV, and are now being broadcasted to us, the audience. 

The CCTV shows that nobody steps in to help people out, and that the cameras just watch, without alerting authority such as Police. It shows that on the night of the purge, nobody is safe and nobody can help you. 

I think that the opening credits, are a very good way of showing the audience a bit of background into the film, by letting us see previous clips of murders, robberies etc. It really helps the audience gain an understanding of what the film is about and what is going on.

Planning of the Thriller Draft

PLANNING

My group all met up with each other and started to discuss and brainstorm ideas about the scenes, first we were thinking of incorporating ideas of a robbery into the clip. Although we had those ideas, my group changed their minds, and decided to go with a more football themed thriller. Which to my disappointment got picked, I personally thought that football had no connection to thrillers in the slightest and that we would be better off creating a bank robbery scene as that contains suspense.

After the final theme was decided, the actors met up at Harry Edwards' house and talked about how the scenes would be shot. We spoke about where the tripod would be set up and how the camera would pan through the walls and capture the moment as if it were raw footage.

We had planned to include a scene with both 'Leaders' of the groups and show them going about their daily life, then switching between the two as they got ready for the upcoming game.

Props:
We didn't incorporate many props into the scene, although we could have done with a lot more because it would have made the scene look more authentic and believable.

'H Smith's Barmy Army' - Preliminary Task

H Smith's Barmy Army
Starring:
Aaron Wiles as "Aaron - Policeman"
Joe Clough as "Jimmy - Policeman"
Harry Smith as "Harry Edwards - Convict"

Filming and editing the Preliminary Task

For the setting of the scene, my group and I decided to use a hallway for the shot of the policeman escorting the convict to the interrogation room, and a classroom in the Media block for the scene of interrogation. We took a total of roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes spanned out over 2 days to record all of the raw footage ready to upload, and edit.
The interrogation scene was the hardest to film as it involved me throwing water in the convicts face which caused the entire group to burst out laughing, and we had to give that shot a few tries.


After all the raw footage was recorded we spent 1 of the 2 hours editing the clips in this order:

• Putting the clips in the right order and merging scenes.
• Compressed the clips together.
• Edited out any unwanted background noise.

 Admittedly there is a lot more room for editing with things like; Dramatic music, sound effects and non-diegetic sounds.
All of which would be used to add effect, and tension for the audience.

After all of this was completed the clip was then uploaded to YouTube.

Planning of Preliminary Task

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My group was asked to mind map ideas together and combine them to make a short 30 second clip, that had to contain at least 4 lines of exchanged dialogue.

After sitting down with my group for quite some time, we ended up with a crime, thriller type scene.
This scene would contain two policemen dragging a convict down a hallway and into a dark interrogation room. The policeman were to be played by myself and Aaron, and the convict was played by Harry.
The remainding individual in our group, Ellie, would be doing all the camerawork.

- Props:
Props to be used in the scene were; 2 Police hats, 1 set of handcuffs and 3 pictures used as evidence during the interrogation.
 -Dialogue:
"Where are the others?"
"Why?"
"I don't think he is going to break Jimmy"

Summary of Se7en.

Seven - Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman

The film 'Se7en' is set in New York and is a crime thriller, that follows the life of two detectives; Detective Mills, played by Brad Pitt and Detective Somerset played by Morgan Freeman. The two detectives are trying to solve a series of murders that eventually unfolds into the intricate plan to complete a mass murder of 7 people following the 7 deadly sins, the sins are;

• Gluttony
• Greed
• Sloth
• Lust
• Pride
• Envy
• Wrath

That is the order that the serial killer completes his murders, with himself being the death of the last sin, Wrath. John Doe, the killer played by Kevin Spacey had planned to do this for a simple reason, to prove that the world is full of evil. Envy was John Doe himself as he was jealous of Detective Mills and the life he had, to complete this he killed Mills' wife and causing Mills to complete the final sin, Wrath.

Conventions of a Thriller.

What makes Se7en a thriller?

Conventions of a thriller that Se7en contain:

• Aim is to create suspense for the audience.
• Use of lighting to create tension.
• Surprises and twists.
• Flashbacks.
• Violence.
• Dramatic music.
• The storyline contains a mission the protagonist must complete.