Dexter Shape Theory

Dexter Opening Sequence

Example,

In this shot, a knife cutting through a fried egg looks like he is cutting through an eye ball because an eye ball is circular shape similar to a fried egg shape.

Sub Genres (Thrillers)

Sub Genres | Thrillers

Psychological Thriller

• Is a specific sub-genre of the broad ranged thriller and Horror genres.
• However, it often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genres, in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre.  

Themes

• Reality - the quality of being real. Characters often try to determine what is true and what is not within the narrative.
• Perception -  A person’s own interpretation of the world around him through his senses. Often characters misperceive the world around them, or their perceptions are altered by outside factors within the narrative.
• Mind - The human consciousness; the location for personality, thought, reason, memory intelligence and emotion. The mind is often used as a location for narrative conflict, where characters battle their own minds to reach a new level of understanding or perception.
• Existence/purpose - The object for which something exists; an aim or goal humans strive towards to understand their reason for existence. Characters often try to discover this purpose is in their lives and the narrative’s conflict often is a way for the characters to discover this purpose.
• Identity - The definition of one’s self. Characters often are confused about or doubt who they are and try to discover their true identity.
• Death - The cessation of life. Characters either fear or have a fascination with death.

Espionage

the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.

- Example Of Espionage Movies

Supernatural (The Conjuring 2)

Jump scare

Creepy mood

Supernatural appearance that you can't explain

Love and friendship wins the day // The evil continues to harm humanity

Technical codes:

All scenes are dark by editing, showing something bad could happen.

Symbolic codes:

Holy crosses turning upside down with “forces”, symbol of unholy existen,

Cracking sound of the swing, showing something bad will happen.

Things moving by itself, while speeding up, followed by fast swap of shots of chaos, create tension.

Crime Thriller

A thriller in which the central characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly, a victim (generally, this is just a thriller).

• Films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels
• Common methods and themes in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings.
• An atmosphere of menace and sudden violence, such as crime and murder, characterize thrillers.
• The tension usually arises when the character(s) is placed in a dangerous situation, or a trap from which escaping seems impossible. Life is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspectingly or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation
• The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, and a constant sense of impending doom.

Narrative Range (Zodiac)

Unrestricted

Audience knows more than characters.
for example, in Zodiac we know about killings and the real Zodiac killer.

Restricted

The audience learns information/plot same time as the character.

Why do we watch scary films ?

Why do we watch scary films? 

• Entertainment 
• Sadistic (deriving pleasure from inflicting pain)
• Testing yourself (limit)

Aristotle (Philosopher) 

Catharsis = the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed         emotions.

"We purge our own negative/violent feeling by watching/consuming experiencing violent."

Audience Segmentation

Audience Segmentation 

Dividing into specific group 

- Gender 

- Age 

- Race/Ethnicity 

- Occupation 

- Interests 

- Wealth 

- Class 

Panic Room Credit Structure

Today we look at the conventional structure of title credits, using David Fincher's Panic Room as an example. Below are the exact credits. As you can see it breaks down into a series of distinct categories:
Institutions
Stars
Title
Co-stars
Talent - behind the scenes
Director

Panic Room Credits 

• Columbia Pictures 
• A Hofflund/Polone Produciton 
• An Indelible Picture 
• Jodie Foster 
• Forest Whitaker 
• Dwight Yoakam 
• Jared Le To 
• Panic Room 
• Kristen Stewart 
• Ann Magnusom 
• Ian Buchanaii 
• Partrick Bauchau 
• Paul Schulze 
• Casting by Laray Mayfield 
• Costume designer Michael Kaplan 
• Music by Howard Shore 
• Film editors James Haygood.A.C.E. 
• Angus Wall 
• Production Designer Arthur Max 

• Directed Conrad W. Hall Darius Khondji 
• Produced by Gavin Polone. Judy Hofflund. David Koepp, Cean Chaffin 
• Written by David Koepp 
• Directed by David Fincher 

National Readership Survey (UK)

Heat Camera Work

Zodiac Recreation

The One Minute Film Evaluation

For the 1 minute film challenge we created a short trailer based on the movie "Warm Bodies" directed by Jonathan Levine. The trailer has 2 main character, the zombie is May and Prima is the blond girl.

Original Trailer ;

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I felt that the film with my team of 4 people went quite well, we each had similar levels of duties during the filming process

Sound Editing On Movie "Point Break"

I have used many different sound effects to recreate the original sound in the chasing scene by using Premier Pro.

Example ;

Sound Analysis

1. Diegetic sound - any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world.

2. Non-diegetic sound - sound whose origin is from outside the story world.

*** Character can only hear diegetic sound not the non-diegetic sound***