Thriller

Thrillers usually have a set of rules which the stick to and follow with every film. An example of this is James Bond where he breaks into the villains compound gets captured where the villain confronts him tells him all his plans and then orders someone to send him to some strange kind of death, like being thrown to the crocodiles. Where then Bond escapes by using some kind of gadget Q has given him and foils the villains plans. 

The best example of keeping to the rules of the films are in the animation Road Runner where the rules are as follows 

1) The road runner cannot harm or upset the coyote expect by going 'Meep! Meep!'.

2) No outside force can harm he Coyote, only his own ineptitude or the failure of acme products.

3) The Coyote could stop anytime - if he were not a fanatic.

4) No dialogue ever, except 'Meep! Meep!'.

5) The road runner must stay on the road - otherwise logically he would not be call called road runner.

6) All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters - the Southwest American desert.

7) All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from Acme corporation.

8) whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote's greatest enemy.

9) The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

Thriller recipe (James Bond)

James Bond

Recipe for James Bond Thrillers:

A James Bond film consists of the following; a dashing, sexy, brave and heroic secret agent. A eccentric villain of equal strength hell bent on taking over the world or blowing things up and causing destruction. A number of gorgeous women and exotic locations not forgetting the martinis, shaken not stirred. And finally a number of eye popping stunts and action scenes which can sometimes be completely absurd.

James Bond also known as 007 is a british secret agent, created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. James Bond started by featured in twelve novels and two short story collections. But the fictional British secret agent who's been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video games as well as being used in the film franchise which started in 1962 with Dr. No which starred Sean Connery as James Bond. There has been 23 Bond films where the most recent being Skyfall starring the most recent Bond, Daniel Craig. He is the sixth actor to play Bond the others are:

Sean Connery

George Lazenby

Roger Moore

Timothy Dalton

Pierce Brosnan

Daniel Craig

There are other things which make James Bond who he is these include the Bond car. The Bond car is a high performance sports car stuffed with gadgets. The most famous of these is the Aston Martin DB5 where Bond could eject the seat with a red button under the gear stick. The DB5 first appeared in Goldfinger in 1964 driven by Roger Moore. The most recent Bond film Skyfall made a reference to this classic car and the well known ejection button.

 

The way James Bond is sold to the public also helps to make the films such hits for example the posters advertising the new films are usually filled with guns, suits, women and action.  

Examples:

These posters show what the film entails and hints at the story line. It entices the audience both men and women by showing both sexy women and men in the posters. It always has his pistol in the poster to show he is dangerous.

The action scenes are always fast pacing and is usually either James Bond being chased or him chasing someone himself, with a scattering of explosions, gun firing, fighting and general destruction.

Preliminary task evaluation

For our preliminary task we had to show someone entering a room walk over to someone already in the room have a conversation and then someone storm out. When filming this we didn't really write any planning down but we did have an idea of what we wanted to do and just worked on and change this as we filmed. As there are only two of us in the group it is some times more difficult when having us both on screen at once. This entails a lot of cutting out of walking over to the camera when editing the clip. On the other hand we both work well together and it allows us to alternate and try all the roles of filming. Overall the task went well and i am happy with the results.

craig and sean preliminary task

Craig and Sean

Sound

Sound

Diegetic:

Diegetic refers to the world of the text, it is sounds that the characters would be able to hear. For example dialogue, sound effects, music with a source within the world of the film e.g. a radio.

Non-Diegetic:

Non-Diegetic refers to everything outside the world of the film, it is sounds which the characters would not be able to hear. For example voice over, soundtrack.

On-screen sound- the audience can see the source of the sound.

Off-screen sound- the audience cant see the source of the sound. 

Off screen sound enables the extension of the diegetic world.

Parallel sound matches the action on the screen for example in a chase there is a fast pace soundtrack.

Contrapuntal sound does not match the action for example in a chase there is a slow pace soundtrack.

Sound bridge creates a smooth transition between one scene to another, the sound 'bridges' across the two scenes.

North by Northwest

North by Northwest

By Alfred Hitchcock

North by Northwest is a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Ernest Lehman and staring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.

The film entails an innocent New Yorker advertising executive who is mistaken for a government agent (George Kaplan) by a group of foreign spies who want him dead. The spies chase who they believe is the government agent while he looks for a way to survive and prove that he is not who they think he is.

In many ways North by northwest is a successful thriller for example a thriller is characterised as fast pacing frequent action. This is common in North by Northwest, as there is a lot of action in many of the scenes. For example the crop duster scene where Cary Grant playing the character of Roger Thornhill is attacked by a crop duster plane.

Cary Grant is a resourceful hero as he manages to thwart the plans of the more powerful and better equipped villains. An example of this is in the auction scene where he uses his cunning to get out of a tricky situation.




The macguffin is the plot line which keeps the story moving but isnt what the audience is focusing on. In north by northwest the macguffin is the villians trying to keep the CIA agents from finding out their plans to smuggle some microfilm.