Genre Analysis

 The genre we have decided as a group to do is ,psychological thriller, the reason for this is because it makes the movie more suspenseful and emphasises its characters rather than the plot which would make it more interesting for the audience and for the people taking part in the movie opening.

Psychological thriller is a good genre because it is a mix of action and psychological which both are used to add to the suspense. Elements of drama, mystery and horror can often find themselves in the psychological thriller due to the emphasis on motivation and the mind.Psychological thrillers often deal with common themes such as death, reality, perception, identity, existence or purpose and one or two of these themes should be wound through the novel.

Initial Film Ideas

My initial opening scene will be about a young boy that has a disability and is struggling with most basic things in life. he is unable to do basic stuff such as cleaning up, making his bed or even pouring water into a cup. He has a severe condition called "Dabbing" this condition does not allow the boy to participate in many things in life because he dabs too much.

The boy is 15 years old and is going to a normal secondary school, located at south west London.The boy's name is Toby, Toby lives in an average middle class family with his mum, dad and two younger brothers. Toby's has had this condition from the day he was born, not only has this created stress on his parents but Toby's siblings and friends too. The condition that Toby has does not just affect him, it affects the people around him, no one can be around Toby because he dabs too much, whoever is with Toby, usually gets hurt or embarrassed.

Toby loves to play basketball during his free time, but he always ends up with a red card, but not due to his condition he is always hitting other players losing the ball.

Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques 

Continuity editing:

Continuity editing is a sequence of shots arranged in a specific order to suggest a progression of events. As there are various amounts of shots an editor can suggest different scenarios, using only two or three shots.

Accelerating Time:

Accelerating time is just long scene shorted. For example if its meant to take someone 90 minutes to drive from London to Brighton, it will only show a few seconds of certain clips, getting dressed (3 secs) getting in the car (2 secs) driving (3 secs) quick stop (1 sec) arriving at destination (3 secs) this is good because the audience will not be bored, instead they will be more entertained, as the 90 minutes of a drive has shorted to nearly 20 seconds of footage.

Expanding Time:

Expanding time is when two separate and different shots are eventually going to emerge together while creating suspense. for example if there is a car a fast car chase happening there will be fast, suspense music in the background, while the other shot will be the opposite of what is happening, which would be a child peacefully be playing with a ball in the park or in front of their house, this scene would be having calm and relaxed music. eventually the chase will get closer and closer to the kid. After that something tragic may occur, typically this is when the kids ball gets kicked or thrown into the middle of the road, where the fast car will appear. The editor creates suspense by constantly changing shots between those two scenes back and forth, this builds suspense because it will make the audience engage about what might happen next.

Cause, Effect and Motivation:

Cause, effect and motivation are all linked as the cause can lead to the effect which then leads to the motivation. For example, if a woman was murdered and she had killed someone before, in this case, the motivation would be revenge, which had a cause

Insert Shot

An insert shot is close-up of something that exists within a scene, they also add needed information to the audience. For example, if a drug deal goes down and the buyer overdoses on the drug, a close-up shot would reveal what drug they bought.

Cutaway:

Unlike insert shots that show additional information in a close-up shot, cutaways show additional information by cutting away from the main scene.

Relational Editing:

Relational editing refers to establishing a relationship between scenes. For example, if someone is calling someone 

Thematic Editing:

In thematic editing, also referred to as montage editing, images are edited together based only on a central theme. In contrast to most types of editing, thematic editing is not designed to tell a story by developing an idea in a logical 

Parallel Editing:

When segments are cut together to follow different story lines. For example, in "The Great Train Robbery (Film)", the creator constantly cut scenes to match different story lines.

Cross-cutting:

In a cross-cut the camera will cut away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions.

Analysis of Citizen Kane opening

In the Opening of Citizen Kane there are various of different shots being used, creating many effects. In the very beginning there was a close up shot of a sign saying "No trespassing", this is telling the audience that the place this movie is situated in, is dangerous and could also hint of the genre which could be either horror or drama.The establishing shot was of a possibly abandoned castle in a deserted cemetery emphasising the fact this movie will contain thriller and horror. The extreme close up was when Kane spoke his final words, while this was happening the camera zoomed around Kane's lips; these were his final words that Kane spoke.

The Fading transitions does also suggest that the shots will continues. The use of accelerating time was used to fast forward the time from the bottom of the cemetery until the death of Kane on his deathbed.When Kane is laying in his deathbed about to pass, hes holding a mysterious object which later turns out to be a snow globe. This snow globe falls and breaks as soon as Kane dies. The snow globe is representing Kane's life, once he died everything will be gone and vanish.

The music and sound being played in the background is very creepy and eerie, this creates suspense because the music is slowly starting to progress and build up speed as it get closer to the main part which is the death of Kane. At times the sound went silent to bring in the audience and to make them more focused into the movie. The lighting was low-key this caused intimidation and tension because the audience did not have a clue of might happen during this scene. Fog was used to emphasise the fact that it was really hard to see and it also to emphasise more the scene this was situated in was more scary.

Different type of camera angles were taken to not only make the movie better but also to emphasise the spookiness of this castle. A low angle shot was taken to make the castle seem much more bigger than it is. Pan shots were used to show us how empty the surroundings of the castle are and to also emphasise on how big the whole area is.High angle shots of boats were taken to show the inferiority compared to the castle.