PLANNING MY THRILLER OPENING

PLANNING MY HORROR THRILLER OPENING STEP BY STEP !

This year I will be creating the opening scene (2mins) of an upcoming horror-thriller film.
In addition, I will be documenting the planning construction and evaluation of the project through the use of this blog as well as multiple digital presentation techniques.

MUSIC FOR MY THRILLER OPENING

MUSIC FOR HORROR THRILLER OPENINGS

As part of my AS Coursework, I have to create my own music / soundtrack to the opening of the horror - thriller movie ( First two or three minutes). I will be creating the music on the app called GarageBand. 

How do film-makers manipulate our emotions with music?

1. Heightened senses - It demonstrates the importance of music in film, and the power a soundtrack can have over audiences. Composer Neil Brand, presenter of BBC Four's The Music that Made the Movies, believes our senses are already heightened as we enter the cinema.
2. Noise of panic - A 2010 study by the University of California found that human sensitivity to non-linear alarm sounds, such as ones made by groundhogs to warn about predators, is being employed by film composers to unsettle and unnerve.
3. Extreme vibrations -Film composers know that and use it to shortcut the logical part of our brain and get straight to the emotional centres. Some filmmakers are now using infrasound to induce fear in audiences. These extreme bass waves or vibrations have a frequency below the range of the human ear. While we may not be able to hear infrasound, it has been demonstrated to induce anxiety, extreme sorrow, heart palpitations and shivering. Naturally-occurring infrasound has been associated with areas of 'supernatural activity', as well as being produced prior to natural disasters such as storms and earthquakes.

Here are some soundtracks I could use an example before starting to create my own music to the horror - thriller opening.

Dramatic Music - "The Strangers" (Emotional Thriller And Horror)

Media Thriller Opening Music

12 Horror/Thriller Movies Soundtrack

I catch you - Horror - Thriller - Soundtrack by Giovanni puocci

This is how I made the music to mine and Georgia's opening sequence horror thriller. I used Garageband to help me with composing it. I have used many eery and creepy sounds to make it sound frightening and suspicious. These are the steps of how i made it.

This soundtrack will be used in our "AFTER YOU" thriller opening sequence which you will here soon.

TITLE ANALYSIS OF FILM "CAPE FEAR"

TITLE ANALYSIS OF THE FILM "CAPE FEAR" (1991)

Cape Fear is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and a remake of the 1962 film of the same name. It stars Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, and Juliette Lewis, and features cameos from Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, and Martin Balsam, who all appeared in the original film.

The film tells the story of a convicted rapist who, using mostly his newfound knowledge of the law and its numerous loopholes, seeks vengeance against a former public defender whom he blames for his 14-year imprisonment due to purposefully faulty defence tactics used during his trial.

Lets Begin : 

"UNIVERSAL"  is seen in the clip from 00:03 to 00:23

"AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH CAPPA FILMS AND TRIECA PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS" is seen in the clip from 00:26 to 00:32

"A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE" is seen in the clip from 00:33 to 00:36

"A ROBERT DE NIRO" is seen in the clip from 00:46 to 00:48

"A NICK NOLTE" is seen in the clip from 00:49 to 00:50

"JESSICA LANGE" is seen in the clip from 00:51 to 00:54

"CAPE FEAR" is seen in the clip from 00:56 to 01:00

"JOE DON BAKER" is seen in the clip from 01:10 to 01:13

"ROBERT MITCHUM" is seen in the clip from 01:13 to 01:15

"JULIETTE LEWIS" is seen in the clip from 01:15 to 01:18

"AND GREGORY PECK" is seen in the clip from 01:19 to 01:22

"MARTIN BALSAM, FRED DALTON THOMPSON, ILLEANA DOUGLAS" are seen in the clip from 01:26 to 01:29

"CREATED BY ELLEN LEWIS" is seen in the clip from 01:30 to 01:33

"TITLE SEQUENCE BY ELAINE & SAUL BASS" is seen in the clip from 01:37 to 01:41

"BERNARD HERRMANN'S ORIGINAL SCORE ADJUSTED & CONDUCTED BY ELMER BERNSTEIN" is seen in the clip from 01:42 to 01:46

"COSTUME DESIGNER RITA RYACK" is seen in the clip from 01:47 to 01:48

"EDITED BY THELMA SCHOONMAKER" is seen in the clip from 01:53 to 01:56

"PRODUCTION DESIGNED BY HENRY BUMSTEAD" is seen in the clip from 01:58 to 02:00 

"DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY FREDDIE FRANCIS" is seen in the clip from 02:01 to 02:03

"EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS KATHLEEN KENNEDY AND FRANK MARSHALL" are seen in the clip from 02:04 to 02:07

"BASED ON A SCREENPLAY BY JAMES R.WEBB AND 'THE EXECUTIONERS' A NOVELY BY JOHN D. MACDONALD" is seen in the clip from 02:07 to 02:10

"SCREENPLAY BY WESLEY STRICK" is seen on the clip from 02:16 to 02:20

"PRODUCED BY BARBARA DE FINA" is seen on the clip from 02:21 to 02:23

"DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE" is seen on the clip from 02:29 to 02:33

INTERESTING LINK WITH VERTIGO BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Vertigo

Cape Fear

Vertigo

                                                Cape Fear

In both films "Vertigo" and "Cape Fear" a HOMAGE is used by the directors. A homage is an allusion or imitation by one artist to another. it is a respectful imitation of the work of another director , as a way of paying tribute to an another director or movie.

Martin Scorsese and De Niro (made the film Cape Fear) both  decided that they wanted their version of Cape Fear to be a conscious homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo film. For example the effect of eyes in both opening sequences and the colour red in both opening sequences too.

TITLE ANALYSIS OF FILM "SIGNS"

TITLE ANALYSIS OF THE FILM SIGNS (2002)

In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Colleen Hess, the wife of local priest Reverend Graham Hess, dies a horrific death in a traffic accident. After the accident, Graham denounces his faith and his vocation to work full time on his farm. His brother, Merrill, a former minor league baseball player known more for his batting brawn than his finesse, moves into the farmhouse to assist his brother in looking after Graham's two adolescent children, asthmatic son Morgan and daughter Bo, who has a finicky taste for water. Six months after the accident, crop circles appear in Graham's corn field. They initially speculate that local trouble-making youth could be the culprits. However they learn that theirs is only one of a number of crop circles made simultaneously worldwide. In addition, animals have been acting erratically. Morgan and Bo seem to have a better sense of what is happening than the adults. Based on other evidence, the family slowly begins to believe that the crop circles are only one of many signs being sent by extraterrestrials. Not knowing if the extraterrestrials are friendly or not, the Hesses take extreme precautions to protect themselves. Graham also begins to believe that nothing that happens is by chance, and that everything has a reason.

"TOUCHSTONE PICTURES PRESENTS" was seen in the clip from 00:02 to 00:06

"A BLINDINGEDGE PICTURES/ KENNEDY/ MARSHALL PRODUCTION" is seen on the clip from 00:08 to 00:12 





"MEL GIBSON" is shown in the clip from 00:13 to 00:18 

"JOAQUIN PHOENIX " id shown in the clip from 00:19 to 00:23

The title of "SIGNS" appears in the short summary clip from 00:25 till 00:29

"CHERRY JONES" is shown in the clip from 00:28 to 00:33

"RORY CULKIN" is seen in the clip from 00:34 to 00:36

"ABIGAIL BESLIN PATRICIA KALEMBER" is seen inthe clip from 00:39 to 00:42

"CASTING DOUGLAS AIBEL" os seen in the clip from 00:44 to 00:47

"MUSIC BY JAMES NEWTON HOWARD" is seen in the clip from 00:50 to 00:55

"VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISORS ERIC BREVIG STEFEN FANGMEIER" is seen in the clip from 00:58 to 1:02

"COSTUME DESIGNER ANN ROTH" is seen in the clip from 1:03 to 1:05

"EDITED BY BARBARA TULLIVER A.C.E." is seen in the clip from 1:08 to 1:11

"PRODUCTION DESIGNER LARRY FULTON" is seen on the clip from 1:13 to 1:16

"DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TAK FUJIMOTO A.S.C." is seen in the clip from 1:19 to 1:22

"EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KATHLEEN KENNEDY" is seen in the clip from 1:23 to 1:26

"PRODUCED BY FRANK MARSHALL AND SAM MERCER" is seen in the clip from 1:28 to 1:32

"WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN" is seen in the clip from 1:34 to 1:38