Friday, 11 December 2009

 Silence of the lambs research and ideas


When looking at a thriller film many film settings came into my head, but what appealed to me the most was an idea of a scene in a big tall forest. By using a setting such as this it creates a scary, quiet and lonely atmosphere and i think would be good as a setting for the beginning our film.

Silence of the lambs appealed to me and help aid an idea of a big dark forest setting. This gives us some idea's of certain camera shots we could incorporate into our scene. Right from the beginning with the use of tense and suspicious music Silence of the lambs grabs your attention making you want to carry on watching. In our opening scene we should aim for something like this. I think that to make a film scary it needs good sound effects, as a group we need to get good sounds for our scene. we want it to sound professional and realistic and actually spark thoughts and feelings as people watch it.

When looking at silence of the lambs i noticed the unique lighting, its natural and yet scarily dark. Although the opening scene for silence of the lambs is inspiring, I'm not to keen on the credit font and how it is used. it makes the film feel tacky and cheap, but there use of setting and lighting makes up for that. When making out opening scene i want to make sure we have a good font and colour to our setting that links to the film.

I really like the camera shot where the girl is running and its focused behind her and you can see her shoulders up, and her breathing rate as shes running. I think that would be a great way to start our scene. And finally i like the contrast towards the end of the opening scene as it lights up, as you can see the natural lighting of the sun coming through the trees, i think this use of contrast is really effective.

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