Inspiration 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'

'We Need to Talk About Kevin'  is a 2011 British-American psychological thriller film, directed by Lynne Ramsay and adapted from Lionel Shriver's novel of the same name. A long process of development and financing began in 2005, with filming commencing in April 2010.


The story is told out of order, in flashbacks and mostly short scenes. Kevin Khatchadourian (Ezra Miller) is in prison after committing a massacre at his high school  His mother, Eva (Swinton), a once-successful travel writer, lives alone in a run-down house and works in a mall travel agency in a town near the prison, where she visits Kevin. She looks back at her memories of him growing up as she tries to cope with the anger and hostility of her neighbors, who know her to be Kevin's mother. Her memories are shown in flashbacks.

Conventions of Psychological thriller

Conventions of a psychological thriller from tiffanyymchan

Inspiration 'Shutter Island'

Island is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The film is based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel of the same name. Production started in March 2008. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island. Positively cited by movie reviewers, the film grossed over $128 million in its initial domestic theater release, as well as an additional $166 million internationally. Shutter Island was originally slated to be released on October 2, 2009, but Paramount Pictures pushed the release date to February 19, 2010.

Definition: Psychological Thrillers

Psychological thriller is a fictional thriller story which emphasizes the psychology of its characters and their unstable emotional states. In terms of classification, the category is a subgenre of the broader ranging thriller category, with similarities to Gothic and detective fiction in the sense of sometimes having a "dissolving sense of reality", moral ambiguity, and complex and tortured relationships between obsessive and pathological characters. Psychological thrillers often incorporate elements of mystery, drama, action, and horror, particularly psychological horror.


Peter Hutchings states that varied films have been labelled psychological thrillers, but that it usually refers to "narratives with domesticated settings in which action is suppressed and where thrills are provided instead via investigations of the psychologies of the principal characters." A distinguishing characteristic of a psychological thriller is a marked emphasis on the mental states of its characters: their perceptions, thoughts, distortions, and general struggle to grasp reality. According to director John Madden, psychological thrillers focus on story, character development, choice, and moral conflict; fear and anxiety drive the psychological tension in unpredictable ways. Madden stated that their lack of spectacle and strong emphasis on character have caused them to decline in popularity in Hollywood. Psychological thrillers are suspenseful by exploiting uncertainty over characters' motives, honesty, and how they see the world.Films can also cause discomfort in audiences by privileging them with information that they wish to share with the characters; guilty characters may suffer similar distress by virtue of their knowledge.James N. Frey instead defines psychological thrillers as a style, rather than a subgenre; Frey states that good thrillers focus on the psychology of their antagonists and build suspense slowly through ambiguity. Distinguishing psychological thrillers from horror films can be difficult; marketing is used to differentiate the genres, though fans may reclaim films in contravention to the original marketing. Creators who seek to distance themselves from the negative connotations of horror may categorize their work as a psychological thriller. The same situation can occur when critics label a work to be a psychological thriller in order to elevate its perceived literary value.

Great cut shots

sound that could be used in our 2 min opening

This is a sound similar to what I think would be good to use in our two minuets opening when the title fades to white and then fade to the shot of the lights.

Vlog: Changing minds...

'Pushing The Limits' by Katie McGarry

'Pushing the limits' is a book I read quiet a while back and has a huge influence on our films story line. It is a Young Adult fiction and this has also helped us with tell us who our audience is, as it is based at teenagers and above.


'No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal.'


The novel is about a girl named Echo who suffers from amnesia  due to a very traumatic event and wakes up with night terrors and has flash backs of the night, but she cant remember the event fully. This influenced out story line as ours is about a girl who cant remember a traumatic event and has flashbacks of the event but cant form the whole picture in her mind, and wants to regain her memory and discover the truth about what happened.

Example of two minuet opening

This is a previous two minuet film opening and I really like this as the shots are quite disjointed and very disorientating, which is something that my group want to achieve in our own two minuet opening.

Story boards

These are images of the story boards so far.

prezi for our pitch

This is the prezi that we did for our first idea and what genre we wanted to do and why.

Se7en opening titles

These opening titles link very well with what my group and I want to do for our two minuet opening. We are thinking for doing something very similar to this and make a montage of shots for the very beginning. Also it link into the genre that we want to do which is psychological thriller.

mac 3 gogglebox

This is my groups version of Gogglebox. This gave us an opportunity to work on our editing and filming skills which will help us with our two minuet film opening.

Mac 3 pitch

group vlog: Prelim and pre-pitch

Favourite film genres

Media Research

Nicole and I asked random people about film

Vlog

Prelim Exercise

Editing: Transitions

The transition showed in this clip is fade to black.

Editing: Continuity

Editing: Non-Continuity

Editing: Special Effects

The special effect most featured in this clip is cross-fading.

Editing: Shot Duration Example

The shot duration in the clip is very fast which makes the scene very fast paced and increases the tension. This could be useful for our 2 minuet opening as we want quite a bit of tension in the very beginning.

Group Vlog on prelim

Group vlog

Preliminary Exercise

an example of a preliminary exercise

Vlog 1-Storyboard

My first Vlog!

Shot reverse shot

Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is filmed looking at an off-screen character, who is then shown looking back to the first character.
As the characters are shown looking in opposite directions, the audience assumes they are looking at each other.

Match on action

Match on action may also be referred  to as Cutting on action. It is a film editing technique where editor cuts from one shot to another that's matches the first shots action.
The two shots may have been filmed with hours between them but match on action gives the look of continuous time.

By having a subject begin an action in one shot and carries it through in the next shot, a visual bridge is created which takes the audiences attention away from noticing the cut.

180-Degree Rule

The 180-Degree Rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene.
An imaginary line, known as an Axis, connects the characters, by keeping the camera on one side of the axis for every shot in the scene, the first character is always frame right of the second character. The object that is being filmed must always be in the centre with the camera facing towards it.
When the camera passes over the imaginary line or Axis, it is called Crossing The Line.

This rule maybe used to allow the audience to visually connect with unseen  movement happening around the subject.

Test Video

The Video Ms Foster gave me

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