Zodiac

Zodiac

The film Zodiac is based on a true story, The zodiac killer was a serial killer who operated in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the morale of the story is the killer was never found and he was known to have killed 37 people. The film is based on what happened in the real story with a few changes, they include the letter solving the letters that come in from the zodiac killer him self with his coded letters which have to be solved by the detectives. 

The Main Stars:  Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo

Box Office: $80m

In this clip of the beginning  scenes of the film which lasts for about 5 minutes  we see a young man and young women in a car making there way to a restaurant but when they see its full they change their mind and go to a quite place in the woods. They get approached by some teenagers which throw fire crackers at them which looked like the real threat. Then a car pulls up with car lights shinning into there car. A man goes to there car window with a bright light and shots both of them to death.
 They use lots of different camera angles which include over the shoulder shots, high angle, low angle, long shot, pan shot

Continuity Editing

Continuity Editing 

Retains a sense  of realistic chronology and generates the feeling that time is moving forward.  The director or editor may use flashbacks or flash forwards but the narrative will still be seen to be progressing forward in an expected or realistic.

Example of Eye-line match 

  

Eye-line match 

We see a character start looking at something off screen and then we cut to a shot of what they were looking at.

Match-on-action

We see a character start an action in one shot and then see them continue it in the next shot.
Example of Match on Action

Graphic match

Graphic match is when two shots are linked with a similar shape or composition of an image.
Example of Graphic match

180 Degree Rule 

The 180 degree rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other.
Example of 180 degree rule

Shot/Reverse Shot 

Shot/reverse shot is used to show conversastions/arguments.
Example of Shote/reverse shot

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

The preliminary task was to show a demonstration of continuity editing and we must show the following camera shots which were match on action, shot/reverse shot, 180 degree rule and eye line match.The dialogue scene should be  a conversation and the sequence should be, character A walks towards a closed door then Character A enters through the door and crosses a room where character B is seated then Characters A and B have a small conversation and there should be at least one eye line match and lastly character A exists room.

In this video we can see everything i have said about the dialogue and this is a great example of how it is presented. 

cinematography

In this clip we cover all of the shots that are in a thriller and many other movie genres.

The shots that were included in this clip were:

Long Shot
Medium Shot
Close Up
Extreme close up
Point of view
Over the shoulder
Low angle
High angle
Crane Shot
Rolling Shot
Pan shot
Tracking shot
Tilt

All these shot have a meaning in cinema like, the high angle shot is to make someone look strong and powerful and the low angle shot is top make someone look weak and small. The Extreme close up shot is to be able to see all the emotions on someones face. Over the shoulder shot is used if you are having a conversation with someone. Point of view shot is when it looks like it is from your eyes and the camera can see everything you see. Tracking Shot is when someone is walking or running and the camera is tracking them. Long shot is used to be able to see the whole shot in the scene.

No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men

This Film starting scene is with a deputy sheriff arrests a man in the Deseret but also right at the beginning for about 2 minuets there is a narrator speaking about the settings and the crimes that have gone on around there also the narrator was an old sheriff. Then after the deputy sheriff has put the guy in the car he goes back to the station where he calls the sheriff to let him know about the bazaar gas tank he found with the guy, as soon as he puts the phone down the criminal creeps up behind him and strangles and cuts his throat with the cuffs and kills the deputy sheriff. Then the criminal carries on and kills another man pretending to be a police officer with the police car he stole and pulls over an innocent man and tells the man to get out of the car an  he puts the gas pipe to his head and the gas pressure shoots thorough his head an kills him.

Sound

Non-diegetic: The non-diegetic sound is the narrators voice 

Diegetic:  building up music before the officer is attacked 

Camera Angles 

over shoulder shot

low angle

high angle

medium shot

Box Office

The budget of this film was $25m

It made $171.6m

The first 4 minutes of the scene is explained at the begging of the blog.

The Birds

The Birds

This is another Alfred Hitchcock thriller which was directed in 1963. The stars of this film are Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette.

What aspects of a typical thriller does it contain?

The birds contain a constant thrill throughout and it also has a Macguffin like most thrillers have had  

This thriller is really different because it is an attack from the nature which are birds and birds are known as peace loving creatures and not violent. 

The film begins like a normal busy day in New York.
This thriller is the story line is  a women pretends to work at a bird shop she is looking around to buy birds, she only pretends to work at the store when a gentlemen enters looking for love birds for his sister which will be having a birthday and he wants to get her the love birds as a present. Then the women pretends to serve him and the man does not buy the love birds he forgets and leaves. A few days later she buys the love birds and goes to where the guy lives also taking the love birds to him. After this she decides to stay there for the weekend, this is when all havoc starts to begin as birds start to attack her. When they get trapped in the dinner after the biggest attack of the birds in the town which causes an explosion of the petrol station and then they speak of But the film cannot solely be interpreted in a scientific manner, because as the actors (the old women) in the film discover in the long discussion scene in the Tides Restaurant, there is no solid, explanation why the birds are attacking. They are not seeking revenge for nature's mistreatment, or foreshadowing doomsday, and they don't represent God's punishment for humankind's evil.

Budget

$2,500,000 (estimated)

Gross

$11,403,529 (USA)

Rentals

$5,090,371 (USA)

Filming Dates

5 March 1962 - 10 July 1962

Stars
Rod Taylor
Tippi Hedren
Jessica Tandy
Suzanne Pleshette
Veronica Cartwright

In this scene below we see the women traveling to the other side of the river to get to the man and we see that the first attack happens when a random seagull attacks the women and hit her on the head once and then fly's away. This foreshadows what will happen in the upcoming scenes of the film.

BERKE CAKIR AS MEDIA