Rope

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Summary
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
The movie structure mostly follows the Classic Hollywood Narrative because the movie is linear, it shows a beginning middle and then an end. But it could also be shown as following Todorov's theory of  equilibrium – disruption – resolution – new equilibrium. The movie is fine at first then it goes wrong because there is conflict with no one knowing who he is and they people try to kill him but he kills them then and it ends by him remembering his identity and everything is brought to a new equilibrium.


The trailer displayed all the key elements of a captivating thriller in order to engage the audience and foreshadow what would be happening in other scenes of the movie.




 The McGuffin provides the basis of the story but the viewers are only in the main character - Liam Neeson. This links back to the importance of a trailer because without one then the audience would not show such interest in the movie.

Key scenes of tension:
• Film has essential characteristic of a good thriller - moments of high tension.
• e.g. The hospital scene reaching for scissors leading to murder.
1. Soundtrack effective – disorientating sounds
2. Use of close up.
3. Fast editing leading up to the escape.
4. Analyse the scene in the Flat.

The Club Scene
This scene is effective because:
• Loud booming soundtrack – disorientating  and threatening
• Screen dark – only shadows – indistinct – the viewer shares the main character’s confusion.

In this film White Western people are portrayed as the dominant group and the immigrants are the subordinate group we know this because they are frightened of being deported and they have very low paid jobs. This archetype represents ethnic minorities and it is a negative representation of the opposing race.

This is an interview of Liam Neeson talking about the film.

"erm it might be interesting to play someone who is confused all the way up until the last 20 minutes of the film" - 1:50. This reflects on Todorov's theory especially in the 'disruption' faze.
                                                                                                         

Animatic

This is my animatic for my final piece.


 

Treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography: Denis Mise-en-scene: David Sound: Temitayo Editing: Nadine

Title: Mask

Synopsis: MASK (story outline)  - a guy with a mask on wakes up and doesn't know where he is - he sees a blood trail and follows it till he ends up in a room - he then finds a dead body and runs out of the building in panick - where he is greeted by a strange person

Key Genre Conventions:      -            set in the morning and light blinds his eyes      -       a lot of P.O.V shots so most of the thriller openings

Storyboard

This is our groups storyboard, next lesson we would be turning this into an animatic.

Shot List

Shot List
Scene	Shot Number	Description
1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13	P.O.V/pan - main character is looking through a mask around the room. Looks at his hand and sees hand close up - on face, trying to take off the mask but he fails establishing/pan shot - shows the room medium shot - the guy stand up P.O.V - looking at his feet then seeing a blood trail tracking shot - follows the trail extreme close up - showing fear long shot - phone vibrating then camera stays still while boy walks towards phone P.O.V - picks up phone, sees message 'where are you' sent 2 days ago medium shot - continues to follow blood P.O.V - opening door outside shot through a window seeing the mask and opens the door extreme close up - scared and shocked he falls to the floor tilt of dead body running out, finding himself outside crane shot - portrays his isolation over the shoulder, long shot, exreme close up, P.O.V, 360 degrees spinning shot of the                  world around him

3rd Production Meeting

Now we have started filming, we have got to the midway point of our opening. Throughout, we have a lot of takes that are not going to be any use to us, so we have started deleting the shots that went wrong and picking the shots that went smoothly. We have also looked through our filming to ensure we have all the different types of shots in our shot list, we enquire to make a good thriller opening.