In my opinion i would give this a level 2, they haven't used a range of different camera angles along with the lack of rule of thirds for the investigation scene, this isn't that much of a suspense themed opening scene, it's not engaging either and the acting is rather poor which emphasizes the jolting camera.
In my opinion this would be a level 4, they have well thought out the way in which they wanted the titles on each slide, it is discrete but also affective, the music in the background also adds suspense and is well linked in with the theme of the opening, they have used a range of different camera shots including some close ups, they have stuck well to the rule of thirds, as well as speed well flowing, it adds great suspense and the ending makes you what to see what is next to come.
This is mine and Danny's re-make of the Dexter title sequence, this was to practise our cinemaphotogrphy, rule of thirds, match on action, as well as working on white balance, exposure and focus. This was helpful for me as I learnt how to do things with the camera better than before. However we did come across some difficulties as two of our group members dropped out on us so we were left to do all the filming and editing ourselves this meant we are not giving them any credit for it as we did all the work to create this final piece.
This is my pie chart of input for our group production, I feel that Peter and Benn share out the work equally between them both however I am lacking in the input and I do need to try and pick up some of the work to contribute better.
I chose this as a thriller location as it's dark and gives you a sense of mystery as you don't know what might be on the other side of the darkness ahead.
The film starts with a typical American boy, Shawn, he doesn't really have any friends and looks at the pep rally
after school with contempt. As he goes to his car, the local high
school hero's girlfriend flirts with him, Clay (the hero) notices this. They make fun of this car
and how it's a pure crap regardless of what is said Shawn drives off. Then Clay throws a baseball through the back windshield. Shawn
steps out of his car with a wrench, but before he can attack Clay,
Clay's girlfiends says she'll go out with whoever wins a race between
the two.
The race is set hrough a new construction area and
things are not going well for Shawn to begin with. However, he manages to
take a side road and ends up beating Clay in the end, after
demolishing a house. Clay's girlfriend says "Looks like I have a new
date for prom" and then Clay totals Shawn's car by ramming it with his
own. After getting booked by the police, Clay's parents and his girlfriend's
get them off the charges, due to their connections, but Shawn is looking to go
to jail because they're willing to try him as an adult. Shawn's mother
comes in, and after flirting with the officer interrogating Shawn,
reveals that they've had to move several times due to Shawn's racing.
She ends up exhausting her last option by sending Shawn to Tokyo to live
with his dad, who serves in the American army's outpost there.
As Shawn arrives and rings the doorbell, dad shows the prostitute he
rented for the night out. Shawn comes in and sees the dump which will
be his new home. He wakes up to find a formal looking uniform on his bed, and gives it another look of displeasure. Next, Shawn is off to school, he notices an attractive girl, named
Neela. Later, as he's eating lunch, another Army brat
comes in and introduces himself as Twinkie (Bow Wow), who is doing hustles with American goods. After they leave
school, Twinkie shows him his car, which is a van that has basically
been made to resemble the Hulk. Shawn asks where all the action is, Twinkie takes him to an underground parking lot.
Shawn see's Neela,they are talking while DK (the local drift king)
and his business partner Han talk and wonder who this outsider is. DK walks over and claims Neela. DK starts telling Shawn he doesn't
know who he's messing with, Twinkie grabs Shawn and as he's pulling
him aside, reveals that DK's uncle is Yakuza. Shawn doesn't back down
though. DK offers to race him. Han gives Shawn the keys to his car. At the beginning, Shawn has a big lead on DK. Shawn see's a very sharp turn, but doesn't go around in
time, and smashes Han's car. But DK on the other hand pulls off some
perfect drifts, putting him miles ahead of Shawn. DK
ends up winning in a blowout. Afterwards, Han just tells Shawn not
to leave town. Han says he's been doing business with DK, and
that DK is trying to prove his worth to his uncle.
Shawn gets home late and gets in trouble with his dad. He agrees to follow his dad's rules after he threatens to send him back home. Next day, Shawn gets picked up Han, who tells Shawn that he will
be working with him to pay off smashing his car. Shawn is sentto ask a Sumo wrestler for
money, and after getting tossed outside, the wrestler gives Han his
money. That night, Han is driving at around 197 km/h two cops register his speed but Shawn notices
that they don't start a chase. Han explains that the cop cars are
stock models, and can't go over 180, so they don't bother to try and
catch you. Shawn asks why people drift, so
Han shows him by doing donuts around some girl's car, she then gives Han her phone number. Han takes Shawn to a party. He takes
him to his garage inside. Han gives him an Evo, and later on the roof,
Han tells Shawn that "Life is simple, you make choices, and never look
back".
DK's righthand man starts beating up
Twinkie for selling him a broken IPod, but T winkie says he doesn't give
refunds. Shawn breaks it up, and gives the guy his own IPod, but
Twinkie is pissed and tells him that everyone will want refunds now.
Shawn begins to learn how to drift with the help of Han. However, he
starts getting better he then races DK's righthand
man, beating him with ease. DK is noticeably mad because earlier he
promised Han a 1970 Skyline if Shawn beat his friend.
In class later, Shawn sends Neela a message on her laptop
asking why she never shows him her drifting. She responds with "You
never ask". After this you see both Shawn and Neela in Neela's. Neela reveals that DK's grandmother took her in. Next day, DK pulls up to the harbour where Shawn is practising drifting,
he beats the crap out of Shawn, and tells him to stay away from Neela.
At school, Neela notices Shawn's bruises, and confronts DK in his shop, she tells him that they're done. DK though says that she owes him. She
slaps him, and promptly leaves. She comes to Han's garage, crying, and
Shawn holds her and takes care of her. Meanwhile, DK's uncle comes to see him. His uncle tells him that there is a problem with their
funds, and that Han must be cheating them out of money.
DK confronts Han. He pulls out a gun and tells Han that
he put his honor and reputation on the line. Han tells him that "this is
what we do". Twinkie starts a
distraction. Han escapes, and Shawn takes Neela in his Evo, there's a
great car chase through Tokyo streets. DK shoots at Han long enough to
distract him getting him hit by another car. Han's oil starts leaking, and
then his car explodes, killing him. Shawn and Neela go to his dads, however DK follows them threatening them with his gun. Shawn's dad pulls his gun on DK and tells him to leave. DK says he won't unless Neela goes with him. DK and Neela leave, as they go Shawn's dad says he wants him to leave that night however Shawn protests that it is his mess and he must fix it.
Twinkie meets Shawn and tells him that Han gave him some money to give to Shawn, which he believes was to be used in case he was caught. Shawn
takes it to the local Yakuza club, and gives it to DK's uncle. He goes
to tell him that he's willing to race DK and loser has to leave town
because they've both dishonored him. DK's uncle agrees. Shawn goes to Han's garage, but all the cars are gone, except for
the Skyline he ruined in the beginning. They take all of
it's parts, and put them into his dad's Dodge Charger, which he was
fixing earlier. The race is on the mountain Neela took him
too. DK has the advantage because he's the only one to ever
make it down in one piece.
On
the last turn, Shawn forces DK off the mountain, and wins. DK's uncle
tells him that he's free to go. In the end, Shawn goes to the
underground parking lot, Twinkie comes up and tells him someone wants to
race the new DK. He says
the guy has been beating every one in Asia, and that he considered Han
to be family. Shawn pulls up. The man challenging him is Vin Diesel
(stars in the fast and the furious 1). Vin asks Shawn if he's ready.
Shawn
tells him its not 10 second race. He responds with "Time is one thing I
got enough of" and they go off.
This is evidence of the pieces of work I did to contribute to working in a group. I wrote about Martin Scorsese as a director. I done the film wanted for a thriller film and wrote about the Laws that come with ratings on a thriller film and why.
This is my Groups Interrogation scene that we filmed, we had to include
match on action, shot reverse shot and keep in mind the 180 degree rule. I however do not have my own comentary on it. My group members did include what I did to contribute to the filming, I should make sure that on the next tasks I am more involved so I don't rely on my group to do the work alone as it doesn't show my true contribution.
This is a sound Foley that I did working in a group with Grace and Martin, we had to use Garage band to edit the sound in over the video. We used sound files from itunes to make our foley.
This is a mind map that we done in class, myself Grace and Martin worked together to research each different definition to explain about sound used in filming.
I took a screen capture of me adding information about the different sub-genres of thriller films. i went into detail about what is expected in a few of them, I then put in examples of what films are part of these categories. By doing this i learnt more about what is expected of each and helped to inform my other group members.
By clicking 'Menu' this will show you the list in which you choose what to adjust on the camera.
When the 'menu' is presented you use the round arrowed button to navigate towards the function icon.
By clicking on the function icon this will appear, by using the same button before you navigate your way to the WB icon which controls the white balance on the camera.
You click on this which brings you to a new menu, by holding down the middle button on the navigational circle on this icon until it stops flashing will adjust your white balance, to make the colours white in a room you hold a plain piece of white paper up infront of the camera.
To adjust the exposure click 'menu' again and go to funtion again, as shown in the image above.
Navigate your way to the image of a slop and sun then click onto this for exposure.
After clicking the exposure icon this will appear, click manual to adjust it yourself.
After clicking manual this will appear, by pushing the up arrow button you will make the picture brighter, but clicking the down arrow button you will make the picture darker.
To adjust the focus you press the button on the navigational circle that has 'focus' written around the outside, after doing this you use the side arrows to adjust the focus on the camera.
The film opens with Watson (Jude Law) in his study, revisiting an
adventure with Sherlock Holmes which he is writing out on his typewriter. Watson explains that
it is 1891, and Europe is in trouble. A series of bombings has most of the European nations up in arms.
The scene then cuts to a busy marketplace. Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) is
there smoking a pipe, he is in disguise. He is keeping an
eye on Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams), who is making her way through the
marketplace. She bumps into a gentleman and exchanges an envelope
for a package. Holmes slides up beside Irene and switches the package
for a loaf of bread. He warns her that she is being followed by three troublesome looking men, and wants to know what she is up to. Irene agrees
to meet Holmes for dinner to discuss things as she does this she pulls Holmes into a nearby
alleyway, to avoid the men. They are confronted by a thug at the end of the alley, another three thugs surround them. Irene says, “It was four men
and they are escorting me, not following me.” She takes her
package back from Holmes and tells the men to go easy on his face, as they are meeting later for dinner. The men attack Holmes. Holmes uses his powers of
observation and prediction, this enables him to anticipate their moves and
disarm them easily. He continues following Irene, who is on her way to
a nearby art auction.
At the auction, Irene delivers her package to who it is intended. The man gives her a letter in return, a letter
intended for the writer’s sister, but Irene is meant to deliver it to
Professor Moriarty. The recipient of the package believes that the package Irene has
given him contains payment, but as he opens it, Holmes appears out of
nowhere to slap down his bidding paddle to prevent a hammer from
tripping an explosive device. The package is in fact a bomb, and
Holmes warns the gentleman not to touch anything as Holmes takes the letter from Irene. The man touches the bomb and triggers the bomb to start another timer.
Holmes sets a piece of cloth alight and yells “Fire!” to clear the auction
house. Irene flees with everyone else, so only the gentleman
remains. Holmes throws the bomb into a stone pot and shuts the
lid. As he is wheeling the pot into a nearby storeroom, the gentleman makes his escape. The bomb explodes, but is
successfully contained within the stone pot. Holmes runs out onto the
street to catch up with the man, only to find him collapsed against
the side of the auction house. A small dart is in his leg.
Holmes takes the dart and puts it into his pocket.
Meanwhile, Irene Adler heads to a teahouse, where she meets with an
unseen man seated at the next table. She
glances suspiciously at her teapot, and asks the server for a fresh
cup. The server brings the tea. Professor Moriarty
(Jared Harris) reveals himself, expressing his disappointment in Irene’s
performance. He informs her that he will no longer require
her services. She believed the location of the teahouse would keep her safe.
Moriarty taps his spoon against his cup, and every single person in the teahouse get to their feet, and
exits. Irene gets to her feet and tries to run away.
Moriarty calmly sips his tea as china smashes and a body falls to the
ground.
The scene then cuts to Holmes, who is waiting for Irene to meet him for dinner. He knows something is
wrong as she is late, but he tucks his napkin into the neck of his shirt and begins to
eat.
Later, Watson arrives at Holmes’ house. Watson calls
for Holmes, he can hear Holmes whispering his name, but he is
nowhere to be seen. Holmes shoots Watson in the shoulder with a dart, still doesn't appear. Holmes steps away from the wall, he’s
wearing a bodysuit, painted to match the wall and
bookshelf, making him nearly invisible. Watson peers into the next room, which is full of newspaper clippings and
photos, all connected by red threads. Watson notices one particular
news article on Dr. Hoffmanstahl’s sudden death. Watson is very
familiar with Hoffmanstahl. Holmes
says someone was “tying up loose ends”. Holmes asks Watson what all these events;Hoffmanstahl’s death, bombings, and the sale of munitions stocks have
in common. Watson follows the threads and sees that they lead to one particular man: Professor James Moriarty.
Watson reminds Holmes that he is getting married tomorrow, and they are
supposed to be heading to his stag party. Holmes responds by shooting a
poison dart into Watson’s bulldog. Watson is annoyed, until Holmes
gives the dog a shot to revive him. The dog
leaps up and runs out of the room. Watson says might need some of that
later, and Holmes offers a small case with a shot as a
wedding gift. Holmes says he is being watched. They drive to a
nearby club where they are met by Holmes’ brother Mycroft (Stephen
Fry). The brothers try to outdo one another. They enter the club, where Watson discovers
that none of his other friends have been invited. He accuses Holmes of
forgetting his stag party, and Holmes responds with a toast, during which he is clearly looking around for
someone. Watson goes off to play cards, and Holmes heads upstairs to
have his fortune told.
The fortuneteller is named Simza (Noomi Rapace), He tells her that he is looking
for the devil, then gives her the letter stolen from Irene Adler, which
was originally intended for Simza. It is from her brother, and it says
that he must say goodbye. Holmes says he needs to find Simza’s brother,
but Simza won’t help him. Simza tries to kick Holmes out of the room, he whispers in her ear that a Cossack assassin is hiding directly above her in the
ceiling. The assassin leaps down, and Holmes pictures how he must prevent assassin’s attack. Before he can begin his prevention, Simza
throws a knife into the assassin. A
crazy fight begins. Meanwhile, Simza disappears,
leaving only her carpetbag behind.
Downstairs, Watson has gotten into a drunken brawl, and collapses in Holmes’ arms. Holmes packs him into the
motorcar, and Watson awakes extremely dirty and groggy outside the
church where he is about to be married. His bride Mary meets him at the
altar and is a little shocked at his appearance. Holmes exits the
church only to find Moriarty’s right-hand man, Colonel Moran, waiting at
the motorcar. Moran says “He wants to meet with you.” Holmes replies,
“I was expecting the invitation sooner.” Holmes heads to the university where Moriarty lectures. Moriarty is listening to an opera song by Shumann that
Holmes recognises.Holmes presents Moriarty with a copy of Moriarty’s own book “Dynamics of
an Asteroid” and requests Moriarty’s signature. Moriarty complies. He
says that Holmes has complicated his activities.
Moriarty is angry and replies that Watson will not be spared. In fact,
Moriarty intends to send him a wedding present shortly. As a parting
blow, Moriarty gives Holmes Irene Adler’s bloody handkerchief and tells
Holmes that Irene contacted a “rare form of tuberculosis”.
The scene then cuts to Watson and his wife Mary, preparing to board the train for
Brighton. As Watson boards the train, he notices a ticket taker arguing
with a woman, telling her that she can’t use the bathroom while the
train is still in station. Watson joins Mary in their private
compartment to enjoy a glass of champagne, and the train departs.
Before they have gone far, a porter knocks on the door with a bottle of
complimentary wine. As the porter sets down the wine, he attacks Watson
with a knife. Watson fights him, and Mary grabs Watson’s gun. She
points it at the porter, as Watson opens the side door and
throws the man off the train. Watson hears someone else in the hallway, and pulls open the door to with his gun drawn, only to find Holmes in female drag.
Holmes pushes Watson back inside while guards shoot from the
hallway. As Watson defends the door, Holmes grabs Mary and throws her
out the side door off the train. Mary falls off the bridge and lands in
the river below. Watson turns around, realises his wife is gone, and
leaps on Holmes yelling, “You killed my wife!” Holmes assures Watson that Mary is safe, and this is all part of his
plan. Three guards burst into the compartment
with guns drawn. Watson looks down the barrel of the gun and sees it is
jammed with something that looks like lipstick. A flashback shows that
Holmes, disguised as a woman, has mixed false capsules in with the
guard’s ammo. When the guard tries to fire, a bomb blows up
in his face, knocking all three guards back into the hallway. Holmes and Watson take the opportunity to climb out the side door and
scoot down the train to another compartment. Holmes
tells Watson to lie down on the floor and wait. As soon as Watson lies
down, the guards fire a gun through the passenger cars,
splintering the walls and seats. They continue to fire until their gun
jams from another false bullet that Holmes has substituted. Watson jumps up to shoot through
the hole. The bullet hits the shooter’s
shoulder, but a second man takes his place and continues firing. They are
trapped until a second bomb makes it up to the gun,
blowing the last five cars clear off the train.
The scene then cuts to Mary, swimming down the river. Mycroft rows up in a tiny boat and Mary is furious, but accepts his help. Back to Holmes, who is asking Watson to join him for one last case. He
promises that once Moriarty is deposed, he will never ask for help
again. Watson reluctantly agrees.They head to Paris.
In France, Holmes and Watson travel to a gypsy camp. Holmes has the
fortuneteller’s carpetbag, and holds it ransom until they bring him to
Simza. Holmes explains that he is still looking for Simza’s brother.
Simza says she hasn’t heard from him in a very long time, but he has
sent her some pictures. Holmes looks at the drawings, and says
that the paper comes from a printing press located next to wine cellar.
Simza says there is a printing press and wine cellar at the
headquarters of the anarchist group with which she and her brother were
formerly part of. Simza joins Watson and Holmes as they head to the
anarchist headquarters. The anarchist group is lead by a man named Claude. As Holmes, Simza,
and Watson walk through the compound to meet Claude. Holmes, Watson, and Simza sit
down with Claude and try to pump him for information on Simza’s
brother. Claude says that he has not seen her brother for a long time.
He would like to help them, but he can’t. Claude says he made
a deal with the devil, and he has no choice because this “benefactor”
has taken Claude’s wife and children hostage. Holmes says that he can
help Claude, he can get his family back, but Claude says he already
knows what to do. He says, “You have less than ten minutes”, then pulls
out a gun and shoots himself in the head. Claude’s troops hear the shot. They rush downstairs to avenge him, but Holmes has
noticed a few specks of blood that indicate a hidden
passageway. Holmes, Watson, and Simza flee down the passageway, but not
before Holmes observes a few sticks of leftover dynamite.
Holmes, Watson, and Simza race to the opera house, where Holmes quickly
locates a prop platform with a Latin engraving. He cuts open the bottom
of the platform, expecting to find a bomb, but instead he notices a chess piece. He looks up to the balcony and sees Moriarty
watching him. They rush to a nearby hotel, only to witness an explosion that kills a roomful of
businessmen. Holmes examines the bodies and notices that one of
the businessmen has a bullet hole in his head. He follows the path of
the bullet through the window, up to the roof of a building. Watson also recognises the sniper’s leftover tobacco, the evidence points
to Moriarty’s right-hand man Colonel Moran.
At breakfast the next morning, Holmes states that the businessman with
the bullet in his head was clearly the target, the bombing was to cover up his murder. This businessman was the owner of a huge factory located in Germany. Moriarty
owns a majority share in this company, making him the new owner now
that this man is dead. Holmes says he has been following Moriarty, therefore
knows that he is taking the train to Germany in the afternoon. Simza says she can smuggle them across, and
they meet a few of her gypsy friends in order to sneak across on
horseback. They travel to the German factory, and Simza waits outside the
grounds while Holmes instructs Watson to send a telegraph. Holmes
sneaks inside and sees the factory. On the wall are maps detailing every major European country,
with the amount of weapons they can be expected to purchase. While he
is snooping, Holmes is found by Colonel Moran, who takes him to
see Moriarty. Watson returns from sending the telegraph to find Holmes gone, but
Holmes has left Watson a drawing of the nearby lighthouse. While Watson
sneaks over to the lighthouse, Moriarty questions Holmes, demanding
to know who the telegraph was sent to. He sticks a giant meat hook
through Holmes’ shoulder and hangs him from the ceiling, singing along
to an opera song. He tugs on
Holmes until he screams. Meanwhile, Colonel Moran opens fire on
Watson. Watson is pinned down, unable to reach the lighthouse.
Instead, he crawls to the nearest pile of weapons.
Moriarty throws Holmes on the ground and gets in his face. Holmes whispers that the telegraph was sent to his
brother Mycroft. At the same time, Watson has found a huge cannon and
shoots at Moran, causing the entire lighthouse to fall on the building
where Holmes is being held. Watson helps Holmes out and
they race to Simza and her gypsy friends. Colonel Moran has
likewise rescued Moriarty, and he organises the soldiers to find and take care of the fleeing intruders. The soldiers are firing, there are explosions everywhere, and Holmes and
the others can’t go back for the horses, so they race to jump on the
approaching train. Moran is in hot pursuit, and Watson manages to shoot him in
the leg, but Moran keeps firing and kills most of the gypsies. Only one
gypsy, Simza, Holmes, and Watson make it on the train. Holmes is badly
injured from the hook, and as Watson attempts to stitch up the wound,
Holmes goes into shock and stops breathing. Watson remembers the shot that
Holmes presented to him. He pulls out the
syringe and stabs Holmes in the chest. With Holmes revived, Watson asks if they can go home. They make a quick detour to Switzerland.
Mycroft joins them in Switzerland. Mycroft has a small golden inhaler, his own “private oxygen supply”, to deal with the altitude. The following evening, Holmes, Watson, and Simza sneak into the grand
ballroom. Each major European nation
has sent someone to represent them. Holmes is convinced that one of the representatives could be an
assassin must be disguised as an ambassador. Holmes is pretty sure that
the assassin is really Simza’s brother, but he doesn’t know which
ambassador he is disguised as. Holmes tells Simza that one of the ambassadors is really her brother,
but she doesn’t recognise any of them. Holmes thinks the assassination
will take place when everyone gathers for the group photograph, which
gives them only 10 minutes to find the impostor. Watson and Simza must find the
assassin while Holmes faces Moriarty. Holmes sends a note to Moriarty,
inviting him to a game of chess out on the balcony. While they play,
Moriarty tells Holmes that he knows Watson and Simza,
are searching for the assassin. Watson and Simza try to spot Simza’s brother.
Watson says that the man would have scars from the surgery, but
four of the ambassadors have hairlines that could cover such scars.
Simza has told him that her brother has blue eyes but no one has blue eyes. Watson and Simza are stumped. Watson
deliberately knocks over a tray of drinks, causing everyone to
look around except for one, a man keeping his composure. Simza tries to speak with her brother, but he says, “I’m sorry,” and reaches for his gun.
Watson tackles him. As the police drag the assassin away, Colonel Moran
shoots a poison dart from his cane, killing Simza’s brother
immediately.
Back to the balcony, Holmes and Moriarty hear what has happened and know
that Moriarty’s assassination plot has failed. Moriarty smiles and
says it doesn’t matter. Moriarty abandons the chess game and is
about to leave, but Holmes keeps playing, speaking the moves aloud. They play verbally until Holmes has Moriarty in check. Holmes
tells Moriarty that he knows about the notebook, a
tiny red book that Moriarty keeps in his jacket at all times the book is filled with private information. Moriarty is livid and is about to attack. As he always does
before combat, Holmes mentally runs through his plan. However,
Moriarty is clever enough to do the same, together they imagine the fight step by step. Due to Holmes’ injury
from the hook, they both realise that fight will end with
Moriarty wining and Holmes thrown over the railing of the balcony. Before Moriarty can move, Holmes grabs him
around the neck, throwing them both off the balcony. Watson arrives
just in time to watch them fall.
The scene cuts to Holmes’ funeral. Then to Watson finishing what he was writing at the beginning of the film. It is an account of his last
adventure with Holmes. As
Watson types “The End”, Mary enters the study she gives Watson a package that was just delivered. Watson opens the package and sees the small golden oxygen inhaler
Holmes examined prior to the peacekeeping summit. Watson runs out of his study to ask his wife who delivered the package. His armchair begins to move. Holmes stands up,
dressed in camouflage again. Holmes reads the ending of what Watson was typing. When he gets to “The End”, he types
a question mark.
This film is non-linear as it reverts back to things that happened previously in the film to help unravel the rest of the story. This film keeps you guessing as Holmes' nature and actions make you question how things will plan out for him. This film is enjoyable and keeps you interested throughout by the funny yet serious ways the actors give you a crime thriller. This works well as a thriller as you never know whats going to happen next you're constantly surprised by it, as well as this is ending gives you the best suspense as you have to put the puzzle together to figure out if Holmes is alive or not before he reveals himself, it also gives you more questions by the way he adds a question mark to the ending of Watson writing. I would give this film 4 out of 5 as I found it exciting and thrilling throughout.
The level I would give myself a low level 2 the grade I would give myself is 10 out of 20. My targets: I need to make sure that I complete all the work on time. I need to make sure that I include details and I'm more analytical when writing commentary on my work rather than just uploading images. I need to complete tasks: 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 before I gain a higher grade.
The film starts with a medical patient, played by Ashton Kutcher,
breaking into a doctor's office at night. The noise has alerted some
guards, he can hear them looking for him. He blocks the door with a sofa, he grabs a pencil and paper and starts writing "If someone
reads this, it means that I was unsuccessful and am already dead..."
The guards are outside the office by this point, their flashlights shining in as
the scene fades out.
The film then goes back to "thirteen years earlier". We meet the young 8
year old Evan Treborn (the adult is played by Ashton Kutcher) who is
being raised by his mother, who is a nurse. When he is dropped off at
school, Evan's teacher insists on speaking with his mother about an urgent
matter. Apparently, as part of a drawing assignment, Evan drew a very
disturbing picture of himself holding a knife over a couple of dead
bodies. Evan has also started experiencing blackouts where he does not
remember what has happened. Then it follows Evan's life along with three of his friends, Kayleigh
Miller (adult played by Amy Smart), her brother Tommy, and Lenny. The
following four episodes are moments, which are referred to later
in the movie. In each, Evan has blacked out certain
memories.
Episode 1
At 8 years old, Evan is dropped off at his friend Kayleigh's
house. Her dad has just picked up a new video camera, he wants to
make a home movie with Kayleigh and Evan. Evan blacks
out, and he finds himself naked with Kayleigh in the basement of the
house. Mr. Miller has just finished making a movie, but Evan doesn't
remember what just happened. Concerned about his blackouts, Evan's mother takes him to see a doctor
at a psychiatric institution. The doctor notes that Evan's blackouts do
not seem to have a physical cause, and suggests that they may be
stress related. He recommends that Evan keeps a journal as treatment.
Episode 2 The film shows that Evan's father is in a psychiatric
institution, and that they have never met. Evan's doctor suggests that
his blackouts may be related to him not having a father figure and
recommends that they meet in a controlled environment. They meet, but
then Evan blacks out and wakes up to his father strangling him. The
guards tear him off of Evan and proceed to beat his father with a police truncheon until he is dead.
Episode 3
At 13 years old, Evan and his friends are smoking and looking in the Millers' basement. Tommy finds a stick of dynamite, and
they decide to use it for a prank. They light it and put it into a
mailbox of a neighbour's house, they wait in the woods by the house for it
to explode. Evan blacks out, he wakes up to them all running in a
panic through woods dragging Lenny with them, who appears to be in shock but otherwise uninjured. Evan has no idea what has just
happened, Lenny has to go to the hospital for treatment. The next scene shows us what happens next, Evan, Kayleigh and Tommy go to see a film. Tommy
catches Kayleigh and Evan kissing and is angered by this sight. He beats up another
boy, by his actions you can see that he hates Evan.
Episode 4
Still at 13 years old, Lenny has come back from
hospital. Evan and Kayleigh go to visit Lenny, they wander
into a junkyard, where they see smoke. They stumble acrossTommy, who
has tied up Evan's dog in a bag, covered it in petrol and is
preparing to set it on fire. Evan tries to stop Tommy, but Tommy picks
up a stick and accidentally hits Kayleigh as he swings at Evan. Evan
blacks out, and wakes up to find himself and Kayleigh cover with small amounts of blood, Lenny
unhurt, and a burnt bag with the remains of his dog.
Evan's mother has decided that they should move away. As
the moving truck is pulling away, Evan see's Kayleigh and writes a note
to show her through the window, the not reads "I'll come back for you." The film skips to present day, where Evan is 20 years old and is a student at
university studying psychology and memory in particular. His roommate
Thumper is a punk-goth type, and gets along well with Evan. They go out to celebrate after one of Evan's exams, the occasion being
that he has not had a blackout in 7 years. They go to a bar where Evan
picks up and brings a girl back to his dorm. She finds his stash of
journals which he apparently has kept all through the years. He's
embarrassed about them, but on her request he begins reading a out of one of the journals. Something very strange happens when he reads a part
that approaches one of his blackouts as a kid. He's reading the about whta happens to his dog, and all of a sudden he's thrown back to that day, but with his adult memory intact. He finally sees what he had
blacked out all these years. Evan is hit by Tommy with the stick and can't save his dog. Lenny is
trying to untie the rope around the bag, when Tommy notices this he
threatens him by saying he'll kill his mother in her sleep. Lenny backs
off, and Tommy lights the bag. Evan then wakes up in present time to
find that he has blacked out momentarily. Evan isn't sure whether this is a real memory, so he goes to visit
Lenny. The adult Lenny is a somewhat disturbed
individual. Evan asks whether he remembers the time that they found
Tommy in the junkyard. Lenny barks out what Tommy had said "If you do
anything, I'll kill your mother in her sleep!" Evan realizes that reading the entry leading up to a blackout, he can go
back in time to that moment. He reads another passage in one
of his journals leading up to the explosion which happens in espisode 3. He is taken back to the time
him and his friends were waiting for the mailbox to explode. Lost in the
moment, the cigarette falls out of his mouth this doesn't orginally happen in episode 3. however it falls onto his shirt, burning him. A car pulls
into the driveway of the house, where a mother and baby get out. Before
heading inside, the mother decides to pick up the mail. The four watch
in horror as the mother and child go to the mailbox and it explodes.
While Evan, Kayleigh and Tommy run from the scene, Lenny is totally
stunned and has to be dragged away from the scene.
Back in present time, Evan finds that he has a new scar from the
cigarette burn that he didn't have before. From this, it shows that
what happens in the past can happen differently, depending on his
actions. However he is catious to see where his memories might take him. He goes back to visit Kayleigh, who he
apparently has not seen since he moved away at 13. After she leaves her
job working in a diner, he meets her and starts questioning her about
the past. Kayleigh reveals that when her parents split up, she had a
choice to live with her father, or with her mother who lived out of
town. As they were childhood friends, she chose to live with her father
as she didn't want to move away. Evan then starts
asking her about the time they made a movie with her father. She gets very upset, and he realizes that they
were abused and forced to do a childs porn film, and she leaves him
crying. When Evan gets back to his dorm, he receives a message and finds out that
Kayleigh has killed herself. He makes the active decision
to go change the past. He reads the journal passage bringing him back to when Mr Miller made the home movie. Kayleigh and Evan are in the Mr. Miller's basement
with costumes on, the video camera is running. Mr. Miller instructs them
to take their clothes of, but then Evan challenges Miller in an adult
tone, saying that what he is doing will ruin his daughter's life and
lead to her commiting suicide. He adds that he should raise his daughter lovingly,
and he should discipline his son Tommy, as he is a sick
person. In a hard to believe development, this seems to convince Miller,
who promises to change his ways.
Evan wakes up in present time to find himself in bed with Kayleigh. He
then has new memories, as he changed how
everything developed because of that one incident. Kayleigh grew up not
being abused by her father and snuck away to meet him when he moved
away. They started dating, and are now in college together. His relationships are totally different, for example he runs
into his roommate Thumper from before he went back in time, who
as a punk-goth type has nothing to do with the type of person Evan now is. However through all this back and forth Evan still has all his memories from before he went back.
Life seems good for Evan as he is with Kayleigh, but soon the
negative side of his actions appear. Although Kayleigh grew up fine,
Tommy became the object of Mr. Miller's anger growing up. An incident involving Evan, Tommy, and a baseball bat, results in Evan killing Tommy. Evan is sent to prison, and he manages to get hold of one of his journals so that he can change the past again.
He reads the passage leading up to his dog being burnt again.
Evan, Kayleigh and Lenny are just about to come across Tommy, when Evan
realizes that they have to be prepared this time so they can change the
past, so he picks up a shard of metal and gives it to Lenny, telling him
to use it to "cut the rope" (freeing his dog).
However, during the incident with Tommy, he changes things himself,
and convinces Tommy not to kill the dog. Just as Tommy puts down the
stick, he is stabbed by Lenny with the metal shard and killed. Evan then wakes up in a very grim present day, that has changed as a result
of Tommy's death. Lenny is now permanently restrained in a
psychiatric facility, and Kayleigh is a crack whore. Evan realizes that he has to go back and change things again. He
goes back to when he met his father for the first time, with the knowledge he now has, he speaks
with his father about how to change things. His father was
institutionalized as he has the same "gift" that Evan has, he however was
diagnosed to be delusional. His father tells him that he can't play God,
all this changing the past has to stop. Evan refuses and his father
lunges at him, strangling him as the guards grab at him.
Back in the present, Evan then decides to go back to the explosion episode. Instead of watching the explosion, Evan runs out shouting
at the mother to get away from the mailbox. As he gets to the mailbox,
it explodes and he is thrown back. Evan wakes up in the present, to find that his roommate in college is
a very well-adjusted and social Lenny. The bad side is that Evan
doesn't have any arms, as they were removed due to the explosion. Other things have changed as well, Kayleigh is now Lenny's
girlfriend, Tommy is no longer disturbed and they are all still
best friends. Though he feels sorry for himself, he sees that everybody
else is happier. He tries to kill himself, but fails as Tommy saves
him. He then visits his mother in the hospital, who is dying of lung
cancer. In this timeline his mother started smoking again because of the dynamite accident. This convinces him to try changing
the past again.
He goes back to the incident that happens at Millers house, and trues to solve too many things at once. He grabs a candle, finds the stick of dynamite that is
also in the basement. He tries to threaten Mr. Miller into not harming
anyone, but this doesn't go to plan as he drops the lit stick of dynamite which
explodes when Kayleigh picks it up.
Evan returns to the present as a psychiatric patient.
The incident involving Kayleigh's death led to a string of events
adding to Evan's present condition. As everything is wrong, and
Kayleigh is dead, he has to try to change the past again. He goes in
to see his doctor, and demands his journals. However, the doctor says
that there are no journals. Suggesting all of his memories are a figure of his imagination that he has made up as a result of his guilt over his role in
Kayleigh's death. In this timeline, it has resulted in him not keeping any journals at all. The doctor then comments that
this is the same thing that happened his father, and in the end his
father kept asking to see an old photo album that never existed. This
provides a clue to Evan, that there are other ways to change the past. The next time he is in the doctor's office, his mother is also there. He
asks his mother for the old home videos they did when he was a child. She
promises to bring them. As he is leaving, he hears the doctor recommend
that he be transferred to another hospital soon, so Evan realizes that
he doesn't have much time left. Evan is sneaking around in the institution at night, breaking into
the doctor's office, like in the first scene.As he finishes his note he starts playing a
projector with one of his mother's old home videos. The guards are
breaking into the office, but the film works and he is thrown back into
the past, before of the previous episodes had happened.
There is a party with the first meeting between the young Evan
and young Kayleigh. As they meet, Evan deliberately whispers into
Kayleigh's ear: "I hate you and if you ever talk to me, I'll kill you
and your family." She runs away from him crying.
Back to the present, he is with Lenny his roommate and asks "Where's
Kayleigh?" to which Lenny replies "Who's Kayleigh?". They never became friends in this timeline. He goes back to the diner
where Kayleigh was working in an earlier timeline, but she never worked
there. She and her brother moved with their mother when their
parents split up. Kayleigh, Tommy and Lenny have all turned out fine,
given that none of the previous episodes have happened. Although he is not with
Kayleigh, this is one life that Evan can accept, and he burns the
journals.
This film is very confusing and extremely hard to follow, I had to watch it more than once before I was able to take in what was happening, as a thriller it is effective as it constantly keeps you guessing as to how him changing things will plan out for him in the end it is mysterious as you don't really know who he is because he's constantly changing himself, there is suspense which is added to the thriller genre as it keeps you hooked although I was confused I was still anxious about the outcome of the film as a thriller film I will give it a 4 out of 5 rating as I feel it kept me interested till the end and in suspense of what was going to happen to him after he was changing everything.
This is my iconography Mood Board I have chosen these images to show off the way I see thriller films. There are images on the setting, I have chosen dark images that have a lot of shadow to show a sense of mystery and suspense. I have included props such as guns as this is what is mainly seen in thriller films. The dark images and settings send a message of questioning out to the audience as to say what could happen in the film. There are images of violence and explosions to give more power to the film as well as an element of shock to the audience. I've also included DVD covers as to show the way that films are presented to customers and how it carries on with the film genre by using dark and twisted images.
By putting these credits into a timeline we learnt that its a legal
requirement for some of the cast and crew to be named before the film.
We also learnt that the credits are usually shown in order of
importance, for example Sigourney Weaver has her name even before the
actual title of the film indicating she is seen as a very important
person in this film. We also learnt a general order that most tile
sequences are put in. For example the production company always comes
first to stop copyright and to brand their films as theirs.
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