Conventions of a thriller film

                                      Nerve - Textual Analysis

In this opening, they try to imitate a computer screen to show that the film involves the internet.
In this one, an online computer app is shown. This could show how technology has taken over, we used to read books on paper and now we read them on our phones or the computer.
 

In this shot, it shows an editing screen.

In this one a shoe emoji is shown to show that this is modern.

They use a music site to show the music producer.

This one shows a popular app called 'Snapchat'.
This could be to show how we feel the need to record our lives and share them. As the film is about this.

Preliminary task evaluation

Eutopia Opening Response

In the theory side of media A level we have been watching a few episodes of a series called Utopia. We have now been given our first exam style question to answer, we practise with exam questions so that we get a feel of what we will be asked in the final exam. For this question we had 45 minutes and a short clip from the opening to an episode. The question we were asked was: What is effective about the opening to series 2 episode 6 of utopia? This is my final response. I will use the feedback from the teacher to try and improve my next written response.

Story board

This is my storyboard in preparation for the preliminary task. I can now use this as a direction of what to film and when to film.

~ Beth

Preliminary task video

Hello,


This is our final video for the preliminary task described earlier,
 


                        ~Beth

Preliminary task

Hello,

So we have been set our first proper task. It is to film a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. I am in a group with Jack Geary and Spencer Graham. We must correctly use the 180 degree rule which is shown in the diagram below:

 

The 180° rule is a cinematography guideline that states that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another . When the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line and the shot becomes what is called a reverse angle.
                                              ~Beth