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Our male protagonist (pictured above) is seen wearing a simple suit. as our characters are to be effectively made into silhouettes it was important an outfit was picked that would cause effect. For example, the blazer of this suit when twirled will create and effect shot in the footage. Our director (India) also chose to have Nathaniel filmed wearing a suit as it portrayed his role in society further. His character is a serial killer who is of high wealthy status to ultimately seduce his female victims, and by him wearing a suit, this connotes his importance as well as his wealth.
The female protagonist (Me, pictured above) wore tight fitting clothes throughout filming to essential highlight the body / frame of the character to effectively highlight her femininity. As character are merely silhouettes, facial expressions will not be seen and therefore audience are relying on the body structure of characters to successfully present the story to them. It was also important i wore my hair down to again further express her femininity. As females are portrayed as victims throughout 'Death On Tuesday' it was important our director casted someone reasonable 'Short / small' in both hight and build to make her seem vulnerable in comparison to the male protagonist - her attacker.
Analysis Of Texas Chainsaw Massacre Title Sequence
The opening of this film starts with the presence of eerie music which immediently builds suspence and gives the audience the impression that something not particually normal is either happening, happened or about to take place. The music involved in this scene works effectively as it not only creates a certain amount of tension amongst the viewers to prepare them for the events that are due to follow, but also compliments the low key lighting to ultimately generate a dark mysterious setting typical of a horror genre. The low key lighting is created by the use of candles, which also act as the key light. The candles during the title sequence create a gothic feel as they are mostly identified in churches and hold religious significance.
This title sequence is dependent on the use of photographs, a very simple yet effective decision as it makes the audience feels as if they are people told a story from a family photo album, making them more interested to proceed to find out about the storyline. The use of close-up shots on the photographs and news paper cut outs also helped to create a feeling of involvement towards the audience as if they are being shown the items personally. However, the camerawork was presented as very fast paced. The effect of this is that it dosen't reveal too much of the storyline and helps to also build tension and suspence, keeping the audience gripped and staying true to the horror genre.Other aspects that contributed to making this title sequence successful were the use of iconic and conventional horror figures. For example, blood.Blood is commonly connected with movies from the horror genre as there is usually always elements of death present within them. The other conventional aspects involved during this title sequence were the use of knives and chains. As the film title includes the word 'Chainsaw' this could also be a play-on aspect. The title of the film also suggests mass murder within the word 'Massacre' and therefore, the presence of knives are chains could help portray this idea and theme of muder further.Close-up shots of dead animals and newspaper cutouts involving the words 'Killing' and 'Murder' also help do this.
At the end of the title sequence, a photograph of a baby with a deformity, a cleft lip (which was also shown at the beginning of the title sequence) is being burnt. The connotation of this action is that it suggests the innocent baby in the photograph is nomore, and could infact imply that the baby is now of another form and plays some involvement into the murders that have been taking place as the photograph was shown at the both the beginning and end of the sequence.
Analysis Of Hustle
Hustle comtains elements used witih the iPod advert which eventually is the product we plan to produce with our short film coursework.
The opening credits of this television drams has acted as inpiration for our film and also provided us with a few ideas of which we would creatively change, and incorporate into our own work.
