Shutter Island notes !!

Shutter Island set in 1954

- Tension in the music when the gates open and when there reaching to shore you feel the tenstion in the music.

- Women left the institution , shes gone missing , shes left her shoes , and a note ??

- Old lady at the start seems scary , weird , freaky ,

- Rachel is the one who's gone missing the mental women .

- Nursers seem a bit edgy like their hiding something , it's just their faces you can tell there kept to secreracy

- Music , orchestra tension builds up

- Panning Shots , Long Shots ,

- Flash backs of the Marshal Leonardo Di Capiro) ( of the war and his wife and that he can't let her go

- He has dreams of his wife ( can't let her go). You have a dark lightning effect where it's dark you can hear the rain tapping against the window .... He wakes up panting

- Mid Shots

- Interviews with the people in the institution ( docs , people ,

Error with when the lady ask for a glass of water  - empty

- Rachel drowned her kids

- Sense of Humor

- Over Shoulder View Shot commonly used when people are talking

- Sounds whooshing , wind , gates opening , bright lights from the car ,

Protagonist is the two marshals as there trying to solve the case of Rachel

- Rachel (The wrong one) seems fragile unaware of what's going on

Then we meet the real Rachel who had killed her children
Flashbacks of the war !!

- Antagonist - the bold guy

- Bit confusing of what's going on if you watch first time  it's liker a dream of Teddy he has all these problems handicapp hes crazy , forgets things

- Then the marshals soon realizes Rachel has came back

- Dark cellars , dim light , so use of shadows of something hiding away .....

- Detectives on a mission , he's defensive , angry , trouble with his dreams and reality think their real as hes got so much going on in his head with his wife , the war .

Explosion of the car blowing up

- Jump Cuts

- Colour's vibrant , grey

- He sees this ghost of the girl and his wife he thinks there real but it's just what he's thinking - dreaming about.

- Soft Focus , blur , romantic

- Teddy starts to lose his mind , his memory , his own sanity .

Dead Calm notes !!

Dead Calm were associated with this women and this man ,

On this boat on a nice sunny day , his wife goes for a swim , she comes back all loved up cuddling romantic scene.

The women notices something from the distance a boat  she tells her husband .....

Then we get a high angle shot of this person on a boat who we don't know ....

We see the dials of the map of where the boat is traveling , radio for communication !!

This guy when hes rowing we don't see his face he's got his back turn to us so it makes it a mystery who this guy is

Soon as he reaches their boat , he goes straight down in the boat under deck he's sitting down we have a low angle of this and a high angle to the women and the man ....

The guy seems really edgy , mysterious , nervous , shaken up, we don't know who he is ??

The colours are vibrant colours.

Misery notes !!

- It creates tension when hes in bed , the camera slowly zooms in to him , then a jump cut to where the crazy women Annie there standing over him going crazy (that made me jump ) I didn't expect that to happen .

- You have a close up of the door knob , theartre of the mind implying questions of who is behind the other side of the door, handicapped creates suspense and tension .


- Feet - Creates tension when shes coming up to the house , and tension too , the music gets louder and louder to where she reaches the door . Then you think is she going to find him out of his room , if so what will se do thim if she found out .

- You have a bit of sense of humor aleways good for the audiece who are watch a thriller!!

- Suspense when you see the shadows on the floor you wonder what's going on the other side .... Then the pig comes out  ha ha hes funny

- At the start of the film you don't imply the women Annie to be mental , crazy , she seems normal well in consideration , but later on in the film you see shes a control freak , nutters , crazy , mental handicap

( Narrative side of the story )

- The guy goes for a drive , crashes , you wonder what's going to happen. It introduces theartre of the mind because you just see this person helping him out of the car, it's a bit of a mystery who this person is until we know it's the women Annie... Who's very controlling to him , shes the one too look out for, if the man says something she takes it to heart in what he says . She starts showing her evil side comes through shes mental . She can be nice and then can be evil, she gets annoyed with him as she has to back to the shops because the paper she has it smudges so he asked her if she she could go to town and get him the right paper . Then he starts to struggle to get out of the room , quick panning shot (scanning the room) .....Then he soon hears the women Annie coming back so he panics , tension builds up suspense in the music gets louder. You see her feet music gets louder louder , will she capture him out of his room??? He races back to his room struggling sweat coming of him as you can see on the protagonist ..... He seems a bit weird , I think she kinder knows what hes been doing . Then we see the bit where she is about to cut his legs on with an axe slasher , god that so horrible you can see it all unjointed it's horrible what a crazy mean mental women  of course is Annie.....That got to be painful ouch !!!



-The music in the background creates tension

- When the lady is driving up the road it creates suspense and tension , so for e.g the music gets louder , there is a element of Dramatic Irony as we see more then the character .

- We can see the struggle of the protagonist (the man in the wheel chair) so sweat of the clothes , panic (performance) make up , short of breath ,

- Inter Cuts - Between the two characters Protagonist and Antagonist in two locations )Dramatic Irony)

- Expanding key moments to make them last longer !!

 - Obstacles for each character to over come so the wheel chair man narrow sling

- Music becomes more intense as she approaches

- Close ups of important elements , the door lock , feet , walking etc creates tension and suspense

- Point Of View Shot - Puts us in her shoes

- Use of silence to create tension .

-  Quick Panning Shots as the man comes out of his room , it gives us a quick panning shot , so for e.g scanning the room .

- So whats going on happening next ??

- Editing , quickens towards the end of the scene , parallel shots e.g he locks the door , she unlocks the door so the front .

- False hope for the protagonist  e.g (broken phone )

- When he knocks the penguin over he catches it good , but he puts it back the wrong way , so a use of Dramatic Irony there we see more than the character in the film!!

Thriller Project!! - (characterization) notes!!

Character (characterization) so cast

Protagonist is the good guy
Antagonist is the bad guy

So the protagonist is not aware of who is the actuall goodie + bady and the viewer dosen't know either .

Character - archeghas
=false hero !! e.g Memento so natalie

Handicapped = protagonist so the film Memento the guy Lenny as he got something wrong witth him (forgets things) mental

Pile Sheldon - Miseralie so the protagonist has broken legs other examples bone collector , real window .

Picaresque - define lower statues of a character so for e.g charming can be witty , so he can be put out of a difficult situation .

Unaware hero - protagonist stumbles into a plot consitancey thriller for e.g the awakeing , mistaken identity .

Unrealiable character- Memento so Lenny was unrealiable so flaud through the handicapped .(bias)

Antagonist - mental handicapped , stalker , false villian ,

- Govenment

- FBI agents ,

- Companies - congromerates
unware hero , find something out about the government

- Manipulators  - phone booth

- Crinimals = murder ,assants kidnappers so the film taken

- Absent villian

- Supernatural

- Handicapped )deformend ( mental )

- Anti Hero - Is a  main character in a dramatic or narrative work who is characterized by a lack of heroic qualities such as courage

Spooks notes !!

 At the start you get  a trailer to recap to draw the viewers attention in

Agents - Trying to find someone , tension in the music , impact in volume pace builds up , then the guy gets stabbed so like in the shadows , where something being hidden then it jumps out sort of thing .

- Quick shots , tilts , zooms 

- Alot of confusion in parts 

- Builds up the pace sound gets louder and louder

- Dull gritty grey colours 

- News report on the screen

- Monitor - terrorist , war = communication

- Terrorist finds out information about they guy Mohammed , so the phone call 

- Sounds , police sirens , cars going by , background music , quick panning shots ,  zooming and tracking shots

- Point of view and over shoulderview

- Quick action scenes that donve very quickely

- cross cut

- Busy place , people rushing probably to get to work or have an appointment or something like that - so the people probably wouldn't of see the knife scene at the start as it was that hectic .

The X Files Notes !!

Setting - Is in the dark in a dark house a very good setting to create that scary , spooky sides of things  very dull lighting at the start ....


TV fuzzes -  Offline , bit scary as it just cut off - creates tension also in the music too

Screaming - Creates tension , dramatic music going on

Suspense - guns going off , the fighting , alarm going off

Quick panning shots and tracking shots to create suspense and tenstion - makes the audience think of what's going on so it creates questions for the audience.

Police investigations (agents)

Dwain - Handicapped - mental , crazy - protagonist

Dwain is holding the people hostage so for e.g the doc and the other people you can see there terrified of what his motive might be .

Dwain was a former of a FBI , guns firing off , white flashes creates tension when Dwain is holding the gun when he is pointing  the gun at the four people . It creates suspense, because you wonder what he's going to do if he is going to pull the trigger or not .

Dwain has a flash back of him seeing the aliens , then it dips to white , it shows he's fears that he is terrified .

Flashes of the aliens so a lightning effect flash of  as he is being transported where it dips to white .

Dwain - Is mental he has health problems , he i violent , angry , he has these delusions of the aliens ,

-Builds up fear

-  It makes the audience think of what is true and  false

At the hospital he sees aliens behind the white curtain . It shows that he is scared , petrified , then he rushes to get out of there .

Second Episode - Girl screaming creates tension

Then you hear something smash , The other guy sees images in his heads of what's happening so what the aliens are doing .

Then it dips to white where he is struggling to get up - mid shot then it dips to black

Dwain kidnaps the blonde lady , he shoots the officer , Over shoulder view when there talking

Close up of the weapon on him

Close up of her necklace on the car floor it creates tension and suspense as it makes you wonder if she is alive or dead (Sally)

The guy sees images in his heads of  what the aliens are doing to Sally .

- Left it on a hangover , it makes them wonder what is going to happen next ,

Thriller Notes !!

Thriller - To make you think , keep you guessing of what's going to happen next with violence implied .
Mystery , Suspense , and Dramatic  Irony in thrillers .
Horror - Scares you with the more visual parts , so for e.g guts , blood , gory details etc . 

Narrative - How the story is told ( Story Structure)

Robert Mckee's conventions of a thriller

Protagonist - The person were associated with that gets into our heads , (good guy)

Antagonist - The bad guy to hurt and stop the protagonist

Suspense - Is to keep the audience hanging on , keep them guessing of what may happen so for e.g feelings of excitement or anxious of uncertainty.

Theartre of the mind - Is to make you think to imply creating questions for the viewer .  

Make it personal - Make it interesting , personal  to lose at the end to the protagonist

Protagonist must be at the mercy of the antagonist - so for e.g Bond films

Twist / Turns - Prizes along the way that the audience don't know .

Mystery !!

Closed Mystery  - Who the killer is ? so for e.g the game cludeo

Open Mystery - We start to know who committed the crime

Suspense is about holding back the viewer to keep them guessing

Dramatic Irony - Is where the viewer knows more than the characters
We might know how the story ends .

Therefore our focus of attention is concern for the characters involved

Mc Guffin - Is where it brings the plot forwards , Mc Guffin is a device or plot element in a movie that is deliberately placed to catch the audiences attention .