Thriller Film Producers- Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1934. Hammer mainly produces horror films. It also produces science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies. As years went on, they began to produce television series.



They created the thriller film 'Nightmare.' It was created in 1962.

Hammer Production created psycological thrillers such as' Taste of Fear, Manic and Fear in the Night.

Taste of Fear:
http://youtu.be/EbBZ8O_cevY


Manic Thriller Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-sCiycA5MM



Fear in the Night:
http://youtu.be/aq7K2K9s0_E

Seven Surveillance Sequence

Here is a link to the sequence: http://youtu.be/kwdPCZY_I9A

Carrying out the Seven Sequence helped me to learn how pictures interlink with the soundtrack to create a story. I played around with the effects which were added to see what went with the style of music in different parts of the story. To improve this I would have added more effects and used the colour distort to make the images more interesting.

Reservoir Dogs Remake

Reservoir Dogs helped me to learn about directing and communicating with different people. I learnt to become more confident when making sure the actors knew what, when and where they were performing various scenes as I had to tell them and if I said to do something wrong, it would be my responsibility. Networking with others to see if they were able to preform in our remake was very useful and a good experience.

Here is a link to the remake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36tRAyIWSY&feature=player_embedded 

Parity Remake

Carrying out the Parity remake helped me because this gave me my first chance and experience at editing and using Final Cut. I found it interesting doing the editing, it takes a lot of work to get it exactly right. I struggled with matching up the sound track to my editing as it seemed to be out of sink. I added foley where the mop was wiping up and when filming we made sure to get the foley of the knife hitting the floor.   I have learnt just how filming shot for shot and continuity is really important as I found it really hard to put it all together. I feel I have grasped more of the technical side to media now and found it helpful and important by learning new skills.

Here is a link to the YouTube site I created for our group as I was unable to upload it onto the blog.

http://www.youtube.com/user/GirlsGroupThriller/videos

Storyboard Anamatic

Here is a link to the anamatic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZIaWe5IEMY&feature=g-upl

The anamatic helped me because it got be using my skills on final cut as I have not imported just photos before I had been editing the videos. It helps the group to see what the film will look like and give us a chance to change anything in advance if we do not like the look of it. To improve the anamatic I think I could made it look more presentable and also had it all in photographs instead of some post-it notes aswell as it does not look very cleared compared to using real people.

If I were to improve this, I would have made the shots longer, I used the last numbers on final cut to determine the seconds when actually I should have done something different as it looks as if the video is really fast.

Shot Reverse Shot

Analysis of Title Sequence

Catch Me If You Can- Comedy-drama made in 2002
The Title Sequence

First frame, makes the producer of the film look interesting and draws the audiences attention to it as it is a comic book like frame. The writing is squared and curved throughout. It creates an airport theme.

The word 'me' stands out as it is a different colour to the background and the other words. The words in black are the same front and style as the other titles have been produced. The airplane under me continues the airport theme.

Good transition between the different frames by a plane, same as the one under the title, flying over the motorway effectively into the next frame. 

 

The frame changed into a different atmosphere and colour scheme. It looks as if they are in a lift and there is someone walking up stairs on the left. The colours suit the mood of the image being portrayed. 

The red ladies are shown vibrantly against the block black coloured background. Good effect of the receptionists typing out the titles. The frame gives a completely different image from the previous frame. 

Different themes throughout the sequence. The man runs and the papers fall off of the shelf. The three colours used complement each other because they are really bold and eye catching.

The font has changed and it its again a different theme of frame than the one previously. Draws the audiences eye to the screen as the person slides down the 'pole.'

Re-occurring theme (airport) tying in with the beginning of the sequence. Man pushes the screen away to reveal the name. Different visual effect for the audience to see. Created an interesting shape.

Throughout all of the names have been presented the same appart from the last two as they are higher up than the rest of the names to become eyecatching. The sequence includes graphic images by using technology which looks effective. The sequence does not give anything away about the characters of setting to make the film intriguing for the audience. 

Thriller Tagging

Unusual Suspects.
I picked out the main parts of the sequence that represented a thriller film.
This would not upload, I will upload it when I am back to school

Thriller Film Producers- Coffee Films

http://www.coffeefilms.com/content.html

Coffee Films first began in 1996, following on the Naked Pony company which no longer runs. Naked Pony's main theatre was based in South East England. They then spirelled up to creating documentaries on music and wildlife. They are currently producing; Lucid a psychological drama/thriller and lots of different wildlife projects working with international broadcasters. The company hopes to be successful for a long time.

Partnerships

Coffee Films have been involved with and completed lots of different films since they have been up and running. They like to experiment with technique, style, genre and the medium of moving images mainly. Their aim is to be diverse.

Example of a short Indie Thriller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOnKzNghZho

They have also made films which are not thrillers such as



a drama

And a doccumentary

And a music doccumentary