Casino Royale - Opening Analysis

Analysis:

Events in the opening sequence in chronological order

1. Black and white scene bath room scene - starts with high verisimilitude, starts with the minimal colours theme that continues throughout.

2. Barrel of gun - (the rest of the sequence is animated) in the centre the main protagonist bond stands strong. The audience knows right away that he is the main character. This idea is reinforced throughout as he is the only life-like (non monochrome) person in the whole opening.

3. Blood - after the gun shot, tells the audience that the main protagonist has won the fight.

4. Red black and white card symbols appear on top of the now red background. this links the opening to the title of the film ("casino") .

5. Some symbols form into circle type shapes, which look like flowers. this gives the opening a feminine touch, and ensures the opening animation appeals to all.

6. Strings of symbols look like blood vessels

7. Main protagonist appears in very low key lighting (B+W) sitting in a relaxed position. He is in control of the situation.

8. Introduction of guns. Lots of contrasting colours.

9.Fight scenes in three colours. Main protagonist always in black and white. Bad guy always in red/ yellow + green.

10. Protagonist always keeps showing up either in low key black and white or on posterised black and white.

11. Playing cards, flutter and fall as if they have been thrown into the air.

12. Gun shoot two holes before a 7 (of hearts) forming 007 (protagonists code name).

13. This changes into the screen off a computer with the number 007 on it.

14. Black and white posterised protagonist moves forward and comes into light, changing to lifelike form, re establishing verisimilitude, however it still has vey low key lighting, The image has had most of the saturation taken out of it, giving it an eerie look.

The music is an original high energy piece of non dietetic music.

(Credit to Mariella Devoil)

Moral Panic

Moral Panic is where the media creates and publicizes an issue that appears to threaten the social order within society. They can be seen as controversies that in which can lead to arguments and social tension. The Media usually make these so that it distracts the public from a bigger problem that is going on within the society.

The Dark Knight RIses Analysation

The representation of Ice within the sequence begin to build the movie up to be dark and mysterious and keeps the audience wondering. As it is a psychological thriller they use the codes and conventions in the style of Cooper's work. There is also use of macro footage, jump cuts, cutting up of newspaper, flickering of the camera to build suspense within the scene.

The use of dark colours within this shot shows the mystery within the whole scene as the colours of the scene are set to only black, white and red. This shot is very mysterious as is the whole scene as it is quite hard to predict what is about to happen and what is actually happening. The audience could assume that someone is working on detective work in a laboratory however the mystery stills remains on why the work is being done. Therefore the code and convention to keep the audience wondering and in suspense throughout the narrative has been keyed within this scene.

Within this clip shown, the glass has been broken or partly destroyed showing that there is a disturbance within the equilibrium. This could be giving the audience an insight into what is about to happen as well as they word 'warns' been magnified by the ice as well as the word 'gotham' which is the city Batman protects therefore leaving the audience in suspense that something has happened within the city.

Survey

From the research of this survey i found out that my main audience were 16-21 year olds. The percentage of males to females was bigger however the amount of people who did the survey was odd so therefore the percentage of males may be bigger because of that. I found out the Psychological thriller was the main interest to my audience, so therefore i have decided to make a psychological thriller so that i can get the biggest audience i can. The Antagonist is the favourite character within the research of my survey so therefore i need to give the Antagonist the biggest plot twist or role so that i can keep the audience indulged into the film. 

Questionairre

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QH758DX

Thriller Genre Research

The Thriller Genre:

A thriller usually consists of a battle between the protagonist and the antagonist which is cause when there is a disruption in the equilibrium. The story then has to have a tense part of the narrative, so it builds tense moments until it hits its climax of a big event, the new-equilibrium.

Conventions Of Thrillers:
Low Key Lighting
Quick Cuts
Shadows
Tension Building Music
Different Angled Shots
Exaggerated Diegetic Sounds
Montages
Protagonist vs. Antagonist

Character Conventions:
The Protagonist (hero) reinforces the equilibrium
The Antagonist (villain) destroys the equilibrium

Cinematography Codes For Thrillers:
Close up or Extreme Close ups are used to build intensity within a moment or narrative. They are usually used to show the relationship between two characters or emotion that they may be feeling, as well as to help the audience notice and recognise certain clues to the situation. Cut away or Cut In's are used to link sequences together which is important for both the narrative and the audience. Shots of the Antagonist often remain ambiguous as they want their intentions to remain unknown, this is shown by them being cut away quickly, low key lighting or shadowing to create effect and build suspense for the audience.

Editing Conventions:
Jump Cuts are used to help the narrative progress and develop into something bigger.
Cross Cutting and Cut Away's are used to help the audience link the narrative to the story.

Sound Conventions:
Jumpy Non-Digetic, Tension building music/sound effects.

Mise En Scene:
Dark partly gothic setting
Low Key Lighting
Antagonist is typically in dark clothing where as the Protagonist is usually dressed in everyday clothing.
Make up and hair of Antagonist is oftenly warped and strange then the Protagonist normally wears everyday typical make up.
Filmstoke (usually low key lighting)

Target Audience of Thrillers

Psychological Thrillers: These types of thrillers are normally aimed at the age range 18+ years old. The reason for the age range being in the young adult part is that they normally include quite and lot of violence, as well as the psychological part of it may disturb younger viewers than what has been set.

Crime Thriller: They are usually aimed at both male and females, so therefore there is no stereotype to the film. The certificate that is usually given these types of films are 15 or above. However the typical audience for these types of films is middle age, so around 40, therefore the audience is both sex's from 15-40 years old.

Thriller: Normal thrillers are also aimed at both male and female, specifically not setting it to a certain sex. The age range in which these are normally aimed at are 15-19 years old.

Action Thriller: It can be ranged from adult to teenagers, however 15 being the certificate rating as there is violence as part of the codes and conventions of action thrillers.

Film Noir: This type of thriller is normally aimed at an older audience from 40-80 years old as they would have grown up in or near the era that the film is set in, however it could be set for the audience of 18+ if they were trying to interpret what the era of the film was like (educational purpose).