spoiler review- 2 of 3

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I have used the format of a prezi for this spoiler review of the girl with the dragon tattoo.

seven opening title sequence edit

We had been set a task to make an opening title sequence in the style of the renowned thriller film seven.  We have made this by the program final cut, we have layered different pictures and video clips and overlaid the sound track from the original seven title sequence. We have used techniques such as the sharp changing of image and the effect of the image jumping around the screen. I feel this has been successful as we have tried to keep the pictures and video clips used to a specific story line and we have also edit the titles. To improve this we should of made sure that we had cut the music as we left it at its original length so therefore carries on playing even when our video is over, also we could have made the images to change to the beat of the music to give it more effect.

class work

sub-genre- crime thriller
typical setting- police station
characters- theres usually a police officer or detective
typical scene- usually a crime scene
linear- this is linear because you are starting off at the beginning of the story with them
the enigma code would be- who did the crime?
restricted because we know as much as a character



sub-genre- sci-fi thriller
typical setting- in the future
characters- some sort of technological person or alien
typical scene- a scene involving technology
non-linear- because you see a crime happen and then it goes to the future
omniscient
the enigma code- who are the people in the water? what was the wooden ball that the character picked up?


 sub-genre- psychological thriller
typical setting-isolated location
characters- usually a detective
typical scene- a disappearance
non-linear- because we are dropped into the story
restricted- because we only know as much as the character knows
the enigma code would be- where are they going? what happened to his wife?


 sub-genre- crime
typical setting- isolated place
characters- murderer, detective
typical scene- interrogation scene
non-linear- because we have been dropped in after the crime has occurred
restricted- we only know what the character knows
the enigma code would be- what has this man done? why did he do it? what are the photos?

spoiler review- 1 of 3

The Tourist

The film starts with the main character Elise being followed by the police who have spent years searching for her old lover Alexander Pearce, who owes 744 million in back taxes. At a cafe, Elise receives a note from Pearce instructing her to; board a train to venice, pick out a man who resembles him and make the police believe that this decoy is him, Elise then burns the note and evades the police and boards a train.






On the train, Elise picks out Frank Tupelo a community college teacher going to venice to get over an ex lover. They begin to spend a lot of time together and appear to create a romance. Elsie invites him to stay at her hotel room, the next morning she abandons Frank who is then chased by a group of gangsters who are also looking Pearce, whilst on the run Frank is picked up by the police who then take him in for his own safety on to have a corrupt police office turn him in to gangsters. Elise rescues Frank and sends him the the airport with his passport and money, urging him to leave for his own safety.


It is then revealed that Elise is in fact an agent from scotland yard who may have become Pearce's ally. She fears for Franks safety so therefore agrees to a sting operation. Elise later attends a ball where she assumes the real Pearce will be. An envelope is placed on the table in front of her and the man hastily walks away, she assumes that this is Pearce and promptly walks after him. On her pursuit Frank intersects her and declares his love for her. He is then hauled away by the police, Elise opens the envelope from Pearce to find a note mentioning rendezvous point, she heads off in boat to rendezvous point, but is tailed by the gangsters and closely followed by the police, who have Frank tied up in there boat to stop him from obstructing the investigation.

When Elise arrives at the hotel room she is taken prisoner by the gangsters who are demanding to know where the money that Pearce owes them is being kept. The police are monitoring the situation through audio and video that has been pre set up, despite Elises peril the office in charge refuses to take other offices advice to intervene with the snippers. Whilst the officers are monitoring the situation Frank finds a way to escape the police boat. He gets into the room and confronts the gangsters by telling them that he is Pearce the gangsters are sceptical and tell him if he really is Pearce he should open the safe, the chief inspector arrives on the boat and over rules the man in charge and tells the snipers to intervene, killing the gangsters.

The final scenes you see the police let Elise leave her job, and they think they have found the real Pearce but when they get to the scene and talk to him he is simply a tourist being payed to pretend to be him via an anonymous source. Back in the room Elise tells Frank that she loves him but also loves Pearce. Frank then walks over to the safe and enters the correct code, therefore revealing that he is in fact Pearce.

I have given this film three stars due to the fact that the film did not create much mystery or suspense throughout and mystery and suspense are the main qualities that a thriller should possess. Although I like the twists in the plot that the film threw up such as the fact the Elise was actually an agent and the answer to the enigma code, 'who is Pearce', was effect as you did not expect him to be Frank. 

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mind map- conventions of the genre

I have composed a mind map to brain storm all the different iconic features of a thriller film. 

Thriller Concept

The Plot:
Based on the minimal budget i have decided to make a Crime thriller. The thriller will be based around corrupt police and a criminal organisations. The opening scene will take place in two locations, one locations will be a room with a swat team getting ready to stage a police raid and the other will be a dark abandoned room where the criminals will be planning. A secret message will be recieved by one of the members of the organisation letting them now that the police are on them. This will then introduce the enigma code, who is sending the messages? throughout the film we will meet a variety of characters who act as though it could be them, the will create the mystery and suspense. The message recieved will then trigger events that will be leading to big event, this will be a drug trafficing event but as we are building to this there will be many events where the organisation recieve messages letting them know what the police know this sends the story into twists and turns. The final scenes of the film will convey the big crime and the police turning up at the wrong location you will then see one of the police offices helping with the trafficking this will then reveal who was sending the messages.