Sub genre's we may use: Horror/ Psychological Thriller
Idea: Creating an antagonist with ideas from films such as Salad Fingers and Se7en
Also instead of an obvious story line with dialogue, we are going to combine a variety of different shots to tell the story visually. This use of montage will shoot many props in relation to the antagonist character such as drugs. The antagonist may commit a murder under the influence of drugs without meaning to. We do not want to show the murder but the selection of clips would allow the audience to use their imagination.
Research
About Salad Fingers:
In the surreal cartoons, the eponymous Salad Fingers inhabits a desolate, sparsely populated post-apocalyptic world in which he revels in the delightful feeling of the textures of various objects on his "salad fingers". He enjoys rusty articles (especially spoons) and derives similar pleasure from experiencing pain
The characteristic foreboding in Salad Fingers' journeys portends to the main character's irrational, perhaps subconscious preoccupation with morbidity, death and fetishistic ritual. Much to the horror or perverse delight of the characters he meets, his mused and whimsical perambulations lead him toward a hopeless self-discovery in his own inert matter and helplessness, usually through his or the other characters' exploitation.
Salad Fingers appears to suffer from psychosis, and is unable or unwilling to distinguish between living beings and inanimate objects, and is frequently found talking to various inert articles
Analysis of video:
-Music: The eerie music featured in the background is the tune "Beware the Friendly Stranger" by Boards of Canada. The dark music in the soundtrack that appears when Salad Fingers is scared is actually Firth playing the guitar, slowed down and reversed
(other description)
-Dialogue is very subtle/delicate and so quite difficult to capture so subtitles in a flicker movement are used. The dialogue instructs his weird movements such as stroking spoons, pushing/stroking a red button, "caressing" kettles. (establish his fetish for stroking different textures)
-Close ups of his face captures his insanity- wide eyes, red iris, shaking.
-Hypnotising backgrounds/swirling effects, blotches, stratches,spider webs highlights his madness
-Length of shots are very long
the framing captures his fingers to show the significance of the title
-Long shots when he walks to show where he is going and to establish where he lives
-Walks very slowly but unsteady
-Other characters are in very bright primary colours so they are easily recognisable against the dreary, dull background colours.
-Fade out to show time and going into a different setting
About Se7en:
David Fincher makes dark movies, and Se7en is no exception. Se7en follows tow homicide detectives in the Los Angeles Police department. William Somerset is a veteran whose experiences with every form of death have left him tired, jaded, and ready to retire. David Mills is a brash, young detective who has wanted to work in L.A. homicide above all else.
The two unlikely companions are brought together under grisly pretenses. A killer has begun a rampage and leaves a disturbing calling-card. He kills his victims in a way that reflects the Christian seven deadly sins. Mills and Somerset must try and sort through the killer’s clues and cryptic methods in order to catch him before murder number seven takes place.
Se7en shows very grue some and violet scenes including a man who is forced to eat himself to death and another must slice a pound of flesh away from his own body. However, Se7en is not Saw, the killings do not play out actively, but through crime scenes and photographs.
Analysis of Video
The opening sequence demonstrates the antagonist state of mind. It includes many techniques to show this, such as
In the surreal cartoons, the eponymous Salad Fingers inhabits a desolate, sparsely populated post-apocalyptic world in which he revels in the delightful feeling of the textures of various objects on his "salad fingers". He enjoys rusty articles (especially spoons) and derives similar pleasure from experiencing pain
The characteristic foreboding in Salad Fingers' journeys portends to the main character's irrational, perhaps subconscious preoccupation with morbidity, death and fetishistic ritual. Much to the horror or perverse delight of the characters he meets, his mused and whimsical perambulations lead him toward a hopeless self-discovery in his own inert matter and helplessness, usually through his or the other characters' exploitation.
Salad Fingers appears to suffer from psychosis, and is unable or unwilling to distinguish between living beings and inanimate objects, and is frequently found talking to various inert articles
Analysis of video:
-Music: The eerie music featured in the background is the tune "Beware the Friendly Stranger" by Boards of Canada. The dark music in the soundtrack that appears when Salad Fingers is scared is actually Firth playing the guitar, slowed down and reversed
(other description)
-Dialogue is very subtle/delicate and so quite difficult to capture so subtitles in a flicker movement are used. The dialogue instructs his weird movements such as stroking spoons, pushing/stroking a red button, "caressing" kettles. (establish his fetish for stroking different textures)
-Close ups of his face captures his insanity- wide eyes, red iris, shaking.
-Hypnotising backgrounds/swirling effects, blotches, stratches,spider webs highlights his madness
-Length of shots are very long
the framing captures his fingers to show the significance of the title
-Long shots when he walks to show where he is going and to establish where he lives
-Walks very slowly but unsteady
-Other characters are in very bright primary colours so they are easily recognisable against the dreary, dull background colours.
-Fade out to show time and going into a different setting
About Se7en:
David Fincher makes dark movies, and Se7en is no exception. Se7en follows tow homicide detectives in the Los Angeles Police department. William Somerset is a veteran whose experiences with every form of death have left him tired, jaded, and ready to retire. David Mills is a brash, young detective who has wanted to work in L.A. homicide above all else.
The two unlikely companions are brought together under grisly pretenses. A killer has begun a rampage and leaves a disturbing calling-card. He kills his victims in a way that reflects the Christian seven deadly sins. Mills and Somerset must try and sort through the killer’s clues and cryptic methods in order to catch him before murder number seven takes place.
Se7en shows very grue some and violet scenes including a man who is forced to eat himself to death and another must slice a pound of flesh away from his own body. However, Se7en is not Saw, the killings do not play out actively, but through crime scenes and photographs.
Analysis of Video
The opening sequence demonstrates the antagonist state of mind. It includes many techniques to show this, such as
-Dissolves (represents time)
-Jump cuts
-Close ups of handwriting and hand
-The flicker of the titles
-Flashes of different shots
-Parallel sound
-Distortion of music
Both of these sequences are useful and very effective examples to help our group consider what types of elements and techniques we could use in our Thriller to portray a character with a psychological disorder
-Jump cuts
-Close ups of handwriting and hand
-The flicker of the titles
-Flashes of different shots
-Parallel sound
-Distortion of music
Both of these sequences are useful and very effective examples to help our group consider what types of elements and techniques we could use in our Thriller to portray a character with a psychological disorder
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