Researching Company Names

I researched existing Production Company Names on Wikipedia, and some that inspired me were:


- DreamWorks animation
- Anchor Bay
- Blue Sky Studios
- Paramount Pictures
- Tristar Pictures
- Warner Bros.
- Walt Disney
- Pixar Animation
- Touchstone pictures
- Elevating Entertainment


After researching these names, I considered some names that suited our theme of movie, for example:
-BlackStar
-EyesWide Producion
-PressPlay Production
-Shooting Star Production
-Rising stars Production
-KMG Productions
-BlackDust Productions

Inspirational Screen Grabs

Memento

This particular screen grab from memento whilst the protagonist is searching for his identity shows evidence of scars and acts of violence in his past life, and the close up shows this in detail and focuses on him, this is a shot we'd like to master.

This, another shot from memento which shows the main character attempting to retrieve his past as he finds a clue, this close up of his hand and the evidence and shows a tattoo too on his left arm, the close up allows us to see little details like this

This third shot i have chosen from memento shows the protagonists unconscious on the floor, and this shows the stillness of the frame and time.

Ghajani (Hindi Version)

This is another film that inspired us, this shot gave us the idea of using photographs to identify our protagonists enemies, and those she was killed.

This close up of the screen on the mobile phone is a good idea for a way in which the character attempts to find her past and learn who she is; we can attempt this too.

This shot in the film is a flashback, and shows the protagonist's memories that still linger.. We had this idea too, and this particular shot shows the close up that should be used, to show the pain and tension

The second image is the first image zoomed in, with an important name in bold which happens to be an important name or enemy in the protagonist's life so this shot emphasizes the importance of this piece of evidence.

This is a tracking shot, that follows the protagonist as he enters his home which he is unaware of, also this shot in the actual scene is videoed shakily to make an effective atmosphere, symbolizes the confusion we wish to attempt this.

These two shots show the protagonist awaking from somewhere unknown and this shows a close up of his face, and represents the film on the whole as a normal film, and doesn't give away much detail.

Theory of Binary Oppositions

Claude Levi-Strauss'
Theory Of Binary Oppositions


In 400 BC, Aristotle claimed that 'All drama is conflict' 


However, now in the 20th century Claude Levi-Strauss added that all stories are driven forward by conflict that is raised by characters and events opposing each other.
[OPPOSITES ARE IMPORTANT TO A STORY]

Binary Opposition:
A theory of meaning that can be used to look at some of the cultured beliefs built into texts. 


The way in which WE happen to understand something by looking at the difference between the word and it's opposite. 


Opposition can be visual: so light or dark, movement or stillness or emotions like love or hate.

Vladimir Propp's Theory On Character

Russian Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp's character theory (1895)
Propp analyzed 100 tales, and notices the characters in each narrative there are definitely as identified 8 characters that definitely appear. 

• The Villain 
• The Donor
• The (Magic) Helper
• The Princess 
• Her Father
• The Dispatcher
• The Hero
• The False Hero/Anti Hero 

The Villain 
This is the character that's seen to struggle against the hero


The Donor
This character prepares the hero or may give the hero a magical object


The (Magical) Helper
The character who helps the hero on his 'quest'


The Princess/prize
This is the character whom the Prince will marry, it brings forward the idea that the hero deserves her throughout the narrative but is unable to have her because of the role of a villain or evil in general. The narrative usually ends on a happy not, with the marriage of the hero and his lover which indicates the victory. 


Her Father 
This character takes the role of giving he hero the task and also identifies the false hero, but however his role in the narrative is not always clearly identified.


The Dispatcher
This character will encourage the hero to do whatever it is, he is to do(quest), and send him on his way.


The Hero
Simply the hero, also perhaps a victim who will eventually marry the princess. 


False Hero
Any character who claims falsely any of the hero's action as their own, and attempt to marry the princess instead. 


So, according to Propp all narratives had the same characters that carried out similar roles. Also traditionally appropriate to the time period he is from, Propp believed that the hero could only be a male, hence the categorization of 'princess' and not prince.   

Thriller Project, Early Research.

We began by brainstorming all possible ideas that can be considered for our thriller.

 We also came up with possible titles for the opening at our first group meeting.

• Unforgettable
• Forget Me Not
• Amnesia
• Remember Me?
• Rewind
• Preach 
• Watch Out.
• You're next!
• Who's Next?
• Voyeur
• Obsession
• Wasn't me.
• Lies.

 We also focused on our plot, our initial ideas: 

We decided the main issue would be that the main character who is a female, suffers from Amnesia. The opening begins with the character awaking and clueless of her surroundings and questions of her life. She crosses out names off pictures that are in the room she is in, which is not identified where. She ends up crossing out her own name, not sure why.. at this point enigma is created.

We considered the different possible sub genres, and then decided n the psychological thriller.

We further developed on the plot and decided that the female protagonist character who has amnesia would kill people, and we see evidence that she attempted to kill herself, but the answer as to why is kept away form the audience causing questions and grabbing their attention. The people she is out to kill are people who have abuse her.

This is the version of our more updates ideas for the plot of the whole film.

Narrative

A way in which narrative is understood is as a series of events, emphasizes on structure. There's a cause and an effect, Event B happens because of Event A; and therefore is in chronological order. the narrative however always centres around a crime, a theft or a murder.

The general Narrative Structure

gives us a basic situation of the story

Complication
Where the situation is disrupted

Climax/Crisis
the turning point

Resolution
where after the crisis, a new situation is established


French structuralist Tzvetan Todorov (1966)

Todorov's theory consists of the traditional idea that there are 5 stages to a narattive.

1. Equilibrium                                                                                                                                    The setting of the film is established, along with the main/key character
2. Distruption                                                                                                                                                    The oppositional character(s) is introducued, perhaps the villian; the atmosphere of the film will gradually decrease from happy to sad.
3. Recognition (of Distruption)                                                                                                           The lives of the characters are distrupted, and this causes the longet tension throughout the whole movie
4. Attempt to Repair                                                                                                                         The main character dradually stops being the victim and becomes the hereo
5. New Equilibrium                                                                                                                           The problem is solved/sorted out

Barthes' Theory
Barthes believed that texts can be either 'open' or 'closed'. He introduced five codes, however I am only studying two of the five codes in my curriculum at present; The enigma code & The action code.

Enigma code 
Enigma code that is also known as the proairetic code is literally the way the tension is built up, leaving he audience with questions of what's happening next. 


Active Code
This is the ideology that one action triggers another.



Beginning or exposition

The Bourne Identity NICCS Grid.

Element	Film: The Bourne Identity. Genre: Action thriller (spy)
Narrative Typical storylines and structure used	The protagonist in this film, suffers from retrograde amnesia and he also happens to be the government’s top agent; and is about to become the government’s number one target, this is an immediate change in the atmosphere. He spends a lot of the film running away and hiding from people, and attempts to find out who himself is before ‘they’ do.
Iconography Things we except to see	Things we would expect to see in this film are, fast-moving scenes, police cars, spies, agents, cars, sirens, guns, fighting, action,romance, police officers, (authority).
Characters Typical characters who drive the story forward	The protagonist of the film is, Matt Damon who takes on the role of the character Jason Bourne; there is also a female who gives him a lift to Paris, and of course the antagonists who he is running away from, the authorities.
Camerawork Typical Cinematographic style	Slow motion has been used to slow down the action and show Jason Bourne’s entrance in the trailer. Various different shots such as, short reverse shot, medium shot, close up and long distance has been used effectively. Short reverse shot has been used to establish many different views of an event. The shot has been zoomed in on too at very various point ot make it more effective.
Settings Typical locations used	Locations used in this film is the streets, Jason bourne’s home, secret agent’s office, and the hotel in paris.