Our new shot list

After rethinking our idea again, we decided to make a few ajustments so therefor needed to update our shot by shot list

 

• Shot by shot list

• Two shot of the couple in the car preparing to leave

• Close up of woman checking her watch

• Panning shot of woman getting out the car

• Cut back to man sitting in the car alone

• Close up of mystery man holding brief case and close up on watch on his wrist.

• Over the shoulder shot of woman checking her phone (shows she lies about not having her phone).

• Dutch angle of man moving up stairs

• High angle shot over man in car (venerable).

• Wide/establishing shot of mysterious man entering top floor of car park

• Panning shot of woman walking out of the car park.

• Panning shot of the man entering top floor of car park.

• Various close ups of mysterious man undoing the brief case and pulling out a gun.

• Over the shoulder shot of gun pointing at the man in the car.

• Close up of the man’s head falling onto the steering wheel and hitting the horn .

• Match on action/Medium close up shot of woman getting into a car at the bottom of the car park as the sound of the horn echos.

• Two shot showing the man in the car passing her a letter.

• Medium wide shot of the car driving away.

 

 

Our filming timeline

Music in our thriller

 We decided not to include dialogue in our thriller to create suspense and tension building up.
At the begining when the man and woman are in the car, we wanted a song to be playing on the radio as diegetic sound. We wanted a popular, mainstream song that you would find on the radio to create realism. However we realised that we needed to have original music that we could have permistion to use, so fortunately our teacher gave us permission to use one of his bands songs, as he owns the copyright because he wrote it. We decided to use the song, The beautiful loser by the Dakota Stars.

When the shot moves to outside the car we still wanted the song to play making it non diegetic, as a sound bridge as the woman leaves the car and the tension starts building.

Schedule

 9.30- Arrive at location.

10.30- Ready to shoot, everything set up. Actors in costume and make up.

11.00- Shot scene in car with man and woman of close ups, over shoulder shots etc.

11.45- Shot various shots of mysterious man entering car park and, opening briefcase to reveal gun, close up shots of mysterious man.

12.45 - 3.00 Lunch break and no shooting as we wish to film other shots in darkness.

3.00- Film woman getting into other car and driving away, lots of fast shots, increasing pace

4.00- Film the man getting killed and the mysterious man shooting him (we decided to do this last as the blood would go over the car and costumes)

5.00- Leave set

Location and set for our thriller

The location of our thriller is going to be in a multi-story car park, we will use the one closest to us, in guildford. We realised that to use a gun in the car park and hire a section of the car park out so it is empty and therefore looks deserted, we have to get our teacher to ask permission of the county council by sending an email.

We thought this was a good thriller location as it is eery and often empty and echoy. We chose this location as it looked effective and suited our thriller with wide empty spaces  

Research for our thriller

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17922388
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9175962/Was-MI6-spy-in-a-bag-Gareth-Williams-killed-by-secret-service-dark-arts.html

I researched into similar stories to our thriller for inspiration and to get realistic ideas for our action-thriller film. I looked at recent news stories from the BBC news and the Telegraph and came across these articles. They talk about a man who was an M16 agent being killed in his London flat. This has helped and inspired us for making the man who gets killed in our thriller a target, as if they had been planning to kill him for a while. We wanted the audience to see that the whole thing was a plan and the woman is a sort of 'femme fatale' who sets up the killing of important, targeted men. 

"On the one hand, of course you need to respect national security and on the other hand, of course you need to do a penetrating and thorough investigation.''

We wanted the woman to be portrayed negatively in this way because it makes the storyline more scary, knowing that the woman is involved in a more powerful force with a group of people, therefore we thought this would make our thriller more thrilling and engaging. We also used real life examples to make it more realistic for the audience.

Props list

The props which we need for our thriller are;
A gun - which we are going to get to get from the drama department at our school.

An iPhone - one memeber of our group is going to let their iphone be used for this.

Two cars - we will use the car of the media teacher who is coming to the shooting with us at the car
park, and the car of the male teacher who is acting the victim. A black car with blacked out windows is often used as a connotation for gangsters, assasins in thriller films. This links to our film as it is about international conspiracies and violence. Our target audience would recognise this convention and hopefully it would attract them to our product.

 

 

A black briefcase - which we will also get from our drama department at the school. A black brief case can look suspicious and therefore ties in to the thriller genre it is a symbol used in thrillers usch as The International which is a conspiracy/spy thriller similar to ours.

 

A watch (for the killer) - we will borrow one of the male teachers or actors actual watch. This will suit our male actor as this is the kind of Bond lifestyle we have given him.

 

 

 

A cargo container is often used in thriller films and juxtaposing the calmness of the sea with the metallic dirty cargo container often used for transferring illegal produce/people/drugs/guns across countries and continents. An example of this is the tv programme The Killing where a girl was held for ransom in a cargo container in season 3. Prison break season 4 also used  a warehouse and cargo container as a hangout for the cons on the run. Therefore this is not an unusual occurance in thriller films and the squalid, dirty, slightly rusty location would perfectly suit our film which is about intrigue and double crossing.

 



Changing the cast

After rethinking our cast we decided our actors might look too young and make the opening look unprofesional as they would not suit the thriller.

We looked at teachers at our school and decided on the drama teacher to play the woman as she looks in her mid twenties and is blonde. For our male role we chose a carears teacher who looks innocent and older than our previous role. Their age will also now appeal to a wider target audience, not only teenagers and young adults.

Cast

We chose this girl for the woman killer as she looks innocent and beautiful. She also looks like a typical English 'rose' and this was the look we wanted to create the illusion at the beginning of the thriller that she was innocent.

We want the woman to be wearing black jeans, a cream sheer blouse and a grey blazer.

We wold also like the woman to have similar make up to the woman in this picture

For the man in the car with the girl who gets killed, we chose someone who also looks quite innocent in order to not make it obvious that he has commited a crime.

 

We want him wearing black jeans, and a pale blue shirt, with black shoes.

Audition Trailer

 

Even with out sound, we can tell this is film is a thriller/horror genre from the first shot where the girl is sitting in the dark, this shot looks misterious and eerie. The cross cutting between her and a man who looks powerful through a low angle shot makes her look vunrable and week. There is a very long shot of her moving her head, her hair in her face hidding her identity; the slow pace creates tention and suspence as we are unaware of what is in the sack behind her. As she starts to reveile her face the sack sudenly jerks suggesting a human is in there being kept inprisioned. Then the shots get very fast paced creating dramatic tention, there is a blue tinted shot of the girl with a neadle, suggesting she is tourturing people, which subverts our first perspective of her being inoccent and now she is represented as the villian.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trailer

 

I listened to the trailer without sound to emphasise the images. The audience can see the film is a thriller/horror from the trailer because of the fast cuts, creating tension and suspense. The dark, gloomy lighting creates a scary, eerie atmosphere. There are shots of fighting and violence showing it is a horror as there are graphic, violent scenes. Shots of hacking on a computer and tracking a man's face, suggests a spy element to the film as the main character creeps around in black clothing looking suspicious like she is stalking someone; typical of a thriller. The thriller/horror genre is reinforced from disturbing photos of murdered people who look like they have been tortured  and shots of people in distress and pain who have been abducted. There is also a tracking shot that reveals a dead body covered in blood which is disturbing and uncomfortable to see; this suggests this is a graphic, violent and dark thriller. The woman gets the most camera time showing she is the main character, her role subverts the typical female role in a thriller which is often the damson in distress however this woman is the heroine  and represented as powerful and in control. The colours in the trailer consist mainly of black as it creates a mysterious atmosphere to the thriller trailer. There are also some warm colours such as orange and red suggesting danger and death.  

Filming test shots

Today our group filmed a practise of our thriller. We had limitations as we one had one car so had to use the same one for two different scenes. Three of us were the actors and one filmed it, however we realised that tension is key for our thriller so when filming the real thing we will create suspense by non-diegetic music and emphasis on the fast paced shots. In the real thing, we will have a variety of shots, such as a low angle shot for the girl, to show she in in control and has power over the man. There will be an over the shoulder shot of the assassin shooting the man in the car and a shot reverse shot between the assassin and the man shot, with his head on the steering wheel. However we will have to think of a way to create fake blood from the man without staining the car.

Preferably we will film it when it is getting dark, to create a sense of mystery and uncertainty. We need to reconsider the age of our actors as we do not want them to look too young and immature.

We want to film in a multi-store car park so that the girl can run down the stairs so we can do cross cuts between her and the man in the car; and a match on action of her coming out of the car park stairs into the second car.

Changes in our thriller

We pitched our thriller idea again to Matt, and we decided that we wanted to alter the thriller plot slightly in order to give it more of an enigma. We decided that instead of the woman being in the car when the man is killed, she leaves the car and tells him she needs to go and get her phone. We then see cross cutting of the woman walking out of the car park and sending a text, and the man with the briefcase entering the car park as she leaves. We see them meet at the door and the woman smiles at the man with the briefcase, this still creates the illusion that the woman is innocent. We then hear the man in the car being shot, and the mans head hit the steering wheel and the car horn creates a loud and shocking sound. We then have a match on action shot of the woman getting out of the car park, with the sound of the car horn still in the background, and then she gets into another car which is already waiting on the ground floor, and is handed an envelope. This signifies how killing this man was just another one of her missions and how she is an agent of some sort.

 

Font ideas for our thriller

I researched some fonts that I thought would suit our thriller. I wanted a font that looked old and distressed, that told the audience that this was a thriller.
I like these three the best, I researched into typewriter fonts and liked these disinterested eerie ones as they suit the thriller genre.

I also like the third one which is bolder than the others but gives a harsh scary effect. 

Inception Title Sequence

 

I looked at a title sequence for Inception and noted down the times, words and their roles. I noticed that a lot of actors were focused on, which suggests that this is a type of film where they can rely on the actors names to attract a target audience who are a fan of the actor; such as Leonardo Dicaprio or Joseph Gordon-Levitt.     

The simplistic black screen and white font show the main focus is on the names and animations. There is a lot of red colouring throughout the sequence suggesting danger and death. The title sequence tells us it's genre is an action, thriller and hints there is a psychological twist in the film from the annimations which morph and change throughout.

I really like the simplistic font they have used at the begining and would consider using something similar in my opening sequence.

Crave (2012) Title Sequence

I watched the opening sequence of 'Crave' on art of the title, http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/crave/
I wrote down the time and the name that came up during the opening and what job each person had eg the producer or an actor.
I really liked the way the annimation created an eery, scary effect with the non diegetic music and dark lighting.


The font reflects the horror/thriller genre of the film, letting the audience know instantly it is a scary film. The black and orange colours and harsh, irratic font create an uncomforting atmosphere which is very effective.
I learnt from this that the directors name sometimes comes first on the credits. However on certain films the production company comes first followed by the list of other financiers. I will remember this for my own title sequence when I film in January. Especially important to note the list of names included are not limited to just the actors.

Developed plot of narritive action for our thriller

Our idea now opens with a couple parking up in a car in a car park. We then see fast/short cuts of a person dressed in black. The cuts reveal parts of his identity but do not reveal all, i.e., half of his face in shadows or his feet walking. It shows that he is in a deserted building walking up flights of stairs. It will then cut between the two different scenes to establish the contrast between the two atmospheres surrounding them. The couple are happy with jolly music playing on the radio although the woman seems to be on edge but still enjoying each other’s company whereas the man in black will be eerie and will come across as a villain type character.

The car park resembles where we saw the man in black walking around. We see the man send a text saying 'all set?’ It then cuts to the lady in the car who checks her phone but we do not see what it says. The man in black opens a case he was carrying and pulls out a gun. It then cuts to the couple getting a lot closer. We see an over the shoulder shot of the man's gun pointing at the couple in the car. As the couple are about to kiss, we see the woman send a text saying 'set'. As she looks into his eyes we see her shed a tear and then the man she is with gets shot in the back of the head by the man in black.

 

Shot by shot list.

• Two shot.

• Mid shot from behind

• Close up of man holding brief case

• S ide shot of woman in the car (shows anxiety).

• Dutch angle of man moving up stairs

• High angle shot over man in car (venerable).

• Wide/establishing shot of mysterious man entering top floor of car park

• Close up of woman getting her phone from bag.

• Over the shoulder shot of mysterious man typing a text saying 'all set?'

• Medium shot of her checking phone.

•  Various close ups of mysterious man undoing the brief case and pulling out a gun.

• Two shot of couple getting closer

• Close up of woman sending a text saying 'set' as she leans in to kiss the man

• Over the shoulder shot of gun pointing at the couple in the car.

• Close up of the couple face to face to show that there is a tear falling from the woman’s eye.

• A mid shot from behind the lady shows the couple in focus and the surroundings unfocused.  Couple become unfocused as the surrounding become focused and sharp which reveals the  mysterious man standing in the background pointing his gun.

· Two shot from behind to show man is dead with his head flopped on her shoulder and she is splattered with blood

·  Close up two shot of her moving his head away and saying ‘I’m sorry’

Prop list.

• A gun
• Two mobile phones (preferably blackberries)
• A car
• Briefcase (to hold the gun)

Costume.

• Woman: Mainly dressed in red (modern)
• Partner: Casual clothing (shirt)
• Murderer: Dressed all in black and along black coat

Vertigo opening credits

The extreme close up of the woman's face in black and white suggests hidden identity and not showing the whole picture. The panning upwards reveals more of her face and uncovers her character more. The extreme close up of her eyes darting around shows her anxiety and uncertainty, when the screen turns red and the music deepens creating tension and a sense of danger, her eye widens suggesting she is seeing something unpleasant. The swirls inside her eye take over the screen and seem hypnotic and connotes the swirls are going deeper and deeper into her thoughts.

Kyle Cooper's work

Se7en
I really like this opening as the music is the main focus, creating anxiety and uncertainty.
The fast paced extreme close ups of disturbing images create an unnerving response and hide the man's identity, intriguing the audience. The lighting is dull and effective suggesting a cold, eerie atmosphere.
The font is very effective, with the handwritten words and scratched text that unpredictably appears on the screen. It is visually interesting as the font appears vertically and horizontally, revealing parts of the writing.

Our thriller's target audience

I made a survey and interviewed people on their views of thrillers, and found out information we have used to improve our thriller opening idea. I found that males watch films that they find exciting and their favourite genre was often thriller. However most girls watch films with actors they find attractive and films which their friends had recommended or had an appealing trailer. 

Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper was born in 1962, and is a modern designer of motion picture title sequences. He studied as a graphic designer at Yale and then worked as a creative director at R/GA. He also created the title sequence for the 1995 American crime film Se7en, raising the bar creatively.

In 1996, he co-founded Imaginary Forces however he wanted to focus more on his creative work, so left Imaginary Forces. In 2003, Cooper founded the creative agency Prologue, and continued to create film and game title sequences, such as 'The Mummy' 'Braveheart' and 'The Orphan'.

My opening sequence

At the start of our opening I think an establishing shot would be good to show the location of the deserted top level of a car park. There is one car parked in the middle that looks slightly suspitious, with the couple inside. There could be over the shoulder shots while there is dialogue between the couple, and a point of view shot as the woman looks over to where the mysterious man is hiding. There could also be point of view shots from his perspective aswell, watching the couple making him look like the villian.

Changing our idea

The main criticism we got were:

· There was no guarantee the weather would be good enough to film the whole opening in a drive in.

· There would need to be a bigger punch line at the end as something needs to happen, otherwise there would be an anti-climax.

· A big projection of a 1950's film would be difficult to recreate and to make it look like an American drive in.

· We were advised to take our main strengths of the idea and update them into a more realistic stetting.

Our new idea:

We wanted to keep the three characters, the couple and the villain; we thought this was our main strength as we could still create binary opposite atmospheres in each car. The couple drive to a car park and have a conversation; the woman is sweet and flirty towards the man. The mysterious man spy’s on the couple, and sends a text to someone. The woman checks her phone but we cannot see the screen, the couple carry on talking, and the woman types 'now' on her phone and goes in to kiss the man as she presses send. A gun target goes over the couple as she leans in, she looks straight at the camera and gives a subtle signal. Suddenly the mysterious man shoots the man in the back of the head, and the woman calmly gets out the car and walks towards the other man smiling.

The Pitch

When we presented our pitch to Matt and Simon telling them our possible ideas and thoughts as well as the storyline, props, sound, lighting etc. Matt was worried that as it would be set in the 50's it would be hard to get the correct props and for it to be set in an american drive in would be difficult. Therefore we felt we should reconsider our idea, keeping the best bits of the idea but updating the idea so it is more realistic. 

Group Idea

Our group decided to go with the idea set in the 50’s, of a couple on their way to an American drive in. There is also another man in a car on his way to the same place; there will be fast cuts between the two cars with contrasting atmospheres. We decided to use this idea as we could create tension and contrast the two cars and characters well. I thought this was a good idea however we worried how realistic the idea was, as we were aware it would be difficult to recreate the drive in and get old fashion cars. 

What is a thriller

A thriller is a genre of film that is exciting and tense  building a high level of anticipation and anxiety.Thrillers are synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, and they have similar characteristics and features. There is often a lot of action and fast passed cuts with complex storyline.

A genuine thriller is a film that relentlessly pursues a single-minded goal, providing thrills and cliff-hangers, building up to a climax. Often the main characters are placed in an evil situation or mystery or an escape or dangerous mission that seems impossible. 

There are a lot of varieties of thrillers as they are often hybrids; thrillers combined with another genre. For example  action/adventure thrillers, sci-fi thrillers, crime thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir thrillers or even romantic comedy-thrillers. Horror is a closely related genre as it also builds tension and suspense, taking the audience through agony and fear. Again there are many different types of thrillers; such as, murder mysteries, private eye, chase thrillers, women in danger films, courtroom and legal thrillers, erotic thrillers, surreal cult-film soap operas, and atmospheric, plot-twisting psychodramas.

The type of characters in thrillers include criminals, assassins, convicts, stalkers, terrorists, innocent victims, prison inmates, characters hiding something often their dark past, cops, couple and more. The genre of thriller often include terrorism, political conspiracy or romantic triangles leading to a murder. 

 

Editing my prelim task

I learnt how to use Final cut server and Final cut pro to edit our prelim task. We learnt how to check in and out, before and after editing. We made two 'bins' a log bin and a rush bin; we put all of our shots into the log bin and then dragged the ones we wanted to use we put into the rush bin. When editing each clip we learnt how to drag them onto the timeline and place them in the correct order. We also learned how to cut the clip to the length we wanted it. Becuase our actor was very quite in the filming so we learned how to edit the level of the sound, making the dialoge loader and clearer.

I really enjoyed editing because we had control over how to portray the narrative just by editing clips. Having more shots of the woman's facial exspresions gives her more screen time and the audience therefor take her side.

The thing I found most challenging was adding subtitles to our clips. As we filmed most of the skript in Russian, we decided to add text showing what they were saying. I found this difficult because it was quite a complicated proeses, we had to find the exact place we wanted the text, then add text, write the words, change the size of the font, then render the text to it would show up, and then we had to change where the text was placed on the screen. This was a long process and took a long time, therefor we learnt to copy a previous text and paste it where we wanted new text, then all we had to do was change the words to what we wanted and render it.

I found it challenging to find the correct shot that followed on from the dialoge in the previous clip but that was from a different angle. For example finding an over the shoulder shot from behind the woman and then change to a over the shoulder shot from behind the man but making their converation continue. The extra shots we filmed helped the script make more sence, with close ups of expresions and different angles.

If we were to film it again I would make sure both actors said their lines clearly and loader, this would make the narrative eaiser to understand and save us time having to enhance the sound. I think we should have filmed more shots so we had a wide choice to chose from. I would have also liked to film more extra shots of extreme close ups of their reactions. I would have liked to add a soundtrack to increase excitment and tention in the scene. Prefribaly we would filme in a more exciting location with better props and a more thrilling skript.

I think we all worked really well together, as every decision we agreed on everyone had to like before we went forward with it. When someone had an idea we all added to it and cooperated very well and fairly. My role was to direct so I made sure everyone was ready to start rolling before we started shooting. I made sure that each time we filmed the scene again everything was the same.

Reservoir Dogs opening sequence

The opening of Reservoir Dogs relates to the thriller genre in many ways, making us know it is a thriller from the very beginning. 
The mise-en-scene shows us straight away this is a thriller as all the men who are sitting at the table are wearing suits, have slicked back jelled hair, sunglasses and signet rings; this is the typical stereotype image of a Italian American gangster. It also signifies their wealth and pride as they look very presentable and smart, however also wanting to keep a low profile hiding their identities in their sunglasses, suggesting they have to be this way because of their jobs; typical of a thriller as they are shady and all in a group. Even though it is the morning and they are having breakfast they are smoking and drinking bear showing it is their culture to get together and do this. Shortly after it cuts to a new scene where a man is screaming in pain, lying on the back seats of a car. He has been shot and there is blood everywhere; this shows the film is a thriller as he is in a lot of pain and close to death. 
There is non-diegetic sound as the gang walk from the cafe; making them look cool and upbeat. However there is a sound bridge, leading into the diegetic sound of the man who has been shot screaming. This sound is enhanced to emphasise the man's pain; the sound is unpleasant and suits the thriller genre. 
The editing has made each gangster have equal screen time showing they are a gang and work together. After the actor's names have appeared the words 'are reservoir dogs' appears showing all these men are a gang, which is typical of a thriller as they are intimidating and powerful. This is also enhanced by them walking being in slow motion making them look cool and in control. 
There is a tracking shot in the camera work which introduces each character around the table, uniting them all as a group. The older man of the group has a low angle shot which gives him higher status than the rest of the group; this is typical of a thriller as it establishes a leader who intimidates the rest of the group and has control and authority other them. There is a high angle shot of the man in the back of the car which makes him look weak and and helpless making the audience sympathise for him as it does not look like he will survive. 

Thriller Idea

My first idea for an opening sequence of a thriller is of a girl walking alone in the dark; suddenly she is ambushed by a group of foreign men and is tied and put in the boot of the gang’s car. In the car journey we could have shots of items in the car hinting to why these men want this girl; shots of medical information could suggest something to do with organ selling. We are still not sure why the girl has been abducted but we could start to get an idea from their convocation, discussing how much they will all be paid for ‘the job’ and what their boss has demanded. As they arrive at a deserted garage, there would be shots of the location and inside the garage; showing medical equipment and a chair set up with a camera set up in front, suggesting the girl is about to be interrogated and then operated on. It would end on a cliff hanger to tempt the audience to continue watching to find out what will happen to her, but has given some information already away to also give them a clue of what the film will be about. 

Prelim task

Our group went into the editing suit and decided to use a live cutter machine as the main prop. Our two actors were Russian speakers, so we decided to make the dialogue culturally diverse by doing it in Russian and English. I really enjoyed working as a team as everyone had good ideas that we incorporated into our film. I was given the task of director which I also enjoyed as I learnt how to organise and make sure everyone was ready before filming, by saying phrases like ‘stand by’, ‘rolling’ and ‘action’. I also was aware of the job of continuity; so made sure that every time we started filming again everything would match up, eg making sure the man sat down on the right side of the chair every time so we could cut them together and they would flow and look like they were all filmed at once. 

While filming it gave us an idea of just how long it takes to film even just a few minutes of a clip. Before doing this task I thought that you filmed each shot just once, however when doing this task I learnt that you film the whole scene in each angle. This made the process quite long as we had to film the whole sequence every time we changed the angle of the shot.

I highly enjoyed the filming experience however I did not like having to spend a long time having to sort out technical problems, such as bubbling the tri-pod as much as the actual filming.

Everyone worked very well in the group and contributed equally. Before taking action on any ideas we made sure everyone agreed with the decision. I think I took an equal part in creating the film as I directed where the camera went making sure we followed the 180 degrease rule.

When choosing our location we thought we should not over complicate things too much so decided on the editing suit where there were some good props. Using the technical equipment we created a story line; our actress wore headphones and used the props to show she was trying to work the machinery and achieve a task, whereas our actor was clearly in charge, ordering her what to do. 

If we could do it again I would like to do more unique shots of details, eg a close up of the girl working the machine. However we did get to film some additional shots; we filmed a low angle shot of the man to make him look more powerful and in control. We also did a close up of him walking in so you can only see his feet. However this shot was not very good as we manually panned the camera to follow his feet, which made it a bit unsteady and shaky. In the future if I want to achieve a shot like this I might try filming it with no tri-pod and place the camera on the floor. 

All in all I really enjoyed the experience and it was good practise to see how to use the camera and gave us an idea of how long the process of filming is. 

 

Our story board

 

 

Prelim video

The Conversation poster

Analysis of The Conversation poster

This poster for the film The Conversation has a large establishing shot of San Francisco, California showing us this is where the film is based. We can instantly see that the man on the left is the main character as he takes up most of the poster space. At first he looks like he might be the villain as we get the impression that he is stalking the couple on the right however the white light lit around him showing his innocence and purity. The couple at first look vulnerable as they are being watched, indicated by the camera lens symbol around them, showing their privacy is being invaded. However they are lit in red with dark black shadows around them. This suggests that they are evil as red represents blood, death and evil. 

It looks like an action, thriller movie, aimed more towards men as the colour scheme is very masculine; red, black and white. 

Hanna - Sound

How is sound used to reveal narrative and character information?

It is very clear from the start where Hanna is from the sounds around her. The echoed foot steps and heavy doors shows she is in a high security room. Despite the woman telling her she is in a 'safe place' it is clear she is not, as the woman is impersonating, pretending she knew Hanna's father. When the security start coming, the music picks up, increasing tension, hinting the action scene that is about to start. 

The audience think Hanna is a young, vulnerable girl who needs comforting however we are all proved naive as she snaps the woman's neck; this diegetic sound is amplified to enhance this unexpected action. 

The non-diegetic music increases as the chase begins. Hanna's diegetic, enhanced breathing suggests she is nervous and scared; however the techno music has a heavy, fast beat making her seem able and capable.