Thrillers involving Priests

1. Father Merrin (Max von Sydow) in The Exorcist (1973)2. Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
3. Father Michael William Logan (Montgomery Clift) in I Confess (1953)
4. Reverend Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) in Crimes of Passion (1984)
5. Father Damien (David Wenham) in Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
6. Father Chuck O'Malley (Bing Crosby) in Going My Way (1944)
7. Archbishop Gilday (Donal Donnelly) in The Godfather: Part III (1990)
8. Father Barry (Tom Hickey) in Raining Stones (1993)9. Father Tim Farley (Jack Lemmon) in Mass Appeal (1984)
10. Chaplain Capt. A.T. Tappman (Anthony Perkins) in Catch-22 (1970)

Film distribution companies

A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for the marketing of a film. They may set the realise date for the film. They will also decided the method in which the film is presented to the audience, EG: by DVD or in a cinema. Studio Canal, are a popular film destruction company

Production/institution company research and planning

http://www.hammerfilms.com/

For the production/institution company we were thinking of Hammer films due to that they are renowned for doing dark, spooky, horror classics (The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein's monster etc.)
but they have more recently done thrillers and horror thrillers. E.G   The Quiet Ones.

Other institution companies are:

Universal,

Warner Brothers,

and 20th Century Fox.

 

Costume research

The main character is going to be and evil priest
and there will be a nun as well.

Thriller audiences research

Usually Thrillers are from ages 12 and up like The Dark Knight but some are for older audiences like Se7en (18) and Taken (15).
Most likely going for an 18 due to the violent content we are planning.


18 Works are for adults and can contain strong issues such as:

•   very strong violence
•   frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***') and / or very strong language (e.g. ‘c***’)
•   strong portrayals of sexual activity
•   scenes of sexual violence
•   strong horror
•   strong blood and gore
•   real sex (in some circumstances)
•   discriminatory language and behaviour  

Se7en opening

In the opening two minutes of se7en, we see a book and a page turns, it then show an image of two hands that look slightly deformed. Then there are some flashing images, and we see the name of brad Pitt flash up, after this we see somebody’s hand and it looks like he is shaving the end of his fingers off. The words Se7en flashes up and we see a book being turned and Gwyneth Paltrow’s name. Immediately after there is an image of somebody writing in a book, using strange symbols. The same thing continues for two minutes where, there are random scenes flashing up, then straight after are titles, all in the same jerky white writing.
Review by Tom Buckley

Lethal Vows (1999)Opening Scene

The film starts off by telling us that it is based on true story and a non-diegetic sound track starts playing. we are then shown a boy riding a bike doing a paper round with the actors names starting to appear one by one and the shows the title of the film. Then we see a girl collecting the paper and we follow her going inside her house, when inside she puts the paper down and goes up to wake her mum. When the mum wakes up she has strange repercussions from the night before this make the viewer wonder what's going on, "is this normal? Isn't it?" As this is happening more credits show up one at a time at various point on the screen such as more actors and producers.
When the mother is down stairs the music stops and we are  introduced to of her daughters and the father.

The film has no real opening titles just a display of the film's title at the beginning with the scene still going on in the back ground. This doesn't cut up the film and helps establish the "slice of life style" the film is going for.

The scene introduces the main characters which is good because the film is telling a stand alone story where your don't know any of the characters. The scene mange's to gab your attention with some mystery so you continue viewing.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWEclkku-U

research in to types of thrillers

http://www.slideshare.net/heat95/types-of-thrillers
 Useful website showing different types of thrillers. This helped us classify our film.

Stationary Titles test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYo2J9m_aZM


Moving Titles test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7tummyd448&feature=c4-overview&list=UUJ8mOxlgFlQpIQsKPzcBzvw