TREATMENT

Sujin keeps climbing the stairs, speaking her wishes to someone, someone that no one knows. She stops at 20^th of the stairs, takes a deep breath and look at the stairs that she climbed. She starts to climb again. As she approaches the last stair, her legs are shaking, and she finishes saying her wish when she put her feet on the last stair of the wishing stairs. The wish of irreversible.  She sees one woman stainding in front of her. The woman is smiling to her and come near to Sujin. The blood of Sujin is flowing on the wishing stairs.

CONCEPT

Concept

1.     name/genre

2.     idea u wish to explore

3.     emotion  I wish to evoke

4.     impact I wish to have on the audience

5.     brief outline of the story, character, style of the trailer

The name of the movie is Wishing stairs, and the genre of this film is horror. My film is Korean movie. The idea that I wish to explore is the value of friendship. As my genre of the film is horror, I expect the scariness and fear from the audience, and I want my audience to feel some kind of pity to my characters. I want my audience to learn something like the true friendship after watching my short opening scene. The film is all about the four high school students, who consider each other as a best friend. One day, one of these best friends got the highest score from the school, and other friend feels jealous. There is one special stairs called wishing stairs at school.  If people want to wish something, they have to keep saying their wishes when they climb this wishing stairs. These four characters show the general perspective of high school students in these days.

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2.Explain

Discuss why this convention was used in this way in these two films. How does it link to the film as a whole? How does it develop an idea within the film? How does it reveal an attitude or point of view of the director? What was the audience response to the way this convention was used? What was the audience's expectation? Why? How did the way this convention was used conform or depart from tradition?

The convention of masked stalker was used in adding scariness and raising our fear up. The story of both of films Scream and Halloween are happening by the killer who wears a mask to hide face. Hiding their faces can make audience feel confuse and even more interesting. As a whole, the main point of these two films is the masked stalker. It develops spontaneous story of the films. To give an example, the masked stalker has something like revenge with the particular character, and kills the people around the particular character. I think these two films had successes to give a mysterious and psychological idea by masked stalkers. If the killer showed their faces, I think it would make our feel frivolous. I expected more tensions. When people saw the killer and they don’t know who are they, like misunderstanding that the killer is one of their friends who is making joke with them, but the actual face was that masked stalker is a killer and people was died by that masked stalker. It adds more tensions and scariness because I already knew that the masked stalker is a killer, not one of their friends. The idea of masked stalker is quite different with the tradition and usual horror movies which makes these two films as special movies to me.

1.Describe

1. Describe

Choose ONE convention across at least TWO movies. Describe how this convention is used in this film. Use specific examples (textual evidence: techniques, details) and refer to your notes as necessary.
The convention of masked stalker is used in both of Halloween, directed by John Carpenter and Scream, directed by Wes Craven. Masked stalker is used as killer who raise most of the our tensions. Masked stalker adds more scarism when they stand alone at the back of the people and staring at them without any sound. The masks help to show more psychological characteristics of killer as well. The masked stalkers are very mysterious too since we dont know the real faces of killer and it makes me to feel more curious about the movie. In the movie  Halloween, the masked stalker was  Michael Myers who is a pure and evil murdered his sister at a young age. In the movie Scream, there were two masked stalkers who are Billy and Stew. They are all close people known with the main character (Sydney) and these masked talkers tried to kill. The actual fact in the end of the movie which is the killers were Billy and Stew helps to add drastic and psychological ending.

Technique: Transitions + Length of takes

Technique: Transitions + Length of takes

The transitions of the opening scene are really excellent. As the opening starts with the main character who is James Bond, the scene ends with him as well. It gives an idea of importance of him. The opening of the scene is gun shooting of James Bond, and blooding on the screen. There are lots of symbols that we could see in the real Casino like heart in the game card and man in the card. Those symbols continue the every scene to the next scene. When people shoot the gun, a bullet from the gun becomes a heart and making line then it continues to the next scene. This happens continue which makes the every scene into one.

One of the very important transitions was the image at the end of the scene. The image is real face of the James Bond and it gives a contrast between the last scene and other scenes. It adds more realistic to the scene and helps to understand how the story is going in the movie.

Technique: Character/Performance

Technique: Character/performance

The opening scene is continuous by actions of main character who is James Bond. The actions are all about accomplishing his missions which is related with the genre of the movie. The opening scene starts with James Bond who is shooting his gun to the screen and it ends with James Bond who is looking seriously to the screen. In the first of the scene, Bond is sitting down to the figure of background and ready for his gunshot to the people. Bond was represented by making him as a black man and it makes his really stand out comparing to other people, fighting with others and gun shooting to each other. Those actions are all based on the story of the movie.

I could see him in every scene which makes me understand how he is important to this story. When he is fighting with people and gun shooting to each other, the image of the black man suddenly become a real man who is James Bond and suddenly become a black man as well. I think this is really good techniques because it makes me feel more curious of the story of movie. The slow actions and standing alone in the middle of the scene of Bond appears to me as a interesting main character in the movie.

Technique: Colours

Technique: Colours

Colours

In this opening scene, the way of representing the colours is quiet different with other opening scene. The people and other things are not real in the scene. Everything is shown by creating them of making all of things to the animation. That’s why the colours in this scene are not realistic. It’s simple but complicated by using lots of colours. In the middle of the opening scene, there is a shot that showing a real face of woman and in the last scene, there is shot of the real James Bond. It gives you contrast between real colours of image and colour of animation images. The colour of Bond was represented by black colour and other people were represented by red colour which makes Bond stand out.

Variety of colours is really related with the movie because in the real Casino, there is lots of colours which makes it very splendid. In each scene, it includes very gorgeous background which makes me to imagine the Casino and gorgeous background is one of the reasons that catch our eyes. The colour of blood is not realistic as well, but it became more effective to make it stand out.

in the last of the opening scene, it ends with real image of James Bond. His colour of face was grey and dark which gives a feeling of how serious he is for doing his mission. This scene adds dramatic and realistic to the opening scene.

Technique: Music

Techniques: music

One of the really important techniques in the opening scene is music. The whole mood and tone of the opening scene is changed by what kind of the music it is.  The main effect of music is set the mood, gives an idea of time of the movie and the different kind of genre of music makes different mood and whole tone of the opening scene as well.

In the opening scene, the only sound that I could hear was music. There is no other sounds and dialogue as well. That’s why I could focus to the music which was really fit with the genre of the movie. There was one song that introduced in the scene. “You know my name” performed by Chris Cornell reminds me Bond’s experience in the story and his life. The music fits with the movie with creating mood by James Bond’s actions of accomplishing his mission. There is no contrast in the music which means it gives you feel and idea of continuous mood.

The music fits with serious missions of Bond as well. The song tells you the youth of James Bond and inexperience of him. In the music, there is sound of drum beats which adds the exciting feeling. I think this song has lots of related meanings with James Bond. The song creates a feeling of how James Bond is accomplishing his missions by gun shooting and killing other people. The music gives you a feel of the movie which is the story that will be following the opening scene.

1.Preparation

a) Reason for selection

- The opening scene of the movie 'Casino Royale' started with the gun shooting from a main character whose name is James Bond. Most of the scenes are related with the casino showing the figures that we could easily find in Casino like the shape of heart and diamond in the Casino card. This movie is about James Bond who is on a mission that, if successful, will qualify him for double-0 status. He goes to Prague and kills an MI6 section chief. The genre of movie is action which makes the first opening scene start with gun shooting and blooding on the screen. This helps to develop the feeling of curious and excitement. In the opening scene, I can find different shapes of barrel of a gun which is the tube through which the bullet moves when the gun is fired. I can find also bloods from the dead people and it helps to add more realistic. The opening scene is fit into the film by showing a lot of figures that we could find in real Casino and the blood from people. Moreover, the actions like fighting and gun shooting are really related with the film as a whole. This opening scene appeals to me because I like all the way how director made this opening scene. It’s really interesting for me and makes me feel involved with the movie. This opening scene also made me feel really wants to watch the movie.




b) Genre/ Atmosphere.


-The tone of the opening scene is very colorful as it includes a lot of colors and little bit somber as most of the colors don’t really fluoresce. For me, the tone is old as a whole. The whole tone of the opening scene appears me like watching an old popular movie. I think the opening scene is not really modern. The toilet that shown in the first of the opening scene was very old and not clean as well. The texture of the blood that we can see in the very first part of the scene is dark, thick and heavy.  The opening scene created specific techniques that are related with Casino. Every each scene is showing the idea of the movie which is a mission of James Bond. The people in the scene were fighting each other, blooding, and gun shooting. I believed that every symbols, figures and pictures shown in the scene came from the story of the movie which makes me guess how the story of movie is going on later. I could find a lot of figures like many shapes that we could see when people are doing poker game , the roulette and any other casino games.

   

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This is my first post, and im gonna write my planning and thoughts about making my own opening scene.
i like the openign of the movie "Casino Royal" because i like the mood of this opening which makes my feel interest and makes me to have curiousity about this movie. i love the sound and unique techniques as well.
Actually, im gonna watch this movie again before i start my assessment!