Location Evaluation For Our Thriller

We filmed at Norwich Train Station. The location really fitted in with our thriller it was around the late dusk time of the day, so the light and shadows helped give a great effect. The toilets in the train station were also good as they had large mirrors to do an over the shoulder shot of the femme fatale getting changed into her second costume, letting her hair down and sorting out the credit cards, money and wallet. The fillming didn't leave the train station at any point, so it was our only location.

Above: outside of the train station.

<-This is a couple of the train platforms where you see our femme fatale looking around frantically.



<- A noir picture of one of the platforms we used during filming. We stood on the side platform and filmed our character walking down the middle one from across the track.

<- This is the main area of the station where people wait for their trains. The part where our femme fetale gets grabbed when she's applying her lipstick is filmed here.

Film Analysis - Once upon a time in America (1984)

(Right) A poster advertising the film when it was released.

Once upon a time in America was made in the year 1984 and directed by Sergio Leoni. This movie consists of intense violence and greed, The film is about the rise and fall of Jewish-American gangsters in New York at the beginning of the century through the 1960's. The movie tells the story of five decades in the lives of four gangsters from New York City - childhood friends who are merciless criminals almost from the first, but who have a special bond of loyalty to each other. One of them breaks their bond, or at least thinks he does and he carries the guilt with him until later on in his life, when he finds out that he wasn't the one who broke the bond, he didnt betray them, he got betrayed. It's an astounding tale of friendship through a lifestyle of crime, betrayal, lust, and greed that spans over half a century.

The film has the femme fatale, both glamourous and beautiful and it all starts with noir lighting. Very effective and generic.

Then it goes onto the three hats and overcoats of the men, standing behind a close up of the dead lady. It was wet and raining and they came across three dead bodies, wrapped in black labelled bin bags. There's jazz music in the background which could be associated with Mafia. You see the man in the left shaft and there is an amazing worms eye view shot and point of view shot of man on the floor.

(Below)The trailer for the film.

Film Anaylsis - Witness (1982)

(Left) Poster to advertise the film when it was released.

Witness is a thriller movie from 1982 directed by Peter Weir.

The film explores the sharp cultural conflicts between the old Amish society of western Pennsylvania and the modern American world of crime and violence.

The main character, Philadelphia police detective John Book is forced into hiding by a group of poeople looking for a little Amish boy. The boy witnesses a brutal killing with in the first few minutes of the filmand identifies the policeman who did it from a photograph on the wall at headquarters. John Book and his witness hide in the house of the boys's mother Rachel on a farm in the Amish country. The detective and the Amish widow gradually enter into a frustrated love affair, over objections of her father and neighbouring youth who sees Rachel as a potential wife.

The killing takes place in a very generic location. There's the unglamourous toilets posing as the confined space. There are continual use of close ups and diegetic sound

(Below) Trailer for Witness, 1985.

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Preliminary Task

This is the our groups preliminary task:

Perfume Advert

For our perfume adverts, we were told to make it look english by adding traditional english objects, people or places. To do this, i made the old fashioned red telephone box to be the main object of this picture, with the english icon kate moss to the right in the window looking out at the perfume in the picture. This hopefully makes girls think if Kate Moss wants it, I've got to have it.

I used bold, black font to make a solid point that the readers would take in easily and want to be part of by owning the perfume.