Silence of the lamb

In "Silence of the lamb", the audience are immediately aware that the genre of the film is a thriller due to the dark foggy setting at the beginning. It is also set in the woods which has connotations of abandoned and secluded which is expected from a thriller genre.
When we are first introduced to the female character, the audience is led to believe that she is a victim, this is because of the way the camera tracks her from behind which suggests she is being chased. the camera then tracks her feet to show her speeding up which creates suspense and fear however, we as an audience soon learn that she is in fact doing an assault curse. The first clue the audience were given was the fact that she climbed the rope which was very physical and leads us to believe the she is an atypical female character because of her physical ability. We then see the badge on her jumper that says "FBI", this shows that she is not a victim at all but a very active and strong character. The female character is then given a name (Sterlin) by a male FBI member, this makes her appear as less of a disposable character and enables the audience to form a relationship with her.

Preliminary Task. Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, 180 degrees line ad continuity.



Script.
Person1:Did you hide the body?
Person 2: Yeah, I put it in the bin.
Person 1: NO! you were suppose to put it under the bin.
Person 2: Well you could have told me that earlier.
Person 1: Oh well, its too late now.

Shot list.
1. Over the shoulder shot on person 1
2. Front tracking on person 2s feet
3. match on action of person 2 opening a door
4. establishing shot
5. POV shot form person 1 of person 2
6. over the shoulder shot of person 2 on person 1 then vice versa.

During this preliminary task, I have learnt a variety of different skills and techniques, such as how to plan a short film and how to form a story board. I have also learnt some new shooting techniques like "behind tracking." Whilst doing this preliminary task I discovered how light effects the picture quality of a film.

I used techniques like; panning, match on action, point of view shots, tracking and many more.

In my preliminary task I would improve the match on action by filming longer scenes. this would improve the continuity of the clip.

Preliminary Task Script

Preliminary Task. continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action



Script.
Person1:Did you hide the body?
Person 2: Yeah, I put it in the bin.
Person 1: NO! you were suppose to put it under the bin.
Person 2: Well you could have told me that earlier.
Person 1: Oh well, its too late now.

Shot list.
1. Over the shoulder shot on person 1
2. Front tracking on person 2s feet
3. match on action of person 2 opening a door
4. establishing shot
5. POV shot form person 1 of person 2
6. over the shoulder shot of person 2 on person 1 then vice versa.

Basic camera work

Basic camera work