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The Sigh by thanvannispen 

Inglourious Basterds analysis

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shooting schedule

We have now completed over half of the thriller, despite a few set backs.
We shot the various shots down Eaton Road on Monday one week ago, this was successful and will be used in the film.
We had planned to use a science lab on the 23rd, but the room we were going to use was in use, we then made a arragement to do it on Wednesday, in period five and after school. This went well, we used a classroom, and made the room as dark as possible and then put a spotlight on a desk, creating the sense of claustrophic room and mystery.This didn't take to long and within half an hour we had finished. We then shot the same scene but in a different location, we used a basement for this, this was done, again this was done quickly.
Today (Thursday 26th Jan) we will be filming the last part of the film at my house, this is the largest part of the film, and may take some time in completing it, but we are confident that it will be finished by the weekend.
On Monday 30th we hope to be editing the film, and the finished product should be complete by the end of next week.

Intertexuality

Intertexuality is when the director in a film makes a direct reference to another film, the reason for the use of intertexualilty differs from film to film, it may be making us feel for the character in shot, or creates a sense of what the film is referring to, like “Kill Bill vol 2” at 4.22 and 6.29 during the clip it refers to the sound of trumpet in “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly” at 4.22. Tarantino uses the sound of the trumpets in Kill Bill to give the same effect of what is happening in The Good, The Bad, The Ugly. The effect on the audience makes us see Bud as the ugly, The Bride as the good, and Bill as the bad, because Tarantino makes us see the Bride as Blondie (The good) by giving her the characteristics and power as Blondie.
When the Bride is buried in a coffin, we know she will get out because Tarantino creates the sense that the Bride is Blondie, who is able to escape from any situation.
Also Bud portrays Ugly in Kill Bill, and at the end of the film in The Good, The Bad , The Ugly, Ugly gets the short straw, and ends up being close to death, from this we can decipher that Bud will come to a bad ending as well.
Also it creates a sense of a shoot-out, as this is what happens in The Good.., revealing that is could soon be the ending for Bud, as Ugly comes off worse that Blondie. Not only that but the sense of isolation is a thriller convention and also occurs in both films, the shootout in The Good…, takes place in an isolated area, in the middle of the country, and in Kill Bill takes place in a dark, gloomy area, which is a thriller convention, the same as the isolated location in The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Finale

Kill Bill- fight between Bud and the Bride

Opening to Kill Bill volume 1

Director: 

Quentin Tarantino

Stars:

 Uma Thurman, David Carradine and Daryl Hannah

The opening starts off with "The Bride" breathing heavily, while the screen is black, already making the scene seem dark and mysterious, this also grabs our attention as the heavy breathing makes us think something violent has occurred. 

We then see the Bride, on the left side of the screen, keeping to the rule of thirds, the camera angle is above her, looking down. She has blood and cuts on her face, adding to the sense of danger. She is still breathing heavy and whimpering. The scene is shot in black and white, maybe to connote something anachronistic or to stand out from the rest of the films, but it makes the audience of unsure of what will happen next, as it being in black and white may make it hard to see the textures and colours of certain objects. 

While she is still breathing heavily, foot steps can be heard off screen, we can see the Brides body tenses up and her breathing starts to turn into a cry, her eyes start darting around looking for the person. 

The camera then cuts to a worms eye view of the man's shoes, keeping up with the shoes,  the noise of the shoes on the wooden floor, suggests no urgency or anger, but the footsteps are slow and rhythmic, getting closer to the Bride. 

The footsteps stop, and the camera goes back to the Bride, there is a few seconds of silence, adding to the sense of danger, increasing the suspense, drawing the audience in further. Until the man says "Do you find me sadistic?", the Bride looks to her bottom left, either keeping her eyes from meetings the man, or staring at him. Then he brings his hand into shot, with a handkerchief and wipes some blood off her face, showing his affection towards her, on it, it says "Bill", revealing to us who he is. He continues to wipe blood of her face while he says "I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now...".

Still the Bride is crying with fear, Bill mutters some more, about not being sadistic, we don't know if he is or not, but we feel more for the Bride, as she seems to be afraid of Bill, and that she's in a vulnerably state. He seems very affectionate towards the Bride, possible revealing their past together, maybe suggesting they were once a couple or knew each other very well. 

He continues to talk and wipe blood from her face, slowly he stops and says he wouldn't hurt her, add gently strokes her on her cheek with his finger, yet again, showing his affection towards her.

Throughout the time while Bill is talking he always refers to her as "kiddo", at first it seems patronising, and a term often considered an endearment to a loved one, but we later find out he's calling her by her second name, her name is Beatrix Kiddo. 

Bill steps back and we hear him using something mechanical and the Brides eyes dart towards Bill and open wider than we have seen before, revealing that whatever Bill is doing its going to hurt the Bride in some way. 

After Bill talking some more, the Bride speaks for the first time and say "Bill its your bab...." She uses his name, possible showing the Bride knows Bill well and were on the same level as each other, Bill wasn't above the Bride in terms of hierarchy. But before she gets to end her sentence, there is a bang from the gun and the scene ends. We don't know whether he killed himself or the Bride, or something else. But what we do know is that they both don't see eye to eye any more. 

Exam Essay Mock (sorry if you are unable to read it)

Thelma and Louise screen shot anaysis

Thriller Plan- Everything together!

Basic storyline of the our thriller

Starts with the "evil" friend (Jess) creating a poison in either a science lab or a basement (the camera will be a close up worms eye of Jess creating the poison), we then see her walking away (there are various shorts we will use during this scene, eg, tracking, birds eye and worms eye). It then cuts to a group of friends (group of three or four), they are chatting amongst themselves. (the shot used will be looking from the door in the living room, looking to the end of the room) 

The camera then cuts to a behind shot of Jess over the work surfaces in the kitchen making cups of tea, during this she puts the poison into one of the cups (the camera is a worms eye shot on the surface of the hand pouring in the poison) and then puts in cups onto a tray and walks down the hall, (a tracking shot will be used from the front door, see below, following her into the living room) then the camera will change to a birds eye of the mugs being taken. The opening then ends. 

Cast

- Jack Monahan - camera man

- Jess Moy - Evil friend 

- Billie Kemp - the victim

- Sam Wright - a friend 

Locations

- Creating of the poison either in a school science lab or in Billies basement 

- Walking from the first scene to house either down my road or outside CNS 

- Last scene takes place at my house

Imagine Jess dressed in dark clothing
with her back towards the camera
making the tea. 

 The close up of the
poison being poured in

The tracking shot will be used here, when Jess goes from the
kitchen to the living room (left to right) 

the view of the mugs in the final shot before the opening ends. 

One more image to come! 

Storyboard