Location Recce Images- By Elizabeth Djan

Focus group interviews

First Interview: Luke

Second Interview: Kenya, Eliz, Stephanie


Questions:

How old are you?

How many times a month do you go to the cinema?

Do you enjoy watching Thrillers?

In that time, how often do you to watch a thriller?

What do you expect when you watch a thriller? Explain your answer.

Does the concept of 'Jack the ripper' intrigue you?  If so, why?

If I were to say to you that a boy would slowly go insane and believe he is becoming someone that he is not, how would you react?

And how would you think that story line will end?

Fake blood mix

Fake Blood Recipe

What you you will need:

• Water
• corn syrup
• Red, blue and green food colouring
• Flour, cornstarch, chocolate syrup or maple syrup

Method: 

• Combine one part water with three parts corn syrup, Add drops of red food colouring gradually and mix gently by stirring.
• Continue adding drops until the shade resembles that of real blood (always err on the side of adding less, as it's easier to add more).
• Add a small amount of blue or green food colouring to achieve a more realistic shade. (Arterial blood is bright red, while venous blood is a dark maroon).

Add a thickener. 

• Dry thickener. Add sifted flour or corn starch to your mixture, and whisk or stir it gently until smooth.
• If small lumps form, wait about a minute and the lumps will float to the top where you can remove them easily. Note: you can also use glycerine instead.
• Wet thickener. Stir in thick chocolate syrup until the desired consistency (and optimal flavour) is reached.
• Chocolate syrup adds a realistic deep maroon "venomous" colour to the blood.
• You can also use pancake syrup to add a brown tone and make the blood a bit thicker and stickier. Don't use too much!

Adjust your mix. (If it is too pink or orange, add red).

• Use blue cautiously Only add blue when you have at least put 3 teaspoons in and 1 drop of blue and you're confident it is still not dark enough and only add blue slowly
• If it seems to be too purple, you'll have to start again––unfortunately, you cannot fix it just by adding more red.
• If the mix is too transparent, add a little flour.

Let the mixture sit for ten minutes in a warm environment. This will give it some time to thicken and coagulate.

• Note: This recipe yields blood that is very sticky initially. It is good for uses that involve children and possible ingestion, as it's not toxic.

Shutter Island Opening of Film Analysis

Shutter Island

Firstly one of the most dominant components in the opening scene of Shutter Island is sound. It starts off with low mono tones of a string orchestra that builds as the characters draw nearer draw nearer to the island. The music makes us unsettled and makes you feel that something is wrong and almost expect even for an unpredictable storyline.
        Another technique that is effectively used in the opening is Mise en scene. At the very beginning of the opening clip, a lot of fog/mist is shown hovering above a vast span of water which we could only assume to be an ocean- this could relate back to the fact  we later discover that the protagonist has an ocean of deep uncovered thoughts. The Mist moreover creates a sense of disorientation for the audience, by not having a grasp of the setting it leaves us on the edge to see what will emerge from the mist.

'Teddy Daniels'

      Furthermore camera shots when it is angled towards the mirror and Teddy looking into the mirror it immediately put us n the shoes of "Teddy Daniels" as if we are we are his reflection which is really an ongoing thing throughout the film helps us effectively identify with the character as we are seeing his facial expression to be agitated which to me intensifies the distress of the character and moreover sort of foreshadows unstable attribute of the character which could further relate back to the unstable jostling nature of the waves.    

There was a particular dream scene that was particularly incredible due to the fact of the brilliant use of editing. At the very beginning of the scene ash is falling from above all around the room I thought this could easily symbolise his life and mental frame has now gone to ash.

            A little further on during the scene the woman appeared to be holding a bottle of alcohol in one hand then in the next it has disappeared, the editing of the bottle being once there and then gone the other to me hows that Teddy can't at that moment in time get a grasp on reality. 

     


The use of editing was effectively used especially at the point of the woman is turning to ash herself as if to show that everything he touches get destroyed. The
editing was effectively used when blood came spilling out of the woman whilst Teddy was holding her, most of it spilling onto his hands which could literally be telling the audience that her blood was on his hands.

               

The use of editing in fire around the room after we have already seen ash falling t the beginning conveys the message that Teddy and even partly us as the audience in some ways don't really have a grasp of time so far in the movie, with the constant flashbacks and visions of the protagonist we hardly get a grip of before and after an which one is placed where. Making your in a way question our own sanity at times.  



By:Elizabeth Djan