The Roomate!

The Plot:
Sara Matthews is a college freshman studying fashion design. She meets a couple of students, Tracy who is a party-lover,soon to be boyfriend Steven and her roommate Rebecca. To start off Rebecca is sweet and caring but eventually she's starts getting obsessed with Sara and things start going completely wrong.

When I first watched the movie,  I didn't expect it to be a thriller at first because the opening was just about Sara and Rebecca getting to know so I didn't really expect when Rebecca started attacking Sara's friends. The films that are similar to this movie are Obsessed, The Tourist, Homecoming and Red Riding Hood.

Rebecca Evans- She's a sweet, caring girl at first but when she gets attached to someone, she starts getting obsessed with them and will do anything to get closer to Sara.She's someone in a typical thriller movie because there is always someone who is the villain/attacker in a Thriller because they are the ones who create the drama.
Sara Matthews- She's a freshman starting at a new college studying fashion design. She plays the victim in this movie because she gets attacked by Rebecca and she also is the person she is obsessed with.
Tracy Morgan- She's another student at the college, who loves partying. She's another victim but she escapes from Rebecca but is left with scares from the attack.

Minka Kelly plays Sara Matthews, Leighton Meester plays Rebecca Evans and Aly Michalka plays Tracy Morgan. None of the main characters have worked in this genre before. And I think they have been picked for these roles because Leighton has that look that makes her look crazy and twisted whereas Minka has a pretty face which makes her look sweet and innocent.

The themes and values that I would expect in this film is a male lead, who is strong and looks after the victim. I would expect a victim as well and a killer who's goes around and attacks everyone. I would expect a creepy, isolated location, this is typical because most people can easily get attacked in isolated places.

Why we picked Thriller as a genre!

As a group we decided to pick thriller as a genre. We picked this because we think opening scenes of thrillers normally have some action that makes you instantly know you are watching a thriller but there are some movies that keep the action for later, take The Roomate (right) for example, which doesn't give everything away in the opening scene. However there are some movies that have some action in the opening scene. such as Memento which has some some guy shooting at another guy whilst taking a photo of the body. We also chose to do a thriller from inspiring movies such as Batman, Chronicle, Taken, Savages and X-men etc. 

Introducing The People In My Group!

My group is about to make our first opening scene for media. There's Ellie, Emily, Sam and me! (Blogs on the left side)

Evaluating the Preliminary Task

Our task was to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. For this task we drew out a storyboard to plan out what we were going to do.

In this task, I was the camera man so I had to film the everything. I demonstrated match on action shot, shot reverse shot and 180 degree rule. We also used close-ups to show the sign on the wall to set the scene. However I didn't use a tripod so it was harder to keep the camera straight.

In conclusion I am very happy with the final result because I think we used all the shots including some other shots such as close up and establishing shot. I think our group could of keep the conversation flowing in the scene and I think I could of looked back on the shots we took, so I could check if the camera was shaking too much so we could redo that shot. I also think I could have zoomed in more so we could see the opposite person more clearly. But I do think the shot reverse shots were appropriate for the dialogue because it was conversation where one character is asking the questions and the other is answering them with simple  answers. I also think the group worked really well as a group because even though we all had set jobs, we still helped each other out. For example we would give suggestions to the director, if we think it will look/be better.

I think I am confident using the camera and imovie because I've got used to the basics on how to work the camera and imovie. I also know how to add different effects e.g. music, title screens etc.

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Psycho Screenshot Anaylsis

 I think this screenshot of the woman connotes that she is attempting to hold on to life but its draining away just like the water going through the drain. In this scene the shower curtain also breaks which suggests it's her last attempt to hold on to life. She's also in the shower which suggest vulnerabilities and normality.

This screenshot shows us that the woman is also being watched throughout the time she spends in the hotel. This scene is focused on the woman, but we also see the killer's perspective from this screenshot.

My name is Chioma and 16 and this blog is my media blog, where I'm going to post things related to my media work.