''It must always be remembered that the primary aim of pictures is to provide entertainment. To entertain people, one must first capture their interest.''

    This is a quote from the late, great Alfred Hitchcock. He had an eccentric taste for the mise-en-scene of his movies. He often chose mundane locations for his film openings. Hitchcock adopted this as somewhat of a juxtaposition in his signature thrillers.
'' In a light-hearted setting, th advent of drama is made all the more effective by it's unexpectedness...The more happy-go-lucky the setting, the greater kick you get from the sudden introduction of drama.''
A majority of his suspense film's opened in bright daylight accompanied by the diegetic sound of playful music.

  Quentin Tarantino is another director I have analysed. Tarantino has numerous traits however, the one trait I have concentrated one because I find it relative to my 'AS Media coursework' is the famous 'P.O.V Tarantino Trunk shot'.

  'The Trunk shot' is a camera angle used when one or more character need to retrieve something from a lower angle (i.e the trunk of a car). Even though Tarantino is renowned for this shot, he did not invent it. Although he did popularize the Trunk shot which is featured in; Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown and Reservoir Dogs. In Inglorious Basterds a 'Trunk shot' is used when Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) crouches over a captured Nazi with the 'Bear Jew' and carves a swastika into his fore head. The point of view from the camera is supposed to be of the Nazi's vision.

Brad Pitt
Aldo Raine-Inglorious Basterds

Few film directors had a more stunning style then the late, great, Stanley Kubrick. The Kubrick Stare, sometimes referred to as the Kubrick Glare, is a common camera shot of an actor in most of Stanley Kubrick’s films. The Kubrick Glare has been called the “heavy-browed look of insanity”. Roger Ebert said he simply thought Kubrick found it an interesting angle with which to shoot the human face. Regardless, the actor is filmed by Kubrick at a specific angle with their head tilted slightly down, looking up, sometimes with the teeth exposed but always with a detached, menacing, angry, diabolical, evil or mad look in their eye.

Jack Nicholson Jack Torrance-The Shining
''Here's Johnny''

One of the directors I have looked at is Stanley Kubrick. What defines Kubrick as unique and divides him from other directors is how he is able to capture emotion with a camera. One of his signiture shots is ''The Glare''.    

Stanley Kubrick

AS Media Studies Coursework.

                                        ''Fool Me Twice''

Hello I'm Dean Molyneux and welcome to my blog.

This is an introduction to the short film clip I will be creating for my AS Media coursework. Here I will be discussing my aspirations that have lead and inspired me to use the methods I have chosen. I will break down the initial structure of the filming process, and make reference to certain actors, directors and producers to show the origin of my ideals.