Kyle Cooper

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Kyle Cooper was born July 1962. At the early stages of his career he worked as a creative director at R/GA; this is an advertising agency in America. Next Cooper created the title for a crime sequence in 1995 called 'Se7en', due to this other young designers

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Kyle Cooper was born July 1962. In the beginning he worked as head of the creative department in an advertising industory at R/GA, an advertising agency in America. Then in 1993 he created the title for a sequence called 'Se7en', by doing this he inspired many other yong directors. In 1996 he co-founded 'Imaginary Forces' which is a creative agency that came out of the West Coast division, however he then left imaginary forces. In 2003, Cooper created the creative agency 'Prologue'. Prologue, once called malibu moved to offices in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, in 2008. He then created a feature film.

 

 

The youtube video shows how Kyle Cooper has got involved and what he has done and helped do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8koLuGnXw

In the interviews we see how Cooper is praised for designing films covers, this is seen as one of the main aspects because it draws the audience in and attracts attention, his biggest titles consist of spider-man, superman and his first title seven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kE0FccYkM

 

One of the film which Kyle Cooper directed was 'Se7en' The opening sequence of this film shows cleary shows his directing technique, using low exposure and shutterspeed. Cooper also overlays his shots, which is when he puts one shot on top of another, creating a disolve effect.

  This makes the watcher believe that whoever he's filming possibly has a disjointed mind and sees things differently to other people. The handwriting which is shown is also seen to be scribbley and untidy, possibly relating back to the characters state of mind. Kyle Cooper manages to show this not only through the way he films it but also by using non diagetic music in the backround, creating an overall eerie sense.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

The powerpoint for our thriller...

How our idea has moved forward

As Matt previously told us, we should be revolving our idea around therapy we came up with the idea of a phycological thriller. In this we thought we would track the growing of a boy who has a messed up mind. We thought we would do this by having the first clip of him when he's around 5 years old, scribbling on a piece of paper aggressively and slowly changing scene to him getting older. To make all the characters look the same and resemble one another we thought that we would use a family. The family we plan on using is the Jackson family, as in their family they have a 5, 10, 18 and 40 year old. They all look similar due to being related so the watcher would be able to understand what we were trying to put across.

Our pitch to Matt...

I think overall our presentation to Matt went okay, the reason for this is that the feedback we got was overall pretty negative. I thought we prepared for the pitch pretty well and the idea we wanted to do came across very clear, although the idea itself wasn't what they were looking for. Matt told us that the idea we had came up with was not an opening scene to a thriller but would come somewhere in the middle of the movie. He also told us that the idea of a phycologist being an assassin wasn't believable due to her not wanting to loose her job as a therapist. He then concluded by telling us that using flashbacks were hard to do and never looked very good. However, despite this he told us that he liked the idea of using a phycologist chair as a point to work around, therefore when coming up with our next idea we will include it. Overall i think it could have been worse...

Thriller sub genres...

Conspiricy thrillers
A thriller which includes someone finding our something that they think it quite small, but turns out to be a vast conspiricy. Films that you may expect to see in this sub genre are things such as the Bourne identity, Da Vinci code, Taken and The girl witrh the dragon tattoo. They key themes in this kind of thriller would be things such as conspiricy, secret agnts and car chases, lies, rumors, proppaganda and counter proppaganda.



Political thrillers
A thriller which includes a position of power which is meant to be given to someone whilst his opponent tries to stop this. Some films that you may expect to belong to this sub genre would probably be films such as The Ghost Write, JFK and The Edge of Darkness. The key themes in this kind of thriller would be things such as corruption, assasion and treeson.



The Spy Film
Can either be a realistic thriller dealing with subject of fictional espionage (Johnm Le Carre) or in a fantasy way (James Bond) Some films that would fit this sub genre would be dilms such as Spy kids, Hanna and the bourne films.The key themes in this kind of thriller would be spis, nazis and
conspiricy.





Phychological Thriller
This thriller has a lot more to do with the mental state of mind of the actors. It's more dramatic and mysterious than a standard thriller and can often over lap with a horror genre. Thrillers that would fit underneath this sub genre would be films such as Inception, Silence of the lambs, Seven or Phyco. The key themes would be things such as deceptive games, horror and drama.

Techno thriller
This is a hybrid genre which mostly deals with science fiction. It includes the inner workings of technology and the mechanics or various disciplines. Thrillers that fit into this sub genre would be ones such as Jurassic part, The Net and Die Hard. Key themes would be conspiricy, technology and futureistic technology.




Supernatural thriller
Brings outworldly element with suspence and plot twists. The main characters will usually possess super powers and it will be a struggle between good vs. evil. Films which are included in this genre would be ones such as The Sixth Sence, Fallen and The Others. Key themes wouldf be ghosts, superpowers and and good vs. evil.

Analysis of catch me if you can title sequence

To find out more about titles i've anmalysed a classic title sequence from catch me if you can. Here's what i found out.. 

The fact that the man is shown in black suggests that he has something dark and hidden to him, not only this but he is hiding behind a pole implying that he doesn't want to be seen. Before he walks past the pole he is shown as a normal man, then when he reappears he is a pilot showing that he has multiple appearences which backs up our previous point.

In the title sequence of catch in if you can there is a poliece car which shows the viewer that this film has something to do with the poliece and violence.

The way this man is wearing a tie and hat whilst wearing reading a newspaper may give us the impression that he is some kind of agent. He is also shown as being much bigger than the other character showing that he may have authority or power over him.

 In this photo there are shown to be many air hostesses. This could suggest that this man may be a bit of a womanizer as there are many scenes which include lots of girls.

For my thriller i'm thinking of doing something comp[letley different. I

m thinking of using costumes and not using cartoons to portrey different scenes

Editing my prelim task

Final Cut Pro

During the editing i learnt how to use 'Final cut pro' and 'Final cut server'. The first task we had to do was learn how check in and out of these programmes. To check out you had to click on the clog , this checked out your work. Once it had checked out there was a little yellow pen icon. All of a sudden a massive blue folder appeared on the desktop, making it easy to acsess in the future. All you had to do to check back in is click on the folder and your groups name. To keep you work tidy on these programmes you use things called 'bins' they are a bit like folders and keep your clips seperate from one another. The clips that you think are going to be useful are called the log bins and those which you think won't be as usuful are called the rush bins.

 I thought that editing was extreamly awarding as I liked seeing all the clips creating a narrative. Also,

I really liked the group that i was in which meant that we had a good time as well as being productive.

 I thought that the programme 'Final cut pro' was confusing as I had never used anything like it before. It became increasingly more stressful as the week went on as we all became really tired and ended up fighing over the computer making it harder to finnish the work we had been set.

 When i was younger I used a programme called garage band which is slightly similar to Final cut pro but instead of films it's for music. Therefore i found it quite easy to set up and match the scenes as i had previously had some practice.

To be honest, I don't think that the extra shots made much of a difference as we only used one of them, however i could see how they would in our actual thriller.

  I think if we were to do this again i would want to have a smaller group as i think there being too many of us made it hard to do the editing as we all wanted a go, whereas if there were fewer then there would be fewer arguements and we would get more work done. I think overall my team did pretty well and we were all pretty kean to have a go at editing which made it clear that we all played equal roles.

Trainspotting - Target audience

Trainspotting was probably made for an audience of teenagers upwards. You can tell from the characters which are displayed on the cover, most of which seem to look quite comedic. However, you wouldn't assume that this film was for children due to the fact that they all look quite rough and the man on the far left is swearing at the camera. The man in the middle is also making a gun motion with his hands implying that this film will have some violence in it which may not be suitable for younger viewing. The two red lines may also warn off younger children as it could represent blood and danger. You could also guess fromt how old the characters look on the cover as to what kind age group this film is targetted at which would be around 18 plus.

Pulp Fiction -Target audience

From the cover of Pulp Fiction you would assume that the film is for adult viewing. The reasons for this could be for the provocative looking woman wearing red lipstick and with a low cleavage line, suggesting that it is not appropriate for a younger audience. On the cover she is doing adult activities such as smoking and has her hand on a pack of cards which could imply gambling. These activities a child would not relate to therefore probably isn't a good movie for them to watch.There is also a gun in the foreground which could show that this film has violence in it, suggesting that it is not sutible for childrens viewing. The film cover in itself looks quite old fashioned, perhaps telling to person who intend on watching it how long ago it was filmed and again tells us what generation should be watching it.  

analysing the opening scene of kill bill

In the opening scene to 'Kill bill' all we hear is the diegetic sound of The Bride breathing heavily, showing she is panicing and worried. She has blood all over her face implying that she has been struggling previously or has been tortured. The fact that she is now lieing on the floor suggests that the person who she has been fighting against has caught her and now has her trapped. She is also wearing a bridal vail telling us that she has just got married, this could show a strong contrast between what is meant to be the best day of her life and possibly what is one of the worst. The scene is in black and white, signifying that this scene may have been set a long time ago and the fact that there is no colour may represent that there is no happiness. You then start to hear the diegetic sounds of footsteps, they seem to be getting closer and the closer they get the more heavy the brides breathing gets, implying that the footsteps are probably coming her way. There is then a close up of feet walking across the ground. When the figure reaches her he starts talking to her in a calm but menacing way and wiped the sweat and blood off her face with a handkerchief which reads 'Bill' we now know who the man is. But all his actions you can tell that bill is a bad person and has bad intensions. As he wipes her face she starts crying and gulping telling us that she is terrified of this man. You then her the diegetic sound of him picking up a gun, her eyes widen then you hear a gun shot. The scene then ends, signifying the end of the scene as well as her life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5EYd5_i6M