A young girl named Aleena experiences flashbacks to the murder of her sister that is affecting her daily life. She is obsessed with finding her sister's killer and has been collecting newspaper clippings about the case. The opening scene of the film will show Aleena alone in her home, experiencing a hallucination at the front door where she sees either the killer or her friend. Camerawork like point of view shots and close-ups will be used to capture Aleena's fear and build suspense. Sound effects and unsettling music will further set the tense atmosphere.
Media course work on Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock .
Alfred Hitchcock's rear window is a film full of symbolism, narratives, voyeurism and characterisation. The film focuses around the Main protagonist Jefferies, who is a photographer who recently broke his leg and is restricted to a wheelchair. The main character Jeff spends his days and nights watching the neighbours through a pair of binoculars. The audience are shown life through Jefferies eyes within the six weeks of his recovery.
Rear Window (1954) made viewers voyeurs, then had them pay for their pleasure. In its story of a photographer who happens to witness a murder, Hitchcock provocatively probed the relationship between the watcher and the watched, involving, by extension, the viewer of the film.
Hitchcock uses the point of view shot in order to show what Jeffery was seeing , using this shot doe not only allow the audience to see what he is seeing but it allows There are two main purposes for his use of optical point-of view shots in Rear Window.
One has to do with the story itself. The point-of-view shots help to pull the audience into the film and to identify more with the characters, most notably the main character Jeff. The second reason is much more universal, having to do with the nature of film itself, and the essence of cinema.
In Rear Window, female exhibitionism and objectification occurs. This is evident with the character Lisa. Lisa’s moves and poses suggest not only that she is confident and comfortable being looked at but also that she invites being looked at.
Lisa becomes a partner in Jeff’s gazing/voyeurism and an active investigator – maybe because this might be a stratagem for marriage, like her failed seduction attempt with the dinner from 21 and the sexy negligee.
Lisa’s wardrobe is expensive, high fashion (couture), and different in every visit. She is portrayed as only caring about her looks and the latest fashion which is a way of sexual objectification of women.
The gaze exercises power but also carries risks; it exposes Jeff to being seen by the other. Watching others without being seen gives Jeff a sense and a position of power, but then it is threatened and lost when Thorwald sees him from his apartment.
stereotypes are being used as the gaze is a male activity and the female the object of gaze, however Hitchcock undermines these stereotypes throughout the plot.
Jeff becomes powerless and passive when Thorwald breaks inside his apartment.
When Thorwald enters Jeff’s apartment, his eyes are lighted but his face and body are dark.
The gaze is an important element in this movie and there’s significance to Jeff using flash bulbs to try to blind and incapacitate Thorwald as to make an equal sense of powerless, however he fails.
Media course work on Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock .
Alfred Hitchcock's rear window is a film full of symbolism, narratives, voyeurism and characterisation. The film focuses around the Main protagonist Jefferies, who is a photographer who recently broke his leg and is restricted to a wheelchair. The main character Jeff spends his days and nights watching the neighbours through a pair of binoculars. The audience are shown life through Jefferies eyes within the six weeks of his recovery.
Rear Window (1954) made viewers voyeurs, then had them pay for their pleasure. In its story of a photographer who happens to witness a murder, Hitchcock provocatively probed the relationship between the watcher and the watched, involving, by extension, the viewer of the film.
Hitchcock uses the point of view shot in order to show what Jeffery was seeing , using this shot doe not only allow the audience to see what he is seeing but it allows There are two main purposes for his use of optical point-of view shots in Rear Window.
One has to do with the story itself. The point-of-view shots help to pull the audience into the film and to identify more with the characters, most notably the main character Jeff. The second reason is much more universal, having to do with the nature of film itself, and the essence of cinema.
In Rear Window, female exhibitionism and objectification occurs. This is evident with the character Lisa. Lisa’s moves and poses suggest not only that she is confident and comfortable being looked at but also that she invites being looked at.
Lisa becomes a partner in Jeff’s gazing/voyeurism and an active investigator – maybe because this might be a stratagem for marriage, like her failed seduction attempt with the dinner from 21 and the sexy negligee.
Lisa’s wardrobe is expensive, high fashion (couture), and different in every visit. She is portrayed as only caring about her looks and the latest fashion which is a way of sexual objectification of women.
The gaze exercises power but also carries risks; it exposes Jeff to being seen by the other. Watching others without being seen gives Jeff a sense and a position of power, but then it is threatened and lost when Thorwald sees him from his apartment.
stereotypes are being used as the gaze is a male activity and the female the object of gaze, however Hitchcock undermines these stereotypes throughout the plot.
Jeff becomes powerless and passive when Thorwald breaks inside his apartment.
When Thorwald enters Jeff’s apartment, his eyes are lighted but his face and body are dark.
The gaze is an important element in this movie and there’s significance to Jeff using flash bulbs to try to blind and incapacitate Thorwald as to make an equal sense of powerless, however he fails.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
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students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
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2. TheOverview
Sub-genre: PsychologicalThriller
A young girl experiences a murder of a close family member and
its affecting every aspect of her life. Once she starts seeing things
and having flashbacks back to the horrifying night where
everything changes for her.The young girl becomes obsessed with
trying to find the killer; from recording news bulletins to keeping a
scrapbook full of newspaper clippings about them. She wants
revenge, but something is trying to stop her.
The three main themes featuring in our film opening are:
Perception
Mind
Death
3. Interior
Castlefield house – Bedroom, Entrance,
Kitchen
Exterior
Outside of the house
At the door of the house.
Permissions
All of our planned locations have been
authourised.
Locations
4. Structure
• We planned out the structure of our opening scene using a
storyboard
• Beginning , Middle , End
Beginning:
• Shots outside the house , inside the house.
• Causes suspense on what is going to happen.
• Highlights the atmosphere
Middle:
• Shots in the house , different angles and shots of Aleena
• Reveal to the audience her being traumatized (with the props)
• Flash backs
End:
• The young girl hallucinates at the door not knowing if it’s the killer
or her friend.
Audience would think
• Why she is traumatized?
• What caused her hallucinating?
• Why are there lots of newspapers everywhere?
5. Representation:
Character
Character 1:
Aleena (Ayesha) 18 year old girl suffering with a mental illness and
is traumatized due to a past experience which has made her the
way she is now. Protagonist of the film.
Character 2:
Villain (Faz) – Male character in the film who is inAleena's flash
backs. He commits the murder ofAleena's sister.
Character 3:
Ella (Nicola) Friend who is concerned about Aleena. She discovers
a something that gives her an idea about why she is traumatized.
6. How?
Mise enScene
Settings: Place
• Castlefield house- most will be filmed inside the house
• A Couple shots outside in the beginning of the opening scene to
display to the audience where it is set and the atmosphere of the
scene = quiet, lonely etc...
Settings:Time
• Late afternoon – a girl on her own , late afternoon illustrating
alienation from the world and the people around her.
7. Props:
Throughout the scene we will use a variety of props to make it
look as realistic as possible.
Most props will have a meaning behind it such as:
Empty boxes of medicine
Newspapers
Glass
Clothes(scattered everywhere on the floor)
Knife
and more...
Mise en Scene
8. Mise enScene
Lighting:
Low key lighting illustrating atmosphere and emotion throughout
the character.
Reveals to the audience that throughout the scene it will be
negative
9. How ?
Camerawork
Firstly we are going to use a mid-shot angle of a hooded figure but this
is also a pov shot of what Ayesha (our main character) sees as she opens
the door.
Then we have a over the shoulder shot to show where our character is
positioned next to what she sees.
Also we will use a close up of our villains face in a hooded figure , leads
to a sense of creepiness about him to make him look intimidating and
scary to the audience.
After this we will use another close up of Ayesha's face to capture the
fear.
These different shots are used for different effects for the audience and
to create suspension in different ways as possible,A pov shot is
effective for example as it makes the audience feel as if their there
witnessing the events themselves as if they are there.
Close ups are going to be a major contributor to our opening so we can
capture the horror on our character's face when she is seeing all these
flashbacks.
10. Sound
Also we have started thinking about sound too and how we will
need to use diegetic sound effects of knocking on the door for
example but also eerie non diegetic music added to create a tense
and eerie mood.
We will change the non-diegetic music depending on what will be
going on in the scene.We all thought that if I played the piano this
would be effective to add into our piece and we are going to
demonstrate with different sounds to see which one fits the best.
But for flashbacks sequences we are going to use a series of pre-
recorded sounds of screams and diegetic clashes and eerie noises to
build up suspension.
11. Influences
As a team we had many influences not just for ideas but actual film
openings from these different films.
Shutter Island is an example of a psychological thriller film. It's a film
that has been known to fool and confuse it's audience.The opening
scene to this film very subtly gives little hints at the character (Leonardo
DiCaprio) has something wrong as he is seen panting in front of the
mirror abruptly splashing his face. Once watched the film, this opening
scene plays an important part as the audience realise how the beginning
hinted that something was wrong with him from the start. So we
wanted to use this in our opening.
Other films such as 'Regression', 'Gone Girl' and "The Sixth Sense' also
influenced us in making our film opening, using themes such as
perception, mystery, death and mind.
Grips audience gets them involved in trying to figure out what is wrong
with the main character, as of her unusual behavior throughout the film.
Audience follow aThrill-seeking adventure to find the murderer and
leave Aleena's mind at rest.
