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The Woman Work Uniform

Links: Various uniform policies for NHS professions.

http://www.pinterest.com/MrsPriegues/social-worker-attire/

http://www.tewv.nhs.uk/Global/Policies%20and%20Procedures/HR/HR-0024-v3%20Dress%20Code%20Policy.pdf

http://www.shb.scot.nhs.uk/board/policies/UniformPolicy.pdf

Professional uniform for a social worker

Wear a blouse shirt, a black cardigan, and a skirt with black pumps.
Use college ID card, and cover up the Barnsley College logo with a logo of NHS to show that Maria works for in a hospital profession.

The woman character profile

Character Profile - the Woman

Name - Maria Roberts
Age - 20
Profession - Care worker

Background
The woman in our film was brought up around a lot of other children with having four brothers and sisters with her being one of the older ones, she often had to look after her younger relatives when her parents were working. At around fifteen, she decided that she wanted work with children and was tied between teaching and social care. As she grew older, she decided that she wanted to go into social care, in order to try to help less fortunate children who are having a bad childhood.

Appearance
In the film, the woman is wearing work attire, because she has just come back from work. She is wearing a plain white shirt, with a black jumper, and a skirt, with black tights and pumps. She has a badge clipped onto her shirt, that states that she works in a medical profession for the National Health Service. She has a single ring on her hand, and plain earrings in her ears. Her appearance is smart, because she works in a medical profession.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Personality
Maria possesses a shy, slightly quite personality, however she is quite bubbly, and tries to use humour in her day to day work in an attempt to make less fortunate children feel better. She always has a smile on her face.

What she does in the film

Maria unlocks the front door, then walks into kitchen. She sees the poison card on the table, thinking nothing of it and chucks it in bin. Then, she gets a cup out of the cupboard and puts the kettle on and goes upstairs. Killer then comes in back door, gets card out of bin and then poisons tea. Escapes out of backdoor, whilst Maria walks downstairs and drinks tea. Cop runs down street. Then cop looks through letter box and see's Maria unconscious at the bottom the stairs. He then runs round back of house, kicking the gate open to then find the backdoor is locked.

The cop character profile

Character profile The Cop

Name - Mark Wayne
Age - 21
Profession - Cop

Background
As a child Mark Wayne grew up doing sport and was often the best in class and on of the first picks for school teams. Although his focus was on sports he was succeeding in most of his subjects and had great social life. As of his success, he was going on to be a American football player, joining college teams and then going professional. His career was going well unit the last game of the season where he was put on to the field in the last 2 minuets. He needed to make this play but the play when bad and he ended end up get badly injured and his career for football ended there. For that he needed to  find something else to do, this is when he decides to go into the police force. He then spends the next couple of years training with the police. A year later he is promoted up with in the police.

Appearance
The cop wheres brown shoes with a blue suit pants and a white shirt, and has a tie on. He is quite short and has short black hair and chubby cheeks. We choice that he would wear these cloths as then he looks smart and sensible and looks the part. He also has a police badge in his pocket. He also wears a grey coat when he is outside.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Personality
Mark wayne is a happy go lucky type of person who is always cheery and also try to look on the bright side of life about everything. he has a bubbly attitude and likes to help people and also make them happy. He is very determined to get what he has set out to achieve.

What he does in film

in our film Mark Wayne is one of the maim characters. He has been given the task to locate and sae the victims of or killer. In the kill Mark first gets a phone call from the killer who tells him who is going to be the first victim. Mark then locates the victim and then rushes to their house to try and save then. But with the first victim Mar does not get to them fast enough and the first murder occurs. Mark then get a number of call from the killer telling him the next victims until the killer makes a mistake and Mark is able to capture the killer.

the killer character profile

Character profile

The Killer

Name: Ray Waller
Age: 24
Profession: Killer

Background

As a young child he lost his parents and his sister in a car crash, from this he had no other family and ended up in foster care where he constantly moved around and ended up been with a family which abused him. He would end up getting left alone for days locked in his room and would often hear his foster parents arguing when the father had got drunk and often the next day he would get abused more.

He would often skip school to run away and hide and not return home for a while. When he turned 16 he left the foster home and applied to the police force.  When accepted he was driven to help other young people out of abusive families. A couple of years later we see the transferred to a worse area, which ended up near where his parents died and near his foster homes, and also promoted to deceive. His first case then was his foster father killing his foster mother, and then getting away with it, this happened on the anniversary of his family’s death.

As of this the killer ends up loosing it quitting his job and disappearing from society for a couple for a year. The next year he surfaces again and decided to play a game with the police as he feels that they failed him, this game is a game using the tarot cards with each different card symbolising a different way of murder.

Appearance

The killers appearance in not really going to be seen in the film, we hardly see any of the character face or his features and most of the scene that involve the killer will be in low-key lighting. We would not see all of the killers face at once as most of it would be kept in shadow this would create more suspicion about the character.
We would also see the character mainly from behind to help hide his face and keep his identity as secret, but this could also represent some of his past that he has kept secret form everyone. He always wears a black hoodie or leather jacket with his hood up to mask his identity, black leather gloves to make sure no finger prints are left behind. Also thick black boots as it gives the impression that he will go any where to do anything. He wears black jeans.

Personality

The killers personality is, that he is psychotic as of his back ground. He is a loner and spends most of his time by him self  or watching what other people. The killers mind is twisted and bend out of reality and he sees what he is doing as is  write and that it is helping the world. He is taking justice into his own hands as it failed to help him or to help people he tried to help.

What he does in film

The killer is sat at a desk in a dark room, has a pack of tarot cards in front of him. He turns over a number of cards and then calls a cop/deceive telling him that they are going to play a game and people are goanna die.
We see the killers tarot card in the victims house. We see him stud out side the house waiting. He walks up to the letter box and looks through it, and then walks around the back and gets into the house. He then kills her by what ever was show on the tarot card he turned over.

Audience profile

Group 6 – Audience profile.

Our group chose our film to have a age 15 certificate, this is because within the film theirs scenes of death, violence, scenes containing weapons and strong language. If a person who was under the age limit was to watch our film they might find certain scenes distressing. The fact it has 15 certificate shows that the fact of death is certain within the film and occurs numerous times within the film. The fact the film has violence makes the film a 15, the violent nature features frequently throughout the film; it comes across in brutal and in a briefly encounters sexual violence. Often throughout the film they’ll be scenes with weapons shown in them, this raises the age to a 15 due to some of the weapons shown are a sensitive to younger viewers. The fact our film has bad language in obviously raises the age certificate as young children are unable to hear foul language as theirs a fear they could repeat it without knowing what it means.

Our film's whole age range is aimed at males and females aged 15 – 50, this gives us a wide age range for people to watch the film on their own or with friends, but also people with teenagers aged 15/16 who want to watch the film with them are still going to be interested in watching it. The fact the film is aged 15 upwards is another good point because teenagers (aged 15+) can go and watch the film with their friends. We had chosen to put a 15 certificate on our film as the film's main character is a killer and if anyone under 15 was to watch the film, they might get scared and also might get the wrong impression thinking, 'its alright to kill people.' Someone older then fifty may find the film hard to follow and not really interested in the film. I'd say our film is a scary psychological thriller that families can watch although it is a film someone could watch on their own.

Analysis of se7en

Analysis of se7en – First 10 minuets

In the first scene minutes we are introduced to Morgan Freeman’s character. In this scene we see Morgan Freeman’s character getting ready to go to work. This scene uses long shots to medium close ups. This allows you to see the room around Morgan freeman and how he is dressed. This allows the audience to think about what occupation Morgan Freeman’s character has. B 
ut the audience is shown his occupation when a close up is used on the objects that is set on a unit. One of these objects is a police badge that tells the audience that he is a police officer. Also the whole scene is using dim lighting and has slow passé. This helps to build and eerie feeling to the scene that also helps the audience to determine what genre the film is

 

The second scene is showing a crime scene.  The scene starts with a medium shot of a body laid on the floor which then cuts to a long shot that is used as an establishing shot showing the whole room.  Then we are introduced to Brad Pitt’s character who we can tell is working with Morgan freeman’s character as they enter together. When in this room the lighting is again dim which creates an eerie feeling to the scene which also has the crime scene factor that also adds to the whole eerie feel. Within this scene Morgan freeman’s and Brad Pitt’s characters then move outside. While outside there are only medium shots. Also when the 2 characters are stood outside the audience can see that it is raining. This also adds to the eerie feel that also helps the audience to figure the genre of the film

 

The opening sequence does not include any long shots of the setting; you would assume that the things taking place are happening in someone’s home or office, as the props are what you would typically find in these locations. However the location is not shown creating tension for the audience. All of the objects shown are shown using extreme close ups. This creates suspense as the audience do not know who is creating this file and doing these things as they cannot see their face or where they are. All of the shots in the opening sequence are indoors with low key lighting which gives the setting a dull and suspicious feel. Most of the colour in the opening sequence is black and white but when the photos are being shown being developed when the colour changes to red. The opening sequence is in a montage format with a various different edits. Some are straight cuts and some cross fades or fade to black. The fading gives the effect of the clips being linked together and creates an eerie feel, and the fade to black reflects the sincerity and darkness of the overall film.

Genera psychological thriller

Genre psychological thriller

Techniques used

• Low Key Lighting - In psychological thrillers low key lighting is used to unsettle the      viewer  when watching this film. This could be by ether the low key lighting affecting the way we are able to see the character or to hide parts of the setting. The low key lighting on the character could distort what we are able to see of them by hiding large parts of their body or by hiding features on their face which would unsettle the viewers.

 

• Confined spaces -  In psychological thrillers confined spaces are used in films a lot, to scare the audience and also to make them feel  uncomfortable and give the idea of insecurity to an audience when watching the film. This is used as any phobia is aimed to make the audience members to feel insecurity about the things that they dread. (E.g. Bats, the dark, heights, falling) The use of confined spaces could also be used to make the audience feel sympathy to ward a character in the film if it is known that they are scared of confined spaces but also help to play on the audiences fears as with it been confined spaces could make the audience feel that they a re a lot closer to what is going on and that they could be right there. This is shown in the film 127 hours as the use of the confined space more graphic and scary knowing that there is very little chance to escape.

• Shadows - While shadows are closely linked with low key lighting in pyschological thriller. They are used to show a sense of danger and to the story and can make the audience feel scared and vulnerable, as quite often we only see the killers shadow and often we see the murder happen in shadows. We also know that the often things can be hidden in the shadows and make it hard to see things.

 

• Time -  Time is often used in pyschological thriller as we often see flash backs and dreams about what has happened to make the character who they are today and or why they are  acting the way they do.

 

• colour - There often is uses of black and white in pyschological thriller as well as the colour of red as this is the colour of blood and the use of this against the black and white would make it stand out more, but also red is the colour of danger, violence and evil. This also helps create an unsettling atmosphere and cna help to build tension.

pyschological thriller often focus on the antagonist mind using a first person narrative to give us an inside luck on how our antagonist ticks. The use of what is real or not is quite often used . This can intise the view it pay attention and to make they try to figure out what is real and what is not, however if this is not done correctly it can often leave the  viewers are left confused. The characters often doubt who they are or what they arte meant to be doing with there life.

 

Tarot Card meanings 2

All together there are ten of these cards with the flowers on them. on each card the number of flowers increases until the number of flowers reaches 10. We will use these cards in our film to show what kill of the murders the killer has achieved.

All together there are 10 of these cars with the first 2 with different symbols to the other 8. As you go through the cards the number of symbols on the cards increases. We will use these cards in our film to show how many people will die in the way the killer has decided

The tarot card meaning for murders

Tarot card Meanings

we are using this card to represent that a male will be killed

 We are using this card to represent torture

we will use this card represents the person burning to death

We will use this card to represent a woman beaning killed

We are using this card to represent the person beaning beheaded

 This would represent death

 This card would  be used to represent the murder victim beaning mummy fide or buried alive

Similar Film Research

The Others (Spanish; Los Otros) 2001

The Others is a 2001 horror-thriller film, distributed by Warner Bros. and Dimension films.
Grace Stewart is a devout Catholic, who lives in a house in the country, with her two young children, Anne and Nicholas. The film is set in the aftermath of World War Two. The two young children suffer from a rare disease, photosensitivity, which means all the curtains have to be shut. Three servants also live in the house, who claim to know it well, because they've worked at the house before. Grace starts to fear that they are not alone, when Anne starts drawing pictures of a man, woman, a boy called Victor, and an old woman. It is revealed that Grace killed her children in a mad act of psychosis, and when she realised what she had done, she killed herself too. However, when she "woke", she thought God had given them a second chance at life, however, she is in fact just deceased.

The older man and woman are the current residents of the house, and the little girl is a ghost, who isn't aware she is dead. The old woman is the Medium, who tells Anne that she is no longer living.




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Session 9 (2001)

Session 9 is an independent psychological horror film, by USA Films and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film takes place around the Danvers State Mental Hospital, which was abandoned in 1985. A group of people from a small company, ran by Gordon Fleming, need work and accept a job to clear out the abandoned mental hospital of asbestos. They only have one week to complete the job. The team all have problems of some kind, Mike is a law school dropout, Phil is filled with bitterness because he lost his long term girlfriend, to another member of the team, Hank, who taunts Phil about it. Phil ends up starting to smoke marijuana. The final member of the team, Jeff, who is Gordon's nephew, suffers from severe nyctophobia, which is an extreme fear of the dark. When they are working at the hospital, Mike finds a box, labelled 'Evidence', in a tunnel. In the box are a collection of taped sessions with a former patient of the mental hospital, Mary Hobbes. The patient suffered from multiple personality disorder, two of which are harmless and childlike, however the final personality, named Simon, is one the other personalities never wish to talk about.

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American thriller film, distributed by Orion Pictures. The film combines a mixture of crime and horror genres. The film focuses around Clarice Starling is pulled from her FBI Academy training. He assigns her to interview Hannibal Lecter. She travels to Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.


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Panic Room (2002)

Panic Room is a 2002 American thriller film, distributed by Columbia Pictures. Meg Altman, a recently divorced woman and her eleven year old daughter, Sarah, buy a new house in the Upper West Side of New York. The previous owner of the house had installed a panic room, to protect the residents of the house from intruders. The panic room is made of steel and concrete, and has security cameras and a phone line, that is seperate from other phone lines in the house. The night Meg and Sarah move into the house, three people, one being the grandson of the previous owner, decide to break in, looking for three million, that is hidden in a floor safe in the panic room. Despite the fact the house is not empty, they decide to continue with their robbery anyway. Meg wakes up and realises that they are being robbed, when she sees them on the security camera. She and her daughter run into the panic room, and the three intruders try to break into it, using gas. The intruders end up leaving the house with twenty-two million dollars, that was found inside the panic room.
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Final Story (full)

·      Tarot cards – killer plays

·      Phone call

·      Killed/murder – related to cards

·      Killer is anonymous

·      Shot of the killers back and cards on the table.

·      Flashback of something that happened in the childhood to make him sinister

·      Picks up the phone, rings a police officer tells him, ‘’I’m going to play a game and people will get hurt’’.

·      Shot back to killers back and then see him pick a card.

·      Titles then role.

·      Person who gets killed walks into their house and sees the chosen card on the side/table.

·      Picks up the card and chucks it back on the side/table.

·      Goes out through back door to bin

·      Makes cup of tea and then goes up stairs. (see bedroom door close)

·      Killer comes in house and poison’s cup of tea.

·      Leaves the card and exits through the back door

·      Phones the cop to tell him the location of the murder and that he must hurry.

·      The killer ends the phone call and the cop then rushes out of the station

·      The woman then comes back downstairs and takes a drink of the tea.

·      She then drops the cup just as the cop arrives at the house

·      He checks the front door and it is locked. 

·      The cop then goes through the garden gate and finds that the back door is open.

·      He goes through the door and finds the woman dead on the floor.

·      The cop then call backup and then exits the house and stands on the front.

·      When the back up arrives the cop’s phone rings again

·      The killer tells the cop another location and that someone else will die

·      The cop then rushes to the second location but again it is too late.

·      This happens multiple times through the film until the killer tells the cop that the next location will be the station he works in.

·      At this point the cop rushes around the station to find where the murder will happen

·      The cop finds the killer

·      The killer runs

·      The cop then chases the killer out of the station

·      The cop finally catches the killer and finds that it was his ex partner.

·      He is arrested and the cop then goes back to his daily life.

Research into genre

This is my powerpoint on research into Psychological Thriller

Shot list

Shot List For First 3 Minuets

1.     Medium long shot – of back of the killer the killer sat at a table with cards in a dark room.

2.     Medium close up – of the cards lying on the table (over killers Shoulder).

3.     Close up – of the killers hand turning the first card of the deck triggering flash back (crash scene)

4.     Medium shot – of the killer reaching out and picking up a phone