EVALUATION QUESTION 1

AUXILIUM VS NIGHTCRAWLERAUXILIUM

• The crime/thriller sequence. Telling a story of a innocent man, who was accused for three women murder and sent to jail due to corrupted women inspector.

NIGHTCRAWLER

• American thriller, released in 2014. A common theme in the film is the symbiotic relationship between unethical journalism and consumer demand.

COMPARISON

THE LOCATION IN THESE MOVIES ARE SIMILAR. IT TOOK PLACE IN INTERROGATION ROOM. THIS MID SHOT IS USED IN BOTH OF THE THRILLERS TO INTRODUCE CHARACTERS AND TO SHOW THE LOCATION. THE SETTINGS IN NIGHTCRAWLER ARE SAME, HOWEVER THE LIGHTING IS FERLY DIFFERENT. IT IS DARKER AND HAS BLUE COLORED TONE. IT IS A CONNOTATION OF DARKNESS AND COLD. IN OUR THRILLER WE DID NOT USE ANY SPECIAL LIGHTING EFFECTS TO MAKE IT LOOK MORE REALISTIC AND NATURAL.

SHOTSIn Nightcrawler interrogation scene a major part of shots used are the same as in Auxilium. During a conversation we used a lot of shot to shot cutting. Also we used an over the shoulder shots. Because in this scene particularly the reactions of person, to what they are told, is very important.

AUXILIUM VS THE FALL

THE FALLThe Fall is a British-Irish crime drama television series. In this series there is a scene in which main character is interviewed by an inspector and get angry. He beats an inspector and get carried out by two other policemen.

This scene is very similar to opening sequence of my thriller. It has same characters, setting, location and actions.

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF MAIN CHARACTER IN AUXILIUM ARE EMPHASIZED BY USING A CLOSE UP OF FACE. THIS SHOTS MAKE IT EASIER TO SEE THE CHANGE IN THE EMOTIONAL STATE OF THE CHARACTER. IT IS SEEN THAT CHARACTERS MOVEMENTS CLAIM DIFFERENT EMOTIONS IN EVERY SHOT. FIRSTLY HE IS FED TO THE TEETH, AFTERWARDS HE STARTS TO WORRY MORE AND AT THE END HE GETS ANGRY.

IN THE FALL MAIN CHARACTERS EMOTIONS ARE ALSO SHOWED BY FILMING CLOSE UPS OF HIM. THE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS DIFFER IN THE SAME WAY AS IN THE AUXILIUM. MAIN CHARACTER IS GETTING ANGRY GRADUALLY.

The ending of this scenes are also similar. The character can not control their emotions and tries to attack inspector. Other policemen take the criminal out of the room.However, as well as similarities there are some differences in this ending. Firstly, in The Fall there is more policemen. Also the criminal tries actually to defend him self. In addition, at the scene before that, character from The Fall beats up a woman inspector. All this actions were used to show that this character could actually commit a crime. The reason why in Auxilium we did not used that fight scene is that we tried to show that our male character is actually innocent.

AUXILIUM VS THE FALL AND NIGHTCRAWLER

SHOT DURATIONIn Auxilium opening scene during the conversation every shot lasts approximately for 4-7 seconds. The length also depends. on the length of sentences the character is saying. The two last scenes there main character stands up fastly, the shot duration is longer to make audience recognize his emotions during that action. Also the last shot of the inspector is lasting longer the reason for that was to show that she is calm and not effected by the unexpected criminals behavior. It emphasizes that she is more powerful and wins this scene.Shot duration in The Fall is exactly the same as in Auxilium. Only in the ending it gets shorter. It is reduced from 6sec to approximately 1-2 sec. It was used for action part, to show the speed of the fighting scene.In contrast to The Fall and Auxilium, Nightcrawler interrogation scene has longer shots. Every shot lasts for 6-12 seconds.

PACE AND EFFECTS

In Auxilium and Nightcrawler the pace is slow and do not change over the scene. The slow pace is needed to make audience concentrate on what characters are saying not what they are doing. In these scene it is important because not much action are included there. However, in The Fall interrogation scene the pace is changing over the time. It starts the same as in Auxilium but gets faster as the criminal gets annoyed, when he attacks inspector the pace is extremely fast. It was used to show how impulsive character is. In my thriller we did not do it because it would doubt that male character is innocent. In all of the three interview scenes there is no transitions or any effects.