Ewelina Rusek: Assignment 2
Film Research
There is an erie mood because of the darker tones in the film.
FBI trainee Clarice Sterling. The FBI is portrayed as powerful because of her strong character role.
Suspenseful, investigational photographs.
Dark, suspenseful environments.
Piercing glares are found throughout the movie. Creates suspense and fear.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter wears white. This initiates more fear in the audience because of the "white coat effect."
"It take's a psychopath to know another." Hannibal Lecter helps FBI agent Clarice Starling investigate the case of Buffalo Bill.
Buffalo Bill traps a young woman.
Essay
Silence of the Lambs is a crime-thriller film released in 1991 starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, and Ted Levine. The film's storyline follows Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), an FBI trainee at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, working under the leadership of Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) in the Behavioral Science Unit. Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) is a former psychiatrist and a cannibalistic serial killer that is imprisoned under maximum security isolation. Since "it takes a psychopath to know another," Crawford asks Clarice Starling to question Dr. Hannibal Lecter in order to find answers about Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine), a serial killer who skins his female victim's. He is a tailor, and uses the skin of his victims to make a female "suit" for himself.
Words to Idea + Thesis Statement
Silence of the Lambs is a dark, suspenseful, crime-thriller film that features disturbing ideas and actions of strong character leads.
Words: Dark, Suspenseful, Crime, Thriller, Disturbing.
Visual Research (Inspiration Board/Collection)
Exploration/Formulation (Style Board/Examples/Studies)
Type study (on found motion footage).
Exploration/Formulation (Motion Tests)
Story Board
Sequence begins in complete darkness
Sequence begins with the light of the sewing machine turning on
Blurred lights... camera scans down, following blurred lights
Type is introduced with the blurred lights, and follows their movement upwards and off of the screen
Director type introduced
Transition - flash of light
Transition - flash of light
Blurred quality of the sequence represents the unclarity and suspicion that takes place during the film
Camera scans downward
Focus gets clearer
Show clips of different angles of the sewing machine...
Title of film appears at the end