Kyle Cooper

     Kyle Cooper is a director and designer of title sequences for movies and games. Throughout his career, he has directed  one hunderd and eighty four title sequences and has founded two design companies, Imaginary Forces and in an attempt to scale back his operation so that he could be more involved in the creative process, Prologue Films. Titles he has worked on in his career include 'SE7EN', 'Arlington Road', 'The Mummy' and 'Mission: Impossible'. The movie 'SE7EN' quickly established Cooper as one of the best title designers in Hollywood. He sites Saul Bass and Stephen Frankfurt (To Kill A Mockingbird) as his primary influences.

Thriller Idea 1

Jurassic Park (1993)

By looking at the poster for Jurassic park, it is relatively easy to tell what kind of audience the movie is going to appeal to. It is a simple design, a black background with the contrasting 'Jurassic Park' logo outlined in yellow. The logo itself is pretty much what gives the game away for this particular poster. There is a red circle with the black silhouettes of a jungle or rain forest of some kind at the bottom and of course the skeleton of a roaring Tyrannosaurus Rex. This design is one that is likely to appeal to a wide, slightly younger male audience, including (but not limited to) six year olds to late twenties.

Thriller

A Thriller is a genre of film that by definition contain some form of exitement, suspense, anxiety or uncirtainty. The objective of a thriller lies within the name, it's purpouse is to provide the audience with a series of 'thrills'. Usually in a thriller there is a main character who is put into a dangerous, often life-threataning situation, sometimes because of his own actions, but usually by some powerful outside force or sinister organisation. There are several subgenres of the thriller catagory, some of the most important ones are listed below:

Conspirary Thriller:
     In a conspiracy thriller, the main character is usually being chased by a shadowy government organisation because of something that they unknowingly stumbled upon, or they know a secret that they shouldn't. A classic example of a conspiracy thriller is The Bourne Identity. In this movie, the character (Jason Bourne) is shot and wakes up with no memory of anything that happened before then. It is his mission to find out what happened, why the government wants him dead and who he really is. In this sequence, he escapes from a swiss bank using his skills as a trained assassin.


Political Thriller:
     A Political thriller is a thriller that deals with various political scenarios, scandals and disasters. Especially with this particular form of thriller, the movie generated is often based on a true story, and are often closely linked or intertwined with the conspiracy element. Assasination is a popular subject for political thrillers, as in 'The Jackal'. Bruce Willis stars as an assassin known as The Jackal, whose assigned target is the first lady (unbeknownst by the viewer until the movie's climax). It is the job of the FBI and a reluctant former IRA sharpshooter to stop him. In this scene, the jackal is given his target.

Espionage Thriller:
     An espionage thriller, or more commonly a spy film Most espionage thrillers tend to follow a very similar pattern.


Psycological Thriller:


Techno Thriller:



Supernatural Thriller:

Preliminary Task Reflection

For our prelim task we shot in the studio, the set being a single room with two windows and a door to the left of the camera (in keeping with the 180 degree rule). During the shoot, I mostly operated the camera whilst Richard directed and Shane kept record of continuity (the original idea being to rotate roles, but proved to be too complicated). As well as filming the required material, we also filmed an additional sequence including myself and Richard as actors. During the time we spent in the studio I learned much about the operation of the camera, as I was behind it for the majority of the shoot. For the main task, we bought in two actors (Charlie, Shane) so that Richard other Shane and myself could always be behind the camera, making the process of directing, filming and continuity much easier. In terms of the script, we had the actors repeat the scene as closely as they could from different angles (we only had one camera). The list of different shots on the storyboard seemed colossal before the shoot commenced, but most of them turned out to be the same shot, and would have more to do with the way the sequence was to be edited (but that's another story). We went through the process of physically filming it, operating the camera, recording and working out the shots with relative ease, the hard part was positioning the actors, as no matter how much tape we put down, the positions of their bodies and the way they held themselves was always different. Once we had copleted our preliminary task, there was some time left over, so we made a short sequence in which we explored close up shots, low angle and different types of camera movement, although our actors had left at this point.