Draft Of Our Survey

Finley, Melissa, Jacob and I have created a survey to give us an insight on what we want to include when we have to create an opening of a thriller ourselves.
Obviously we will be making some changes to the questions, making it more reliable for our benefits for example we could create tick boxes for the first two questions. We could add bigger spaces for comments in this would help us find out what everyone else thinks of the opening of thrillers and what we could use to help us with ours. Also if you have any other suggestions as to more questions we could add then please feel free to comment on this post. This would be really beneficial for us so please feel free to comment and add your own input in to it.

Our Survey

If people don't mind would you please take a few moments to answer our survey,
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dHdsVlBCZEZIaDJuc1VlNng1RjNicWc6MQ#gid=0

Codes And Conventions Of A Thriller

Thriller are types of films that are known to promote intense excitement, great suspense and high levels of anticipation. A genuine Thriller is a film is a film that provides thrills and keeps the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats'. The tensions often arise when the protagonists are placed in frightening situations, or an escape or dangerous mission from which seems impossible. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or outside forces.

Codes and Conventions

Here are a few things most Thriller films will include to give the extra effect ;mirrors, low key lighting, shadows, obtrusive editing, quick cuts, use of different camera angles, high tensions music, flashbacks, use of photographs, black and white, montage editing, disorientation.

• Mirrors are used to portray the reflection of one's soul and inner self it could also foreshadow the darkness within certain characters.
• Shadows add darkness within inner beings and can create tension and eeriness, this connotes the idea of unknown circumstances and unknown answers.
• Obtrusive editing are used frequently in thrillers to create the feeling of suspense and tension, they are often used in a particular 'thrilling scene' sometimes creating a disorientation of space and time.
• Flashbacks often display what has happened in the past to give the audience and insight into the protagonists lives.
• Black and white is often used to accentuate the use of shadows and often makes the thriller eerie and dark.
• Twist is a common factor of a thriller by adding the element of surprise the audience can recognise the film as thriller this connotes fear playing on uncommon fears for example 'being afraid of the unknown'

Mise-en-scene

Thrillers are normally located in dark and eerie places, mainly in dark alleys and dark, neglected buildings. This is done to create suspense and tensions so the audience does not know what could happen. The props within a thriller play into the scene very well as they can change the mood and story line, depending on what it is and how it is used. A good example of this would be 'Halloween 2' as the killer picks up various items to kill people with. Not only is it props that play a good role in a film but costumes too, they are normally dark this could be because the killer doesn't want to be seen so they hide in the dark shadows. Chases are good for a thriller as it creates tensions a good example of this would be the car chase in Bourne Supremacy.

Hopefully this has given my group and insight on what we should include in our thriller opening and that we will take even the tinniest details into considerations.

Our Presentation

Group 2 2012 AS from Media @ CCC on Vimeo.

What do we research?

• Thriller genre
• Sub genre/hybrids
• Codes
• Analyse atleast 5 opening of thrillers
• Title Sequence
• Target Audience 
• Survey for the audience
• Character/plot/themes

Deadlines

Deadlines

• Research-19th October
• Continuity Task-19th November
• Planning/Animatic-19th December

Glossary

Diegesis: The diegesis includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that surround them, including things, actions, and attitudes not necessarily presented in the film but inferred by the audience. The audience constructs a diegetic world from the material that is presented within a narrative film.

Editing: The joining together of clips of film into a single shot. The cut is a simple edit but there are many other ways to transition one shot to another.

Focus: It refers to the degree to which light rays coming from any part of an object pass through the lens and reconverge at the same point on the frame. This creates sharp outlines and distinct texture that match the original.

Mise En Scene: All the things that are put into a frame; the setting, the decor, the lighting, the costumes, the performance etc. 

Three Point Lighting: The standard lighting scheme for classical narrative cinema. In order to model an actor's face with a sense of depth, light from three directions is used just like in the diagram below.

The back light picks out the subject from its background, a bright key light highlights the object and the fill light from the opposite side helps make sure that the key light only casts faint shadows.

Shot Reverse Shot: Two or more shots edited together that alternate characters, typically in a conversation situation. In continuity editing. Over the shoulder framing are common in shot reverse shot editing.