ideas for loacation of filming

These photographs show the scene's from the forest and the photography dark room that we will be using when we film are thriller opening.

Practicalities of colour in our thriller opening

The use of colour is a pretty major thing in a film, for example;

• The colour of someones clothes gives a clue to their personality.
• The colour of the surroundings gives clues to the time of day it is and the time of year, for example, bright = summer.

The practicalities of the use of colour in our film are as follows:

• We want out sequence to be dark and kinda night-time ish, but not completely night time, and we aren't able to film the sequence at night time, but as the outside sequence is in a forestry area, the trees will make it darker in there in anyway, also there is a thing we can do with the editing called "day to night" this makes it look darker, although sometimes you can still tell that it was filmed during the day time. There is nothing we can do to help this situation, we will just have to make do.
• Also, the stalker needs to be in dark clothes, this adds to the suspense and mystery in the opening. Noone in the film will be wearing any bright and colourful clothes, as bright and colourful is linked with happiness, and this is not meant to be a happy film.
  

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Julia Roberts goes into hiding when her husband turns into a violent maniac, and of course he tracks her down in this dated but entertaining '90s flick. Patrick Bergin nails the psycho ex-husband role, and is one of the best you’ll see in any stalker movie.

Influences

The following films are about stalking, we have took ideas from some of them, and others of them we feel have included good ideas about the stalking theme.

1. Fatal Attraction (1987)

Glenn Close personifies crazy in this jilted-lover thriller about a married man (Michael Douglas) who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end. Her obsession escalates from stalking to kidnapping and attempted murder before a final showdown with Douglas' wife. If there was ever a convincing case in film for men to stay faithful, this is it.

2. The Fan (1996)

This psychological thriller starring Robert DeNiro and Wesley Snipes explores the obsessive dedication of certain sports fanatics - in this case, baseball. De Niro's character grows increasingly disturbed throughout the film, as his favorite player's performance spirals downward and his own life follows suit. Once people start dying, however, the game appears to be over. Or is it just getting started?

3. One Hour Photo (2002)

What makes this stalker flick super creepy is the fact that bad guy Robin Williams finally plays totally against type, shocking the viewer into devoted belief in his lonely photo-shop employee who grows ever more jealous of one particular family’s seemingly perfect lifestyle (as he sees it through their pictures). Pushed over the edge after he is accused of theft, the four-eyed photobug decides to tear the family apart.

The three films we included in this all include a storyline with stalking themes.

http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/film/article/top-10-stalker-films-70201

Jill dando

Television presenter Jill Dando was killed by a celebrity-obsessed loner who stalked women, the Old Bailey heard today.

Barry George approached women in the area of west London where he and Miss Dando lived and tried to find out their addresses, it was alleged.

He had a fixation with celebrities and lived out his fantasy by pretending to be Queen singer Freddie Mercury's cousin, the court was told.

Miss Dando, 37, was shot in the head at close range as she arrived at her home in Gowan Avenue, Fulham, west London, in April 1999.

She had become one of the best known people on television, presenting the BBC news, Crimewatch and the Holiday programme.

George, 48, of Fulham, who was first tried for her killing in 2001, is facing a retrial. He denies murder.

Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said Miss Dando's death was the result of the actions of "a loner, a man acting alone with no rational motive to kill".

He added: "If she had been stalked in the Fulham area then she was not aware of it and she had certainly not been the target of any sort of sustained hate campaign."

The judge, Mr Justice Griffith Williams, told the eight women and four men on the jury that they should try the case only on the evidence they would hear in court.

George, wearing a blue shirt and tie, sat in the dock with clinical psychologist Dr Susan Young by his side.

The judge said: "The defendant suffers from epilepsy and has psychological problems which may make it difficult for him to follow the proceedings. She is there to assist him in that regard."

Mr Laidlaw said Weston-super-Mare-born Miss Dando was in a settled relationship and had been due to marry doctor Alan Farthing in September 1999.

He said George lived a few streets away from her, had a history of complex medical problems and had told police he had a "personality disorder".

Mr Laidlaw said: "He had a fixation with the famous and with celebrities.

"For many years he lived out the fantasy by calling himself after, and adopting the names of, various entertainers.

"He had pretended to be an SAS soldier and in the years immediately before Miss Dando's death he was pretending to be Freddie Mercury's cousin.

"The defendant appears also to have had a fascination with female TV personalities.

"He took photographs of female news presenters on his television and he had the names of numerous female celebrities written down on pieces of paper and lists at his home.

"His interest extended to the BBC. He would hang around the BBC offices at White City, had BBC cards in his possession and obtained numerous copies of Ariel, the BBC's staff publication.

"There was also an occasion when the defendant had expressed a dislike of the BBC because of the way he thought the organisation had treated his cousin, Freddie Mercury, as he described him."

Mr Laidlaw told the court George had allegedly taken hundreds of pictures of women.

He said: "There is another aspect to the defendant's obsessions and arising from his behaviour, which is of considerable relevance to Miss Dando's murder and in particular to how that was carried out.

"Over the course of many years the defendant, particularly but not exclusively in the area of Fulham, would approach women, engage them in conversation and then seek to discover where they lived and the vehicles they drove.

"He also took many hundreds of of photographs of women.

"Some of the witnesses provide evidence that Barry George, having discovered where they lived, also spent time waiting in the area of and observing their addresses.

"On occasions, that he was present outside watching when they arrived back at their homes.

"One in particular was entirely unaware of the defendant's interest in her until a document containing directions to her home was recovered at the defendant's address after his arrest."

Mr Laidlaw said the "obsessive aspects" of George's behaviour might provide clues to Miss Dando's death.

He added: "These provide a reason why he might have had an interest in Jill Dando and why he might have formed some irrational plan to kill her.

"They raise the question: had the defendant's fascination with female presenters, combined with Jill Dando's link with the BBC, and his belief that that organisation had treated Freddie Mercury badly, resulted in this irrational plan to kill?"

We used inspiration from the real life tragedy where celebrity Jill Dando killed by a stalker

feedback

- costume for stalker: dark dirty maybe some overalls
- non linear structure is good.
- maybe the dead body should be the last shot? - with shots following the stalker to the body?

Things from feedback, we are considering to change:
- we are considering putting the body shot at the end of the sequence to add to suspense, and wondering what all the police are investigating and what the stalker is doing with all the photos.
- one of the members of our group is able to get some overalls for the stalker to wear.
- we are keeping the structure non linear, although having the body at the end of the sequence makes it a bit more linear than our original idea.
- we're not sure about filming the person walking up to the body, because we want it to be more of a suspense, if you see the person walking up to the body it doesn't create the same atmosphere that we intend on creating, we are however, considering seeing the body and the seeing the stalker through the trees in the distance, as from a distance you wont see the exact identity of the stalker, so it's still a mystery.

Marking of student film - Negative

We thought that this opening thriller scene deserved a level 3.
We thought the camera work done well but occasionally was not steady this is one of the reasons why we didn't give the opening a level 4, although we thought the mise - en - scene was done well as the objects and costume were appropriate.

Now we have seen the marking criteria for the opening sequence we now know how to make our opening sequence to get the highest mark:
We will use mise-en-scene appropriately and follow the generic conventions of a thriller e.g a villain may wear dark color's or something covering their faces to create mystery.
We will make sure that the musical score creates tension at the right points and links in with the images at that point.We will also make sure that the meaning of the piece is apparent to the viewers.

the Human Factor

I have decided to analyse the opening scene to ‘ Human factor ‘ which was made by Saul Bass. The background colour is a deep red the whole way through which usually gives the impression of danger and violence. The first object you see is a phone which is first unidentified until zoomed out which gives suspense. The phone is hanging off the hook which is unusual and this makes the spectator wonder what’s going on and causes suspense, and the red background contributes to this. Towards the end of the sequence the other end of the phone is shown off the hook and this also adds to suspense as it feels like there is more danger.
The music is quite joyful which doesn’t follow the typical convention of thrillers, although the red background and phone hanging off the hook gives the sequence enough of a thriller feel.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass was born may the 8th in New York City 1920. He began his career in Hollywood doing prink work for film ads, until be collaborated with film maker Otto Preminger to design a film poster for his 1954 film Carmen Jones and soon became very famous for his graphic design and film making although he was best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences when he realised the creative potential of the opening and closing credits of a movie. During his 40 year career he has worked with some of Hollywood’s greatest film makers including Alfred Hitchcock, and Martin Scorsese.
Bass is best known for his title sequence from ‘The man with the golden arm’, and his ‘jet stream’ logo for Continental Airlines, which became the most recognisee airline industry of the 1970’s.

"Genre is in a constant state of flux" (Steve Neale 1981)

- Changing attitudes/idelo

What is genre?

Genre is a way to categorize the types of films

Why is it useful for you as producers of a film to have genres?

- Starting point on conventions - iconography, symbols associated with a genre.

Visual, aural - Narrative, Themes, Characters.

- By having a genre this makes it easier to advertise to the audience - they can know what to expect.

- Based on previous ratings they can make judgements about who their audience is.

Trailers - posters include; Iconography (visual)

Title to narrative & characters giving clues.

Benefits to audience:

Influences your decision to see a film - audience expectations - familiar, recognizable.

The titles such as the names of the people in our group etc will be displayed using type writer style text to echo the crime thriller sub-genre of our sequence. We will do this using the text editor on final cut express

Dark Knight

Batman Dark knight is part of a comic book action trend and has a hybrid genre of action, thriller and romance.

How does it follow genetic conventions?

The opening scene of Batman - Dark Knight follows the conventions of the hybrid very well. There is lots of clouds shown which gives the impression of mystery, and there is also a quick 1 second flash of a unidentified face which also gives the impression of mystery.
The action genre is followed when two of the bad characters jump of a tall building on a wire, this suggests there fearless and are hard to beat.
The thriller genre is followed where the bad characters run in to the bank demanding everyone to get on the floor and put their hands up, this makes the spectator want to know if anyone gets shots and whats going to happen, there is a lot of violence in this scene where people get shot or hurt.

How does it make you feel? and how is this achieved?

The opening scene is very tense and leaves you wanting to know what happens next.
When the bad characters jump out of the building i felt it made me look away, as it seems very dangerous and daring thing to do.

Cape Fear

Water - distorted images layed over ( reflections) - water representing death drowning connotations.
Links with 'cape' water - cape which is prehaps part of the narrative danger in water.
colour red suggests danger
silouette of a man suggest villan with hidden identify.
The eye - a vunriable part of the body suggests horror - fear shows in eyes.
sound - musical score - distirbing in susupence - in combinatioj with images.
slowstringed music - piych low pace increased.

Vertigo

At the begining the close up of pair or lips this may seem quite seductive as the lips are a vey sexual part of the female body.

The female eyes widen and shiftily look from side to side this suggests fear / danger and even more so when the reflection of the colour red are in the eyes.

There are graphical swirls which suggest prehaps hypnotised or confusion or prehaps her point of view - indicating her state of mind.

The name of the film ' Vertigo ' suggests the graphical swirls are a effect of falling ( dizzy ) into darkness at the end.

High pitched orcestra music, gives a tense feel and had a narrative worked on contrast.

You dont see her whole face which suggests a trapped character - and also gives the impression of her being mysterious.

The camera zooms into her eye - taking spectator into her mind. - maybe trapped in her own mind / mental state.

the machinist and what lies beneath

The machinist is a physiological thriller.

Conventions of a thriller

- Crime at the core of the narrative.

- Mystery to the spectator ( enigmas ) - Solved at the end of the film conventionally.

- Suspense -key to a thriller.

- Micro elements - musical score, suspense and tension.
- Low key lighting, adds to mystery / suspense.
- Often oblique / canted angles.
- Distort image, mystery.

Protagonist - ( main character / hero ) and antagonist ( a Villon or force, mainly paranormal working against protagonist.

sub genres and examples

Legal Thriller - ( setting = courthouse ) e.g: The innocent man

Psychological Thriller - The machinist, Strangers on a train

Erotic Thriller - Basic instinct, Fatal Attraction, Based to kill

Spy Thriller - Mission impossible

Conspiracy Thriller - Jfk

Medical Thriller - Awake

Definition of a thriller

A thriller is a book or film which is designed to keep the reader or viewer on edge with suspense and sensational action.

The genre is incredibly large and thrillers often overlap with pieces of work produced within other genres form example mysteries.

Thrillers typically involve sudden plot twists and lots of red herrings, for example keeping unsure about what is going to happen.

examples of popular thrillers

Taken

Seven

Batman films

Bourne Trilogy

Momento - non linear narrative

Final destination

White noise

What lies beneath

Disturbia - (rear window (Hitchcock)

Thriller title

we have decided on using a one word title for our movie as this has more effect than a long title which intrigues the audience as to how the film will relate to the word.
We have considered a number of words which could link with the theme of the sequence, such as the mental state of stalker, e.g Paranoia, Fixation, Delirium, Affliction
we have decided on using Fixation as we feel this sums up the themes narrative and characters of the movie

Idea for film.

Entire film.
Narrative:
A local celebrity has got a stalker, and she gets killed, and there's an investigation to find out who the killer is... Throughout the film, there are clues as to who the stalker could be, many people are in the frame, however, you don't find out who the killer is until the end of the film.
Characters: victim, murdered/stalker, police officers.
Atmosphere: spooky, eerie atmosphere.
Sub genre: crime and psychological thriller.
Title: Fixation.

Opening Sequence.
Shot list:
1. Establishing shot - Long shot of the dead body in the forest
2. Over the shoulder shot - stalker in the photo room beginning to develop a photograph
3. Shot of the white board in the police investigation.
4. Zoom towards the dead body
5. Low angle from the side of the stalker
6. Police meeting about the crime
Continual flashes between all three locations.

References to the rest of the film
Murder, stalker. The dead body, the police investigation, wanted posters.

Mise-en-scene:
-Setting: forest, the dark room, police investigation room.
-Lighting: dark, low key lighting, no bright light.
-Props: whiteboard, photographs, posters, map
-Costume: police outfit, forensic suit
-Colour: dark, dingy

Sound: Non-diegetic voices, music; eerie - dubbed over the top (non-diegetic)

Camerawork: When seeing the stalker, it'll be over-the-shoulder shots, and shots from behind so that you don't see their face. Zooming to the dead persons face. Low angles of stalker, high angles of the dead person.

Editing: Fast paced, non-chronological, faded transitions,

marking student thriller

Dead runner- P101
We gave this sequence 36 which is a low level3 as most shots in the sequence were relevant however there were a few unclear shots such as the one of chains which made the opening quite confusing as they didn't make sense to the audience. The music went really well with the sequence as it went in time with what was on the screen, slowed down and sped up at the appropriate moments and created a tense atmosphere.
There were also varied shot types, which gave it a more professional feel, aswell as the appropriate use of titles. The sequence also fits the thriller genre well to an extent.

We will use the marking criteria by using appropriate representations of the characters costume, such as dark colours for the villain and light for the protagonist. We will also use varied shot types and angles to convey the role of the character to the audience such as high angles and eye level shots on victim, low angle shots of villain. We will also use shot types to add to atmosphere such as canted angles to create confusion and mystery etc.

research for our thriller

I have researched special effects which are compatible with final cut express and have found a website which we could use to download free special effects to add to our thriller to give more exciting and proffesional finish to the opening sequence.

www.detonationfilms.com

I have also found basic tutorials on youtube as to how to use this software which would allow us to incorparate it in our thriller easily

the human factor

Analysis : The human factor
The atmosphere at the beginning of the sequence is somewhat tense, with the use of acoustic guitar which is reminiscent of western ‘stand off ’music , coupled with the deep red background, which usually symbolises danger. The title sequence seems to create a feeling of confusion for the audience as it is unclear what much of what is on the screen is in some parts and how it links to the film. This is shown by using an extreme close up of the animation of the abandoned telephone as the establishing shot which adds to the confusion and tension as the audience is unsure of what the image is. As the E.C.U zooms out slowly, the identity of the object is left open to interpretation for a while as at some points it looks like a drawing of a pair of binoculars until it zooms out to reveal the phone. The sense of mystery continues as the camera tracks the phone cord, leaving the audience wondering what it leads to, which teamed with the non diagetic music dubbed over the top, creates an atmosphere of slight tension and unease. Links to the title ‘Human factor’ can also be seen here as the phone cord starts to resemble the lines on a heart monitor.
As the sequence progresses the music lightens and takes on a more comical feel as it speeds up and more guitars are added, however this contrasts with the image now being presented, as now the audience can see the full phone animation, which has taken on more chilling connotations as the phone is hanging and has been cut at the end, this adds reinstates the initial tension as phones are usually perceived as a life line, which in this sequence has been severed. The title has been used to separate the phone receiver from the cord, suggesting to the audience the theme of the film which may be to do with some sort of broken communication.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ignl1WwvyiU&feature=related

How the title sequence of "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" reflect the rest of the film

The summary of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

The 'Big W' is four palm trees in a park that form a huge W. The money is buried in the middle. After the money is dug up, the detective arrives and confiscates it. He tells them it will go easier on them if they turn themselves in, and he leaves. However, the detective plans to keepthe money for himself. As he's driving away the others figure this out and chase him. They catch up with him, and the men pursue him into a condemned hotel and onto a rickety fire escape. The suitcase gets dropped and the money blows away in the wind. People on the ground gleefully collect the cash. The men are tossed from the fire escape as it pulls away from the wall, and they end up in the hospital with various injuries. At the very end, the bossy mother marches into the hospital ward yelling. She slips and falls on her fanny and everyone bursts into hysterical laughter.

I don't think that the titles of this film reflect the film. The titles of this film gave me the impression that it would be based on a fare ground or some sort of circus, however, none of this summary mentions anything about a circus. The titles also give me the impression that it's a happy film, but it doesn't sound particularly happy to me.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World analysis

Analysis of the opening sequence of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"

The sound in this sequence is very jolly and happy, it sounds like a kids cartoon song, or a circus or carnival song. Also, there is the sounds of the things that are happening in the sequence, for example, the fireworks, aeroplane and the chicken. The sequence also ends on a loud and defined note.

The first image we are presented with is a man bringing a world onto the screen. The world obviously relates to the title here. The man appears to be cutting himself out of the world suggesting that he doesn't like it here and no longer wants to be here, he starts off cutting himself out slowly and then speeds up, here suggesting that he wants to get out quick. A hand comes down and hammers him back into the world, this suggests that they do not want him to leave, or he is not allowed to leave. The world explodes into two and there is fireworks that write out the title of the film inbetween. The world then changes shape into an egg, and a chicken comes along and sits on it, as the egg/world begins to hatch, the chicken flies off and a cockeral comes out, flying up after the chicken. All of a sudden the egg closes back together and a hand comes down and cracks the egg, almost as if you do when baking a cake. Earlier i said that the music reminded me of a carnival or a fare, and at the fare, they have those games where you have something under a cup and they move the cups round and you guess which cup it's under, when the world is in half, the hands are down moving the two halves around like they are part of a game. The hands then come down again and choose one of the halves, taking part in the game. The halves are then put back together and a pirate-type hat is put on top, and then eyes appear. The "face" is then scooped away by a walking stick. Again here, with the circus theme, you see the world rolling across the screen with feet walking across it, this is the sort of thing that goes on a circuses. The world then comes back across the screen, this time you can see a different pair of feet, and the world had pedals on it, representing a unicycle. It then pops, you see a hand come down and pump it up a bit more, and then it explodes. The world then eats up a plane, that previously flew over and began to brake down. The world is then wound up like a spinning top, and it spins over the screen. And the sequence goes on for about a minute longer.

Watching the opening titles to this sequence i was given the impression that the film would be about something to do with the circus, and it would be a rather happy film. As the title sequence was a cartoon, i would expect the film to be real life people. I am going to read the plot/storyline of this film, and see if i was right about the theme of the film.

Saul Bass; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963, Technicolor American comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. The enseble comedy premiered on November 7, 1963.

In the early 1960s, screenwriter William Rose, then living in the UK, conceived the idea for a film (provisionally titled Something a Little Less Serious) about a comedic chase through Scotland. He sent an outline to Stanley Kramer, who agreed to produce and direct the film. (The working title was subsequently changed to One Damn Thing After Another and It's a Mad World, with Rose and Kramer adding additional Mads to the title as time progressed.)

Although well known for serious films such as Inerit the Wind and Judgement at Nuremburg (both starring Spencer Tracy), Kramer set out to make the ultimate comedy film with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in Cinerama (becoming one of the first Cinerama films originated with one camera), it also had an all-star cast, with dozens of major comedy stars from all eras of cinema making appearances in the film.

The film followed a Hollywood trend in the 1960s of producing "epic" films as a way of wooing audiences away from television and back to movie theaters. Box-office revenues were dropping, so the major studios experimented with a number of gimmicks to attract audiences, including widescreen films.

The title was taken from Thomas Middleton's 1605 comedy, A Mad World My Masters. Kramer considered adding a fifth "mad" to the title before deciding that it would be redundant, but noted in interviews that he later regretted it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Mad,_Mad,_Mad,_Mad_World

Saul Bass research

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences.

During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.

Even before he made his cinematic debut, Bass was a celebrated graphic designer. Born in the Bronx district of New York in 1920 to an emigré furrier and his wife, he was a creative child who drew constantly. Bass studied at the Art Students League in New York and Brooklyn College under Gyorgy Kepes, an Hungarian graphic designer who had worked with László Moholy-Nagy in 1930s Berlin and fled with him to the US. Kepes introduced Bass to Moholy’s Bauhaus style and to Russian Constructivism.

genre

What is genre?
Genre is an easy way to categorize films (type of film).

Why is it useful for you as producers of a film?
Starting point - Conventions - iconography (symbol associated with a genre - visual and oral)




For the industry;

• The existence of genre, makes it easy to target your audience
• Based on previous box office ratings - can make judgments about who the audience is.

Advertisements; Trailers and Posters;

• Iconography (visual)
• Title
• Clues to narrative and character etc.

Benefits to audience;

• Influence your decision to see a film
• Audience expectations
• Familiar/Recognizable

"Genre is in a constant state of flux"
- Steve Neale, 1981

• Pushing boundaries
• Hybrids
• People always want new things
• Technology improvements
• Opinions - ideology
  
• CGI - computer generated image
• Fashions/Trends
• Reflect current times
• Variation - to prevent boredom

Idea of repetition and variation makes genre successful.

The Dark Knight

How does it follow generic conventions? micro and macro elements.
Fast paced at the beginning with the animation to represent the comic book theme.
Lots of different shots and angles to create a faced paced sequence.
Tense music score builds suspense.
Costume; Masks (creates suspense which adds to the characters mystery elements)
There is a protagonist (the man working in the bank) and a antagonist (the joker and his minions)
Sticks to the conventions of a thriller film by having a crime. The crime in this sequence is a bank robbery and murder.
Genres - hybrid; thriller, action, romance, adventure and fantasy.

How does it make you feel? - How does it achieve this? (techniques)
The fact that you can not see there faces and the fact you can not see there mouths move through their masks. This makes us feel on edge and vulnerable as an audience and at the same time it draws us in as we are curious to find out the identity of the characters.
The musical score gradually builds tension within the audience with the use of the slow and eerie backing noise but with a fast paced ticking sound which is reminiscent of a bomb which builds the tensions and links to the action genre of film.
The use of impersonal camera angles denies the audience identification with the villainous characters which creates a sense of mystery and a need to find out who the characters are.

Vertigo, how the open credits reflect the rest of the film

The title sequence reflects the rest of the film with the use of spirals in the close up of the eye, this suggests confusion and dizziness which is a symptom of Vertigo. The use of close ups and extreme close ups on the eye in the title sequence makes the audience feel as if they are actually entering the woman's mind, this reflects the events that follow in the film as the main character gets possessed ( a spirit enters her mind).

Thriller Title Sequences

Cape Fear
Water: - Distorted images, reflections.
- Death/drowning connotations.
- Links 'cape' with water/lake.
- Part of narrative.

Red: Danger, blood drop.

Bird: Predator from low angle - hunter.

Silhouette: Mysterious, villain, hidden identity.

Eyes: Red, negative - danger - victim - vulnerable, horror, shows fear.

Sound: Musical score - disturbing, suspense - in combination with images.
Slow strings - low pitch - pace increased slightly.



Vertigo
Graphic swirls: Confusion - connection to an eye - her point of view - dreams.
State of mind, and effect of falling (dizzy) into darkness.

High pitched orchestral music: had a narrative - worked on contrasts.

Volume of score: Tense/uncomfortable.

Female eyes: Wider - fear/ danger - red.
A trapped character - don't see all of face - mysterious.

Zoom into eye: Taking spectator into her mind - trapped.

Examples Of Thrillers

Thriller sub genres

Action Thriller- work often features a race against the clock, contains lots of violence, and an obvious antagonist eg 'James Bond'

Conspiracy Thriller- In which the hero/heroine confronts a large, powerful group of enemies whose true extent only he/she recognizes, e.g 'JFK'

Crime Thriller- a hybrid type of both crime films and thrillers that offers a suspenseful account of a successful or failed crime or crimes. e.g 'The Killing'

Disaster Thriller- In which the main conflict is due to some sort of natural or artificial disaster, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, etc., or nuclear disasters as an artificial disaster e.g 'Earthquake'

Legal Thriller- In which the lawyer-heroes/heroines confront enemies outside, as well as inside, the courtroom and are in danger of losing not only their cases but their lives e.g 'Innocent Man'

Erotic Thriller- In which it consists of erotica and thriller e.g 'In The Cut'

Political Thriller- In which the hero/heroine must ensure the stability of the government that employs him e.g '7 days in may'

Psychological Thriller- In which (until the often violent resolution) the conflict between the main characters is mental and emotional, rather than physical e.g 'Blue Velvet'

Spy Thriller- In which the hero is generally a government agent who must take violent action against agents of a rival government e.g 'Mission Impossible'

Techno Thriller- In which (typically military) technology is described in detail and made essential to the reader's/viewer's understanding of the plot e.g 'The Hunt For Red October'

Religious Thriller- plot is closely connected to religious objects, institutions and questions. e.g 'Stigmata'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)

Conventions of a Thriller

Crime - for example a murder.


A complex narrative with false paths and enigmas


Suspense (waiting for something to happen) and Tension (when something is happening)
build up - for example a fight scene.


Micro elements - musical score, low key lighting (creates mystery), canted angles (distortion)



Protagonist (the hero, normally the main character) and antagonist (usually the villain or force working against the antagonist)

Preliminary Task