THRILLER OPENINGS

THRILLER OPENINGS

"BRICK"

Within the opening of this thriller piece, blue  is the prominent colour. This demonstrates the idea of  an empathic film meaning that the colour used can give off a certain feeling. In this case and most commonly the colour blue is used to represent both sadness and depression.( eg feeling blue) This is not a common factor in thrillers but is a very clever way of presenting a certain mood and helping the audience to understand the emotion they are meant to feel during the thriller. More so, using a gloomy beginning and death helps to keep the audience attracted and more questions unanswered . This thriller shows that colour can be very helpful during a certain representation sending subliminal messages, by promoting a particular emotion through colour.

"ZODIAC"

In most thriller its a very rare thing to use a lot of dialogue and causes the audience to become very tired of what's happening as rather than watching it as a way of using your own imagination to question what happens next, the fun of a thriller is to give the audience a way of drawing up there own conclusion. Dialogue gives away too much information . In this case this thriller uses a good use of monotone with a voice over. He speaks in an abrupt tone telling the audience his not happy, By not only the tone but the accent gives us a sense of where the mise- en- scene is set. Once the trailer carries on it shows us the dusty deserted and isolated western part of america. 

On that point once the trailer carries on the antagonist in which case is the policeman is arresting the protagonist ( the criminal) which represents the typical line that the authority figure has power over someone of a lower standard. Although once the trailer comes towards the end it shows that the authority figure becomes powerless as the protagonist has killed him this in which case deceives the audience. In which stuns the audience as the criminal is committing the murder at ease and in such a way that he has occupied such a murder before , this leaves the audience hung in a way as a cliffhanger and leaves various questions to be answered.

HOW TO FILM A THRILLER

EVALUATION QUESTION 7

Titles thriller examples

TITLE SEQUENCE (THRILLER EXAMPLES)

A title sequence is a method by which films or television programmes present their title, key production , cast members , or both, utilizing conception visuals and sound which are followed by superimposed text known as the opening credits. within a title sequence it has to include a variation of the following elements production company music and logo.

Se7en




The opening title sequence to the film se7en to an extent is graphical  in some places to the fact it include quite ghastly images like the blood, but not revealing much detail but blood, images of people in a prison like theme with letters . creates a questionable scene as the images are not presented quickly but just quick snippets of what they wants us to see and this therefore sets the overall theme for the rest of the film. You can clearly establish that the film is a thriller genre as it represents "thrill". The questionable image this film gives us is vastly important as it makes the potential viewers drawn to the entering cliffhanger. This also helped by the presentation of the title and the text given through out , just as much as the importance of the sound carried out through out  the scene. The difference between  this filmj and other films is clearly demonstrated by the simple fact it does not include a studio ident.

Panic Room



The opening scene of this thriller is clearly set in New York. There is clear use of panning shots and overhead shots to emphasise the effect of the height of the buildings this clearly demonstrates from the name of the thriller the large variety of building opens up the option of where the "panic  room " is and that an important thin g . There is a good use of sound whilst the title sequence and other titles are shown . Unfortunately this don't give much suspense or a cliffhanger to keep your eyes on the film although the use of no great detail or no cliffhanger gives even more suspicion in what this film is about.

EVALUATION QUESTION 6

EVALUATION QUESTION 6 

Final Media product

EDITING 1

This here is me and Abbie putting our separate clips that we have recorded for a our film together to see if they fit together appropriately using the help from premier pro to achieve to the best of our ability. Unfortunately this editing did not reach the requirements that we needed to reach in order to make our thriller piece representable. This was due to simple mistakes such as the sound used to cover to initial piece which was really unfortunate. On the other hand one editing and using music rather than sound effects it improved the original idea altogether bring our thriller piece to a better grade. 

Our first take of editing