PAST AS MEDIA STUDENTS

Past AS media studies Thriller starters

HIDDEN


 I personally thought that hidden was the worst of the 5 thrillers we have observed as there was various contributions in why this thriller starter did not meet the criteria. Firstly , as shown when the opening of the clip begins the lighting of the area is too dark this causes problems for the audience when looking for things like clues that may be a track to the rest of the initial storyline.Followed by the basic idea that an area being dark causes just overall trouble for the audience and not being able to see what's going on very clearly mean there is not much attraction from the view of the audience. With no clear idea of what's going on means the attraction of the audience will be lost and  would make the whole idea of the thriller pointless.

POWER CUT


In addition , i found power cut the second worst thriller opening of the media films and did also not meet the criteria that was given. This was due to a number of different reasons this includes. The effect of the black and white theme used throughout. The reason this made the whole idea and effect pointless is because there was no need for this theme to be there, in fact it didn't tie in to the structure of film at all and is confusing to the audience of why its there. More so,the idea of the black and white theme is normally used to present something happening in past or a long time ago. Furthermore the whole building up idea was too long and by the end of the introduction was very bored and confused in what effect i was supposed to get.

AFTER EIGHT 
                                                                             
On the other hand i found this thriller more entertaining than the other thriller followed by the fact that the thriller had features in which matched the idea of the thriller genre and showed clear comparison with the two previous thrillers. Although there are small misprints within this thriller as the opening of this thriller begins with a thriller like atmosphere but end with the impression of a horror film especially the detail of the mallet as this demonstrates a more graphic outlook. Furthermore the scene is set in a house so the mise en scene was chosen very well including the correct shots for the right moments this gave a very thriller like effect . More so the sound was accurate and parallel as it matched the current action presented on the screen, which is important for the right effect in a thriller.

HUNTER



I believe that this thriller was by far the best of the for thriller in fact there was not much to say bad about it . The only flaw i found was the acting during the interview was to an extent unrealistic. Although i found that the mise en scene , the sound the camera angles tht were constructed matched the plot very accurately. Including the age group this was chosen very well making it more open to a a wider audience. On the other hand no female characters were really shown apart from the women on the desk which shows a typical patriarchal society.