A typical Thriller film tends to involve things such as;
- Close up shots – e.g greatly used in the film SE7EN – to build suspense and mystery at the beginning
- Long shots - are used to show the audience the mise en scene or where the action is or will be taking place throughout the film
- Follower shot - (hand held camera)
- Tracking and Panning shots -commonly used in the beginning of the thriller film – e.g a group of people that we as an audience should be interested in or take note of
- Jump cuts – are common in thriller films usually used when multiple things are happening at once, the jump cuts allow audiences to make assumptions of what the story will be like. The cutting rate (long or shortness of the cut) builds a miniature climax of the introduction therefore fitting to the genre
- Dark settings/scenes – lighting is a key aspect of films, thriller in particular as it sets the atmosphere and the tone of the scene
- Not to be too graphic (Horror genre is far more graphic)
- Credits - done over a black screen
- Non diegetic music playing in the background – creating a sound bridge to create a certain atmosphere. Silence and sonic exaggeration are two techniques that can be used to build tension, which is a major convention for thriller films
OBSESSION, the film opening that Sarah and I produced fit to some these conventions, here are some screen grabs from my film which give evidence of this...
Because our film opening has the typical conventions of a thriller film, there is an immediate interest for a target audience that enjoy this genre. However to make our film a little different to other thriller films, Sarah and I challenged some of the typical conventions and invented our own. This involves things such as part of the filming done in school and having a younger age for the actors (generally in thriller films the age ranges from 18+) and our actors are clearly still in school. We hoped this would attract an audience because of its dissimilarity.
No comments:
Post a Comment