Thriller sub genres which inspire me

A thriller is a book or film which is designed to keep the reader or viewer on edge with suspenseful and sensational action. A thriller includes some of the following sub genres.
Action/adventure thriller, disaster thriller, historical thriller, medical thriller, religious thriller, psychological thriller and many more.
The sub genre which inspires me at the moments is a psychological thriler as it creates alot of suspense through out the films. The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds.
Psychological + Thriller - By combining these two terms, the definition changes to a narrative that makes the characters exposed to danger on a mental level rather than a physical one.
Psychological thriller films:
Lake mungo
Phone Booth
Hide and Seek etc

Intro to camera and health and safety tutorial

Before filming we had to learn how to use a camera. We learnt how to on the camera and put the battery and the memory card inside. we also learnt how to use different functions of the camera, like how to zoom in and out and how to focus while filming also how to place the camera on the tripod.

Technical audit of bait tutorial

During the lesson where we was taught how to use final cut pro, we first practised on other clips. We were old to look at the clips, edit them and create a final clip showing various camera angles and movements. We used match cuts to make the clips flow showing zooms and closeups of faces and objects for e.g the lunch box and the characters in the clips.

No country for old men

Suspense was created right from the beginning of this film by the Cohen brothers as it started with action taking place. The audience could tell straight away who the murderer was as we saw a guy being arrested by a police and as he sits in the police station he gets up and strangles the police men from behind with his handcuffs.

Safety of the Cameras

In the lesson we were introduced to the cameras and about the safety of them. We were taught how to put the battery in the camera, how to put in the memory cards and how to put it on the Tri-pod. We were shown how to put it on focus and how you could change the settings to make the shots look scary. As well as learning about the way the camera should be operated we were also shown and told how we must look after them. We were told to shut the shutter of the camera when we wasn't using it so that it prevents the lense getting dirty. The camera would automatically turn off if its not being used. If its raining the technicians would give an umbrella so that the camera doesn't get wet. Last but not least you should always make sure that everythings working fine before taking them out.

Casino royal

In the title sequence casino royal the style of the writing is really plain, white and simple. The pictures represent gambling, poker, fighting. The use of camera movements create suspense as it zooms into objects like guns and cards. This title sequence appeals to me because it looks a bit like a kaleidoscope because it has loads of different symmetrical patterns of the symbols of cards.

Bait tutorial

In the lesson when we first learned how to use final cut pro we practised using clips of the cafe. We were told to edit them together to create a finishing clip. There were various clips where theres a boy and a man. The storyline was that a poor man comes into the cafe and steals the little boys lunch box. We used match cuts to make the clip flow nicely for e.g we see the man reaching for something and then we get a zoom in of him taking an eaten sandwhich.

Intro to camera &health&safety

Before we started to film our teachers taught us how to use a video camera safely, we learnt how to turn on a camera, put a battery in, eject a battery safely, put in the memory cards, we learnt how to use different functions on the camera s
uch us zoom in & out and change the focus etc we also learnt how to place the camera on the tri-pod and take it off safely.

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No country for old men suspense work

The Cohen brothers use suspense through out the movie to create thriller. The ways they use suspense in the film is that they use various technical elements such as camerawork, sound, lighting, editing etc… The first thing that creates the suspense in the thriller movie is that it has an unexplained plot where there’s a psycho who ends up killing a lot of people and animals for the sake of it, chases a man then finally kills him and carries around an oxygen tank with him throughout. This is an unexplained plot because we don’t really get to know anything about the psycho on why he decides to kill the man even after getting the money and why does he like killing people. This also creates suspense because it’s about a delayed chase sequence and within this sequence others get murdered as well also because we don’t know when the psycho killer is actually going to catch the man or if he’s going to get killed himself. This arouses so many questions in the audiences head already because the killer and victim are so close but yet they’re apart. The audience are kept interested and are drawn in by the continuous suspense throughout the film.

The type of editing that is used is for instance parallel editing is used in one of the scenes where they show two events happening in two different locations both reaching for the same point. We are shown close ups of the tracking device once with the killer and once with the victim. This gives the two characters a link where the killer knows where the victim is and the victim knows where the killer is. In one of the scenes the red light blinks continuously letting the audience know that the killer is on the way this helps create suspense. However, in this scene we then see the light turn of as we see the shadow of the killer fade into complete darkness this shows danger because the light offered a sense of security and was the only way to see and kill the psycho. When the lights turn off there is a moment of silence which is used to build up tension making the scene even more dramatic where the killer is no where to be seen. The audience’s fear builds up until the point where the silence finally breaks when the doorknob shoots out. The audience give a shocked reaction because we see it through the victim’s perspective and can emphasise on how the victim is feeling. The diegetic sound of the gun shooting, smashing off the window, etc… emphasises the whole event and makes it seem more realistic and believable to the audience.

last lesson..

last lesson we were shown how to use three different softwares to help us edit our clip for our thriller opening and also to give us a head start,the softwares were called live type,final cut pro and sound type pro.

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final cut pro is used to edit the work so far and add the finishing touches to make it the final piece of work.

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live type is used to make the titles in the beggining and endin of the films come alive, you can change the colour, font, the way it's shown, you give it special effects and even create a unique backround.

last but not least sound type pro is used to edit the soundtrack of the film there are lots of sounds to choose from.

Live type, final cut and soundtrack

In last weeks lesson we practised using three softwares called Livetype, Finalcut Pro and sountrack Pro. These three softwares are important in making the thriller opening. We experimented with these three softwares and worked out the different things they each do. The livetype was used to create intresting titles which would suit the genre. In live type you could put effects, backgrounds etc... on the title to make it stand out.

We used final cut pro next this software is used to edit down clips and make it into a finishing clip with everything added to it. We used one of our practise clips which was a card game so that we got to know how we could edit things and how we could put them together as one finished clip.

The third software we used was Soundtrack Pro which is used to import soundtracks in the clip. We played around with the different sounds and started searching for sounds that suit a thriller genre. Soundtrack Pro creates music which you could use to create various sounds like high tention etc...

Deja Vu

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Deja Vu starts off by hearing the sound of the ships horn and lots of drumbeats at the back. The title is red and bold and the fonts are white which fades away as we watch. there are loads of special effect used during this clip. An explosion takes place.There are quite short clips which we see before the actual film starts. One of them is a little girl holding a doll which she then drops into the sea by accident. Immedietly the audience gasp and have a reaction to thinking it was a real baby and at this point suspense is created.

Arlington Road

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In the clip arlington road, we see an image of a garden park. There are many effects and the main one is sepia. There are many high and low angle shots used during this clip. Suspense is created when the audience hears alot of faint screaming and heavy breathing.

thriller opening clips [se7ven]

The film 'se7en' opens with suspense because it starts off with a sequences of images of what could be described as the 'lab' it has images of 'tweezers, scissors, thread, etc.This makes the whole film seem a mystery because the audience dosen't know what's coming next, also the background music gives it a feel of an eery atmospehere.

'No country for old men'[Thriller film]

In the film 'No country for old men' suspense is created from the beginning of the film by having the opening credits in silence then the action started when the police man captured the mass murderer, he turned his back on him while he was on the phone and in that short time the mass murderer un hand cuffed himself and killed the policeman, this was a very interesting thriller opening because iit created irony as the audience knew what was coming next but the policeman didn't.

'no country for old men' is a mysterious, unexplained plot because everything happens so unexpectadely that it shocks the audience with an agonising

thrill.

Suspense?

suspense can be defined as the growing interest and excitement felt while awaiting a climax or resolution, as of a novel, play, series of events, etc.

What is suspense

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suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, often operates in a situation where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment. An audience experience suspense when they expect something bad to happen, mostly referred to be used in films such as thriller/horror.

SUSPENSE

Suspence is when your in a state or a condition of mental uncertanty, excitment or expectation. The suspence of a person waiting for a decision or an outcome which follows by a degree of apprehention or anxiety. E.g. in 'No country for old men' there is a suspence where the man is waiting in the dark in complete silence with the killer on the other side of the door.

Arlington Road

The clip ‘Arlington road’ shows normality being twisted because it goes from something being completely normal to something really frightening and scary. This is shown through the technical elements which are camera work, sound, mise en scene and editing. The type of camera shots used were for instance, low angel shot this was used a lot to make things appear big for e.g. it was used on a white detached house which made it look big and scary, a lot of horror or thriller films usually use this type of shot to show the twist in normality. The connotations of white are purity and innocence but these types of houses are also used because it is completely isolated from everyone else and so there is no one there to hear you scream this makes it scarier. There is also a soundtrack of children laughing and screaming this shows the twist because the normality would be the laughing of children but the screaming shows the twist in the normality, which then hints to the audience that something’s wrong. The connotation of children is also purity and innocence so by having children involved makes the clip seem more disturbing. The mise en scene is also very normal and innocent because there are shots of the garden, park, dog, flowers, house etc… but the editing of the clip is that every shot is in negative. Meaning that the little and innocent things that aren’t frightening at all like the park and the flowers seem more scary and disturbing with the added negative effects on all the shots.