Lighting Effects

We decided to play about with lighting within our group. We tried to use un natural lighting in a dark room to give the character a rather sinister look.

In this photo it shows the character (Frank) with the un natural light source shining on the right side of his face showing his facial expressions. Whereas on the right side of his face there is no light and therefore creates a mysterious and sinister effect. We may consider using this effect in our thriller. Also in this photo the lighting creates a shadow effect in the background, this was not intentional however is a technique we could look into using.

In this photo we decided to put the un natural light so it was shining under the chin of our character (Frank) this created the sinister effect we were looking for as it shows all facial expressions but doesn't give off any of the background. This again is a technique we may consider using in our thriller.

Thriller Film - Brief Ideas

We decided to mind map a few brief ideas of what we want our thriller to be like, these brief ideas included:

• Roles in the group - what each individual member will be contributing to the task.

• Location - just a few short ideas on where we want some of our scenes to be shot e.g. woods/beside a pond.

• Plot ideas - we decided to brainstorm a few plot ideas we may incorporate in our thriller. However these notes are brief and may not be followed as written.

• Genre - we decided we want to mix the horror/thriller genre as it gives us a wider audience of film lovers and we believe by adding the horror element we can incorporate more effects.

SE7EN TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

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The Effects of Cut-a-Ways

Effects of cut aways

 

We have done this post to show how different techniques can change the ways in which certain scenes can be perceived. One scene could be seen as a different genre depending on what ios to follow, it can create a different emotion.

 



This use of a cut away above makes the character on the left look crazy and sinister with the character smirking at a dead body. However the cut away below shows a characters reaction to another character making a funny face which makes the scene much more comedic and funny.

Conventions of Thriller Films

Conventions of Thriller Films

A broad genre of literature, film, gaming and television. It includes numerous, often overlapping sub-genres

Typical Features

·         Low key lighting

·         Quick cut

·         Shadows

·         Tension music

·         Changes in angle of shot

·         Diegetic sound of breathing

·         Black and white shots

·         Montage of shots

·         Protagonist is at the mercy of the Antagonist

·         Binary oppositions (complete opposites) by Levi Strauss e.g. good vs. evil, weak vs. powerful, city dweller vs. country dweller, individual vs. organisation.

·         Cheap surprise (an easy shock generated by a sudden unexpected noise/action/movement)

·         Make it personal – protagonist’s family is kidnapped etc.

·         Theatre of the mind – doesn’t show the audience everything; force them to imagine some things.

Ingredients of a thriller

fast-paced, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains.

Literary devices such as suspense, red-herrings and cliff hangers are used extensively.

Types of thriller

·         Spy thrillers – e.g. James Bond

·         Political thrillers – e.g. Argo

·         Military thrillers – e.g. Saving Private Ryan

·         Conspiracy thrillers – e.g. The Insider

·         Medical thrillers – e.g. Coma

·         Forensic thrillers – e.g. The Bone Collector

·         Psychological thrillers – e.g. Seven

·         Horror thriller – e.g. The Silence of the Lambs

·         Legal thriller - e.g. The Pelican Brief

·         Crime thriller - e.g. No Country for Old Men

·         Supernatural thriller - e.g. Flatliners

Characteristics

Often overlap with mystery stories but are distinguished by the structure of their plot. Thrillers often occur on a much grander scale: crimes are more serious.

Standard plot elements include a sense of jeopardy.

Climax

Example: When hero finally defeats villain, saving him and others.

Some thrillers are influenced by film noir and tragedy, the hero can get killed.

Often take place wholly or partly in exotic or dramatic settings e.g. cities, deserts, churches, airports, subways, Polar Regions, the woods or high seas.

Finished Storyboards

This is the storyboard my group used for our preliminary task. Whilst filming the group came up with many new ideas. As a result the storyboard does not cover everything we filmed. However, the majority of the camera angles shown in the storyboard were still used in our finished film.





 

Finished Preliminary Task

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