Thrillers - What gives them the edge?

Film Screenshots - Conventions Of A Thriller

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this is a presentation I found on slideshare which shows the various methods of enticing the audience authentic to the thriller genre.

The Orphanage

Another Psychological thriller rated 15

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend. the Spanish film was directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and hit home to the audience with the tagline No secret stays locked away forever. Rated 7.6 on IMBD

I've never seen a cinema jump like the audience at Frightfest for this film. I'm kind of tempted to name the shocks but I wont. Its such a stunningly made film, creepy, atmospheric, shocking, great story, beautifully directed, the main woman is incredible. I was never really sure if it was supernatural or psychological, but as it reveals...wow, its excellent. Its so well done I cant write more without giving stuff away, but go and see it.

from a review we hope our film could be as well received as this and be successful The little boy in the film talks to an imaginary friend its all psychological in his mind just like our protagonist.

Gothika

This film is another case study our group has found to help us when editing and thinking about the storyline which will possibly follow our 2 minute opening.
'Gothika' 2003 has a certificate of 15 because it contains violence, brief language and nudity. Its genres are: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

The plot is about a psychologist in a women's prison who wakes up one day to find herself on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband. She needs to prove her innocence, but the film is not what you expect. There will be not too much logic in what follows, and the borders between reality and hallucination seem to be crossed by the director and script writer, not only by the characters. (The same sort of cross we have featured in our film with the fireworks in the main characters head.)

The haunting setting in the film and the way the atmosphere is being built targets its audiences (15 -30 year old thriller lovers) inciting them. The institution looks like some gothic building from outside, with blue lighted corridors inside creating an appropriate setting for the mood of the characters. Rain seems to poor almost permanently, kind of reflecting the fluid state of mind of the characters.

SE7EN ...Days to recover

Today in class we watched the jaw dropping thriller Se7en,
This is also a psychological thriller like our film

Coraline

even though this is an animated film, it has the creepy film conventions we want to follow and include in our film..
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'Coraline' 2009 Rated PG for the matic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor its genres are Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy and Thriller.
The plot of the film is An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

Storyline: When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.

Here is the opening sequence of the film form art of the title, our group particularly like the arrangement of the credits and the creepy childlike music, which we want to feature in our two minute film opening.

Sequencing the Opening title sequence - what's its consistence?

Functions of the Title Sequence

The functions of the title sequence in a film may seem to be fairly obvious. They are designed to tell the audience the names of the people and organisations involved with the making of the film and in this respect they do the job well.

Irrespective of the genre, there is a conventional way of presenting this information in the credit sequence. This information and the order in which it is presented follows a standard format

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Films, Films, Films

In today's Lesson Miss Foster showed us film openings by past AS students of a different school; We learned to watch them with a critical eye, we also began analysing the different camera angles they used and the smooth editing techniques used to get full marks. I left class with the daunting thought that very soon, my group will have had to make an opening film sequence which is at the same standard or even greater!

I really have to start tapping into my Media Mind and get ideas together on what genre and story line would be good to use for our Film opening.