In this lesson we learnt the typical thriller we were taught the typically thriller conventions. Sir asked us to think about the what is commonly found in a thriller. He asked us to do some research the internet by watching clips from youtube from popular thrillers. he asked us to look for the...
Visual elements: What camera shots are used? What effects are used? ect.
Story/character: What characters are used? what story-lines are typically used? ect.
Examples: Names of some thrillers? What sub-genre's are there?
Mood/Atmosphere: What mood will the audience feel from what they are watching? What atmosphere is set? ect.
We were then asked to produce a Mind-map from the website ''www.bubbl.us''. We produced these in groups of two. I worked with Ashleigh.
In this lesson I learnt that in order to make a thriller you have to take into consideration that the audience need to feel a certain way. For example Thrillers typically leave an audience guessing as to what is going to happen through out, this is achieved by creating mystery which can me acopmlished by using unseen characters (A dark characters, you may not see there face until the end when the plot has thickened) To ensure there face is unseen you can use Close-ups of hands ect. A dark lighting can also create an mysterious and eary atmosphere.
I also learnt that typically thrillers use Police, because of the action which commonly takes place in thrillers in order to entice the target audience (adult males).
I learnt that the work ''Sub-genre'' means to have a genre within a genre. For example an overall genre is Thriller but there are sub-genre's due to different elements within the films which make them different. For example a crime-thriller has elements of criminal activity where as an action-thriller focuses on action like explosions ect.
Here is the mind-map:
I also learnt that Mise-en-scene means ''what is in the scene'' like costume, location, props ect. And that the audience expectation of a thriller is to be kept guessing.
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