Introduction to thrillers

A thriller is a genre there are many different types of genres including ones such as horror, comedies and science fictions. Thrillers are a genre of movie that often has an exciting plot and usually involves a crime.The genre itself is a popular genre and many people enjoy watching. In personal opinion I believe thrillers are only god if there done well.
Some of my personal favorite thrillers 'se7en' starring Brad Pitt, 'silence of the lamb' starring Jodie foster' and 'Anthony Hopkins’,’ shutter islands' starring 'Leonardo De Carpio' and 'limitless' starring 'Bradley Copper'These movies often contain cliff hangers, this leave the audience wanting to see more they also make the reader think more about the plot and the way its been presented. What is a cliffhanger? A cliffhanger is when the director builds suspense and drops it in order to encourage the viewer to watch on. Many also involve a red herring, this is when the audience is lead to think one thing and then a twist is introduced showing an unpredicted outcome. 'Shutter islands is a good example of a thriller that has a red herring.

 Narrative.

The narrative is the way events are revealed to the audience. The narrative can be shown in linear or non-linear order.  Linear is when the events are shown in order, this is the most popular form of narrative.  Non-linear is when the sequence of events is shown out of order.  ‘pulp fiction’ is a good example of a film shown in non-linear.

effects.

Thrillers use different effects such as lighting and music this allows the audience to feel the way the director wants. For example lighting can be used to create shadows this may be used to create a spooky effect: 

 

These lighting effects are used to make the audience thing that someone is there without showing them the face or any details about the person. These are used lot.

Music is also a useful effect when making a thriller, the music is usually fast pace when danger is about, also there is usually slow music when building up to danger. Different speeds of music often represent different things to the audience. 

sound exercise plan

written assignment- as media studies, first project.

in our first assignment we was asked to film a range of different shots. for example: 

• close up 
• over the shoulder 
• high angle 
• low angle 
• pan 
• tilt 
• rolling 
• tracking 

these are just a few examples of the  many you could have. we made out shots into a shot film. our film was based around a drug deal. however, due to a lost member of the group the story line ended up a bit confusing. we decided to try our best by killing of her character all together and made it so that that character had died. within our movie we tried to use all the shots although,  not all of them where involved. for example: 

• rolling cam
• tracking shot 
• extrem close up 
• steady cam
• long shot

we didn't include these shots because we couldn't think of a effective way to put it into the film. however , we did include a rolling shot but we was unable to find this scene when editing. 

we used different shot to show different things. 

low angle shot- we used this to show power that the criminal escaped for jail. this shows power. this was a successful. 

pan- we used this to show the direction in which a person was walking. this was successful because it showed us where she was going. 

tilt- we used this to get a clear view to show the audience a person in full. this gives the watcher a idea of what type of person they are by the way they look and dress. this was successful because it shows how she does look and the way she dressed described her perosnality. 

medium shot- this was used to show something happening between too people. 

close up- we used this to shows the audience exactly hows speaking at what time. 

high angle- we used this shot to show the status in a person. this was not sucsessful as it was not entirly clear who was in charge of the two. 

medium shot- we used this to show who was talking to who. this gives us an understanding of who's in controll of who and who has  a higher status.

over the shoulder- this was used to show a conversation taking place between to people.

point of view- this was used to show where the person was going and who they was heading for.

i did most of the filming in the movie. i held my shot steady by using the tripod, this made my shot clearer and less shakey. the tripod was useful as shots where clearer. some shot could have been done better as i mistakenly cut people heads off and missed them out of the shot. the high angle shot i believe could have been put in a different place in order to show a clearer understanding of status.

my favourite shot was the tilt. this because i was clear how it was used and why. the film could have made more sense and also we could of used more shots including rolling shot a and close ups. 

camera angle practice

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