Our thriller had a linear narrative structure. It shows chronologically, the two points of view from the killer and our victim in the basement and in the house above. We chose to do this because it creates more tension and links with partial vision; we do not see everything clearly but get an insight from both perspectives, making us emphasise with the girl as we know he is getting closer.
Thriller Codes and Conventions.
In our film we use the Question and answer module. We use this innitially to keep the audience interested in the delayed suspense of the opening and also to question the plot and try to think for themselves what might happen, making them likely to want to see what really will happen. Questions like'Why is she trapped?' 'Where is she?' 'What is the man going to do to her next?' 'Why is the killer so calm?'. We also used (partial visual/ concealment and portraction?)as the camera shots we use cover our killers face and we cannot see the full picture of the opening with two different perspectives slowly colliding. We challenged the 'transformed ciy convention'. Instead of basing it in exotic city or a foreign country, we have used a normal house thought from the outside to be normal and safe, yet turning it into a voilent crime scene. another convention we challenged was that of the hero. This useually potrayed as a man of authority or a fighter. However our hero in the film is firstly young and also female. We did this because we felt it was more appropriate for our audience as it is for a ounger audience and being vunerable, we feel for the character and enjoy more to see her suceed later in the film.
Camera work.
For our camera work we started of with a close up of a record player, the effect of this was to balnace with the non-digetic music used to create an eery effect, aswel in the editting we cvhanged this first shot to black and white. The purpose of this was to mirror the ideaology of darkness and unknown from the music and image as the audience now are on edge wanting to know what this signifies. The camera turns to a mid shot were we take an establishing shot of our main charatcter. This shot it used simply to show her bounded hands and cellotaped so the audience know her possition.We also use several close-ups. This is usually used ont he vitctims face; to show her emotion, her body features; to show her struggle to escape. Extreme close-ups are used, for example on her eyes; her fear is clearly displayed looking around for an escape. From the killers point of view, we used many low angle shot to give the impression of power which he has as he he is above the girl in the cellar and on another level beause he has control of the situation. This makes us side with the victim as we are willing to hurry, knowing he is soon approaching. A tracking shot it also used. From ths we see his cool, calm manner as he slowly walks up to the house. An over the sholder shot is also used as he approaches the cellar door.this is to relate the audience to the film, to put them in the scene.
Mise-en-scene .
We used the basement for our location. It is down away from the light as though hidden fromt he outside world which would be a perfect place to hdie someone. Also the idea of being locked away in a cellar is similar to in other films useing dungeons etc. Dark, insect ridden and un-useable. This creates the atmosphere of fear and scary. It also signifies that this man is quite untidy, with boxes in the room as though his life is messy nd unresolved. The lighting in room is very dim which a contrast to the light on the vitcims faces. This has connotation of good and evil between the two characters. The ducktape used signifies her vunerability in the film, helpless to the situation.
Graphics,
For the graphics we decided to keep our writing bold and red to show connotations of blood and also to make the writing bold so as to stand out to the audience. To introduce ourselves we use the composition.
Sound.
We used none digetic tones for our music. At first we used the digetic background noise for a film but felt it didn’t receive the same amount of tension. We have instead used a dark and eerie sound track. It adds more mystery to the opening and links in with our concealment and protraction, keeping the characters voices hidden makes us more curious as we can’t relate to them as easily.
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