Q3-75 : THRILLER PROJECT 2008/9
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Compare and contrast your own sequence
Friday, 7 November 2008
STRENGTHS AND IMPROVEMENTS
Strengths:
Build u of tension kept at a steady pace until the end
Good Camera angles
Good titles and music
Murder was effective
Improvements:
Mise-en-scene could be improved
Be aware of settings - pedestrians in background during murder scene
Unable to read screen
Too slow to grab attention
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Cast list
A Dot Com production
A Cybernet film
Donald Murphy
Richard Hammer
Lucy Spoonfield
Costume design by Pier Coupe
Art Direction by Steven Backster
production design by Liam Wilkinson
Casting by Emma Broad
Film Editing by Rachel Smith
Cinematography by Bill Trever
Original Music by Dan Manials
Produced by Edward Cress
Directed by Jude French
DELTED
Friday, 17 October 2008
Examples of influences
There were quite a few influences on our final idea, including professional films and student idea's that we had looked at before starting our own pieces. Taking aspects like fast editing, unclear shots and the idea of keeping up as much mystery as possible until the very end. All these ideas have been brought into our opening and in doing this our opening has followed many of the conventions found in thriller films.
Initial Ideas
At the start we came up with a few ideas and possible openings for our thriller project. Some of our ideas included scenes of a man being followed by a mysterious figure (location: woodland area) - this then involved a fall where the person being followed trips and then the dark figure falls from a tree landing behind the victim. This concept then evolved into the death of the victim. Another idea we had was a crazy man looking up pieces of news paper and gathering information on his latest victim. It was from a mix of these two ideas we got our final idea.
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
The props used in our sequence are computer monitors, a study, views of doors and house hall ways, a knife, a dining room and the view of someone in a busy area.
We will only need 3 actors for our opening with no extras.
Monday, 13 October 2008
Friday, 10 October 2008
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Memento thriller

We watched the opening sequence of memento. It started with just a black screen with the titles rolling and some quiet tense music in the background. It then cut to a close up of a polaroid photo of a dead body on the floor with their blood up the walls, the hand holding the photo then begins to shake it repeatedly making the image fade until it completely disappears. We learn that the footage is going backwards in time, revealing the rest of the man holding the photo and the crime he has just committed






