The difference between a Thriller and a horror.

Thriller-
-A thriller has a more mature cast that are often highly regarded well known actors.
-The focus of a Thriller film is on the crime, who did it? Why? How?
-The lead role is often played by the detective and they are the protagonist.
-Victims of the crime are not always known to the viewer

Horror
-Young cast, often teenagers. stereotypical bimbo blonde cheerleader and the typical 'jock' have regular appearances in horror films.
-There is usually a lot of violence, with graphic images of blood and guts.
-the focus of the narrative is often the violence and not the crime.
-the lead victim often becomes the detective trying to work out who is killing everyone a all his or her friends are dying.
-It i usually set in a suburban setting
-Adults are always absent or not supportive. (They don't listen, or ignore the teenagers pleas as they don't believe them)

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? On photoshop cut and paste a character from your opening sequence and one from a re

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

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

Q3-75 THRILLER FINAL

Q3-75 THRILLER ROUGHCUT

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

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.

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.

Thriller Animatic

garageband image

the music so far looking spooky

Analalyis of Parasomnia

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

Q3-75 CONTINUITY EXERCISE project

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