My Product Titling colour, font and style

Typical thriller/horror conventions

In Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960, to create an impact on the audience the words are fragmented, this could symbolise the fragmentation of the characters mind. The words slide in from different directions of the screen, this a typical convention of a psychological thriller. Also the black and white could symbolise the different characters in the film, with white symbolising innocence and black symbolising evil, grey is a mixture of black and white, so maybe suggesting good turning bad. To create a more intense atmosphere for the audience, film directors use various different camera angles for example panning, crabbing and tracking. It is also important that an impact shot is used at a beginning of a film to help sustain the audiences attention. To help create the element suspense, surprise and tension within the audience extreme close ups and close ups are used.

My Production - use, develop, challenge?

In our film The Unexpected we decided to have our titles in white capital letters against a black background. This was very simple but we felt this was effective and this also added the mystery element for the audience as the title did not suggest what the film was going to be about.

Comparison to existing products?

Camera Movement pan, track, crane, crab etc

In our film we used a lot of close up shots of the main characters as we felt it would help grab the audiences attention and make the audience more aware of the characters attentions.

To help retain our audiences interest we used numerous shots within the opening minutes. This was mirrored in the opening scenes of The Lovely Bones.

Framing Shots CU, LS, MS, ECU, ELS etc

Camera Angle Low, high etc.

Another technique used in films is different camera angles this can help the audience establish the motives of the different characters and help them establish who is good and bad. An example of this could be seen in One Hour Photo In most thrillers the more innocent victims in the film tend to wear more white and light colours perhaps to suggest to the audience

Mise-en-scene

In our film we wanted the audience to focus their attention on the coach and gymnast to make them question their relationship, we used close ups of the coach to help the audience guess what he was thinking about, and we repeated this in the close up of the student register, we hoped this would make the audience feel uneasy and question the coaches motives. In our film to help our audience establish who was the superior and the vulnerable characters we used over the shoulder shots and high angle shots to emphasise the status of the characters. E.g. a high angle was used to show the vulnerability and innocence of the gymnast. In our film we used the correct location shots to help the audience to make the connection that the character Katie was on her

This method of using close ups and extreme close ups was used in the film Cape Fear. Close up shots were used to create suspense and also to convey to the audience the menace of the villain and the vulnerability of the victim.

The usage of high and low angle shots was also used in the film Cape Fear, to help establish to the audience the status of the characters e.g. the superior and innocence.

purity and innocence whereas the villain wears darker colours to signify evil and darkness.

Editing Jump cuts, match cuts, reverse shots etc

Clear and prosiest cuts are used .

Sound

In most thrillers the music is very intense, and normally a variety of string instruments are used as the sound of these help the audience feel the tension and makes them feel anxious.

way to her gymnastic session, this is clarified when the audience can see she is wearing her white leotard when training in the sports hall. In our film, so we could show the dialogue and expression between two people we used reverse shots we also used transitions to help show the period of time. In our film the opening sound was dark and heavy and gradually got lighter and softer helping the audience see and feel the change .