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Patrycja
Dawn
Convention of the Horror-Thriller
genre:
Twists in the plot – Murder by Numbers and Passenger 57 – fake terrorist beginning
Camera work:
Close up, of a face or an extreme CU of the eyes can display the effect of an action or the suspense building up; of course they also provide detail. They are also used in Horror-Thrillers display the characters reactions that suggest their feeling or emotions in a particular scene, such reactions include horror, shock, and fear – aids audiences connection with characters this is used at the ending of our piece with the close up of our female character. We followed this convention to display the tension in our characters face, highlighting her emotions; it was especially designed to intimidate our audience as the character starred at the camera. The fact that this shot was also even or level with the audience intensified this intimidation and provoking suspense with a suggested negative event or threat for the male character through this build up.
Mid shots of character walking towards the camera – Hot Fuzz – prolonging tension. We have used this in our production through showing the female moving towards the camera. This makes the audience think about whom she is and why are we showing a close up of her face, it also may be intimidating for the audience through the slight low angle – giving her more authority and power over the audience.
PAN, can generate a sense of pace; especially within a chase, or can give a character supernatural speed ‘Negotiator’. We followed this convention and developed it through panning females in crowds to make an audience wonder who the girl ‘in distress’ in the Radio Report is.
In Horror-Thriller establishing shots commonly involve a gritty location with a lack of light implying that something is wrong. We have used this as our location, which is the alleyway where there is less light and no one around. This suggests that something negative is going to happen.
Handheld POV can help an audience connect and feel what a character is feeling, this involves them in the characters situation, however the films we’ve researched like ‘The Negotiator’ and ‘The Clearing’ don’t use POV shots in the opening sequence but they use it during the film - this is often used to make a scene more intense and thrilling a non-diagetic heartbeat sound effect can be used to intensify this shot.We followed this convention of using a handheld POV in order to make a better connection with the audience and make them feel what the character is feeling in this case it is the male’s POV. His POV also suggests, through the blurred editing, that he is drunk – which may allow our audience to relate to him – as their young
Camera angles such as low angle- to give the Antagonist more power over the victim (a high angle shot)We have also used this convention as the female character walks towards the camera.
Women stereotyped as weak less important – The Clearing – high angle we have broke this convention and made the male be the less important and weaker than the female, the female is seen through a MS of here walking towards the camera in a low angle and the close up of her face she is suggested through these shots to be more powerful, whereas the male is suggested to be vulnerable through his blurred POV.
Editing techniques:
Quick cuts, controls pace level can increase it to evoke a sense of time limit, pressure, haste ‘The Negotiator’ and ‘The Clearing’. Also can make seem spontaneous as events happen quick; unraveling narrative. We have followed this by having fast paced cuts in order to maintain an audience’s interest and give a sense of immediacy to the opening sequence – merging with the seriousness of the Radio Report. This will make the audience want to find out what is going to happen in the next bit and what the story behind it is.
Slow motion effect creates distorted and unnatural atmosphere; possibly to focus upon character – idea of her being sinister Can slow down action in chase - even more suspense! We have used this in order to make the ghost seen but slowly disappearing when there is a slow motion of crowds walking by. We have slowed the clip down in order to help the audience register the female character in the shot – merging with the Radio Reports description; the ghost being in the middle shows the audience that she is the important one in the clip.
Darkly lit effect on shots, evil presence, something not quite right, unusual. This convention was used in our production on the MS of the skull t-shirt to connote a dark or sinister presence – especially after having seen the female character/ghost in the previous shot that faded in.
Fade to black, leaves audience to make up their own mind of ending. We haven’t followed this convention and we, instead, used a close up of the female character’s face and left her face as the last image seen to create tension and suspense. This acts as a narrative hook for the audience, which will make them want to carry on watching the next part of the film.
The use of radio report in order to inform the audience about events in the opening sequence and film (Passenger 57) – we used the convention of having a news or radio reporter to introduce our female character during our opening sequence through the non-diagetic edited in report.
Opening titles all films researched – (Universal, 20th Century Fox) we have used MIRAMAX and FILM FOUR in order to show who would be the distributers for our media product. However we have used our own non-diagetice sounds to fit with our genre and create a sense of suspense, as we wanted to make the opening unique.
Sounds:
Fast paced non-diagetic rhythm, replicates heart beat – tension ‘Murder by Numbers’. We have used this in order to build up tension for the audience and make them want to carry on watching to see what happens next.
Out of tune violins - unusual and eerie. Create suspense – Murder by Numbers – violins use of string instruments to seem eerie used convention in the beginning of our opening sequence during the train sequence to crate tension and suggest an evil or dark presence in this ‘normal’ scene
Heavy breathing, creepy, intense, enclosed/trapped. We have also used this convention by using non-diagetic breathing during our production title ‘LOOKOUT PRODUCTIONS’ to re-create an intense atmosphere.
Mise-en-scene:
Makeup that may involve burns, scratches or bruising to either make an audience want to know why a character is hurt ‘The Negotiator’. We have followed this convention by making the ghosts have bruises and some blood on her top to imply or suggest violence.
‘The Ring’- wearing a night gown which is a quite a conventionally gothic approach to a ghost We developed on the clothes of the ghost and instead of having her to wear dresses-she wears jeans and a white top to make her seem like she is a normal teenager and contemporary-Villain – ghost not typically unidentified as villain but can be disguised as a victim by bloodied and ripped clothing. Bloodied clothes, ripped, dirty and gritty makeup – audience intrigued to character – mystery We have followed this in order to make the audience wander what has happened to her and who was the person that has done this to her.
Pathetic fallacy – rain is negative, darkness etc reflects expectations and mood of film – may begin with equilibrium – Toderov – and then swiftly turn to disequilibrium In our product the weather was not that great as it was raining but matched the narrative as something negative happens during darkness and rainy days.
Darkness- usually symbolises danger and that’s when crimes are suggested to happen. We have followed this convention as the whole scene with the interaction between both of the characters happen during night-time.
Lightness-symbolises safety we have used some shots during daytime in order to show that the ghost is everywhere around the people even if its daytime or night time.
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