The codes and conventions that are relevant in our thriller movie opening are codes and conventions taken from ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Blood’. “The Dark Knight” presents codes an conventions such as sudden changes in diegetic music, when a significant character is introduced to the audience, for example, “the Joker.” There is also a sudden change in non-diegetic music, when something which is potentially frightening happens, for example when the joker takes off his mask for the first time and speaks his first line: “I believe what ever doesn’t kill you, simple makes you stranger”.
Other thriller conventions presented to the audience is quick fast pace shots, extreme close ups and a point of view shot is shown of a significant object. Another thriller that presents codes and conventions in “Blood.” In the first scene of the movie a man is running and screams through a train. This is s classic sign of a thriller movie and is similar to “The Dark Knight”, when the hostages start to run and scream. Both films also include uses of weapons as a sword is used in “Blood” guns are used in “The Dark Knight”.
Heavy breathing is also a diegetic sound that’s used in ‘Blood’ to create a sense of tension and this is also a very effective use of conventions. A technical code in both thrillers is when there is subdued lighting, as the audience cannot clearly see and lighting is dimmed. This helps audience to get in the mood and settle down fore the movie. In ‘Blood’ there is a significant point, where the music is especially eerie. We can hear the music but cannot see when it is coming from making it non- diegetic. This adds mystery to the film. This also adds a negative feeling and also a cold feeling there is also a good use of flickering lights. This is eerie and scary and denotes bad luck and perhaps instability.
Lastly the credits at the beginning of the thriller ‘Blood’ pop up slowly and the background is red. The credits then fade out into an establishing shot. This may be used in our thriller opening to help bring tension at the beginning of our thriller.
Four things that we have decided that we might like to use in our opening scene of a thriller movie are;
Non diegetic music,
Running and screaming,
Flickering lights and other lighting and
Quick shots
We feel that each one of these will add a great effect to our piece, the same way that ‘Blood’ and ‘The Dark Knight’ have used certain codes and conventions to make the opening scene brilliant.
One thins that we do not think we will use in out thriller opening will be use of weapon as we feel that we can get tension across without the use of weapons.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Sunday, 1 November 2009
thriller anaylasis two
The movie starts with a upward tilt shot on a woman. Showing dominance the audience heard heavy breathing. The scenes are very fast moving and so are the shots. This makes is hard for the audience to see and makes everything blurry, adding to tension. It is dark and looks quite cold. However our character is wearing a grey dress and doesn't seem to be at all cold. Her grey dress connotes coldness and fatigue, and her red gloves could connote danger or hazard.
An establishing shot shows a Small hotel and then a long shot of the woman walking into the building, she is calm and collected she also has a sword in her back pack denoting blood shed. The woman then takes out her knife, this makes the audience tense as we know that she is about to use it.
The woman then looks into the camera, and the audience and the character lock eyes, this shows interaction and gets the audience More familiar with the character. We then have a long shot of a door flying open and the female protagonist standing in the door way.She walks towards the camera and we are then introduced to another character. He is wearing a black suit and is sitting in a seat the black suit shows that he is a mysterious man and looks Wise, There are also a lot of book behind him showing perhaps that he is an intellect. Dialogue tells the audience that the man was waiting for the woman. We then see a close up of the woman's gold locket, this tells the audience that it is important and perhaps old.
We then have an extreme close up and a reverse shot as dialogue progresses. The man then tries to get away from the woman as she points her sword at him. He tries to run. He also screams. This shows that in this case, woman are more dominant. It is also ironic that the man is the character who is screaming, and the woman is calm.
The male picks out his sword from behind the chair and charges at the woman. After charging there is a pause and everything goes silent. This adds tension because someone has been hurt but no one knows who. Non diegetic sounds of fast music also adds to the tension and makes the scene seem busy. There is then a black out and then a fade out. Leaving us unaware of who has been stabbed and who is hurt. This adds tension because the audience want to know.
An establishing shot shows a Small hotel and then a long shot of the woman walking into the building, she is calm and collected she also has a sword in her back pack denoting blood shed. The woman then takes out her knife, this makes the audience tense as we know that she is about to use it.
The woman then looks into the camera, and the audience and the character lock eyes, this shows interaction and gets the audience More familiar with the character. We then have a long shot of a door flying open and the female protagonist standing in the door way.She walks towards the camera and we are then introduced to another character. He is wearing a black suit and is sitting in a seat the black suit shows that he is a mysterious man and looks Wise, There are also a lot of book behind him showing perhaps that he is an intellect. Dialogue tells the audience that the man was waiting for the woman. We then see a close up of the woman's gold locket, this tells the audience that it is important and perhaps old.
We then have an extreme close up and a reverse shot as dialogue progresses. The man then tries to get away from the woman as she points her sword at him. He tries to run. He also screams. This shows that in this case, woman are more dominant. It is also ironic that the man is the character who is screaming, and the woman is calm.
The male picks out his sword from behind the chair and charges at the woman. After charging there is a pause and everything goes silent. This adds tension because someone has been hurt but no one knows who. Non diegetic sounds of fast music also adds to the tension and makes the scene seem busy. There is then a black out and then a fade out. Leaving us unaware of who has been stabbed and who is hurt. This adds tension because the audience want to know.
thriller anaylasis one
The movie starts with a quick narration in a low voice, this introduces up to the history of the movie. Slowly the credits also pop up onto the screen, this adds tension. The back ground is red this connotes blood, danger and perhaps war. This then fades into the establishing shot of a building and this then fades out, This adds tension because we get an eerie feeling.
We then see panning of the train on a track and are then introduced to a young woman. We see her at mid shot and we see that she looks almost inhuman, with pale skin and rouge lips. She wears black clothes and she has very long jet black hair. Showing that she is a mysterious and quite a cold character.
We then see another establishing shot of inside the train. and we see a point of view shot, this gives the audience an uneasy feeling as we know that someone is lurking about. We then have a close up shot of a newspaper someone is hiding their face behind the paper and this gives the audience a scene of tension because we are not familiar with this new character.
Dark lighting gives a negative feeling and also a cold feeling. This light then bursts, connoting danger. We then have more panning of the train, and a close up of our main character, letting us get more familiar with her her eyes flash red (CGI) this is a great effect because it shows us that she is not human and confirms our belief.
Both characters share a moment and look at each other. We then have an extreme close up on the mans forehead and sweat beads. This shows the audience that the man is nervous and this also makes him seem almost nerdy and makes the audience care for him. The mans anxious eyes dart around the train. All of the lights then flicker on and off. this is eerie and scary and denotes back luck and perhaps instability. We then have the man running and there are fast moving scenes and quick shots. Making it hard for the audience to keep up, and adding tension along the way.
We then see panning of the train on a track and are then introduced to a young woman. We see her at mid shot and we see that she looks almost inhuman, with pale skin and rouge lips. She wears black clothes and she has very long jet black hair. Showing that she is a mysterious and quite a cold character.
We then see another establishing shot of inside the train. and we see a point of view shot, this gives the audience an uneasy feeling as we know that someone is lurking about. We then have a close up shot of a newspaper someone is hiding their face behind the paper and this gives the audience a scene of tension because we are not familiar with this new character.
Dark lighting gives a negative feeling and also a cold feeling. This light then bursts, connoting danger. We then have more panning of the train, and a close up of our main character, letting us get more familiar with her her eyes flash red (CGI) this is a great effect because it shows us that she is not human and confirms our belief.
Both characters share a moment and look at each other. We then have an extreme close up on the mans forehead and sweat beads. This shows the audience that the man is nervous and this also makes him seem almost nerdy and makes the audience care for him. The mans anxious eyes dart around the train. All of the lights then flicker on and off. this is eerie and scary and denotes back luck and perhaps instability. We then have the man running and there are fast moving scenes and quick shots. Making it hard for the audience to keep up, and adding tension along the way.
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