Our opening sequence uses conventions common to many thrillers, for example when we edited the short chase scene that we filmed in London ,we intentionally made quick cuts and camera angle changes because after analysing many thrillers, we realised that they tend to use quick cuts to create a lot of suspense and anticipation along with different camera angle changes to increase the pace and intensity of the scene.Our opening scene also uses the thriller convention of lighting because we filmed during the early morning to make it seem like the main character is calm and safe therefore surprising the audience when the plot takes a turn of event.
The use of this editing technique has been used in the following thriller films (and many more) :
INCEPTION BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT
We decided to use the thriller conventions that are mentioned above because we agreed that by using these conventions the audience would recognize them and therefore making it easier for them to identify the genre of our opening sequence. We also used another thriller convention which is the use of sound , in our research we realised that thrillers tend to use atmospheric music as a way of building to a climax, this is shown in the opening scene of The Dark Knight.
So yet again in order to make it easier for the audience to identify that our opening sequence is a thriller , we used the convention of using climactic music throughout, especially during our chasing scene. Our media product does not contain any dialogue, which can be seen as challenging thriller conventions mainly because during my research I have observed, that thrillers tend to have dialogue that keeps the audience captivated and interested in what is happening in a scene. So with our opening sequence we had to rely a lot on the music to build suspense which could be seen us unconventional for a thriller because thrillers tend to have more then just music , which in this case is captivating dialogue.
No comments:
Post a Comment