In class, we watched three different thriller openings so that we could examine the codes and conventions of each text. This enabled us to compare it to our text to distinguish if we were including the right things. Furthermore, it gave our group an inspiration to try and improve and enhance the potential success of our opening.
1. Sixth sense
- Music leads sequence= makes it very slow
- effective sound = getting louder as titles progress
- slow pace= build up= story telling through the use of music
- black and white throughout- reinforcing thriller genre darkness)
- title of film= change in sound
- opening production labels= no sound= introduction to genre is ambiguous
- light= connotations= dark verses light= good verses bad= binary opposite
- slow pace shoot
- cut to show tone changing in the text
- woman getting wine, going into the dark cellar= subvert male
2. The Village
- Production= light= tea bag look= musky
- eery non-diagetic music
- trees= village= environment= surroundings= realistic
- credits= black and white- using nature to set tone
- dominated by black = darkness (thriller)
- sounds like large footsteps= build up
- nice mise en scene= environment= green= subvert
- POV (links to title= union= village) shot from village perspective of man grieving
- cut of falling angel= appears as if a statue is speaking
- shaky camera= emotions= feelings
3. Lady in the water
- black and white
- story feeling= juvenile= cartoons
- break down= complicated story
- editing= moving cartoon clips
- message of narrative told in cartoon
- CU of male= important character
- sound= realism= people taking at once
- characters in background= insignificant
+ music always lasts longer in thriller
= use diagetic sound
+ make own sound effects = layer things up
+ hold shots
+ holding our shots= matts face= train = newspaper
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