Past student work 'Above The Law'

This a clear thriller opening as it gives a sense of todoror. There selected mise en scene is selected appropriately as they have used appropriate costume and appropriate locations for the type of genre they were portraying however the location seems to be more of a horror location than a thriller especially when they showed a shot of a isolated house. There are some enigma codes as there is a sense of mystery as there is restricted shots of the victim but there much tension produced. The music didn't create any tension or suspense. There isn't a variety of shots. Also the driving scene went on too long and then I think it's a bit confusing as the antagonist left the victim in the car he got to the destination so the audience would be asking how he get out of the woods, although you could say that is an enigma code. I would award this a level 2 just scraping level 3 because of the mise en scene.

Past Student Work 'The Gardner'

This could be considered a good thriller because it is clear who the antagonist and protagonist are and the start had good opening shots. The titles and introduction of credits are boring and might put the audience off. The use restricted shots on the antagonist makes it a good thriller opening as we don't get to see who the antagonist is which builds questions building the tension and creating suspense. The music as it create a sense of normality, theatre of the mind. The music also creates a sense of unease which build tension as it makes the audience uncomfortable which creates suspense. The use of the graphic match of the red rose was use productively as it could foreshadows death building tension. The props and mise en scene was used productively as it matches with the story-line. However they should have used different music as it went on too long and when the protagonist was running a different music should have been used to build tension. I would award this thriller opening a level four.

Production log

27/01/10 Production stage-pre production

Today in our groups we came together to develop a logo for our production company and designed our institutional logo for our production company. We also had to do a little portfolio and research on our the type of audience we are planning to target and on the type genre we are doing.

29/01/10 Pre-production

Today we discuss the what makes a good treatment and the conventions of a treatment for a thriller movie. we also analyse a treatment to see whether it was a good or bad treatment. After this we started to produced ideas for our own treatment for our thriller.

02/02/10 Pre-production

Today we finished our treatments and did any further adjustments needed before we pitch our treatment to the class.

03/02/10 Pre-production

Today we pitch our treatments but there was complications which our classmates helped us to point out so we discuss what we had to do to solve these complications or change the treatment. We also listened to other students treatments to see if there ideas were up to standard and any feedback needed.

05/02/10 Planning

Today we came up with a ideas as our first one wasn't working for us. After this we started to discuss our new treatment and shot types we plan on using. We also assigned different tasks to each group members. After this was sorted we started story boarding.

08/02/10 Planning

Today another member of the group and I went find locations for our film.

09/02/10 Planning

Today I finished writing the opening sequence and uploaded our recce locations and say why we chose these locations. I also finished and uploaded our audience profile.

10/02/10 Planning

Today we finished off any unfinished work such as images for recci for both individual and group blog.

12/02/10 Planning

Finished unfinished work and I upload images of props we are thinking of using when filming which i research on the internet and copy the images.

24/02/10 Production

Today we started filming our project where I was the camera person for filming some high angles of the girl walking in the car park unfortunately a group member forgot the tape so we i had to improvise and use a camera.

1/03/10 Production

We return to our first location as the first footage wasnt good enough so I had to re shoot the high angles for our CCTV footage however for some of the shots I switched role as some of the shots weren't high enough where the other group member was taller than me to reach the height that we wanted so I was also director.

2/03/10 Production

Today another group member and I let down our group member because we were absent.

4/03/10 Production

Today I was both director and camera person as I couldnt do all the shots. We shot our actor in the tube station walking up the stairs from high angles and another group member shot the low angles of her feet. We also went on the train to shoot establishing shots, the actor getting on the train and off the train and so on.

8/03/10

Other group members uploaded the footages that we had while I was taught how to use live type for our credits which we then experimented on.

9/03/10

Today we went Canery Wharf,London bridge and Waterloo to shoot as many shots as we could where I was the camera person.

10/03/10

Our role got switched today as I was the actor for the stalker role in our last scene.

12/03/10

Today I filmed the assassin changing.

15/03/10

we uploaded footages.

16/03/10

Did some more shoots of the last scene where i was both camera and actor.

17/03/10

Redo the changing scene for the assasin as the first ones weren't good enough where I was the camera person.

19/03/10

Uploaded footages today and editing.

21/03/10

Filmed close ups of screens in the security box where I was the camera person.

22/03/10

Redo the close ups and did some shots of my hands opersting an technology and redo the killing scene where I was some times the actor and some time the camera person.

23/03/10

We started editing and making editing decision together.

Thriller opening

This is a good thriller opening because it gives a sense of equlibrium. However the tracking of the guy on the bike makes it abit boring because of the long pace this scene but it got more interested a it continued. The music that was playing when they were beating the guy creates tension. It is also good as it shocked the audience for we didn't expect a guy to suddenly fall off a bridge and hanging. I believe this is an unconventional thriller because it juxtaposition the villian as we had expect the villian to be in dark clothing whereas he was in white. the opening brings theatre of the mind because the audience is wondering what the guy face looks like after getting beaten and if he's dead and it is conventional that there is abit of violence(action). The use of the props-guns shows us that it is a action thriller. Inprovements that i would offer is with the titles and credits because they are boring.

Thriller opening

This isn't a good thriller opening because it wasn't clear who our protagonist and antagonist were. The scene where they were jacking the track carried on too long and extended and there wasn't no tense music to go with the action that was taking place. The opening confused the audience as we didn't know what was going on which you can say that it creates a bit of mystery which is a convention of a good thriller.

The only think that makes this a good thriller opening is the type of fonts that were used to introduce titles and credit as they were used creatively and effectively as the reflected what the film is about.

Thriller opening

This is an example of a good thriller opening because of the tense music building tension and suspense for the audience as it got more and more dramatic. There were conventions of a thriller such as action codes keeping the audience on the edge of there seat and building our tension and there waas theathre of the mind. the editing also shows that it is a good thriller opening because of the fast pace I think it was creative how they gave the audience a taste of the action and then they introduce the credits and titles with a upbeat and mysterious soundtrack that goes with the action that they were showing. Another convention we are introduced to is the protagonist.

Se7en trailer