Codes and Conventions of a Thriller Opening Sequence:

Sub Genres of a Thriller - Sci - fi, Physcological, Crime and Mystery. For Example; The illusionist, Silence of the Lambs and Jaws.

Thillers often begin with an opening that leaves the audience puzzzled and disorientated, often engaging the audience in what is happening leaving them wondering what is going to happening. The main features that contribute to the opening and throughtout a thriller is the; sounds effects, and also the editing (fast repeated cuts, camera tilting). Lighting can also be used in thrillers as a way creating suspense, e.g shadows.

Location Shots for Film

Here are the location shots of where we will be filming our Thriller piece:

                                        Long establishing shot, you can see the house and 

                                                                its surroundings.

                                    Close up of doors looking into the room of where we will be 

                                                          filming our opening sequence.

 

                                           This shot will be used as a Point of view shot (p.o.v) 

                                                      as the girls are sitting on the bed. 

 

 A bedroom where one of the girls could be hiding.

  

                                                               Living room, where someone could be running to hide 

 

 

 

Shot of hallway with mirror. (P.O.V)  

   

Shot of an old Piano, could be used to play mysterious/ 

creepy music 

 

 Low Angle shot of Staircase.

Zack and I took these wrecky location shots of where we

will be filming our Thriller opening (Zacks house). 

Some of these shots will be used within

our film although we are still 

discussing which 

shots to use. 

 

Our Continuity sequence

 

Here is our group continuity sequence named 'the eyebrow'

Taken from You tube account  

Thriller film narrative (Hide and Seek)

Beginning:
        The film opens with a flashback of the girls past, their childhood. The five girls are having a sleepover party and during the sleepover one the girls suggests to hide from their friend while she's gone to get a drink. This then turns into a game of Hide and Seek. One the of the girls is killed during the game by a mystery killer/ stalker.

Middle:
        The girls are now all grown up and are living separate lives. They start coincidentally bumping into each other. One of the girls is having a wedding and arranges a hen party. A couple of days before the hen party strange things start to happen to them. For example one girl will wash her hands and blood will run from the taps, instead of water. Another might be seeing their dead dead friend in the mirror. The girls start to disappear one by one, is this the mystery killer? They are killed by strange happenings. The audience are left left wondering and in suspense.

End:
        We don't actually find out who the killer is, we are left to think, we only see a hint of his identity; a possible action to symbolise the killer for example, a hand grip.