Thriller conventions

Thriller Conventions
dark mood :
-darkness
-deserted
-victim
-villain?  -questions
            - crime gone wrong
            - narrative answers
            - conspiracy
 -ambiguity
- plot
-enigma codes

Conventions of film openings

mixture of black screen
with titiles and footage from films
genre/mood/characters

formats
separate - sequence such as spiderman or james bond.
genre/mood
creativity - beyond the franchise.

Credits
Names such as :
-actors
-costume designer
-producer
attracts audience if actors are good

Start of the film
plot
genre -  thriller
critical moment
complication end of critical
sitiuation
main film explains

Man-On-The-Run

First 10 minutes of my spoof
A bus of criminals is going is taking some criminals to another police station.
The main character on the bus has a flashback, showing the audience he is innocent and has been set up.
They driving through a forest, and a deer suddenly appears on the road.
The bus driver tried to avoid hitting the deer, but he looses control of the bus and drives in to a tree.
The main character tries to break the window to escape, while the other criminals have opened the bus door and are walking through.
The main character runs into the darkness.
Transition to next scene.
The main character goes to a shop and buys  and wears a really bad disguise, he is wearing moustache which looks like it is about to drop and a 80s style wig.
A man with a sniper focuses on the main character, and tries to kill him.
The main character bends over to tie his shoelace.
The bullet hits a pole and bounces back and kill the sniper.

The Birds Analysis

How many shots are there?
There are 18 shots.


 What principles of continuity are used here? How successfully?
At the start of the scene, she is walking towards the door of the house. the camera is at long shot and then goes to medium shot of the porch. The these two shots were taken so it looks like one shot, the match-on-action occurs on shot 3 and 4. So the first the 4 shots look like 1 shot. The match on action is principle of continuity and it is very effective. The principles are are carried out successfully, i know this because when watching the scene i never felt like the shots were not edited properly.  

preliminary task

Final Cut

We practice match on action and the 180 degrees rule in this preliminary task. The match-on-action was correct, there is a shot of the man opening the door from outside and then a shot taken from inside the room, we see the door open immediately. 

The 180 degrees rule was not done correctly, as we did a shot on the other side of the two men having a conversation.

preliminary task - Juno

We had to recreate the Juno film opening. This was a difficult task as there were many shots, so we had to note down the order of the shots because if the shot order is incorrect, the continuity becomes poor. Next we recorded the opening, as we had no special equipments, we had difficulty getting some shots like the bird eyes view shot.

After the shooting was done, the shots had to be edited. We used Final Cut to edit the shots, but we also applied effects so it looks like the original Juno film opening. The software also allows us to apply the Juno soundtrack to our film opening.