The Meeting with Matt

During this lesson we had to pitch our ideas to Matt, who will be helping us with our thrillers. As a result we were given feedback which will help us develop our ideas more. For example, we were given the advice that the girl that is being interrogated will need to have strong and articulate dialogue. 'Now You See Me' was recommended to us for inspiration. Overall, we're on the right path but we need to be careful about casting to do the sequence justice.

MEET THE TEAM

Thriller ideas

Opening sequences:
1. security guard - watching people - follows certain people - zooms in on a particular female - walks out - as if to follow her
2. male cooking - flashbacks to when he murdered someone - then intensity of cooking - end sits down to eat and smiles at the camera
3. male at cafe booth - shaking and sweating - the background noises get louder (dialogue, cups clashing, laughter, footsteps, door opening) - tipping point - shouts at the other customers and shoots a gun into the air- demands them to give him their possessions- customers react - guy crouches down to pick up the possessions and receives a blow to the head and blackout

Understanding film genre

Genre is a type of story, for example:  thriller, comedy, science fiction. Films within a particular genre share things in common. A science fiction film usually contains some story line where the science of that particular time undertakes something out of the norm, like contact with alien life forms or time travel. The thriller genre is different from most other genres because on the surface many of them look entirely different from each other. Thrillers generally have similarities though, for example they all involve some sort of dramatic plot twist, like in the Shining where Jack Torrance goes mad and starts to attack his family or when the shark in Jaws attacks the defenceless civilians.

Here are a few examples of typical thriller posters.

Genres, audiences and institutions

Genre is relevant to audiences because an audience has expectations of each genre, for example if you go to see a sic-fi film you would expect to see themes of space and/or time travel, or to a horror where you would expect to see iconography of blood and murder, e.g. Scream 4.
Genre affects film production because there are some aspects of a genre that the creative team would need to take into consideration. For example: location, you would expect a teen movie to take place in a teenage community, a place where someone of this age can relate to.
When a film is marketed, the audience will need to be aware of what the genre of the film is, so the film trailer will need to portray this. For a thriller, the trailer would need to reveal some elements of suspense and mystery.

2nd Editing Lesson

In this lesson we were given the chance to finish off editing our sequence. As a class, we all watched each others sequences and gave feedback.

Link to the prelim sequence