EVALUATION Question 6: What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

This voiceover is the spoken voice of Juliana Amaa explaining what we did as we filmed, the prorams we used on the Apple Mac to make the film's titles, score, additional lighting and filming. For example, the program Livetype enable us to make a font that related our film genre being a pyschological thrilller.

Detailed analysis of Thriller Clip analysed in class

In "What Lies Beneath" most of the shots are from Claire's point of view. There is a high angle shot of Claire walking up the stairs to show that she's vulnerable and going to be the weak character in this scene. There is also a close up of the necklace on her neck to show it will be and important aspect in this scene. Straight after this close up we see a long shot of the bathroom so we link the necklace to the bathroom then a panning shot of the phone. We then see her walk into the bedroom as puts on a white dressing gown over her white dress. The white clothes signify her innocence in this scene. We then see a close up of the phone to show the importance the phone plays as we see that Norman didn't call the emergency services. There are a few match-cuts throughout the fighting sequence where Claire is struggling to get away and when she's running down the stairs. There is a Low angle shot of her when she is crawling on the floor to show he vunrability with a high angle shot of Norman on the stairs looking down on Claire to show his power and that he's in control in this situation. There is a close up of Claire's face when she's on the floor, which makes the camera look like its on the floor, to show her facial expression as she struggles to get away. This is followed by a high angle shot of Norman standing over her but the camera returns to a normal mid shot of him when he's admitting what he done. There is a high angle shot of him carrying Claire in to the bathroom to enhance the menace of what he is doing. This is followed by a birds eye view of the bathroom to show him putting Claire in the bath tub.

How is suspence created in the film you watched in class?

In class, we watched the supernatural thriller "What Lies Beneath" directed by Robert Zemeckis. The plot of the film is about a couple who experience a strange haunting that slowly uncovers secrets about there pasts. Suspense is created in the film by using false plateau. False plateau is when the audience think something is going to happen but it doesn't happen. A good example of this would be when Claire walks up the stairs and you expect something to happen or someone to be waiting for her, and she walks into the bathroom with the shower running and u would asume that theres someone in the bathroom.

EVALUATON question one

i think that the titles of our sequence and that of the seven was very similar because they had the same text and they were both handwritten script.

all of the actual images are close ups and this is very improtant when creating thrillers because it leaves alot to the imadgination. both are quite dark with the lighting letting the audiance know that it isnt some happy go lucky type movie.

News and current affairs events

The story in the news that caught my attention this week was the execution of Zheng Minsheng who stabbed eight young children to death and injuring five other children at a primary school on the 23rd of March. He carried out the attack after breaking up with a girlfriend. I think the whole story of this attack would make a intresting pyscological thriller.







Another story that i found intresting was the migrants in Mexico that are facing a major human rights crisis. The human rights group said officials ignored or even played a part in the rape, kidnap, and murder of migrants, often carried out by criminal gangs. Tens of thousands of Central American migrants pass through Mexico every year to try to reach the US and find work.

EVALUATION question 8 comments and feedback

i think we had a lot of very positive feedback and the thriller opining actually shocked and even scared some of its audience witch was our intention.

when showing our teachers our rough cut some of the teachers made a comment that they did not think that some people would understand the story line but thankfully after the cinema screening everyone knew what was going on and wasn't confused by the cannibal idea.

List of Thriller sub-genres - which inspires you at the moment and why?

List of Thriller sub-genres:

Action thriller
Conspiracy thriller
Crime thriller
Disaster thriller
Drama thriller
Horror thriller
Erotic thriller
Legal thriller
Medical thriller
Political thriller
Psychological thriller
Spy thriller (also a subgenre of spy fiction)
Techno-thriller
Religious thriller

The thriller sub-genre that inspired me, before the actual film of our thriller, was the psychological thriller as i think this would be a great sub-genre for our film as we can use it to make the thriller quite scary and twisted.