Thriller Comparison- Miss Georgiou

Overall when making our thriller opening sequence, we included many of the typical things you would see within a thriller genre. Charlotte and I made sure that the conventions of a thriller were included and that we created suspense and tension within the thriller whilst keeping it realistic and making the audience feel like they were part of the thriller.

I believe that our thriller was successful as we researched into thrillers many times before putting together the final product and gathering ideas. This helped us to gather ideas for the thriller and by using conventions such as - suspense, tension, young innocent victim, hidden identity of the killer ; it enabled us to put together a realistic approach to a thriller yet keeping the audience engaged throughout. It was also successful as we had great feedback and we worked well and efficiently as a team in order to make this a productive project


My opening sequence contained many different features such as low-key lighting and i used this as i believed that it was one of the most important conventions to a thriller in order to make the thriller have more suspense and tension.
My opening sequence contains features such as low key lighting used through out in order to show a metaphor for how dark the plot of my opening sequence is. Also effective, tense sounds are used in order to make the audience feel up-tight and scared as they aren't aware of what's going to happen in the opening sequence. The cinematopgraphy used within my opening sequence is very conentional to thrillers such as hand held, high angle, and close up. These camera angles allows the audience to view how the characters are feeling and portrays their fear clearly, as well as emphasising the vulnerability of the characters. Therefore, due to these conventions that I have included within my opening sequence, I believe that my opening sequence is successful.

Throughout the whole opening sequence I contributed towards each element within the product but I felt that my best work can be seen in hair and make up. This is because being a female, with required expectations on how to look through pressue from societ, I am able to understand the importance of appearance and am therefore able to apply my understanding towards the characters in my opening sequence. For example, the youthful female used within my opening sequence has blonde, thick hair representing a typical convention towards thrillers. This is because it has been seen in many films, such as Hitchcock's Pyscho, Jaws, Scream 2, Saw and many more. Blonde victims are portrayed to be gullible, weak characters who lack intellegence and ultimately make a perfect victim. The female's outfit showed her character because she's wearing clothes that cover her body, which I felt would be powerful to use as it makes the audience question the females self worth and opinion on herself because she has her body covered up throughout. This relates to the audience because a lot of young girls are shy to show their figures and ultimately have low self esteem, so I was confident that by adding this into my opening sequence would gain, particularly the female audiences of the opening sequence because they would be able to relate. Therefore I felt it would be best to make sure the female character would be blonde in my opening sequence so it showed my understanding of conentions within a thriller. However, I then became creative with my second character who is played by a male. I used a slightly older character who had a sophisticated look to him to show my own unique twist on my opening sequence. Using the materials that I had to create a strong male allowed the audience to feel a sense of security and comfort, the male character is misleading to the audience because he has this strong approach to him, yet as my opening sequence goes on there is a clear show of vulnerability and therefore tricks the audience.  Another character of which I was in control of costume and make up is the killer. I was sure to dress the killer in dark clothes and masked his face in order to inheighten the sense of enigma. Having an unknown character to the audience makes a tense atmopshere and a sense of vulnerabilty is thrust upon the audience. Having a masked killer in black clothing follows the typical conventions of a thriller and therefore I wanted to include this into my group and I's opening sequence. Due to the audiences reactions to the characters who were dressed to my accord and had myself take care of their appearance, I saw a lot of positivity with regards to how approachable the characters where and how their appearance had drawn the audience in. Therefore, with regards to my creativity and understanding of my thriller opening sequence in hair, make up and costumes it shows my complex understanding of how to get the audience to enjoy the opening sequence and be drawn to the main feature of the film - the characters.

·         Which micro element, best shows your creativity and understanding of thriller conventions the most?

·         Compare your opening sequence to a successful thriller and explain how your thriller is conventional. Consider the narrative, representation of characters, sounds, editing, mise-en-scene