I have selected some scenes from our final edit of our thriller which incorporates, develops and challenges the typical forms and conventions of a thriller film. These clips mainly show how we’ve used form and conventions of a thriller as we did not want to change or try and develop the typical nature of thriller as we thought that these conventions were kind of set in stone and they weren’t really there for us to change. However once or twice during our clip we did slightly tweak the codes of a thriller.
First Scene:
At the start of the film we didn’t wanted to show the
antagonists face as we wanted him to come across as mysterious and disturbed.
Just like a thriller should we thought it would create a lot of tension and
suspense and keep the audience on edge so we had to cut out our characters face
in every shot just to keep that air of mysteriousness there. This is probably
quite typical of a thriller so we used forms and conventions of a thriller
rather than changing them or developing them. This was because the antagonist
is probably the biggest part of the film so it definitely needed to follow the
codes of a thriller.
Not showing the antagonists face really incorporates the
generic conventions of a thriller and leaves the audience asking questions
about who this character is and what his plot is and where he is and what is he
going to do. The close up panning shots allow us to examine the character and
his surroundings. We decided not to show his face the whole way through the so
it does keep the antagonists mysteriousness and continues to make you think
that he is disturbed and that he is up to something.
Second Scene:
Up until the antagonist hits play on the music player we
decided to use some typical, eerie, non-diegetic thriller music as we thought
it was definitely fitting for the character and the setting of the film since
it is a thriller and is meant build tension and suspense. I think this is quite
typical of thrillers as you usually do hear this type of music in a thriller as
it is quite fitting and does set a scene and sets it up for the rest of the
film so we did not try to challenge or change any typical thriller conventions.
The music gradually gets louder and louder up until the
antagonist hits play on the music player when suddenly some really upbeat and
happy music kicks in. We decided to do this as it does make it just a little
bit more creepy and weird since the music was quite absurd and it wasn’t really
a tune someone would just casually listen too as it would be considered as
different and a bit weird so we thought if we used a completely contrasting
song it would be considered by our audience as a bit unfamiliar to the usual,
typical thriller genre.
Third Scene:
I have selected this particular scene to
discuss about how we have incorperated the generic thriller conventions. In and around this scene you will see our character get up and get on with his regular morning routine andacts as if there is nothing suspicous going even though there clearly is. Now this is rather typical of a thriller as you do often see at the start of these kind of films the antagonist waking up and getting on with there morning routine which could involve brushing there teeth and having brreakfast, just like our antagonist does in our film. Since it was the start of the film we didnt really want to try and challenge or change the typical, generic conventions of a thriller becasue we wanted to try and grab the audiences attention right from the first scene and by using these particular conventions we thought it was the best way to grab their attention.
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