Friday 22 March 2013

Question 5. How did you attract/address your audience?




Examples within thrillers

Here we have the opening of the first Saw film. This is a great example of enigma which was commonly used within my own thriller: 
What I like about this clip is that it uses the same sort of technique that we used within our own thriller. Although we don't have a half dead man, with two strapped up to the wall, we used a less extravagant starting. With the same concept of what's in the bag? why is Edward there? to Saw as we are asking: What's on the tape? Why are the men there? The same sort of shock at the beginning to the situation the people are in is used and to effect.


Next we have a film which grabs us with a hook at the very beginning, and one which we took a lot of influence from when planning our own thriller: 
 Here we have a great example of an opening with a hook. In this opening we have the introduction of the whole movie, an introduction to the mysterious cube that many people will soon be trapped in. The importance of the hook is to make the audience want to watch the rest of the movie, and with this opening it introduces a unique concept for a movie. We took the same approach with our own, trying to make a unique starting so that the audience will be more than intrigued to see where the movie will take this idea.


A film that could be used as an example in reference to cinematography and costume, one in which took specific detail in doing so is Zero Dark Thirty:


Not taking a direct copy of the costume used, taking notice of the detail they made helped us within our own thriller. With lots of rich settings, the surroundings help to bring the film alive with a lot of the settings in foreign countries. The use of different colours with the sharp images is something we incorporated into our own thriller. I think by paying attention to little details such as costume can make a rather big impact upon the outcome of the whole movie. This could be further explained with the help of macro and micro analysis. In the context that the macro side of the picture (the wider look) is intensified by the micro attention to detail (the finer details).


A modern gangster film that was previously released in 2012 relates most to our own in terms of the gangster genre. This film is Looper:


This is a more modern take on the gangster genre and is the approach that we were going for on our own thriller. Within this movie you still have the classic 'mob' and gangster like characters however the costume choices and dialogue is a lot more updated and original. This is a unique take on the gangster genre and was definitely a starting point to look at when constructing our own thriller. 

1 comment:

  1. Your scribd entry is the strongest aspect of this blog post: it shows that you can focus upon specific details and explore their appeal and pleasures, with strong, focused points. Your prezi is a good outline of some of your ideas but would be strengthened by including images from your own thriller to support and illustrate your points: discussing specific still images would help to focus your discussion. These could be added into your prezi easily.

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