THRILLERConventions

Suspense

Villain/Victim

Shock

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Supernatural

Relief at the end

False ending

ConventionThriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromFilms

False Ending Challenge – Something demonic and scary giving false hope. Keeping audience scared not just annoyed.

Purpose – To keep the audience thinking; Cliff hanger. Change the way you view curtain situations.Description – We through there would be a new equilibrium, but it ended with a cliff hanger and the demon is still inside her.

Paranormal Activity

Ending – Demon still in her.

Innocent Victims

Use – Young girl.Challenge – Almost being the villain, the victim ends up killing the villain.

Purpose – To make the audience feel sympathy for the character and to shock from her killing the villainDescription – At the end of the film the woman taken hostage ends up killing the men that took her showing no remorse over it.

Disappearance of Alice Creed

The Victim kills the villain.

Kaya Sanel Gia Rahel

ConventionThriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromFilms

Villain and Victim

Use (villain) – Can’t see details, remains a mystery.Use (victim) – An attractive innocent woman.

Develop (villain) – You can hear that it’s a male in their voice, not that much of a mystery.Develop (victim)– Both makes and females, you can see them hurt but not them getting hurt.

Challenge (villain) – Very shy and insecure.Challenge (victim) – Male, showing him in a gore like manner hurt.

Psycho

Scream

House of wax

You don’t see the villain killing nor who they are killing the woman in the shower, it makes the audience wonder who it is.

The villain is a male and you see the girl he killed hurt but you don’t see how he killed her or the gory details.

The victim is a male who is killed by a shy and vulnerable villain, you see the victims get killed and in detail what it looks like.

Kaya Sanel Gia Rahel

ConventionThriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromFilms

Escaped convicts

Use – Middle aged male.Develop – Female.

Purpose – To show the mentality of the character – how smart and cunning they are.Description – The man planned his escape from prison before her went in to out smart the police and get justice.

Law abiding Citizen

Planning an escape from prison.

ShockChallenge – Making it horrific and unexpected. Not predictable . Disturbing.

Purpose – To shock the audience, showing a real life situation in a disturbing and terrifying manner.Description – The villain holds 3 people hostage and shocks the audience in doing some extremely unexpected disgusting the audience

The Human Centipede

Takes people hostage and creates them into a human

centipede.Kaya Sanel Gia Rahel

ConventionThriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromFilms

Blood Develop – To disgust the audience

Purpose – To show psychological state of characters and their horrible mentality, also how much they believe in somethingDescription – When the serial killer cut out a jigsaw from a victims skin to show his symbol/trademark.

Saw 2

Cut out trademark some someone's skin.

SupernaturalUse – To show ghosts existDevelop – Scaring the audience putting the supernatural in realistic situations

Purpose – To terrify the audience showing that supernatural is stronger than yourself and can controlling your mind.Description – The victim is possessed and cant control herself, she forms into unnatural positions and talks in demonic voices of the demon.

The exorcist of Emily Rose

Possessed on the floor and using demonic voices

Kaya Sanel Gia Rahel

ConventionPsychological thriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

Develop – The spirits are hear and seen, but also we developed the convention by having the spirits interact in the real world

Purpose – To shock and scare the audience in a suddenDescription – The closet doors will open in a sudden out of no-where The ghost are opening the

closet doors

SuspenseDevelop – Rather then build suspense to then scare the audience afterwards, we will build suspense slowly then show nothing after the build up

Purpose – To keep the audience interested and build tension so they’re on the edge of their seatsDescription – Laura is in the closet in pitch black

When she is in the closet and the audience doesn't know

what's happeningKaya D.b

Supernatural

Conventions of are opening sequence GIA

Conventions of are opening sequence

Convention Thriller

Use/Develop/Challenge Purpose and Description

Examples from opening sequence

False Ending Use- Having the audience believing that something interesting is about to happen.Challenge- Something scary but giving it a false hope to make the audience scared.

Purpose- To keep the audience thinking throughout .

Description- Laura walks to the cupboard with fear. When the girl opens the

cupboard and there was nothing in it.

Shock Challenge- By making something unexpected to come by not being predictable.

Purpose- By shocking the audience to get a reaction out of them.Description- When the victim is about to experience something unexpected and strange to give the audience a feeling of atmosphere. When Laura see’s someone

running behind her.

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Inspirational Scenes

The boogey man 1 Donnie Darko

Kaya

Location of the spirit / unusual happenings

I was inspired by the boogeyman because of the location where the

unusual things happen in connection to the boogeyman. So I was inspired to have the spirits be connected to a closet just like that film as it was very

scary and mysterious and dark

In reality Donnie Darko is a normal teenage guy, who is shy and doesn't

cause intentional trouble, however he can see and listens to something he thinks is real but in fact is pretend.

Relatable character

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The woman in black

Non-diegetic sound to create suspense

Inspirational ScenesKayaE

In this scene, the character is looking through a spinning lamp, while there is non-

diegetic sound of a regular beat building to a climax

where the face of a woman is seem with a sudden thud to

shock and give the audience a fright

Inspirational Films (Paranormal Activity 3) -2010

Paranormal 3 was inspiring to us because there structure starts of with a equilibrium because it shows that the family are very close and happy. The film the changes to a disequilibrium throughout the movie as something starts to happen and we don’t know what is going on until the family starts to act very strange and different. All of a sudden the mood has changed. So in our opening sequence we are going to start of with equilibrium and then change to a disequilibrium as something begins to haunt someone.

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Sanel Inspirational Films (Sixth Sense) -1999

The Sixth Sense was inspiring to because it involves with spirits and scares the young boy seeing them and this related to our opening sequence as the girl starts to see the spirit and gets very scared it shows us that the spirits can be anywhere and tries to haunt you for a reason or tries to send you a message.

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Inspirational FilmsINSIDUOUS

The girl drops the phone as she hears noises that frighten her. This inspired us to include this in our own opening sequence.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY We were inspired by the ghosts and the haunted house aspect of the film as it kept us as an audience interested in the film

Kaya & Sanel Theme and Concept

Previously, our Theme was childhood sentiment and our Concept was schizophrenia.

What Went Well• The idea was messy, hard to understand• It could connect with out audience• It created enigma, It has an interesting climaxing ending

Even Better If• Change narrative• Need to develop sound and images

• So… We changed a little from drugs back to being haunted, so we can make a effective scary film and opening sequence

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Kaya & Sanel Theme and Concept

• To come up with out new Theme and Concept we all decided to keep the same idea of the opening sequence, but change the cause of seeing delusions to suit the psychological thriller genre more

• We all wanted an idea that could relate to our audience, making it seem more real to them however at the same time frightening them with the characters situation

Theme:Haunted

Concept:Murder

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Theme and concept

• Are previous theme was childhood sentiment and are previous concept was schizophrenia.

• WWWIt suited our genre, it would scare our audience.It was an interesting opening sequence.

• EBIIf people understood the plot, The idea was too complicated, not many people understood the plot fully.

• Did we change are theme/concept? Why? Yes We changed are concept because it wasn’t clear to most people what was wrong with the character Laura.We also changed are theme because we wanted to start a new theme for are new opening sequence.

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RESEARCH OF TOPIC – SPIRTS/

HAUNTING

There are many definitions:• Having or showing excessive or compulsive

concern with something• Showing emotional affliction or disquiet• Inhabited by or as if by apparitions

What does it mean to be haunted?

Why Do Spirit Haunt People?•Some spirits haunt their previous home. They feel comfortable existing in the same house that it once inhabited. Some spirits choose to follow a familiar person or a family member.

•The spirit may now exist with the feeling of fear because it doesn't know what to do. It usually doesn't intend to scare the living, it is just haunted by fear of the unknown.

•A spirit who feels it was had lived an evil life when it was alive, may seek out like-minded evil living people because it feels a kinship to the negative feeling.

•Even though those spirits may appear evil, they are just frightened. They often scare the living in order to get attention. They are seeking help, asking someone to rescue them and guide them to the light.

•The transition that follows physical death is not final until the thought pattern that holds them earthbound is released and they can see the God light.

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