MEDIA FORMSAND CONVENTIONS

We will compare our film Vengeance with 2 other Psychological Thrillers :

Gone Girl and Perfect Stranger

Medium -

CAMERA SHOTS

Long shots -

POVshots - Close up shots -

These were used to introduce the set that the character is in.

These were used to show what the character is wearing and what they are doing.

These are used to make the viewers feel as if they are looking through the characters eyes

These were used give a more detailed view of the characters face and to show their facial expressions.

High angled

CAMERA ANGLES

Low angled

These were used to show that the character is weak and vulnerable.

These were used to show the character is powerful.

The soundtrack was almost all instrumentalsGone Girl This is similar to our film – instrumentals help build tension and is

sometimes more effective than vocals because there are no voices to give away what is going to happen in the scene

Vengeance In our film we used instrumental music as well as a dark, demonic choir as well.

SOUND

Gone Girl and Perfect Stranger Costume – like both films we decided to use normal/everyday clothing to help the events appear more natural. Although we did consider colours to make it more obvious who the antagonists were due to limited screen timeProps – in our film we didn’t use many props except the pictures of the girls and our phones this is like the Perfect Stranger she used while carrying out investigations. Setting - LightingSpace -

MISE-EN-SCENE

Female main character- Both films like Vengeance have female leads who are appeared to be victimised

Gone Girl – The main female initially appears to be the Protagonist as she tells the story of being abused by her husband but she was the true antagonist.

Perfect Stranger – In this film the female lead also appeared to be the Protagonist while looking for her friends killer because she was also being watched by another .

Flashbacks - both films use flashbacks - Gone Girl- in gone girl they use the flashbacks to confuse the viewers. - Vengeance- In our film we used it for the viewers to be able to get some insight into why

Mika is plotting her revenge on Jonathan and Lisa, it also allows the story to expand in its early minutes to allow the viewers to understand more since there was a time limit.

NARRATIVE

When we created our film, our film sort of challenged the horror genre when it was meant to be a complete

psychological genre, this was because the dark, low key setting and dark music that created a creepy atmosphere

for the viewers probably made the viewers suggest it to be in the horror genre. However, at the beginning, when Mika was looking into the mirror, the voice of Jonathan echoing in the background gave the effect of the film being a being a psychological thriller and not a horror thriller, another example of our film being a psychological thriller is the

third scene where it becomes a flashback of Mika remembering the even of her being attacked by Jonathan.

CHALLENGES TO THE GENRE