Thriller research.

     The graph above show the top seven most popular thrillers of 2013, this is useful information because I can make my film in a similar style to one of these. ( www.IMDb.com)

 V background info of thrillers V

These are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features. If the genre is to be defined strictly, a genuine thriller is a film that rentlessly pursues a single-minded goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the main character(s) is placed in a menacing situation or mystery, or an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Life itself is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy. (filmsite.org)
 
Done by Emily Tomkins

Audience feedback  made by Emily in my group, our presentation from our audience feedback

Audience Theories

Hypodermic needle:
The hypodermic needle was first introduced in the 1930's and it is said to be like injecting a message into the audience, as the mass media has a direct, immediate and powerful effect. If the message has a positive aspect, then the audience will give off positive reactions just like if there were negative aspects in the media, the audience will give more of a negative reaction.

Reception theory:
Reception theory is a way of understanding a text, which you are able to notice how the audience read them and them, it also places the view into context taking in all of the different factors that could change how the audience read and create a meaning from the text. This theory came from Hanz-Robert Jauss in the late 1960's, but the theory was used a lot more between the 1970's - 1980's. This theory has been criticized by some theorist, however as they are concerned with how the meaning of the experience is created to the audience.

Two step flow:
This theory is said that the audience make their opinion based on the views from a strong opinion leader. Opinion leaders are people who have been influenced themselves by the mass media and then, they pass on their views onto people who aren't as involved in the media. This theory first came around ain 1944 and it was introduced by Paul Lazarfeld, Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet.

Done by Lauren Parker

Textual analysis

Textual analysis

Se7en

Camera – At the start of this extract there is an establishing wide shot of a person in his kitchen and all the stuff in and you can see that the dishes are wash and everything is tidy which may show that he likes to keep everything in order and clean and also presentable then as he is walking past the camera, there is a chess board which comes n to shot, with may show his intelligence level maybe showing whoever this person is, is clever.

There is a low angle shot to introduce his character (detective) showing the badge and the gun and all the other tools of his trade, they do this to show you an introduce who he is, without actually showing him investigating stuff, which is very typical of the thriller genre, also they show him picking them up one by from from a point of view shot to add more effect and this is also to show how he organises everything in a line, to show he is a very well organised person.

There is also a low shot of his bed and him picking dust or something off of his suit jacket, which shows he is a very well groomed man who looks after himself and shows he is self conscious of his appearance and maybe that he wants all the other detectives to respect him, if he presents him self that way.

Then it goes to a crane shot to show the importance of situation at hand of an victim to murder and a pool of blood, underneath her showing that she has been murdered and this is the line of work that the detective works in, even though he is a well groomed man. He works around death and blood a lot.

A low angle of them when him and a younger detective are walking down the street, to show they are important and to make them look bigger then everyone, else as they are the enforces of law and have power and authority.

Later on when he goes home he touches the metronome hand and it then zooms in to the metronome to build up tension and emphasises his loneliness as when you’re a detective you either live alone to keep the people you love out of danger, or because of the job he can’t connect with people and love anyone as it may be a very traumatic and mentally harming job.

Editing - They have edited it so it is red in the title sequence which connotes blood, which may say that in this film there may be a lot of killing and blood throughout this film, which you get a snippet of when watching the first murder crime scene.

There is low saturation to make the house look gloomy and dark, which may connote death, as they are at a murder scene and one light source may also enforce this, also makes the scene seem more dangerous and this amplifies by it being dark.

The numbers which come up on the title sequence indicate that it may be a psychological thriller and the shaky transitions and drawn numbers on a page and all the images may say that this a point of view of the killer as it has pictures of murders and loads of things, also the font they use also reinforces my idea of this being from the killers view as the font they have used, adds an effect of how a crazy person would write maybe making you believe that this person may be crazy, and plans out the murders methodically, doesn't just go out and kill people, shown here by him crossing his face out, which may make him hard to beat, from the detectives point of view.

The non-continuity system is used to reinforce that it’s a psychological thriller, cause it is like my other point about the title sequence, this makes you feel like they may be unstable, whoever the person is.