A thriller is a genre that revolves around anticipation and suspense. The aim for Thrillers is to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats. The protagonist in these films is set against a problem – an escape, a mission, or a mystery. No matter what sub-genre a Thriller film falls into, it will emphasise the danger that the protagonist faces. The tension with the main problem is built on throughout the film and leads to a highly stressful climax.
Although at first glance our film doesn’t look like a Thriller because it is a few girls getting ready for a party, but with the title ‘Who’s Next?’ you can see that there will be anticipation as the film will follow through what each girl does when they find out that one of the group has been killed. This creates suspense as when the second girl dies, the other 2 decide that they need to escape the grasp that the killer may have on them.
Our opening shows some of the conventional characters and others that will be revealed at a later time, most of which go with the general character conventions of a thriller.
- Law enforcement officer
- Stalkers
- Criminals
- Psychotic
- Innocent people in the path of danger
The iconography isn’t apparent within the first two minutes of our film and therefore we have challenged the conventions but they also go along with the traditional conventions later on within the film which would have been showed if we were to film the whole thing.
- Weapons
- Tension building music
- Fast paced editing
- Low lighting
When we were writing the script we wanted to put the shadow of the killer in the doorway to make it look creepy and it looks like he was just waiting to kill her. However this plan fell through when we realized that if the shadow was on the floor that Scarlet would be able to see him in her mirror so the hand was a better choice. At first we made it so that the hand was just in the shot but when we played the footage back it was hard to spot the hand so we then changed it so it interlocks with Scarlet's footage with the added sound of a single drum beat which helps add to the suspense of seeing the hand on the door. The hand makes you want to protect the innocent girl who is sat at her desk without a clue of what is happening, and that you wish to scream and shout at the screen until she hears you.
In all other Thriller films there is a suspense and a build up to seeing the dead person and therefore we needed a variety of shots that indicated someone was dead but not who until you see the whole body laying on the bed. Although you don't see the person straight away, the audience will realize that it must be Scarlet because the hand on the door was between her shots and she didn't answer her phone when the others called her.
At the end, the title comes up as the killer is walking out of Scarlet's house as the visual then fades to black and it looks like the writing has been written in blood because of how dark the writing is. The writing is also written in a shaky font which gives a creepy feel to the audience because of the fact that maybe the killer doesn't know what he is doing next.
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