how have i matched conventions in my thriller

Whilst shooting we used a crane for our tracking shot what this did was that it created a more cinematic effect by showing our target audience the surrounding of the environment. It shows them what props are used and gets them to have an idea of what was going on that led to the event in the opening clip of the thriller that we recorded. A Tracking shot is a convention that is used in a variety of different noir thrillers for example in the opening of A Touch Of Evil.

 

 

After the tracking shot we used 2 other basic camera shots. They were medium shots however we shot our actress at a low angle looking up at her with the two other shots and what this does is that it gives her a sense of power and makes the audience see her as more dominant. However our actor was shot from a high angle poking down and what this does is makes him look vulnerable towards our audience also it is to represent how weak he is compared to the woman that killed him. It shows that she is more dominant than he is. Low angle and high angle demonstrates power in a scene and this is a convention that we used in our film.

With our lights we tried to keep the scene dark and colourful so we could keep the Neo noir effect. So we did not use any of the ceiling lights in the studio all lights that we used were fluorescent lights. we used white fluorescent lights but we covered most of them with filters to give it a sort of psychedelic and mysterious theme. We used classic noir lighting to create the effect of a boudoir. This has been used in a number of other noir-ish films such as Peeping Tom and Basic Instinct. We match this convention

For sound we had very little dialogue because we wanted the scene to tell the story. So we only gave our killer 2 lines but we made use of all the background noises we recorded. And then we added a soundtrack in the background as our secondary sound. Choosing the music was not easy as we had to choose a soundtrack that supported the sexual theme we wanted to give the thriller so we could get it to sell as what is said to make thrillers sell is sex drugs and violence. So we had different albums to choose from and to make sure we moved faster I offered to go to a different computer and listen to all the songs on the three different albums. I narrowed down about a 100 songs to 10 and showed the 10 I selected to the members of my group. So we listened to them together and we selected track 12 from burlesque and beyond and that was my first choice of the 10. we chose this track because it gave the thriller the cinematic effect we wanted it to have and put emphasis on the sexual theme we were trying to display. Sound is something that gives meaning to a film in an opening sequence and therefore we used this to match that convention.

In our thriller we used a traditional opening sequence. In thrillers you normally expect to see titles and in our thriller we used titles therefore we matched the conventions of having titles in the opening sequence of thrillers. With traditional opening sequences you start off with the directors, producers, editors and the production company before getting to the Title of the actual thriller. This is what we did for our thriller therefore we matched the convention as we did everything in chronological order.