Thriller is a genre that is closely linked to horror. Thriller films create suspense and mystery to surprise and thrill the audience. There are many sub genres to thriller such as: conspiracy thriller, crime thriller, disaster thriller, mystery thriller and supernatural thriller and so much. One of the earliest types of thriller is psycho thriller that was popular in the 60’s.
A lot of the thriller films in 2010 are action thrillers, such as the A team, unstoppable and the losers. Whereas a lot of the thriller films in the 20’s were psychological thrillers such as blackmail, the lodger, and the bells. So it shows that the genre thriller has become very diverse over the years, in the past it was more psychological and now it is more about action and entertainment.
is rated R.Shutter Island:
Shutter Island is an American, 2010,Psychological thriller film. Directed by Martin Scorsese. There are many psychological thriller films today, although action thriller films are more common. It's a lot to do with the subconscious of a man and not realising his split identity/personality. When I watched shutter island I found that it was very interesting and a good thriller film because I liked that the audience didn't know the whole story until right at the end. It was a good way of keeping suspense and getting the audience personally involved with their opinions. You didn't know what was going to happen next, which made the audience wanting to keep watching.
Flashbacks of different events that was occurring in the main characters life got audiences to know a bit more about him and his life. This made the audience understand his point of view and was done very well. It shows why he is how he is, the life events that has made him the person he is in the film.
Camera angles and movements are quite sharp, there are a vast amounts of different camera angles used in this film. Such as long shots, meduim shots, close ups, shot reverse shot and much more. The camera angles show what is happening in the film, there are panning shots, like when the camera pans across the people stood outside of the house. This lets the audience know what kind of place it is and show what the characters are like.
There are diegitic sounds to add to the atmosphere, such as lightening. This adds effect as it seems scary, gloomy and miserable. There is a lot of dark lighting to set the scene.
One hour photo:
Flashbacks of different events that was occurring in the main characters life got audiences to know a bit more about him and his life. This made the audience understand his point of view and was done very well. It shows why he is how he is, the life events that has made him the person he is in the film.
Camera angles and movements are quite sharp, there are a vast amounts of different camera angles used in this film. Such as long shots, meduim shots, close ups, shot reverse shot and much more. The camera angles show what is happening in the film, there are panning shots, like when the camera pans across the people stood outside of the house. This lets the audience know what kind of place it is and show what the characters are like.
There are diegitic sounds to add to the atmosphere, such as lightening. This adds effect as it seems scary, gloomy and miserable. There is a lot of dark lighting to set the scene.
One hour photo:
One hour photo in my opinion was very good. It created a lot of suspense as you knew/ felt like something was going to happen although you didn't know what. After a while in the film y
ou could tell that the main character was up to no good and it got the audience to continue watching to find out what he would do next. The lighting in this film was very bright and clean. This creates it to look strange and scary because it is very clean and bright, it makes it look as if something unusual is going to happen. It is a different way to create suspense through lighting as many films use dark lighting and not being able to see properly and so on to make it seem scary. There's something about very clean, white, bright places that makes it seem unusual and suspicious, which means the producer is creating an image just with the lighting, which I thought was a very good skill.
ou could tell that the main character was up to no good and it got the audience to continue watching to find out what he would do next. The lighting in this film was very bright and clean. This creates it to look strange and scary because it is very clean and bright, it makes it look as if something unusual is going to happen. It is a different way to create suspense through lighting as many films use dark lighting and not being able to see properly and so on to make it seem scary. There's something about very clean, white, bright places that makes it seem unusual and suspicious, which means the producer is creating an image just with the lighting, which I thought was a very good skill.One our photo is a 2002 film, which is rated 15.An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family. Directed and written by Mark Romanek. Robbin Williams stars. It's an American psychological thriller.
There is also voice overs which makes you know what is going on, the innocence of the main character at the start makes you think that something is going to go wrong. Innocent, every day. normal props make something not seem right, like the camera. He cherishes his job and describes in detail about it and what the camera is like and the machine, which makes him seem suspecious and not normal. They use a lot of white, blues, and they use red when printing photos, red represents danger so it indicates something is going to happen.
Salt
Release: July 23, 2010
Director: Phillip Noyce
Salt is an action thriller. Because it is an action thriller there is a lot of interesting camera angles thats used. At one point in the movie the camera focusses on the main character, and behind is unfocused and quite blury. This shows the importance in the main character and that they are a strong figure in the film. There is a low angle shot, again makes us look up at the main character to show her importance. An establishing shot is used to show the location.
There is a lot of different lighting, there is bright lighting to show properly what is going on e.g. like in the establishing shot it is very clear and a lot of different colours are in it.There is a lot of flashing imagery which makes things look suspicious and very interesting. Flashing imagery makes it seem like people are up to no good as you can't properly see it.
The main character in the beggining had blonde hair, which is more of an innocent colour, there are lots of stereotypes of blonde hair that they are dumb etc. But when the main character dyes her hair black in the film it represents danger and that she is dangerous and not as innocent as we thought.
There are props such as guns which is dangerous. It shows that the people who use it are in control and have a lot of importance. The main character uses a gun which shows the characters strong position.
The Mothman Prophecies (Mark Pellington, 2002) directed by Mark Pellington in 2002 is based on true events which automatically installs tension into the audience as they think it could possibly happen to them, although usually only small details of reality are taken, and then exaggerated and a story is made from it. The music was very echoic but interrupted by sharp sounds to imply to the audience that they should expect the unexpected. Exaggerating a characters breath is used in this clip which implies the character is panicking as you often breathe louder when you panic, even though breathing is very rhythmic and should sound calming, it tends to put you on edge. Cuts from blurry to in focus shots imply a confusing storyline, and draws our attention to specific details to help the audience follow what’s going on. The close up on the moth is quite unnerving for the audience because it is something which we would often see on a day to day basis, but still something which as humans we like. But it reflects that in the title, ‘mothman’ is used which we imagine in our heads to be a cross between a man and a moth, and the fact that the whole creature is never fully seen throughout the film installs tension as an image which can be seen on a screen is never as details or frightening to the audience as the image which they build in their head, and therefore builds tension. The fast cuts when the car crashes adds variety to the pace of the film, and gives the audience the feeling that they are actually there watching the car spinning. The establishing/aerial shot is also a Point of View shot of the Mothman which allows the audience to see the situation from the Mothman’s prospective, and is a way of showing his presence even though we never see him fully. The lighting is very dark throughout as the opening is set at night, and darkness instantly installs suspense as it’s harder to see what’s about to happen.
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) which was directed by Ridley Scott in 1979 used very eerie sounds combined with squeaky noises which sound quite a strange mix which implies it would be a very fictional film. There is no sign of life until the end of the opening sequence, and even then we don’t know who these people are and don’t hear them speak, so it’s completely non-diagetic sounds. There was no establishing shot at the beginning and goes straight into a close-up of the spaceship travelling through space (which could be anywhere in the universe and full ship is never shown); and then a close up of all the equipment, and everything is very plain and metal with nothing personalised which creates an unease for the audience as everything seems very secretive, and as though whoever or whatever is on the spaceship doesn’t want anyone to know anything about them.
In 2007, Francis Laurence directed I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence, 2007) which starts with a news read. This is of a woman who claims to have found the cure for cancer, then cuts to a heading saying ‘3 years later’; and an establishing shot of an empty New York. This shocks the audience as if someone in real life did find the cure to cancer then it would be seen as a miracle, but this obviously has actually had an extremely negative impact and has resulting in New York being completely abandoned which has been done by closing down sections of road whilst filming, and image editing. This makes the audience think about a lot of things about today’s society and the impact in which science has. The familiar setting of New York which we see so much of in films as being ‘the city which never sleeps’ is suddenly contradicted as it appears to be dead. The very famous aerial shot in this film is to show only one car travelling through the streets. An over the shoulder shot is also a Point of View shot of the driver who we see as the only person left in New York. This tells the audience that the story will be told by this character.
1940's thriller films:
Psychological thriller films were still very popular in the 40's. But there was a lot more genres to thriller as well.
Political thriller. Films such as Foreign Correspondent, Man Hunt and Notorious were all in the political genre of thriller.
Comedy thriller such as Shadow Of a Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home and Song Of The Thin Man.
There is also voice overs which makes you know what is going on, the innocence of the main character at the start makes you think that something is going to go wrong. Innocent, every day. normal props make something not seem right, like the camera. He cherishes his job and describes in detail about it and what the camera is like and the machine, which makes him seem suspecious and not normal. They use a lot of white, blues, and they use red when printing photos, red represents danger so it indicates something is going to happen.
Release: July 23, 2010
Director: Phillip Noyce
Salt is an action thriller. Because it is an action thriller there is a lot of interesting camera angles thats used. At one point in the movie the camera focusses on the main character, and behind is unfocused and quite blury. This shows the importance in the main character and that they are a strong figure in the film. There is a low angle shot, again makes us look up at the main character to show her importance. An establishing shot is used to show the location.
There is a lot of different lighting, there is bright lighting to show properly what is going on e.g. like in the establishing shot it is very clear and a lot of different colours are in it.There is a lot of flashing imagery which makes things look suspicious and very interesting. Flashing imagery makes it seem like people are up to no good as you can't properly see it.
The main character in the beggining had blonde hair, which is more of an innocent colour, there are lots of stereotypes of blonde hair that they are dumb etc. But when the main character dyes her hair black in the film it represents danger and that she is dangerous and not as innocent as we thought.
There are props such as guns which is dangerous. It shows that the people who use it are in control and have a lot of importance. The main character uses a gun which shows the characters strong position.
The Mothman Prophecies (Mark Pellington, 2002) directed by Mark Pellington in 2002 is based on true events which automatically installs tension into the audience as they think it could possibly happen to them, although usually only small details of reality are taken, and then exaggerated and a story is made from it. The music was very echoic but interrupted by sharp sounds to imply to the audience that they should expect the unexpected. Exaggerating a characters breath is used in this clip which implies the character is panicking as you often breathe louder when you panic, even though breathing is very rhythmic and should sound calming, it tends to put you on edge. Cuts from blurry to in focus shots imply a confusing storyline, and draws our attention to specific details to help the audience follow what’s going on. The close up on the moth is quite unnerving for the audience because it is something which we would often see on a day to day basis, but still something which as humans we like. But it reflects that in the title, ‘mothman’ is used which we imagine in our heads to be a cross between a man and a moth, and the fact that the whole creature is never fully seen throughout the film installs tension as an image which can be seen on a screen is never as details or frightening to the audience as the image which they build in their head, and therefore builds tension. The fast cuts when the car crashes adds variety to the pace of the film, and gives the audience the feeling that they are actually there watching the car spinning. The establishing/aerial shot is also a Point of View shot of the Mothman which allows the audience to see the situation from the Mothman’s prospective, and is a way of showing his presence even though we never see him fully. The lighting is very dark throughout as the opening is set at night, and darkness instantly installs suspense as it’s harder to see what’s about to happen.Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) which was directed by Ridley Scott in 1979 used very eerie sounds combined with squeaky noises which sound quite a strange mix which implies it would be a very fictional film. There is no sign of life until the end of the opening sequence, and even then we don’t know who these people are and don’t hear them speak, so it’s completely non-diagetic sounds. There was no establishing shot at the beginning and goes straight into a close-up of the spaceship travelling through space (which could be anywhere in the universe and full ship is never shown); and then a close up of all the equipment, and everything is very plain and metal with nothing personalised which creates an unease for the audience as everything seems very secretive, and as though whoever or whatever is on the spaceship doesn’t want anyone to know anything about them.
In 2007, Francis Laurence directed I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence, 2007) which starts with a news read. This is of a woman who claims to have found the cure for cancer, then cuts to a heading saying ‘3 years later’; and an establishing shot of an empty New York. This shocks the audience as if someone in real life did find the cure to cancer then it would be seen as a miracle, but this obviously has actually had an extremely negative impact and has resulting in New York being completely abandoned which has been done by closing down sections of road whilst filming, and image editing. This makes the audience think about a lot of things about today’s society and the impact in which science has. The familiar setting of New York which we see so much of in films as being ‘the city which never sleeps’ is suddenly contradicted as it appears to be dead. The very famous aerial shot in this film is to show only one car travelling through the streets. An over the shoulder shot is also a Point of View shot of the driver who we see as the only person left in New York. This tells the audience that the story will be told by this character.
1920's Thriller films:
The Bells was a psychological thriller film as well as The Lodger and Blackmail.
Spies was a spy thriller. As you can see in the 1920's psychological thriller films were very popular and common.
1930's thriller films:
Psychological thriller films were still popular drawing the 30's, there will films such as M, Freaks, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Mad Love and Night Must Fall.
Although there were a few more sub genres to thrillers in the 1930's such as Crime thriller ( Charlie Chan Carries On, Tangled Destinies and Black Gold) There was also spy and comedy sub genres.
1940's thriller films:
Psychological thriller films were still very popular in the 40's. But there was a lot more genres to thriller as well.
Political thriller. Films such as Foreign Correspondent, Man Hunt and Notorious were all in the political genre of thriller.
Comedy thriller such as Shadow Of a Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home and Song Of The Thin Man.
Crime thrillers such as Among The Living, Nightmare, Double Indemnity, Key Largo and White heat.
More thriller genres were being created as well as these.This shows how many different genres of thriller has been explored over the years. Popularity of different genres of thriller has changed over time.
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