AS Thriller Evaulation

Firstly, the brief I was given was to create an thriller opening sequence, which has to include the conventions of a thriller and related to the particular target audience which I had chosen. To do this we got put into groups, mine included myself Ellie Holt and Blessing Dada. In the making of the production there was numerous amount of roles which were needed to successfully make the thriller.These varied from things such as director, to MES co-ordinator , editor, music producer and a few more. The role I had been allocated was MES co-ordinator, meaning I was in charge of makeup, costume, iconography and finding the most appropriate setting for which the sequence could be placed in. From being allocated this role I was able to understand the importance of the minor things such as makeup and iconography as this helps contribute towards the audience in understanding what genre the film is. Also from watching numerous other thriller films to help me to find the best setting, I began to understand further the different conventions of a thriller and their importance. As a whole I think out group worked ok, although we had a few mishaps in the beginning, we ended up working together ended up creating an opening sequence. It would have been better if we communicated more from the start as this would have meant we had more time in editing our film, not only that but we would have been able to create a better piece. From looking at the final piece I think we made an successful thriller film as it had aspects of different conventions, such as low-key lighting, hidden identity, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds and straight cuts. The film being set at night time with only the street lights, helped create suspense as the audience are unaware of what or who could be there as its dark, creating enigma allowing it to link to another convention; hidden identity. Hidden identity is used throughout as the audience are unaware of who is watching the girl, as they don't know who is filming, meaning they don't know whose POV their viewing things from. Causing them to use there own imagination to create the scenario. Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds are used during the film, for example while the girl is outside a noise of wind has been edited in, emphasising that she is outside alone, showing that she is in a vunrable position, adding to the eery atmosphere. Non-diegetic sounds are also used during the narrative when the girl is indoors and her phone rings, although this noise was not edited in because of the quite atmosphere it is emphasised, and takes the audiences focus. Causing them to take notice of what is going on and brings there attention to one main point.