Our task was to produce a two minute opening for a thriller film aimed at an audience of 15+. We chose this age range as it is the most common age range for thrillers. To make a media product fit into the genre of Thriller it needs to have suspense, excitement and tension. In the first two minutes of a thriller it is important to set the scene and give an idea of the story line and some idea of what is going to happen, this can be achieved by using a variety of different shots, especially close-ups, extreme close-ups, low angle and high angle shots. Music is an important factor as it plays a key part in setting and enhancing the mood of a scene for example if the scene in the background was an intense fight/ chase scene you couldn’t use for example a Britney Spears song. Mise-en-scene is also important as what is in the scene can have a great effect on the mood and set-up of a thriller film, e.g. things like blood and places that are dark play a great part in make a thriller seem more intense. Thriller openings should leave you wo
ndering what is going on and should create suspense effectively, and example of an opening to a film that does this well would be ‘Memento’ which starts the movie with the protagonist Leonard is has killed the antagonist ‘Teddy’. The film then starts to rewind through the events that led to Teddy’s death, ending with a voice over from Leonard. This film plays to conventions such as close up shots and move quickly between them. The opening is effective because it leaves you questioning if what has happened is good or bad and also easily creates tension and makes people want to keep watching with it’s non-linear style.
‘Memento’, in particular, influenced our production as we took some of the non-linear idea that they portrayed and used it in our own, creating an unsure idea of what order things should be happening in whilst also setting up for what may happen if we were to continue the piece into a whole film. We achieved this by using clips more than once in different places and speeds and using flashbacks.
ndering what is going on and should create suspense effectively, and example of an opening to a film that does this well would be ‘Memento’ which starts the movie with the protagonist Leonard is has killed the antagonist ‘Teddy’. The film then starts to rewind through the events that led to Teddy’s death, ending with a voice over from Leonard. This film plays to conventions such as close up shots and move quickly between them. The opening is effective because it leaves you questioning if what has happened is good or bad and also easily creates tension and makes people want to keep watching with it’s non-linear style.‘Memento’, in particular, influenced our production as we took some of the non-linear idea that they portrayed and used it in our own, creating an unsure idea of what order things should be happening in whilst also setting up for what may happen if we were to continue the piece into a whole film. We achieved this by using clips more than once in different places and speeds and using flashbacks.
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