shadow of a doubt ;

Shadow of a doubt is about a teenage girl who is highly frustrated with her life as nothing seems to go right for her. She then hears that her uncle is coming to visit. Theres a knock on the door, its two men who are pretending to be a photographer and a journalist they inform the girl that her uncle is a suspect of killing someone, whose name is "the merry widdow murderer". In the end all comes out that the uncle is actually the murderer.

North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock

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North by NorthWest is about an identity that has been mistaken when a man is murdered and the main character is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He didn't do himself any favours as he took the knief from the mans back making himself look guilty he is then set to run all over america trying to stop an organization from smuggling microfilm containing governments secrets. the mystery is will he get caught by police as hes face is all over america.

North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock

Idea's for opening scene of a thriller

Within our group we have been discussing certain area's of a thriller that we would like to include within our opening two minutes of a thriller We have thought about such things as the types of shots we will be using, a rough plot line, location and editing.

Shots:
- Point of view shot
- Long shot
- Over the shoulder shot.

Plot:
- Girl having flashbacks of her past
- Scene of the girl in the bath; goes underwater and has a flashback, comes shooting out from under the water.
- beaten when younger by a man unknown .

Location:
- House
- Bathroom
- Street

Editing:
- Fast
- Jump-cuts

Elements of a thriller:
- Suspense
- Mystery
- Fast editing
- Quick Pace

Images to show certain locations :

No Country For Old Men 2007

No Country for old men is one of the thrillers that i have seen myself and it carries many elements that are must needed in a thriller of which i have mentioned previously in other posts.

Here is the opening to no country for old men.

No country for old men is directed by the Coen brothers in 2007 starring Tommy Lee Jones, Jarvier Bardem and Josh Brolin.

This film tells the story of a man coming into contact with a foutune which is not his. It is a cat and mouse drama constant chasing and unknowing when three men cross each others paths in the desert landscape in the 1980's west texas.

The opening to this thriller includes the man finding a group of people dead possibly drug dealers and then finding the money, the suspicion he has keeps building as every character is continuously trying to find the same thing. It is a highly praised film by critics. It has increasing scenes of voilence and disturbing scenes of which are portrayed so casually to the characters.

Conventions of a Thriller

Thriller is a broad genre of literature,film and television that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers can often overlap with mysterious but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. Thrillers must cause exhilaration and apprehension of excitement and breathlessness. If a thriller doesn't thrill it isn't doing its job.

In thrillers the killer is known by the audience all the way along, or in a murder mystery where we don't find out who the killer is till the end, therefore the whole point of the story line would be simply finding out who the killer is. Many films can be applied to the todorov theory, which is equilibrium, disruption, resolution and new equilibrium.

Conventions os a thriller include a crime normally at the heart of it which illudes into something serious yet rich in suspense. A complex narrative structure, with clues but plenty of restrictions to keep the audience guessing but having a sense of fear to keep the story going. A thriller will always have a protagonist and an antagonist. The protagonist who is systematically disempowered and drawn into a complex relationship with the antagonist. Extrordinary events must occur in a thriller which is actually going to thrill people, and usually they would happen in an ordinary situation.

preliminary exercise explanation

As part of our media coursework me and two others in my filming group did a preliminary exercise to get used to using the camera using different shots and then going onto imovie and editing the short clips into a small movie.

Different types of camera shots we used were: over shoulder shot to show the conversation between louise and jaye. Whilst editing we cut all of the clips that we didnt need so that the ones kept fitted in with each other and we made sure that the sounding was right and that it matched the clip. Effects such as fading in and out and using dissolve was able to be used because of imovie to give the short film a bigger effect.