Low key lighting
Jump Cuts
Shot angle changes
Black & White Shot
Digetic Breathing
Tense music
Protagonist at
Antagonist will
Montage of shots
A common example is...
Pathetic Fallacy- Pathetic fallacy is a technique used by film directors which involves uses or manipulating the weather through CGI. The manipulation of this weather is often used to foreshadow an upcoming event or signify the mood of characters. An example of this is from the image above that was used in a Pirates of the Caribbean film. The sky is dark and gloomy so connotes that there is incoming danger or an upcoming situation that characters may face.
Evaluation:
Looking at the conventions of our thriller genre were useful in giving us insight into what techniques and styles we should implement into our own work. Conventions taught us what way things were usually done within the thriller genre so gave us almost a guide when we were brainstorming. Without looking at the conventions we would be practically stranded and probably make many mistakes resulting in an end product that didn’t even resemble a thriller. So we completed the task with the aim to have an idea of what our opening should and shouldn’t include and what rules we have to follow.
We did this in order to find out the conventions a thriller film should contain and the elements it should have in order to make it a thriller film. We discovered that thriller films used a lot of jump cuts and quick cuts to portray something bad that is going to happen. We iincorporated this idea so our own two minutes opening will also contain a lot of quick cut scenes and different camera angles to show each P.O.V.
Maxwell St. Hill & Andrew Fernando