Thriller research

In this lesson we began work on our main thriller task. We looked at clips of the beginning of some well known thrillers. This helped me to understand a lot more about how a thriller can be presented, such as ways it can start of fast paced and let the audience be thrown straight into the story, or how a thriller can begin really slow and progress in a completely different way and then at the end turn out to be a completely different ending to what the audience would have suspected. We took notes whilst watching these and it helped a lot as I am able to look back on them when making my thriller and have a choice of different beginning and types of storylines that I can use. We have not chosen our groups yet but I am hoping to work well with the people I am with to produce good work. Towards the end of the lesson we started to watch the thriller, The Usual Suspects. This was a completely different type of thriller to what I have seen before and to what I had thought to be a typical thriller. It showed me a lot of different camera angles that I could use in the thriller I am going to make and showed me that even at the beginning a thriller can be made to seem as though it is a normal film through the use of a slow start up.