Question Five

Sound:

I made the opening appeal to my audience because firstly the sound track needed to create and build tension, I went about doing this by starting of with only a single instrument playing soloing it off from the other instruments making sure that it was doubled tracked to make it sound ‘beefier’. Next I added in another instrument, which was both violins, and woodwind instruments such as flutes. Those were there to grab the audience attention and to make them have more interest in the thriller. Altogether the sound in the thriller was to create and build tension also we didn't feel like we had the right equipment to create dialogue in the thriller.

Camerawork and Editing:

There was a wide range of shot types to attract the audience such as an extreme long shot at the start to maybe catch the attention of the audience members. In the start of James Bond there is always an action scene to keep the audience interested. They have a wide range of shots such as extreme long shots to show where the scene is happing this is normally in a big vast environment to show the audience all the opportunity’s where potentially the actors could hurt themselves.

We fulfilled the audience expectations by them wanting to see mystery which we created by not showing who the victim was or the masked killer was before the film titles had been shown, this created a large amount of mystery around who the characters are. This for filled the audiences expectations as they did get a sense of mystery from the thriller. It keeps the audience on the edge of their seats. This is typical of the thriller genre because they need to keep the audience interested to make them watch the rest of the film.

My audience responded to my thriller by saying overall it was good, “change some of the music to fit the flashbacks to white”. They responded on a website called Poll Everywhere which is a website where you can text in anything and it would be shown up for the group to analysis. I believe looking back on the opening that we should of added in brass stabs to build more tension and to make the audience feel jumpy from the loud and sudden non-diegetic stabs. The general conventions from a normal thriller are the music builds up leading to the climax; this is what I did slowly building up adding in more interments until the finished product sounded good. The instruments that I used were typical of the thriller genre, string instruments such as violins and harps.  Another genre convention was fast paced editing which was done with flashes to white. This is typical of any thriller as it shows action is happing, it also creates tension.

The Sherlock holms entry sound similar in the way that it builds up with many instruments added in as the intro goes along. The start starts off slowly and then it builds up into a full sound track, which both soundtracks do. The main purpose of doing this is to build tension and to make the audience feel some emotion when watching the opening. It needs to be effective and powerful at the same time to make the audiences feel scared. The thriller opening is made to attract an audience to watch the rest of the film, which makes an effective sound track, is needed to do that.

Mise-en-scene:

The costumes in the thriller need to be realistic so we had to get some realistic army and detective uniform, the start of the thriller opening shows Luke, the detective wear smart cloths and a coat and at the end of it I, Matthew am wearing a tactical vest which the military would wear. This make it a more believable and better to watch thriller. The makeup was put on Sam the victim. We managed to make a realistic bruise around the eye to make the thriller to seem more believable.

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