Presentation 3
- 2. THE GENRE OF THRILLERS A thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television whose primary feature is that it induces strong feelings of excitement, anxiety, tension, suspense, fear, and other similar emotions in its readers or viewers—in other words, media that thrills the audience. The thriller genre, like all the categories of mystery fiction I have been attempting to describe and illustrate during the past few columns, is as difficult to define as art or pornography, and its borders are as fuzzy as my memory after a second bottle of wine. Among its components are tales of espionage, political nastiness, financial schemes, adventure, some military fiction, high-tech shenanigans and even weird religious plots.
- 4. MY SEQUENCE'S GENRE My movie is a Thriller with action and suspense. It tells an exciting fictional story about a criminal activity based on religion. Also my thriller is very suspenseful as the audience will be left with lots of questions. This is evident as at the end of my opening sequence, they're left with a confusing & unusual image about what happened. As all the movies have a deeper meaning behind them I choose to use gender roles and make the audience question about the gender choices that I made.
- 5. GENRE CONVENTIONS AND CHALLENGES It is very common in thrillers to use a dark pallet of colours and cold weather. It makes the audience feel uncomftable. Also the choice of filmimg in the woods it is a very interesting choice as it promises action and suspence. Here is an example of the action Netflix series called "forest". In comparison with this serries my film has the same genre in terms of location and camera angles.
- 6. CRUSADE AND OPENING SEQUENCEThe purpose of a thriller's opening sequence is to get the audience on edge and excited to watch the film. There are many ways of achieving this. In the beginning of the sequence I used titles.The titles were represended on a balck backround with white letters. It is a simple way of making the titles but in combination with he wide shots of the priest running and the voiceover, I achieved having a powerful opening sequence. Moreover there are some sorrt clips of nature in order for the audience to be aware of the space and place that it has been filmed
- 7. LIGHTING AND COLOURS Lighting is very important In any genre of film however in thriller films like Crusade lighting is one of the main conventions. This is because the lighting is usually able to make the audience feel suspense and tension throughout the piece. The darker the colour is more sinister the film sees.
- 8. To have that impact in my movie I used low-key lighting in order to create an atmosphere in a scene. I used this darker lighting in the last few second of the sequence that the actress witch does the voiceover reveals.
- 9. IDEOLOGIES SURROUNDING MY MOVIE: Religion Gender Roles Good and Bad Social status
- 10. HOW ARE THE IDEOLOGIES REPRESENTED THROUGH MY FILM?
- 11. GENDER ROLES THE WAY THAT CERTAIN MOVIES CAN TAP INTO OUR NEED FOR ACCEPTANCE, OUR QUESTS FOR ADVENTURE, AND EVEN OUR CURIOSITY AROUND DANGER IS THE REASON WHY LINES FORM OUTSIDE THEATERS AND AN ENTIRE AUDIENCE CAN HAVE A SIMILAR REACTION TO A SCENE. EVEN IF IT’S FANTASY, THE THINGS WE SEE DISPLAYED ON SCREEN CAN FEEL REAL. AND DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES, SOME FILM CHARACTERS CAN HELP US NAVIGATE THE TENUOUS POSITIONS OF BEING HEROINES IN OUR OWN LIVES, TOO.
- 12. POWER AND GENDERTake a strong female character, for instance. When we’re dealing with our own issues, watching a film starring one can be a welcome escape as well as a push in the right direction. In the movie Devil wears Prada Merlyn stip is a boss of a company. The movie might be not a thriller but still has many similarities with my movie Crusade. Both characters are females and they have more power than males in both movies. They are women who are comfortable using power. Most female characters in the mass media“hold and use private power as wives, mothers, partners” The Devil Wears Prada is unusual in that the female characters are dominantly viewed in their roles as career women who use power effectively in the workplace. In my film the female character Patricia Arqueate is the boss in the film and the two henchmen take order from her.
- 13. ANOTHER COMPARISON One of “Captain Marvel” coolest surprises was the fact that the Kree hero Mar-Vell is a woman, played by Annette Benning, instead of a man as in the comics. The same surprise about the gender role appears in my movie too by having as a boss a woman played by Patricia Arquatte.
- 15. MALES CHARACTERS IN MY SEQUENCEIn my sequence I used three male characters. It was an important challenge for me to reperesent the male roles in a non stereotyical way. For example in movies you usually doesn’t expect a doctor to be the criminal of the film. This is what I did in my sequenec, I represented the priest as someone who is involve that something that he shouldn't. And to make that clear I directed him running and then hidding behind a tree. The directions that I gave him not even make the film more interesting but it makes the audience questioning what is happening.
- 16. TO BE CONTINUED Another challenge that I found was that It is very important to make clear to the audienc ethat it is a thriller with action and not an action movie. A gun to your head it is a very common shoot in many action movies. I chose this shoot in order to have more action in my film. In comparison with the film Gibbs that it is an action film I realised that Crusade has a lot in common. For example the camera angles that are very important They are pretty much the same. Close ups of the main characters and mid-wide
- 17. IN DETAIL.
- 18. SHOOTS There is a plain, out of focus background so as not to distract from the facial expressions of the character. This kind of shot is used to show the sorrow of characters as it is simple and doesn't have too much going on.
- 19. Here, we have the iconic close up from the shower scene in horror thriller film 'Pyscho'. The close up not only emphasizes the sheer terror on the woman's face, but it also adds suspense as we are not able to see what she is scared of. This adds suspense because as an audience we are only seeing the reaction and not what caused the reaction. Close ups are often used this way in thrillers, especially horror and psychological thrillers, as it adds a lot of suspense. The feeling of this shoot has a very similar
- 20. MALE CHARACTERS In my movie the male characters take orders from the boss female character. It is very unsual for female charecters to have more power than male characters.