Previous task ananlysis for old thriller motive
- 1. Analysis on an audience member. I had asked a friend to participate in an activity that would help expand my understandings of how an audience member would react to a thriller, the two thrillers I had asked to watch have some similarities in what I wish my thriller to be about. 1. Thriller opening sequence AS media, Immersed: She had found the parts underwater effective as you could hear her heartbeat, this was because she had felt it had created anticipation within the opening sequence. She also enjoyed the part when slow motion was used as it had created as sense of timing, she as an audience member had felt the girl was running out of time this led to the audience member feeling apprehensive. However, she didn’t like how long the opening sequence went on for, she had felt that the swimming had become repetitive and had started to feel disconnected from it as she was becoming bored. She believed that we should include suspense, however we shouldn’t hold it out for too long as it becomes boring. 2. Thriller opening sequence AS media, Presence: As an audience member she had found effective how the house and surroundings was shot, so for example the house being empty had created a sense that no one had lived there for years and that it was deserted. The shot she had liked in particular was the window shot, this had given her a wider view on the area the girl was in, and she also said it enabled her to have a wider imagination for the opening sequence. She had liked the shot of the man was in the mirror as well as the blood in the sink as it foreshadowed for her as an audience member that she was and could be in danger. The shot when the pipes started shaking when she turned on the taps had caught her attention because it had created suspense, she the thought that this thriller might be psychological as she believes that there could be a twist within the actual movie. However she felt like the opening sequence of presence was too predictable, as when the girl had shouting out “hello” and the doors closing made the whole thing turn tacky and cliché She said that in my thriller should use foreshadowing as this could get the audience members minds thinking, so for example we could incorporate a scene where the couple are watching a kidnapping movie.