Chosen Thriller Production

The Thriller we have been choosing in our group will be a great Production. It is about a man driving home and on his way he meets a boy with a scary mask standing in his way and however he tries to turn, the boy is still in front of him.
The idea is very basic but I think it is going to work very well because of the effects we can built in. The light of the car which will light the boy are going to look scary and maybe we will even get some fog in the night. Another point is, that the mask, that the boy is wearing is very scary and this works because then you don't see his face or his emotion.
Another point is that the boy is kind of supernatural because he is always in front of the car no matter how hard the man tries to get away.
To have a great story we will have cues about the fact that the man had done something wrong or even killed the boy.
I think this Thriller is going to be great because of the masks and the effective lightings.

Powerpoint Presentation

My Thriller Idea

My Thriller Idea was to have 2 Girls sitting in a room and having a Girls-Evening. They invited a third one to make fun of her and as they are sitting there you can always see something evil in her eyes. As she goes to the toilette die other girls talk about the special "Halloween-Game" where you write "DEVIL" with lipstick on the mirror and when you turn the lights out a ghost will come out to kill you. They do it and as the girl comes out the toillette they turn the lights out and the audience sees that the girl coming out of the mirror is actually the third one. As nothing happens the two girls put the lights back on and the third one turns around to make the light out. The two girls scream because they are getting killed and the screen is dark except of the letters which spin around and form the title.
To give you a more detailed explanation i will put the Powerpoint Presentation onto this Blog!

Thriller Posters

Seven is a great poster because it refers to the title of the movie but also gives a little overview about the movie. Final Destination and Gothika are put in blue which a really like because it looks cold and scary.
Life and let die is an example of a espionage movie and i love the poster because it attracts the attention.

Horror Posters

This is an example of a Horror Poster from the Movie Saw and in my opinion this works very well because the letters look really scary and the special chair this person is sitting on makes the viewer wonder what it is and how it works. The fact that the person on the chair is wearing high heel shoes but a pig head makes us interested in what has happened to her.

The other movie is Drag me to hell, an example of a supernatural horror thriller and i like the Poster because it shows the unknown which makes us interested in it.

The next one is the exorcism of Emily Rose and I like the Poster because of the fog, the huge tree and the esorientated looking girl. The other one is a very old poster but i still like it because it shows pure horror and fear.

What is a Thriller?

A Thriller contains a meta-genre which are the emotions and reactions that should come from it, for example fear. Thrillers rely on the plot, fear in the audience, apprehension, suspense or you could just say basic worries that people have. These can be simple fears that make the audience emotionally involved. Thriller contain universal themes and work with a sense of delay because they use the time that the audience is waiting for something to happen to create suspense. Thrillers work because the are sadomsochistic because the audience likes seeing somebody else feeling discomfortable, they use ambivalence which means making the audience believe in what is happening and they are emotionally involved in what is happening.
There are different types of Thrillers, for example espionage or spythrillers like James Bond, Psychological Horror Thrillers like saw or supernatural thrillers like Drag me to Hell.
All of these genre are identified and classified by their key conventions which are the intricacy of plot, a complex unraveling narrative, a focus on fear, apprehension and suspense, a sense of delay and enigma codes which are mysteries and questions that the audience ask itself about what is happening and this also means that there is something unknown to the audience.
Other Conventions are that the audience pleasure derived from individuals discomfort and voyeurism, which means that we are aware of something that the character isn't.
If Thrillers contain each of these conventions they are good Thrillers and fulfil the expectations of the audiences.

Account of editing preliminary Task

We edited our Preliminary Task using Final Cut Pro. To get into the Programme we needed to enter the Password and find our Group Preliminary Task which was already put there by our teachers. by double clicking it we got to our work place where we could edit the sequence. There are two screens in the top right corner so therefore in one you can let one sequence take part and in the other one another. It was important to cut the different shots prom each other by putting the whole sequence into the timeline and then cutting out the different shots by pressing "i" when it starts and "o" when it ends. Then you have this single shot as a seperate file. After doing this with the whole sequence we needed to put them together and in order and then cutting beginning and ending to make everything fit. For this we needed to take the shots and put them at the right place into the timeline together with its sound and then cut them together to create a great flow.