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My thriller ideas

My thriller idea

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My Horror/ Thriller Idea.

We open on an establishing shot of a club in a busy town centre focusing on the cue to get into the club, we then go into a close up of one girl in the crowd clearly underage and out alone. We then see that the girl starts taking to an older man in the cue and getting very friendly, we cut to the P.O.V of the man talking to the girl doing this hand held to make the audience feel like they are in the shoes of the man, all the sounds up until now have been diagetic, the music coming from the club and conversations between people.  Staying in the point of view of the man we make our way into the club where the night starts to speed up until we see the man give the girl a pill of some sort staying in P.O.V handheld we see the girl swallow the pill. It is at the point we go to a fast tracking shot backwards to see her reaction to the pill we then have a static wide shot where the girl is moving slowly around the club and dancing really badly as if she is overly drunk the crowd starts moving really fast to show us as the audience what she is feeling. When the girl finally leaves the club it is light outside we see cleaning crews and shots of empty streets and the sun rising. The girl who is now standing on the curd outside the club still a little tripped out from the pill she was given in the club. Several black cabs go past her as she tries to flag one down until finally an unlicensed cab pulls up and she gets in and tells him where she wants to go we have cutaways of the taxi leaving with the girl and some other shots inside the cab of the girl sleeping and the driver looking nervous and sweating a little bit it is at this point that the car swerves off the road quickly and the girl wakes up we then cut to black where we hear diagetic sounds of the car skidding to a halt, the door opening and finally the girl screaming and crying. Finally after all this we have the title come up on screen and some sort of slogan both of which I have not decided on yet.

Analysis of a scene from the 6th sense

In one of our lessons last week we looked at the scene in the 6th sense where the boy goes into the dead girls room, we learned that different means are used to build fear and suspense such as the non diagetic music as the boy slowly reaches for the door handle. By him reaching slowly this builds suspense and as we see his reflection in the door handle this is all used to scare us.

We are then inside the room and we see lots of dolls and a hospital bed, the slow moving child and the dark lighting is also used to build suspense and fear. This whole scene lasts around 3 minutes which is a long time in media terms, when the girl finally jumps out from under the bed we have been waiting for this moment for a while therefore scaring us a lot more.

Denotation & Connotation of Horror Film Images





Gothika
-Denotation
Woman in front of wall with red writing on it. Saying 'Not Alone'.

-Connotation
'Not Alone' symbolises how she may not actually physically be alone or mentally. Showing us that she may be mentally unstable, her clothing (tracksuit) highlights the she may be at home or in a place of comfort as she has not made an effort dress wise. The red writing could be blood, therefore showing us she is some sort of trouble.



Halloween
-DenotationMan with a white face possibly a mask, looking over a banister holding a large knife

-Connotation
Low angle shot to show that he is a strong character and his hierarchy, holding a knife signifying that hen is about to do something wrong.



Scream
-Denotation
Person in white mask and black hooded cloak holding a knife looking through window at a blond woman on a phone.

Connotation
Knife symbolises danger, woman may be on phone to someone asking for help i.e the police, Mask covers the mans face building fear as we don't know who this man is. the murderer may be breaking into the woman's home.

Conventions of the Horror/ Thriller Genre

In class last week we where asked to make a list of all the thins we expect to see in a Horror/ Thriller film, Here is the list we came up with:

• Death
• Blood
• Knives
• Axes
• Torture
• Dark
• Isolation
• Paranormal
• Supernatural
• Villans
• Victims
• Abandonment
• Ghosts
• Footsteps
• Screaming
• Kidnap
• Fire
• Puppets
• Mutation
• Creaking doors
• Trees
• Wind
• Clowns
• Storms
• Bad Omens
• Shouting
• Guns
• Psychos
• Dolls
• Hooded Figures
• Rats
• Owls
• Church Bells
• Grave Yards
• Candles
• Pain
• Murder
• Fear

Our Prelim Task