Codes and Conventions within a thriller: By Dominic Esty- Wilkinson

The conventions of the thriller genre are to do with sound and editing. eg quick cuts , fast pace and camera angle changes, music that gives tension and is passy when appropriate. it can be to do with lighting, especially the use of shadow. mirrors and stairs are also conventions of thriller movies.
The codes and conventions are mainly what the audiences expect to see within a thriller this includes all types of thrillers, such as cross genres such as action, adventure, sci- fi etc. What audiences expect to see is what producers need to include in attracting their audience. The codes and conventions within a thriller mainly allows a female protagonist to be a victim of a dominant male character, this enables the audiences to familiar themselves with the stereotypes as females are always vulnerable dependent victims, and the dominant male figures as being dominant. psychological thriller which are sub genres play with audiences minds by manipulating a character or a plot to keep audiences guessing. However cross thriller genres involve action, adventure, sic- fi, these use a slightly different way of using codes and conventions as they are not many things it must include to engage audiences. For example within a thriller in a scene where it is scary and engaging, it will be more likely to see dark colour's so the scene can be represented in a way that audiences expect to see it, also the sound what be loud intense heart beating score music, the contrast would different in a way it reflects the scene. All these are key conventions within a thriller. Another example is a dominant male chasing and vulnerable female protagonist, this will include fast pace intense score music the codes and conventions audiences expect to see. Getting exactly what audiences want will make any film a success.

The Missing Suspects Score Music

To create suspense in our thriller production we added score music from a software called VideoCoPilot which changed we use to change the atmosphere of shots. We did this by experimenting with non-deigetic sounds using FinalCutPro by adjusting the length, volume and transitions between them. The tracks we included are called Survival, Mystery, Greeble and Airplane Cabin. We chose these sounds in particular because they sounded similar to score music we had seen in films of the thriller genre; high pitched, fast pace building tension and heavy base sounding like a heartbeat. We used these sounds wisely, for example, at the beginning of the Missing Suspects thriller, we used the Mystery sound. However, we had to low the volume down as it is heard in the background as the Sergeant delivers important information to the audience. If the volume was to high, the important information wouldn't have been heard, confusing the audience later in the film. Greeble is a heavy base and has a racing tempo which we chose to include as the audience see the mysterious character dragging a body. As there is no dialogue in this part, we added this type of music to build the suspense as well as making it clear to the audience who the antagonist is.

(Alex Christian)

Shot list of final piece By Dominic Esty- wilkinson

SHOT NO: DESCRIPTION OF SHOT TYPE:
SHOT:

1. Name of Romford - Close up
police station

2. Behind the officers - Mid- Shot

3. Extreme close up on - Extreme close up
police Sergent

4. Close up on female - Close up
officer

5. Victim 1 shown on - Close up
investigation board

6. close up on information - Close up
of the murder of victim 1

7. back to Behind the officers - Mid shot

8. Victim 2 shown on Extreme close up
investigation board-

9. close up on information - Close up
of the murder of victim 2

10. male officer looking - Close up

11. sergeant pointing to board - Establishing shot

12. foot shown with large bag - Low angle close up

13. man dragging bag aggressively Mid- shot

14. large bag being dragged - Low angle close up

15. man dragging bag - Long shot

16. question mark on board - Close up

17. question mark on board - Close up

18. missing Victim Rachel - Close up
Brooke shown on
investigation board

19. bag lying down flat along - Close up
with feet

20. man opening boot - Mid close up

21. man opening boot - Extreme close up

22. boot opening - Mid- shot

23. man grabbing bag - low angle close up

24. man lifting bag up - Mid shot

25. man putting bag in boot - Mid- shot

26. man leaving boot open - Mid- shot

27. man with flowers - long shot

28. man looking down at - high angle shot

29. man grinning at dead - close up
victim

30. man placing flowers on - long shot
victim

31. man placing flowers on - high angle shot
victim

32. man walking towards button - long shot

33. man pushing button - close up

34. man looking towards door - close up

35. man releasing button - close up

36. man looking at door - close up

37. man walking away - Mid- shot

38. man's car - mid- shot

39. man's hand opening car - close up

40. man getting in cat - Mid- shot

41. man dialing number - mid shot

42. man putting phone towards ear - extreme close up

43. man throwing phone down - Mid- shot

Final Opening Sequence: The Missing Suspects

Finally, here is the finished product after all the planning of the narrative outline, locations, mise en scene and cast. After analyzing other thrillers, the way in which they create suspense is through the effects the use on the footage. Therefore we included effects such as manipulating colour as well as being selective with editing techniques such as cross cutting and variations of close ups and extreme close ups. The type of score music you chose is also important when representing a particular genre, so with the genre being thriller, we included high pitched along with a fast paced score similar to a racing heart beat as the tension builds.

Almost There

Were almost at the finish line sorry about the wait, please bare with us were adding effects and sound to our final 2 minute sequence, and then it would be up loaded .

The Departed Elevator Scene

We added the departed the our blog because it created a lot of suspense in a creative why, it revealed enigma in a unique way by making it un expected we really like the departed, although it is an action thriller it still created suspense, i chosen the last seen which was the elevator seen because it created a lot of mysteries and revealed answers as several people had been shot.

Evaluation Outlines

These are the requirements of the final stage of our as media course,, in the evaluation the following questions will be answered and filmed, we need to complete this by April in order for our group to go back and fix any little errors that we encountered as we film. OCR has guided us to what we need to include and complete.

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from
it to the full product?