For my own personalised independent study activity for some ideas towards my groups' work, we were set the task to watch some clips/ the trailer of the following films.
From watching the trailer to this film, it gave me a sense of what the film was all about. The trailer built suspense by using:
- Fast, upbeat, non-diegetic music
- Very fast simple cuts
- A variety of different shots (medium, long, close up) of traumatic events, including blood in almost every scene, killing and diegetic sound of screaming
From watching this trailer, I could definitely tell that the genre of this film would be a triller/ horror. It has given me more of a general idea of what my group might have to include for our opening scene to a thriller.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
From watching the trailer to this second film, it kept me interested by having a mystical feel about it. The trailer itself did not give the whole film away but gave me an idea of what the film will be based on. This is helpful as we want to have the same effect from our opening scene.
The colour palette of this film trailer is very dark with mainly grey tones, this could also indicate what the film is like; dark and mysterious. These type of grey tones are what we would like to include in our opening scene.
The fact that this series is about a girl who had been abducted many years ago and has finally returned home is quite alike to our idea for our opening scene we are creating, so it is good to get some ideas of how to make ours realistic and haunting.
I especially liked the stillness and emotionless face of the girl, Alice who has returned home after being abducted, it does not give much away about her character, which is what we would like to include too.
The trailer of this TV drama had me on edge the whole time I was watching it and from watching the trailer, it made me want to watch this series and I have watched it within 3 days!
From watching all of these clips, I found that for our opening clip that we will create, to make it a thriller, we must include:
- Dark/ grey tones to create a gloomy atmosphere
- Some fast, straight cuts to create suspense
- Pale, emotionless face of the main girl in our clip
- Graphical and realistic cuts/ bruises on the girl to keep the viewers interested
- Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds that create suspense and thrill
- Don't give the whole plot away so there is a mystical feel to our piece
Also, when presenting our final idea to our teacher, we described how we would like a slight ringing noise in the background of our clip in certain places, which is slightly headachy and makes you feel as if you have been blown up. I got this idea from seeing and listening to what happens when you play Call Of Duty on a console, when you get blown up or a grenade goes off around you, your sight goes blurry and the ringing noise is present, which could make you feel disorientated and fragile, which is what we want the main girl in our opening scene to experience when she leaves the barn she has been trapped in for a long time and finally sees light again.
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