• This image shows a large amount of the strings attached to top of the tent. The strings build up tension for the audience because the audience doesn’t know why they are there and plants questions in there mind and this encourages the audience to want to find out more.

• Our thriller product follows Convention of some thriller films such as se7en because in their opening sequence there are close up shots which also creates questions. The strings post questions to the audience making the audience want to know more and creates a thrill.

The Convention of the Strings

This shot of the main characters face captures the facial expression of the man and shows the surprised and shocked feelings he is experiencing. His facial expressions also makes the audience feel that they should be experiencing and connecting to the characters similar feelings.

Facial expressions

This capture of the man walking to the door builds up tension because the audience doesn’t know what is the other side of the door setting the traps off. The building up of the tension is a method used in horror and thriller films because their intention is to build up the tension making the audience sitting back in their chair and biting their finger nails while the film uncovers the plot.

Walking towards the door

Long shot to show the setting

• This shot shots the setting of the opening sequence which consists inside a main hallway with a tent. This shot reveals the answers to the questions which the earlier shots of the string plants into the audiences heads.

• This show also gives the audience the chance to see a section of the string trap from a far and the boarded up windows in the backgroud which suggests to the audience that the man has been in hide out for a long time

The Title

• This title links to normal thriller conventions because it is just a normal plain title. The white writing on the black background makes this writing stand out and this same type of title option has been included in films such as se7en and I am Legend both thriller films and because our title follows a similar pattern it can be seen as using the same conention.

The bell

• I chose to include a shot of a bell to show the conventions of thriller movies because the bell is used to alert the man when something is causing his trap to go off. Normally to alert someone there is a siren or something big to get someone's attention. However, we used a small scale object so that the tension can be built while the bell is slowly swinging and making a did sound and then the bell starts moving more vigorously the bells sound increases which makes both the character and audience alert, which is a convention because it makes the audience interact and connect with the character.

The Door handle

• This shot also creates tension because the audience doesnt expect the door handle to move, they expect the man to grap and open the door. This sense of not expecting something is portrayed in films such as thriller and because we have included an element of this our film can be seen as a convention of a thriller film.

• This show also utilises the strings and how they have been attached to the door where the sound is coming from

The Axe• The use of the axe portrays the idea of protection and also

that something dangerous is outside. Normally in a thriller or horror film elements such as guns, knives and axes are used to show the conventions of these films. So because we have included the axe our film can be seen as under this this category. The word axe normally represents negative imagery in horror and thriller films, however in out thriller sequence the axe is used for protection and not for purpose harm. Has contentions of killing and death.

Traps

• The trap used in our thriller shoot consisted of many strings with bells and cans attached to them.

• The cans were used to show the audience that the main character used anything he could find to make the trap to protect himself from the monster killer, who has created a disaster and end of the word situation.

• For inspiration we looked at the se7en opening sequence because the whole sequence consist of close up shots making the audience questing the shots, which we have included during our thriller.