Devil – 2010

Devil is a thriller film because throughout the film you don’t

know who the devil is and it really thrills you to figure out

who the devil is throughout the film and at the end when

you find out who it is it really shocks you. Also at the end of

the film you think that everything is solved but its not.

Examples of thriller filmsKaya

Examples of thriller films

Buried – 2010

Buried is a thriller because throughout the movie your

always anticipating to see what will happen next, to him in

the coffin/box. Also at then end when the sand is pouring in

and he’s about to be saved it builds up all this excitement

but, when you find out they got the wrong guy, it really

shocks you.

Kaya

THRILLERConventions

Suspense

Villain/Victim

Shock

D.a

Supernatural

Relief at the end

False ending

ConventionThriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromFilms

False Ending Challenge – Something demonic and scary giving false hope. Keeping audience scared not just annoyed.

Purpose – To keep the audience thinking; Cliff hanger. Change the way you view curtain situations.Description – We through there would be a new equilibrium, but it ended with a cliff hanger and the demon is still inside her.

Paranormal Activity

Ending – Demon still in her.

Innocent Victims

Use – Young girl.Challenge – Almost being the villain, the victim ends up killing the villain.

Purpose – To make the audience feel sympathy for the character and to shock from her killing the villainDescription – At the end of the film the woman taken hostage ends up killing the men that took her showing no remorse over it.

Disappearance of Alice Creed

The Victim kills the villain.

Kaya Sanel GiaRahel

ConventionThriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromFilms

Villain and Victim

Use (villain) – Can’t see details, remains a mystery.Use (victim) – An attractive innocent woman.

Develop (villain) – You can hear that it’s a male in their voice, not that much of a mystery.Develop (victim)– Both makes and females, you can see them hurt but not them getting hurt.

Challenge (villain) – Very shy and insecure.Challenge (victim) –Male, showing him in a gore like manner hurt.

Psycho

Scream

House of wax

You don’t see the villain killing nor who they are killing the woman in the shower, it makes the audience wonder who it is.

The villain is a male and you see the girl he killed hurt but you don’t see how he killed her or the gory details.

The victim is a male who is killed by a shy and vulnerable villain, you see the victims get killed and in detail what it looks like.

Kaya Sanel GiaRahel

ConventionThriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromFilms

Escaped convicts

Use – Middle aged male.Develop – Female.

Purpose – To show the mentality of the character – how smart and cunning they are.Description – The man planned his escape from prison before her went in to out smart the police and get justice.

Law abiding Citizen

Planning an escape from prison.

ShockChallenge – Making it horrific and unexpected. Not predictable . Disturbing.

Purpose – To shock the audience, showing a real life situation in a disturbing and terrifying manner.Description – The villain holds 3 people hostage and shocks the audience in doing some extremely unexpected disgusting the audience

The Human Centipede

Takes people hostage and creates them into a human

centipede.

Kaya Sanel GiaRahel

ConventionThriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromFilms

Blood Develop – To disgust the audience

Purpose – To show psychological state of characters and their horrible mentality, also how much they believe in somethingDescription – When the serial killer cut out a jigsaw from a victims skin to show

his symbol/trademark.

Saw 2

Cut out trademark some someone's skin.

SupernaturalUse – To show ghosts existDevelop – Scaring the audience putting the supernatural in realistic situations

Purpose – To terrify the audience showing that supernatural is stronger than yourself and can controlling your mind.Description – The victim is possessed and cant control herself, she forms into unnatural positions and talks in demonic voices of the demon.

The exorcist of Emily Rose

Possessed on the floor and using demonic voices

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ConventionPsychological thriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

Develop – The spirits are hear and seen, but also we developed the convention by having the spirits interact in the real world

Purpose – To shock and scare the audience in a suddenDescription – The closet doors will open in a sudden out of no-where The ghost are opening the

closet doors

SuspenseDevelop – Rather then build suspense to then scare the audience afterwards, we will build suspense slowly then show nothing after the build up

Purpose – To keep the audience interested and build tension so they’re on the edge of their seatsDescription – Laura is in the closet in pitch black

When she is in the closet and the audience doesn't know

what's happeningKaya D.b

Supernatural

Conventions of are opening sequence

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Conventions of are opening sequence

ConventionThriller

Use/Develop/Challenge Purpose and Description

Examples from opening sequence

False Ending Use- Having the audiencebelieving that something interesting is about to happen.Challenge- Something scary but giving it a falsehope to make the audience scared.

Purpose- To keep the audience thinking throughout .

Description- Laura walks to the cupboard with fear. When the girl opens the

cupboard and there was nothing in it.

Shock Challenge- By making something unexpected to come by not being predictable.

Purpose- By shocking the audience to get a reaction out of them.Description- When the victim is about to experience something unexpected and strange to give the audience a feeling of atmosphere. When Laura see’s someone

running behind her.

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Inspirational Scenes

The boogey man 1 Donnie Darko

Kaya

Location of the spirit / unusual happenings

I was inspired by the boogeymanbecause of the location where the

unusual things happen in connection to the boogeyman. So I was inspired to have the spirits be connected to a closet just like that film as it was very

scary and mysterious and dark

In reality Donnie Darko is a normal teenage guy, who is shy and doesn't

cause intentional trouble, however he can see and listens to something he thinks is real but in fact is pretend.

Relatable character

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The woman in black

Non-diegetic sound to create suspense

Inspirational ScenesKayaE

In this scene, the character is looking through a spinning lamp, while there is non-

diegetic sound of a regular beat building to a climax

where the face of a woman is seem with a sudden thud to

shock and give the audience a fright

Inspirational Films (Paranormal Activity 3) -2010

Paranormal 3 was inspiring to us because there structure starts of with a equilibrium because it shows that the family are very close and happy. The film the changes to a disequilibrium throughout the movie as something starts to happen and we don’t know what is going on until the family starts to act very strange and different. All of a sudden the mood has changed. So in our opening sequence we are going to start of with equilibrium and then change to a disequilibrium as something begins to haunt someone.

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Sanel Inspirational Films (Sixth Sense) -1999

The Sixth Sense was inspiring to because it involves with spirits and scares the young boy seeing them and this related to our opening sequence as the girl starts to see the spirit and gets very scared it shows us that the spirits can be anywhere and tries to haunt you for a reason or tries to send you a message.

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