We spent a session deciding what we thought was best for our thriller and excluded areas we felt wouldn’t suit the direction we wanted the film to go in. Underlining a plot and key themes, sticking to them and expanding upon them rather than developing contrasting ideas mid-process. We incorporated all the techniques we learnt from analysis (evidently on a much lower scale) from shots, angles and editing decisions to plot ideas, themes and undertones all, were crafted from our initial ideas of what made a Thriller effective and how we could get that across given the time and equipment at our disposal.
The “Labyrinth” codes and convention theory certainly applies to our thriller for a variety of reasons. The theory is derived from Greek mythology and is based around the idea: a hero finds them in a predicament, faced with mazes full of twists and dead ends, takes a long journey to find the villain. The audience is presented with hero’s problems and puzzles. Well within out thriller the child (Roach) can be seen as a hero, although that becomes more apparent later in the film, and the setting of the forest is the portrayal of a Labyrinth. When he is running in an attempt to flee form a frightening scene the setting becomes a maze as Roach is meeting dead ends and familiar scenery and clearly struggling to escape. The tunnel scene can be assumed as the end of this maze but as in the convention at the end a villain is met, and the villain takes the form of the murderer disposing on Thatcher and ultimately Thatcher’s body bag.
We made the decision to have primal Male characters almost sub-consciously having not given it much thought until after the process, I believe this is because of the stereotypical theme that runs in the majority of Thrillers of a powerful, dominant and mysterious male figure depicted as villain.
Another convention out film followed is the idea of Concealment, established by Las Ole Saur burg. This involves deliberately hiding something from the audience to build suspense. With regards to “Perception” we hid the identity (and initial the appearance) of the man who disposed of Thatcher, this was to give him an aura and the audience a sense that mystery clouded the outcome of Roach’s fate. Protraction was also used with he suspense build up of the reaction Roach would receive and the outcome when inspecting Thatcher’s apparent lifeless body
.The “Labyrinth” codes and convention theory certainly applies to our thriller for a variety of reasons. The theory is derived from Greek mythology and is based around the idea: a hero finds them in a predicament, faced with mazes full of twists and dead ends, takes a long journey to find the villain. The audience is presented with hero’s problems and puzzles. Well within out thriller the child (Roach) can be seen as a hero, although that becomes more apparent later in the film, and the setting of the forest is the portrayal of a Labyrinth. When he is running in an attempt to flee form a frightening scene the setting becomes a maze as Roach is meeting dead ends and familiar scenery and clearly struggling to escape. The tunnel scene can be assumed as the end of this maze but as in the convention at the end a villain is met, and the villain takes the form of the murderer disposing on Thatcher and ultimately Thatcher’s body bag.
We made the decision to have primal Male characters almost sub-consciously having not given it much thought until after the process, I believe this is because of the stereotypical theme that runs in the majority of Thrillers of a powerful, dominant and mysterious male figure depicted as villain.
Another convention out film followed is the idea of Concealment, established by Las Ole Saur burg. This involves deliberately hiding something from the audience to build suspense. With regards to “Perception” we hid the identity (and initial the appearance) of the man who disposed of Thatcher, this was to give him an aura and the audience a sense that mystery clouded the outcome of Roach’s fate. Protraction was also used with he suspense build up of the reaction Roach would receive and the outcome when inspecting Thatcher’s apparent lifeless body
Upon looking at various sections of this blog (for example the treatment, script, character profile, storyboard) it is easy to gather the themes and ideas we attempted to establish, I believe our final product is a good representation of a Thriller opening as not is it just simply, mysterious, edgy or builds suspense. It follows the conventions of Thrillers and adapts them into what we feel is our own unique scenario, an example would be the labyrinth theory as I discussed above. The important aspects to note regarding this are the concealment of the killer and Thatcher’s character, the child’s (Roach’s) isolation and vulnerability as a character trapped in a maze, the psychological theme of paranoia and an everyday character or situation being put in a sinister position due to surrounding events . These were all ideas we researched and discussed with the intention implement into our film. Also given the limitations of our filming process I feel given the resources we did the job to the best of our ability and despite being a amateur production delivered a Thriller that met the requirement and needs of a typical thriller audience yet blended that with our own interpretations of existing ideas and our own inception of what makes a effective opening.
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