karel morris (thriller)

Card Game Practical

In one of my previous lesson we were put into groups of 4 and we had to produce a tense and engaging opening of a card game. we had various shot types such as close up, long shot, over the shoulder shots, tracking and panning. we decided to use such shot types because they create tension and they also create an intense mood. After recording, we edited the shots in the edit suite and we was also able to add sound. This practical work prepared me for my thriller preparation because it helped me to organise myself together and it also helped to get a more advance idea of using the cameras,it also helped me to become more familiar with the settings on the computer in the editing suite. However, before we did all of this we had a camcorder tutorial which was ver brief. Itwas given by the media technician micky. During this tutorial we were taught how to use the video reorder and we were taught the things to avoid doin. for example we were taught to avoide zoom if neccessary because if we forget to focus the camer before we zoom then the shot will be very blury.

In another media lesson we watched a thriller film called The Shining. The shining is about a hotel that's built in a grave yard and is possessed by evil spirit. then a family goes to the hotel o stay and the husband becomes possessed and he tries to kill his family. We also looked at what a thriller is and why a thriller differs to a horror.

What is a thriller?

A thriller is a film that provides one goal- to thrill the audience and to keep them in suspense. it also leave the audience cliff hanging at the edge of their seats as the plot gradually builds towards a climax. plots of thriller involves characters that come into conflict with eachother or with outside forces. we see an an example of this in the film called "The Shining". Thrillers and Horrors are similar in the sense that they both thrill the audienece. however they differ because thrillers films revolve around things that are likely to happen in everday life, whereas horror films are more supernatural and doesn't reflect real life situations.

Whilst doing research on thrillers, i found out that Characters in thrillers include convicts, criminals, stalkers, assassins, down-on-their-luck losers, innocent victims (often on the run), prison inmates, menaced women, characters with dark pasts, psychotic individuals, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, fugitives, private eyes, drifters, duplicitious individuals, people involved in twisted relationships, world-weary men and women, psycho-friends, and more. The themes of thrillers frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. "http://www.filmsite.org/thrillerfilms.html">http://www.filmsite.org/thrillerfilms.html.In my last media lesson we watched thrillers that were produced by the previous year group. some of their work were very good because it made me want to watch more whereas others weren't so good because i didn't clearly understand the opening and it wasn't engaging. Watching these examples of thriller openings was very helpful for me because it gave me ideas of what i could do for my thriller. It also helped me to realise the qaulity of works that are worth A grades. in addition to all these factors, watching the thriller films helped me to know in advance the things that i should avoide doing and the things that are worth doing.

In Anabelle's lesson we looked at what matched cut is and how it is used. matched cut is when two different shots are used and then joined together to show a continuity from something, instead of showing the whole process. An example of this is that a camera person will show a shot of a man opening his door, then another shot will show the man in his car starting his car; instead of showing the man opening his car door then getting in his car, putting on his seatbelt belt and starting the car.

In this lesson we also looked at a film produced by the media department which showed matched cut. It also showed titles and headings that reflected a situation. Before watching this film and getting a clear understanding of what a matched cut is we had to come up with our own matched cut of a man "transferring a file from his computer, smoking and then posting the file. After completeting this task we had to plan our own thrill opening that included matched cut.