Mind map Thriller

This is a mind map of my groups ideas on the thriller genre.

Final Task

Story board

Long mid shot - 5 secs - fade in
no sound


CU of handle - ELS of person in background - 2 secs
Deal or no deal sound


Over the shoulder mid shot - 2 secs
Deal or no deal sound


Mid shot sitting in chair - 4 secs
"your early, deal or no deal hasn't finished yet" - Deal or no deal sound

Long shot - turns off tv - 6 secs
"it doesnt matter" - Deal or no deal sound


medium close up - 4 secs
"how have you been"


body shot - 3 secs
"lets get down to buisness"


Long shot - 5 secs
"fine" - It's been a whole month, why isn't she dead yer"

mid shot - 3 secs
"She just wont die"


Mid shot/ long shot - 3 secs
Scowl - "try harder"


two shot - 6 secs
shouts"i hit her with a car" - "she better die or else"


Long shot - walk away - 4 secs
"or else im leaving you"

Close up - 2 Secs



Long over the shoulder shot.
"And im taking fluffles with me"


Fade out cut - 3 secs
"MEOW"

Shot list

Our Shot List

A walk on the Wild side intro

Titles: The opening titles for this film are the usual thriller syle of white against black, these are capitalised and in a serif font, this stands out to the viewer without being to eye catching as to draw effec away fron the camera shots.

Camera: The scene uses many shots including close up, birds eye view, long shot, mid shot and so on. during the fight some extreme close ups are used.

Editing: The sequence is quite slow paced to make the audience feel that the cat is dominant in his home/ place of staying and becomes more and more dominant throughout the shots. as the audience tracks the cat this is reinforced by the dissolves between shots. however when the fight brakes out the pace picks up and the shots are far more sharp and violent. this signifies a thriller as there is usually violence in after a build up in the intro of a thriller.

Sound: There is a non-digetic sound track of orchestral music through out the sequence, getting louder and the pace changes to run parallel to the video. The music helps to keep the pace for this sequence,towards the end the scene the sound fades out and signifying the end of the scene.

Mise en scene: at the opening the audience sees the cat walking through what appears to be a construction yard with many concrete pipes, we can also assume that the cat is a stray as most cats do not wander in to building sites. the cats setting tell us what sort of cat it is, a strong confident and brave cat who owns the street.

Sin City intro

Titles: None, this is unusual as most thriller's have titles, i believe this has been used to make a statement when the actual titles are shown.

Camera: The film opens with a long shot of the woman with her central to her surroundings.in the next shot she is slightly to the right, and a man in centralized, as he walks closer to the woman he grows in size(perspective), this shes he is more dominant than the woman.The conversation is then shown by a series of closeups of each character, this represents continuity. There is a close up of a lighter and a cigarette, the flame signifies danger, but the cigarette signifies that the woman is relaxed and unafraid. there is then a long shot of the couple kissing and then a cut to a mid shot of the man killing the woman.this is a common theme in the thriller genre.

Mise en Scene: The scene is set on the balcony of a hotel or restaurant which looks over a busy city,the light is minimal and low key, this is conventional of a thriller.

Editing: the scene has been edited to create a slow mood conversation so the cuts are straight but spaced far apart. all colour has been removed except for the blood red of the woman's dress and lipstick, there is also a moment when the man mentions the woman's eyes and they light up green and then fade back to black and white.

Sound: The scene opens with jazz/lounge music played softly in the background this runs throughout the clip. it is accompanied by non digetic narrative to keep the story running for the viewer. the narrative is continued and played out in digetic conversation. the whole time you can hear the ambient sounds of the city

As the scene begins low key non-diegetic jazz/soul music is played in the background, followed by non-diegetic narrative to keep the pace of the scene, the narrative is reinforced by diegetic conversation for continuity, accompanied by the ambient sounds of the city creating realism.

Seven Intro

Camera: Close ups and extreme close ups are used through out the opening credits. all the shots are short.

Titles: The opening titles look to be handwritten is freehand (not straight)and appears to be scribbled because the spacings are all out.this is iconic of a horror because it makes the viewer uneasy. also the white text against a black background is also iconic.

Editing: The editing is set at the same pace as the sound, very jumpy. there are a lot of cuts and a lot of overlapping footage, this makes the viewer uncomfortable almost as if they themselves are going slightly insane.

Mise en Scene: The scene seems to be shot in a house or office because it is dark and there seems to be only one character.there are many shots of a notebook in which a lot of text is written in the same style as the font used in the titles. there is a shot of a razor blade that connects to a shot further in, in which the characters fingers are bandaged up with blood on them. this tells the viewer that the charachter is trying to hide there identity or is depressed and elf harming this is stereotypical of horror film villain

Sound: The majority of the sound is non-digetic in the form of music. which is very jumpy and is unsettling to hear, the other sounds are a-synchronus and are out of time with the shot.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Guy Ritchie - Introduction Analysis

Camera – There is a lot of free hand POV shots, used to portray someone from the crowd observing the market stool. There are also slow moving panning shots which show the person moving rounding the crowd to get better look. This shot is clever because being the opening shot, as it gives the audience a sense of reality, engaging them in to feeling like they’re in the crowd. Close ups of the main character are used throughout. Mid shots are used to keep the viewer interested by switching from close ups to mid shots. There is one close up of the product being sold. The other character gets free hand shots but they are always mid shots. There is a low mid shot that tracks around slowly about 20 degrees, people from the crowd are now in shot but never blocking the view of character, this technique is used to show that the crowd is getting larger but still keeping the main focus on the character. A forward tracking shot is used with a 180 degree pan as the characters run past the camera. There is then a long shot with no characters, to start, then one character moves in from the background from the left at great speed and stops abruptly off centre to the right, and then rushes forward towards the camera in to a long body shot, and then the second character enters the shot and stops off centre to the left throwing his items in the air. The main character is standing on higher ground but in the background and the other character is on low ground in the fore ground, this connotes they are both equal in status. The way they are positioned (both off centre) is so that both characters are in the shot and do not block each other out, both characters exit to the right in the foreground.

Titles: Titles are white on black, and the font is un-even and looks like it may have been written by a typewriter. There is then an animated title which says the title of the film in a typewriter one after the other fashion.

Editing: The pace of editing is kept by the digetic sound of the main character talking. There are many cuts between shots. There is a shot in which the video is put in to slow motion.

Sound: The sound is digetic and the dialog is clearly audible over the sound of the crowd. There is non digetic sound in the form of a song. It is a faced paced chase song that starts with a slow base rhythem that fades in slowly and then the lead guitar rips in setting the pace of the next shots. There is then digetic sound of a man with a London accent telling the viewer about the characters.

Mise en Scene: The intro is set in the back of an ally the buildings are grey, there is a large crowd surrounding a cheap market stall where a man is selling moody goods in front of a garage door, the style of the peoples clothes tells us this is set in London. When the chase starts they run round the back of some buildings. Which are also grey.

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What is "Genre" and what is the "Thriller Genre"

Definition of Genre: The way in which a film is categorised by its main themes. I.e. A film, in which the plot leads two characters in to falling in love with each other, could be given the genre of romance. Films do not just have to one genre .i.e. if in the same film, in which the plot leads two characters in to falling in love with each other, they both happen to be spy’s who live on mars in the year 2100, where the aliens population is evil and trying to destroy the human population. The two characters have to fight their way through hordes of aliens...and so on; this film could be labelled as a romantic, sci-fi, action film.

What is the thriller genre: A thriller can be defined as "the sudden rush of emotions, the excitement, sense of suspense, apprehension, and exhilaration that drive the narrative, sometimes subtly with peaks and lulls, sometimes at a constant, breakneck pace.”. In my opinion a film with the genre of thriller, should thrill its audience, the audience should always be kept guessing on what is about to happen next and always sitting on the edge of their seat.




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