Evaluation question 1 - Ellie

Our film straight away opens to be quite dark and dingy, a typical stereotype of thriller/horror films. It also sets up the film by letting the audience know what genre the film is going to be in the first 10-20 seconds. The mise on scene in this scene also add to this, with the main character having a bag over her head indicating she's been kidnapped, and various objects in the background such as a saw. If these conventions werent in the background, it would be harder to tell that is was more of a thriller film. The iconography is typical of this genre.

An example of inspiration we took this from would be the opening credits of Se7en:

As you can see they have similar, saturated colours to create the thriller type feel.

 

In our opening credits, for our title we used a straight white on black text which looked simple yet effective. This make the text stand out, without being too in your face. It also makes the titles have more of a sense of importance by being simplified and almost elegant. Again, we took inspiration from the film Se7en when choosing what to do with our titles, as they also did a simple white on black background.

 

In the beggining of our film we used non-diegetic sound that sets a mood for the film, making it more like a thriller. We then lowered the music so that you could only hear the diegetic music that made the film more like a thriller, so that you could hear exactly whats going off. Part of this is the main character talking to the other character, revelaing part of the plot so its important that the audience hears what is being said. Later on in the film we bring back the non-diegetic sound which increases the tension. It builds up the chase scene and makes it seem more intense.

 

In our film we use quite fast paced editing which made the film flow better and seem more like a thriller by jumping between scenes. A films I took inspiration from for this would be Inception in the kick scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmY6A6YW-qQ

 

As for camera angles, the main use of higher and lower angles created a sense of authority and power over Daisy. Because the kidnapper is looking down at her and she is lower, it makes it seem as though she's less in control.