Research into Thriller
Shots & Editing
Shots/Movement:
This contains one very important element to a thriller film, Camera movement/Angles. This helps give a film its thriller genre. They create different senses of body language and emotions. They mostly tend to use shots such as close ups, which create tension and helps to display facial emotions & expressions, which makes the audience sometimes feel that they are part of the film and gets them asking questions. Also different shots such as Tracking/Panning shots are widely used as they typically follow characters in films to make them feel as if they are being followed, or to make the audience feel that way to create tension. POV shots make the audience feel as if they are the character and puts them in the characters shoes, creating more tension and making the film a thriller in the first place. To summarise, shots in thriller films are mainly used to create tension and suspense, which is the main goal of the genre, meaning that shots are a very important aspect.
Examples:
This contains one very important element to a thriller film, Camera movement/Angles. This helps give a film its thriller genre. They create different senses of body language and emotions. They mostly tend to use shots such as close ups, which create tension and helps to display facial emotions & expressions, which makes the audience sometimes feel that they are part of the film and gets them asking questions. Also different shots such as Tracking/Panning shots are widely used as they typically follow characters in films to make them feel as if they are being followed, or to make the audience feel that way to create tension. POV shots make the audience feel as if they are the character and puts them in the characters shoes, creating more tension and making the film a thriller in the first place. To summarise, shots in thriller films are mainly used to create tension and suspense, which is the main goal of the genre, meaning that shots are a very important aspect.
- High Angle shots- These are used in thriller films to make the victim look innocent but powerless against the villain. In this example the man is using the weapon as defence against something/someone greater than him.
- Low Angle Shots The exact opposite of a High angle shot. They're usually of the villain as they make the person/object seem extremely powerful as they're looking down at them as they're powerless. In this example the two men are looking down on somebody/something making them look powerless, they hold a knife and the angle makes it look like they're threatening them/it rather than protecting or defending.
Editing:
This is also a key element of a thriller film, as it adds all the features of a thriller film. For example fast pace editing is used to add suspense and the shocking factor to thriller films. The film 'psycho' from 1960 shows filming from the past but also demonstrates fast pace editing and make the scene look like a rush/struggle. Another type of editing that is used often in films is Parallel Editing, which is the technique of continuously alternating two or more scenes that often happen simultaneously but in different locations, a good example of this is in 'Silence of the Lambs'. Where different sides (victim/villain) are shown at the same time, as the serial killer 'Buffalo bill' shows a struggle as he is threatened by a victim to kill his dog and the opposing side following FBI Director 'Jack Crawford'.
'Psycho' 1960 - Fast Pace Editing:
'The silence of the Lambs' 1991 - Parallel Editing:
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