problems and issues we faced

Problems:

One issue we faced was chopping heads.

Making sure all of our actors were free.

One day there was alot of fog and it ruined our lighting.

The class room we were using for our film would have lessons in it so we had to make sure we filmed at the right.

How we dealt with issues:

we made sure we placed our camera correctly and did more than one take.

we organised the times for our actors.

we moved area to a class room.

we made sure we had more than one possible class room to use.

However, one positive than came of our filming was our ability to adhere to the 180 degree rule.

What is a thriller

Thriller and Suspense Films: These are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features.

If the genre is to be defined strictly, a genuine thriller is a film that rentlessly pursues a single-minded goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the main character(s) is placed in a menacing situation or mystery, or an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Life itself is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy.

Thrillers are often hybrids - there are lots of varieties of suspense-thrillers:

• action- or adventure- thrillers
• sci-fi thrillers such as Alien
• crime-caper thrillers (such as The French Connection (1971))
• western-thrillers (such as  High Noon (1952))
• film-noir thrillers (such as  Double Indemnity (1944))
• even romantic comedy-thrillers (such as Safety Last (1923))

Another closely-related genre is the horror film genre (e.g., Halloween (1978)), also designed to elicit tension and suspense, taking the viewer through agony and fear. Suspense-thrillers come in all shapes and forms: there are murder mysteries, private eye tales, chase thrillers, women-in-danger films, courtroom and legal thrillers, erotic thrillers, surreal cult-film soap operas, and atmospheric, plot-twisting psychodramas. Thrillers keep the emphasis away from the gangster, crime, or the detective in the crime-related plot, focusing more on the suspense and danger that is generated. See also this site's listing of AFI's 100 Most Thrilling Films.

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-fiends, and more. The themes of thrillers frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder.

In mid-June, 2001, the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California made its definitive selection of the 100 greatest American "heart-pounding" and "adrenaline-inducing" films of all time, as determined by more than 1,800 actors, directors, screenwriters, historians, studio executives, critics, and others from the American film community. To be eligible, the 400 nominated films had to be U.S.-made, feature-length fiction films, whose thrills have "enlivened and enriched America's film heritage," according to the rules. AFI also asked jurors to consider "the total adrenaline-inducing impact of a film's artistry and craft," regardless of the genre.

basic editing task-attempt one

For the task we where set we had to go out and film a short film following our plan that was no longer than 90 seconds but over a minute.
Personaly i found the filming to be harder than i had thought,to keep using the 180 degree rule while also including all the shots that where on are list was challenging but in the end of our first shoot we though we had done it.

Here is our first cut:

we then aplied them into adobe premier.  we realised that our reverse shot angle was filmed badly and some head where cut of but we carried on editing to have a test run.

The edit its self was good but there was things to improve on so we dicided to reshoot.
we filmed all our new clips and made sure they looked more proffessional and would run smoothly in the edit.  we will be editing these tomorrow in my free period and doing the final touches next lesson.
We forgot to include many shots and will need to keep the following in mind to our next edit.

shot list

below is our shot list:

Continuity Editing Task

We have been told to create a short video lasting no longer than 90 seconds,the requirments for this task will be:

• the 108 degree rule to not be broken, once you film on one side in a scene it cant cross over 180 degree line as seen below.
• 
• include a shot reverse shot.
• include many different camera angles. 
• the use of editing to make sure the continuity of the scene is clear.
• multiple locations.
• interaction between others.
• some non-diegetic sound.

We also must create a shot list and a outline on what we are shooting.

sound used in thrillers

Sound:

Sound is used in thrillers to help the audiences understanding of what is going on. Sounds are used to evoke characters feelings and emotions and get a response from the audience. It is also often used to symbolise both the protagonists and antagonists movements in the scene. By carefully using the sounds employed in the scene it creates the right mood and atmosphere and in the context of the thriller genre, helps to build suspense and tension.Thrillers are typically noisy and they uses lots of diegetic sound throughout the film. Common sounds include bangs, ticking and screams, they use these sounds to build tension and to create suspense. These sounds are normally heard by both the audience and the characters and they are normally very jumpy. Non diegetic sound is also used in thrillers. They sometimes use a steady drone which puts the audience at unease. Also as the action increases in the film and the tension builds the music speed up and increases in unison. Hitchcock used sound in a very new way than was typical at the time. For instance in Blackmail he demonstrates ongoing tactics, such as: withholding sound from the viewer to pique curiosity which is shown in the murder scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POMvKwfBVWo, there is no sound during the murder and we can’t see what is happening which leaves us wondering what exactly is going on. It subverts our expectations of a murder as we would expect lots of screams but we don’t get anything. He also exaggerates sound as a form of narrative emphasis and creating tension through both ambient noises and silence. Further, in a world where music was the dominant form of narrative accompaniment, he stripped music score away from his scenes and instead used the act of singing (and whistling) as a suspense device. Lastly, Hitchcock’s manipulation of human speech ranged from technical malfunctions of telephone calls to dizzied audio abstraction of the characters’ subjective thoughts.

codes and conventions of a thriller film

possible feeling a thriller could create:
tension
anxiety
uncertaincy 
suspense
anticipation.

iconography:
cars
wepons
fast paste edits
low lighting

themes:
assaination
crime
spies
terrorism
supernatural events
mind games

characters:
stalkers
spies
assasins
psychotic charcters
convicts

From what ive found out The codes and conventions of a thriller , low lighting, shadows, fast editing, quick cuts, changes in camera angle, tension building music, stairs, psycholigcal issues and games, disorientation of time and space as well as montage editing. The editing helps represent the darkness within some characters while shadows and the lighting used signify the inner darkness within being.