If you look back at my research i brainstormed the basic forms and conventions of a thriller in the context of the two essays i did on Taking Lives and Psycho.
Here is the brainstorm i did in context of our thriller (above).
This brainstorm clearly shows how we conformed to the conventions of a thriller.
How researched impacted out thriller.
The Hitchcock essay helped our group as we used his effective technique of up close shot and quick editing to create panic and distress and make the viewer feel uncomfortable.
We sped up the torture scenes, this is used in the phone booth trailer to show the fast moving city, but we just thought it looked more effective and continued our quick cut and pace pattern.
The voice over wasn't found an idea we came up within our research but it was an idea that came to us after the first bit of music made the thriller look like a music video. We wanted the distress to still be there, but the plot explained a bit or the vewer may have been confused.
The use of dark eerie locations in Silence of the Lambs encouraged us to have low key lighting in our torture scenes and to contrast that with the high key lighting in the sixth form centre scene and the artificial flashing lights in the party scene.
The research into the best directors of all time made me see a link between good/ memorable films and scene and music. The "Psycho" shower scene's music named "the murder" was created for that scene making it fit perfectly and intensifing Hitchcock brillant directing. The same with Steven Spielberg in "Jaws" the two notes created for the approaching of the shark were so effective and now notorious as villian music.
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