Thriller Main Sequence/Evaluation

This is my opening sequence to a crime Thriller that i designed and created myself. The applications i used were Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere. These allowed me to do and achieve more advanced effects than that which are given in applications like windows moviemaker ect... The idea behind the wall and the plaster in the background and foreground of the film is that the character who has just killed the other character is an ecaped convict/psychopath whos aim in life is to basically kill people. The bricks disappearing and reappearing ect is the idea of him escaping by either digging or slowly removing the bricks.

My opening sequence is of the Thriller genre and there for does challenge and develope the forms and coventions of these types of films.

As with all thrillers, my film is intended to create confusion and tension from the very start. It makes you think of what the characters are doing, why are they doing certain things and most of all what was the reason for character two's death. This is all helped along by my choice of music. I chose this piece because i believed that it fitted in well with my overall film. Also i thought that the start of the song could represent a heartbeat getting faster as the musci develops. This ties in with my film because character two is trying to get away from/lose character one, and as a result his heartbeat would be getting gradually faster. This all relates to the Thriller genre because it builds up anticipation, Tension and confusion over the brief period that it is playing and as a result makes people want to watch on.

An other convention that i used, and that most thrillers incorparate in there films is the sense of a ordinary person being dragged into an extraordinary situation. This is shown in my film right at the start when you first see that character two is being follwed leading to you believing that something is going to happen to him. The way my film works also makes the audience think about who the victim of the sequence was due to the fact there are very few shots of his actual face/whole body, resulting in the audience feeling pity for the character as he is presented as an innocent teenager.

When viewing my film it is reasonably obvious that my sequence falls under the crime/horror Thriller catergory. The use of sharp quick cuts of objects covered with blood that flicker up as the film is still playing help scare/make viewers wonder what is to come in the rest of the film. It was a series of films (se7en) and TV series (spooks) which helped me come up with the overall rough idea of my opening clip and with the effects used it captures the audiences attention right away.

The audience my film is aimed at is the 15+ range as no decent thriller has a certificate below 15+. The use of a teenager as a main character helps focus it on the younger generation rather than the older, however the fact that it is classed as a Crime thriller will draw the attention of the older generation because around the 1950's - 1980's most thrillers were to do with murder or some sort of extreme crime. The fact that both the characters are protrayed as very normal people helps people to relate to them and to feel emotional over there deaths/losses ect...