1. Psychological Opening Sequence
Assignment 16: Group
Thriller Presentation (Draft 1)
Group work
Part A is Grey
Paula D Mickella S Cerise C
Red Green Blue

2. Part B
(Paula) 1st Idea For Opening
Sequence
• Starts with the mother of the main
character having a go at her, asking WWW
what does she plan to do with her
future. It was a good concept and we had a
ideal plan of how it was going to be
• Girl storms to her room and writes in filmed.
her diary all the anger, depression
and loneliness she is experiencing and But we resulted in not using this idea
breaks down. for the opening sequence.
• She phones her friend to tell her she
needs someone to talk to as she is
feeling very down, However she has a EBI
argument with her friend and her
friend tells her to just leave her alone. This was a good idea but it didn’t quite
match our genre.
• She runs home and as she steps out in It was more of a drama sequence, but
the road she gets knocked over.
it could have been better if we had
more of a “psychological” concept
• Introduce the film title at the end of
opening sequence to let the audience
calm down after seeing the accident.

3. Part B
(Mickella) 2nd Idea For
Opening Sequence
• Starts off with main character on WWW
her way to school.
There is a lot of suspense and mystery
which are conventions of psychological
• She arrives at the school and sees thrillers.
her best friend they have a The storyline was very interesting and it
conversation together and would have kept the audience entertained
everything seems normal.
• A car drives up in slow motion
towards them and the scene turns
black and white. EBI
It would have been better if there was
• Then the car purposely runs over more action, it was almost too basic.
the main character and drives off. Because of how this opening sequence is
set it would have been a low grade
because it wouldn’t have had a range of
• The best friend starts smiling at
shots.
laughing and the scene ends.

4. Part C
Chosen Genre
:Psychological Thriller
WHY ? Psychological thriller • WHAT ?
is a sub genre of
• We choose Thriller it often Mind
involves the elements Games
this genre of mystery, suspense
because its with a few mind
games
doesn’t only
make the
audience
jump like
other
thrillers it
has a sense
of mystery
that the
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human mind

5. Examples Of Some
Part C Psychological Thrillers
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6. Conventions Of A Psychological
Part C
Thriller
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7. Part C
They Are A Sub-Genre of Horror And Thrillers
Psychological – Elements that are related to the mind or
processes of the mind
Thriller- A book, film or play showing crime, mystery, or
espionage in an atmosphere of excitement and suspense.
Devices and Techniques;
Stream of consciousness
First-person narrative
Back-story

8. Part D

9. Films we got inspired by and
Part D
why (Funny Games)
A range of
shots they
I like the concept used
of playing games would suit
to make with our
protagonists feel sequence.
threatened in
their own home.
Mentally and It relates to our
physically torturing opening sequence
the innocent for because it all
pleasure. Psychological thrillers happens in the
don’t always end in comfort of
harmony. somebody’s home.

10. Part D
Funny Games (Print Screens)
Protagonists – Vulnerable
family moving into a new
house. Mum, Dad and Son
(Nuclear Family)
Hostile scared
behaviour (close
up shot) showing
emotion of fear
or disturbed
Antagonists – Unknown
neighbours, young men
who want to have fun.
Possibly looking for
trouble
I liked the characterisation between 2 groups. So you know who the
“baddies” are.

11. Films we got inspired by and
Part D why (Hard Candy)
●
It met the
conventions of I like the range of
Mystery , shots that was
Suspense due to used especially
though out the the ones that
whole movie I
show emotion
was at the edge
of my seat not and reaction.
knowing what
was going to
happen next.
The
representation
A lot of mind games
of the
where portrayed in this
characters was
film, which we want to
interesting just
show in our sequence.
I like the settings of focusing of 2
the film. In very people. Shows
isolated lonely areas. mental like
behaviour.

12. Hard Candy (Print Screens)
Part D
Secrets Mind Games
Suspense Torture
Interaction of 2
characters
A fear of doubt (long shot)
(close up)
showing her
emotion Low angle close
up showing the
intensity of his
footsteps.
Extreme close
up is used to
focus on
something
important.

13. Child’s Play (Chucky)
Comes Under
Even Though The Genre Of
The Film Thriller/Horror
Itself Is Old
The Plot Is
Still
Entertaining
To Watch
Has The Basic
Conventions
Of A Horror The Concept
And Thriller; Of A Children's
Murder, Toy Coming To
Knifes, Death Life And Is
Playing An
Evil,
Murdering
Villain

14. Children’s Doll-Voodoo Doll-
Possession-Evil-Devil
Chucky Changes expression to
become a more frightening
character
The Character of
Chucky
chucky then proves to
Showing
be evil when he attacks
Normal Child-
the woman
Friendly
Facial
Expression
Woman Goes To
Destroy The Doll By
Burning Him In The
Fire.

15. Part E Chosen Themes
• Themes for our open Sequence
is Revenge & Suffering