2. Phycological thrillers.
The subject I believe I can talk most about and include quotes and apply my own
knowledge to is the genre of film. Phycological thrillers are made to keep the audience
on edge the tension is built up throughout the film
3. Research
Joel & Ethan Coen
David Fincher DenisVilleneuve
Christopher Nolan
Alfonso Cuarón
In the phsycological/suspense thriller genre, these are a few directors working today that are revolutionising the way
these sorts of films are being made. I think the most effective directors that use suspense and tension as one of theyre
main techniques are david fincher and dennis villeneuve. David Fincher, most notible for fight club and seven leads the
way in this genre of film. His cinematography, specific camera movements and suspense all are used to create a film that
provides an intersting (normally crime) story that is built up with tension throughout the film. David Fincher has a specific
camera movement he uses in most shots and films of his, the eyeline of the shot is kept the same, the person moves, the
camera is moving when the characters eyes are moving. In a way, he hijacks your eyes and attention, in 0ther movies,
during tense charcter scenes the camera could be anywhere, and the centre of shot could be anything, however, keeping
the eyeline makes you see things the way the charcters do, it gives the audince more of a connection with them.This
comes into factor when, again, during a tense scene if the protagonist is in danger, you feel the danger with them, you are
attached to the character.
4. James Wan
James wan is one of the leading directors in the modern horror genre today, his films are widley recognised as the defining scary movies of this day and age. His 7
movie deep universe into the conjuring and annabelle series make good box office returns, the first movie in the series,The conjuring, based on the amityville
horror made a profit of $300 million US dollars, so the movies don’t have to be the best they just have to look good, provide a slight, sometimes dense, sense of
horror which has an engaging story and most importantly, cheap jump scares. In any james wan film, even in the first 15 mins, you will be struck by a jump scare,
the scare may not even contain anything scary, it literally is just put there to confuse you so when a jump scare that is meant to be taken seriously is put there, you
don’t know what to think.Although, if you have seen enough of them and know the cheap techniques Wan uses, its quite easy to predict the when the scares
happen. I, personally dont really like the movis because of the predictability of the scare, and the fact that i don’t really find them scary because of this, however, i
can see why people like them and the fact they are origional and made by the same person ponts to the fact this may be a sub-genre of film that has been
previously unnexplored.
