This document summarizes how a short film used conventions of the psychological thriller genre to create a dream-like atmosphere through visual and audio effects. It established a dream sequence through changes in lighting, color effects, and continuity. Specifically, it altered colors during the dream from their normal hues. Sound was also manipulated, with natural sounds replaced by a dreamy score in one sequence. These techniques effectively conveyed to the audience that the main character was experiencing a dream versus reality.

1. Dreamer
By will

2. In what ways does your product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real films?
• In our film we targeted a very specific target • When asking people what
audience and genre; we aimed at the they thought about our film,
conventions of a physiological thriller genre by the majority of the people
using many different colour effects and dreamy found it gripping and most of
effects with the lighting, colour and sound. With the audience would
doing this it helped give the audience that understand but have a slight
dreamy effect that was taking place in our short sense of confusion in them,
2 minute start to a film, this also made the film not 100% what is going on. In
seem authentic. our case, people where
• We kept our continuity well, as we used all the asking, can he dream what is
same effects in the same scenes then changed going to happen? Or is he
back to normal when the dream was over. This imaging or is he still in a
helped the audience know when the dream was dream. This means that what
taking place and when it was over. we did worked and people
wanted to know what was
going to happen next, which
would result in them
continuing to watch our film.

3. The colours
• As our start to our film is
based around a dream we
had to use many different
effects to be able to pull this
dreamy atmosphere of. One
of the main effects we used
was the colours.
• We decided to change all the
colours around, yellow • When Bryan wakes up from his ‘dream’ all the
changed to a light blue, red colours go back to normal to give the audience
changed to a purple colour. the sense they are back in reality and its not a
The green grass was similar dream anymore.
however changed the colour • We tried with many different effects and found
to a brighter and slightly that this one worked best because of the distinct
different colour. As well as colour change. The colour change is obvious to
the audience which gets the audience thinking
skin changing to a light
what is taking part un till you see Bryan wake up
blue/purple colour. from his dream and colour go back to normal.

4. • Sound wasn’t a major part
in a film, silence was the
effect we used and just
having diagetic music.
Sound
• During the start of the
movie, we start with just • The one section we had sound in, was the
some natural sounds of
eye part. This part was when everything
the birds and the
area, this then changes in the dream happens in reverse and seen
from only hearing natural by the audience through Bryan’s eye as
sounds throughout the he wakes up from his dream.
chase, this included the • We used a mix which had been made by a
car engine and nick DJ, it had a soft tune which gradually buil
breathing heavily. up to bring the tension up in the film.
• throughout the film all • The sound had that dreamy effect with it
sounds are natural except which is what we were aiming for.
one section which we • The only other time the song is
decided to use as a sort of
featured is during a short title scene
theme tune.
when the title is displayed.