1. HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT USE OR CHALLENGE CONVENTIONS AND
HOW DOES IT REPRESENT SOCIAL GROUPS OR ISSUES?
2. GENRE CONVENTIONS
My product – ‘The Colour of Voice’ – is a phycological thriller.
GENRE CONVENTIONS: Are factors of a film which have elements that produce
a meaning.
A GENRE: is where a stereotypical factor/element of any product of the film industry
forms into one aspect of a theme – E.G. James Bond is a thriller because it has action
in it. This is represented by the iconography through the fast paste of movements,
fights and the music etc.
There are many aspects which make a thriller, a thriller. For example, Changing lines is
a thriller because it has suspense. James Bond is a thriller because it has action
involved.
My thriller is a phycological thriller because hypnotism, in many aspects, is to do with
manipulation. We really use this as a way to engage our audience.
Our main focus is showing the boredom of our hypnotist. This is mainly what makes
our thriller a thriller because of the montage which we created, by using the hypnotists
voice and his small movements such as, pen tapping on the clipboard to the bigger
movements where his hands moving across his face and taking off his classes. There
are small contributions which create the stereotypical tension through his boredom.
My thriller has challenged conventions by creating a phycological thriller which uses
mise-en-scene, camera movements, editing and sound to produce a simple, bare and
dull atmosphere and to show the boredom of the hypnot
Changing lines = Suspense
James Bond = Action
3. ONE OF THE
FILMS I AM
COMPARING
MY PRODUCT
TO IS THE FILM
‘THE 9TH
LIFE OF
LOUIS DRAX’ THIS FILM IS DIRECTED BY
ALEXANDRE AJA AND WAS
RELEASED IN THE YEAR OF 2016
4. The other film I will be comparing is the film ‘Get Out,’ a horror thriller film which came out in 2016 – directed by
Jordan Peele
5. CAMERA:
MOVEMENT,
ANGLES AND
COMPOSITION
•How they shoot the hypnosis scene is similar to the way we have shot our opening
sequence.
•JORDAN PEELE (DIRECTOR) HAS SHOT THE FILM, ‘GET OUT’
SIMILAR TO OURS BY…
•The way they focus on the man whom is being hypnotised and how he fidgets of his
fingers on his armchair and how Jordan Peele has used close ups on the hypnotists face
herself, the stirring of the teaspoon within the teacup.
•Our opening sequence reveals the life of a hypnotist – in this case he is a man – who is
bored of his job. We focused on the boredom of him having the same repetition of
requests from his patients.
•To do this we used extreme close ups of: Sam Turton (the hypnotist) fidgeting with his
pen, tapping his fingers on the clipboard, his hands going over his eyes in frustration, a
breath of frustration etc. When filming each of the patients on the day of the shoot we
went from a wide shot to a close up.
•This film is most similar to the way we have shot our thriller. It is the most similar
with our genre, phycological thriller, because it also focuses on manipulation, however,
she is trying to get information out of the ‘patient,’ whereas we wanted our patients to
have something wrong such as smoking, drinking etc. and have the hypnotist fixing
those problems
6. Sound
The sound is very similar to our opening sequence.
When the woman – the hypnotist in ‘Get Out,’ (the
woman who is in the picture on the top right) -
circles the teaspoon in her teacup, you can hear the
non diegetic sound repeatedly and then after a while
you start to hear a melody as part of their
soundtrack. From the patients reaction – the man
who is in the big picture on the left and the one who
is on the bottom right sitting on the leather chair –
and how she circles the teaspoon as a repeated
pattern, allows the audience to see the she is starting
to hypnotise the guy. We added in the non diegetic
sound of a ticking clock.
Because our hypnotist is hypnotising throughout the
opening sequence, we have therefore kept the clock
ticking repeatedly at the same time throughout the
whole sequence. It also allows the audience to see
that it is about time and that the hypnotist – played
by Sam Turton – is bored, and getting more bored, of
his jobs. The similarity of these two clips is that they
are both thrillers which use sound to tense the
atmosphere.
The arrow here points to the teaspoon – which is the sound I
am referring too.
7. MISE – EN SCENE
The film I am comparing with my thriller for mise-en-scene is called ‘The 9th
life of Louis Drax.’ This is one of
the films which is most similar to my product for mise-en-scene because apart from the orange leather chair,
the hospital like bed next to it and computers etc. It’s very bare. There is only bright lights for the hospital
bed and the colour of the chair, apart from that, everything else is very dark in lighting and very bare, dull and
boring as well as simple.
This is similar to our set. Although we originally wanted it looking like how the set looks like in the film ‘Get
Out,’ which is a homely feel where the hypnotist scene is set in a lounge/some kind of sitting room – we then
decided that we really wanted to emphasise the focus of our thriller which was the fact that the hypnotist is
just completely bored of his job. We thought the main way to do this is through mise-en-scene.
As the end result, we used a dark coloured leather sofa and chair. The sofa we used was for the patients and
th chair we used was for the hypnotist. We used white coloured lighting to emphasise on the bareness of the
white, plain coloured walls where all he has is a certificate hung up as a prop. We also had a rectangular, dull
coloured centred in the middle. This represents the hypnotist to be bare, simple and dull.
Although ‘The 9th
life od Louis Drax’ has got more props, it is the most similar with it’s mise-en-scene in
creating the dull and bare feeling of the hypnosis room.
8. EDITING
The main part of our thriller which is obvious editing is the montage towards the end of our
opening sequence. The picture on the right is an example of the different shots we films to use to
create this montage. We had our actor – Sam Turton – to do things such as taking glasses off,
breathing out a frustrated breath, tapping his pen on his clipboard etc. This is so that the audience
can engage and can relate to the times they were bored because he performs such common
pedestrian movements. The montage emphasises on the boredom by creating tension and
suspense. For the montage, we put all of his pedestrian movements of boredom together and
allowed the sound of voice doing things such as “1,2,3,4,5,” “come in,” etc. and these are repeated
and go over the top of each other.
The life of Louis Drax has the most similarities within the editing purposes of our
product. The only difference is that they focus on the hypnotist’s ‘patient’ rather than the
hypnotist himself and the woman’s eyes in the picture to the left, is one of the main shots
which are seen in their montage. This clearly shows that this woman must be important
to the man whom is being hypnotised.
The montage in both products, creates the atmosphere of tension and suspense as well as potentially
action because the montage allows both products to become a faster paste. Both use close ups to
extreme close ups and both also focus on the focus of the person and there facials and body
movements.
9. WHAT SOCIAL GROUPS ARE PRESENT WITHIN
YOUR OPENING TILE SEQUENCE?
My thriller represents social groups such as: gender, age and class and we represent issues such as
addiction. We represent these things through editing, camera, sound and mise-en-scene.
10. WHAT SOCIAL GROUPS ARE PRESENT WITHIN
YOUR OPENING TILE SEQUENCE?
My thriller represents social groups such as: gender, age and class and we represent issues such as
addiction. We represent these things through editing, camera, sound and mise-en-scene.
