3. Teaser Trailer
Duration: 1:14 Editing: Montage
Sound: Diegetic/non-diegetic
Text: Text used to
emphasize message
to audience
Research was done on all of the above conventions. Research allowed us to ensure that we were creating a teaser
trailer that was suitable and adequate and fitted the genre that we were presenting (thriller). Prisoners is a film with
similar conventions to us regarding duration, editing, sound and text. Creating are teaser trailer based off that
movie was essential for us it allowed us to create a more accurate teaser trailer.
4. Poster
Inception a thriller film genre is another that I researched during the period were the poster was being
complied. The Poster have similarities, such as the tagline which for both posters is located at the top of
poster, another similarity is the billing block of the poster which is positioned at the bottom of the
poster.
Title Of
Film
Main
Image
Billing Block
Tagline
Background Image
5. Magazine
Empire is a magazine that I researched throughout the procedure of creating the current magazine cover that we
persisted with. Empire was appealing to us at the time due to its striking design and the genre that are presented
on their magazine which are usually action thriller movies meant that it is a possibility that empire could choose
to present are movie on their magazine.
Main Image
Barcode
and
dateline
Strapline
Coverline's
Topline
6. Overview
â– Magazines, teaser trailers, posters are powerful ways of advertising films and help the
movie to gain popularity. Magazines help people to get educated and learn about the
movie, posters help the movie to get more noticed. Teaser trailers give the public an
insight into what the movie will be like visually, containing sound this will help the
audience to identify whether the movie is appealing to them.
8. Characters
â– The particular representations that
commonly dominate in a phycological thriller could
be someone like an investigator with an aim of
trying to find something out through out the film his
task has been to achieve this goal of investigating a
particular story however there is a plot twist and
something goes wrong and suddenly he begins to
not trust in himself and the audience will begin to
notice that he is developing some sort of mental
issue which keeps on developing for the worse.
â– Another story could possibly be that a criminal has a
escaped prison however once he has
escaped these sudden flashbacks hit him of the
crime that he did before he got put
inside jail, these flashbacks begin to haunt him and
eventually he ends up killing himself.
â– A person gets wrongly put into prison for a murder
that he never committed or was associated with, he
is put in a high security prison where people are in
prison for crimes such as mass murder and rape,
the inmates begin to terrorize him and beat him up
on a regular basis causing the innocent man to go
insane.
•CRIMINALS
•POLICE
•CONVICTS
•PRISON IN
MATES
•INVESTIGATORS
•MURDERERS
Character
examples
Representation
examples
9. Narrative
â– A thrillers plotcommonly
evolves around a character
that causes dilemma and
complete chaos for the
protagonist, this happens
when the villain in the film puts
obstructions in the way of the
protagonistmeaning that the
character must defeatwhat
ever comes towards his
direction.
â– Heavily indulged in violence,
thrillers are associated with
murders and crime, when one
of the characters is located in
a situation where he must
escape or face the
consequences which could
even be death are common
scenarios in a thriller movie.
Commonly in crime thrillers there is theft
involved, for examplethis could be that
someone has been kidnapped and in return the
thieves wanta sum of money to return the
person back safely. commonly in mystery
thrillers there will be an investigation taking
place to investigatea murder that has happened
in local village. Thereare also phycological
thrillers which will bring in the mental elementof
things, possibly a policeman has been taken into
a crime scene however as soon as he steps into
the zone of where the death happened he
begins to see things that nobody else can see
leading peopleto think there is something wrong
with.
Death
Crime
Investigations
Weapons
Serial killers
Hospitals
Prisons
Courts
Schools
cities/towns
Narrative devices
10. Setting
•Typically psychological thrillers are
set in the house of the character this is
common as it allows the audience to
get an understanding of the way in
which the character used to live and
how slowly he begins to go mad he
might be objective to violence but
however one day the audience sees a
weapon on his table, commonly dark
places are used such as woods or
abandoned areas such as kids
playgrounds these areas are
considered to be haunted making it
ideal for the genre. Flash backs can be
used to show the audience about past
experiences that the character had
providing evidence that he is slowly
going mad.
11. Overview
â– Thrillers are moviesthat are meant to create a thrilling atmosphere for the audience
within the thriller genre exist many sub-genres that are more specific such as
phycological thrillers that have more phycological elementswithin it. Thrillers are
more suitable for 15 years and over the elementsthat the majority of thrillers have
can be frightening and un-suitable for children younger than the age of 15.
