Character Profile (old)

One of the characters in my thriller opening will be the an ex police officer who has gone crazy and out of control for which reason nobody knows and to get the best out of this character in terms of image we think that this guy is going to have rough hair and  a rough beard this can show signs of his lack of control and will make him looking crazy more believable to the audience.
 I also thought that he would wear a red piece of clothing what piece of clothing that is hasn't been decided yet an the reasoning for this is that the colour red symbolizes danger so we are trying to reach to the audience and signal to them that he is the one who is carrying the threat the one who is causing danger  below is just some example of red pieces of clothing.

I also felt that him wearing some clothes whether it be a jacket or shirt but i thought that it could be ripped up , this showing the audience just how crazy he is and making them think what has been done for his clothes to look like that and what may happen next from this character.

This character is quite reserved and likes to keep himself to himself ( a man of few words) but that can quickly change and so can his attitude and actions he will be very short tempered and anything can flip his mood , along with the red piece of clothing worn by him the fiery attitude will also be a sign of  how dangerous he can be.

I also thought that this character may wear a straight jacket the significance of this is to show the real dangers of this character and show to the audience just how dangerous he actually is



Barthes Code Analysis with examples

One of the two codes is called the 'Hermeneutic code' also known as the enigma code is the unanswered questions within a story , the unanswered questions that the audience want answered in a film . The other code is the 'Proairetic code ' and this code is the action that suggests further action/reaction this is also known as the action code.

One of the examples looked at was the film minority report and the examples of the hermeneutic code in this are questions such as where are they, why were they there, why was their a man hiding in the bath tub what's happening and why and sorts of things like that there were many answered questions within this piece and this was good for drawing in the audiences attentions. The examples of the proairetic code was the when the bubble rises up the water and makes a popping type sound and this was a good example as it was a action that caused another reaction which was the spiders had turned around and come back through under the door and this was another action and an example of the action code which in then caused a further piece of action which was the spider scanning the mans face.

A second example that was looked at was I am legend the questions that the audience wanted answered ( examples of hermeneutic code) are why is the city so deserted , what is/has happened , why is he the only human that we can see and why are all the cars packed up like this. The proairetic code comes where he is driving after the animals and where he has his gun out about to shoot. The action code is important as it is what would intrigue the audience to watch the rest of the movie so the Barthes codes are important .

Thriller Opening Treatment

From the beginning of the thriller opening the music we chose to  use would be playing to build tension from the start and we will see the character who has gone crazy walking to this dark room in the police station we will do this using match on action showing him on his way to the questioning room this will make the audience think what is going on and what has happened. The only thing the audience will hear is the music and possibly the footsteps of the main character emphasizing how isolated the area is , there will be a lot of match on action until he gets into a room where he will be met by the investigator, as he enters the room it is going to be dark and stay blacked out for a bit then a bright light coming from the corner will be flashed upon his face almost blurring out his face so the audience cannot see him until both characters arrive in at the same time the bright light shone on the character then makes him the focal point, the investigator will then walk into the room shortly after the  main character  he is looking around to see his surroundings and looks lost and at unease. As the questions are being fired towards him he starts to become more and more impatient to the point where he is almost about to flip out and cause havoc.

From the beginning until the main character reaches this dark  room we will not see this guys face we will see parts maybe such as a beard or like an extreme close up of an ear or eye this will be done so that it keeps the audience guessing to what this character may look like. We will use an over the shoulder shot at the beginning where he is on his way to the room where by he is being questioned this we be crucial in showing everything from  his perspective further making the audience question what is unfolding.

The main character flips out and it gets down to the point where  he pulls out a knife threatening the investigator as things are starting to get the better of him. By the end he starts having flashbacks to what happened to him and what got him  into  this state after some threating there will be a blackout and the opening will end there and all you will hear is alarms going off with red lights flashing

As the opening progresses you will realize that red lighting or just the colour red in general starts appearing more and more often this is because they colour red can symbolizes love and danger and in this situation danger is symbolization from which is been shown through the colour red

Difference between Horror and Thriller Films

There are many people who don't really think there is a difference between " horror" and " thriller" films but in actual fact there is .

The big difference  between the two is that with horror films you tend to see more blood and more gore these are the movies that are out there to try and scare the audience and get you thinking what is going to pop out at around the next corner what will happen at the end of the movie . Also within horror films you will find that there will be at least one chase scene to  this would be done to build the tension.








Here is an example of a horror film " Fright Flick and cut" just by looking at the front cover of this film you can already tell that this is more of a horror as oppose to a thriller with the amount of blood there is and you can see the characters face already bleeding and cut and there is also a use of a convention of a horror film and that being the knife .Also how the word "Flick" has been written this some good typography because it is written out as if it was drawn with blood  and blood is one of the main things that feature in horror films one of the main associations.

Here  is another interesting front cover as we see  all the blood and gore all over again but this time we only see the knife and a hand so already just been looking at the front cover it gets you scared thinking what has happened and how that it get to that stage. 

Thriller films these are the more action packed story line that look t create suspense rather than to  try and  scare you , it provides a sudden rush of emotions , excitement an exhilaration that drives the narrative it keeps the audience on the edge of their seats  with the sensation of hanging off a cliff as the plot builds towards a climax. Thrillers tend to use literary devices such as plot twists and cliff-hangers. A thriller is usually a villain-driven plot whereby he or she prevents obstacles that the protagonist  must overcome

"Unknown" this is an example of a thriller film this is full of plot twists and action the sort to keep you on the edge of your seat not for the wrong reasons ( being scared) but to make you want to know what is going on and what is going to happen next. the title " unknown "that in it own could suggest to you that this is a thriller film because it is all about solving a mystery and as said before a thriller is more story line based.

Dexter Morning Routine Analysis

Dexter is a man who is a serial killer but only kills people who have committed bad crimes or have done something bad and he never gets caught doing so. Although he is a killer and people normally dislike them sort of characters but Dexter is a very like-able character which is weird for a character that is a killer

 The first thing I noticed was the mysterious sounding music and it went on throughout the whole title sequence and matched the thriller/horror genre as it was quite creepy music. The music plays a major part in this because it gets louder(crescendo) as it goes on as if something bad is going to happen  but it doesn't so it does a good job of building up tension

At the beginning the font 'DEXTER' looks and is written as if it were written in blood and we know that he is a serial killer  the bloody font links him to be a killer and suggests the genre which is a thriller .have the font written in blood is effective because blood is associated with death and killing so the typography links to what he does because he draws blood from his victims.


Because we know that Dexter is a serial killer I think that it is great how they make all his daily routines look sinister but they turn out to be just normal things and what helps this are the extreme close ups they are very effective and make the sinister routines look otherwise. There are 3 examples showing these effective close ups one of them being when he is tying his shoe laces  it is made out to look like he is inflecting pain on someone.

The second example is with him when he is eating ham it looks like he is eating someone's flesh but we find out that he is just eating his breakfast , at this point we start to see a  pattern developing in which he is just going through his morning routine.




The third and final example is where he is putting on his t-shirt over his head this seems like he is suffocating someone but we see that he is just getting dressed for whatever he is doing. this is an good example as it as shows how such a basic routine or action that is daily done can be made to look so sinister.

At the end of the title sequence we see Dexter with a grin on his face after the morning routine is over and he then just walks off this grin could be a symbol of the evil side he has to him but we also know that he is a very likeable character  

 

Thriller conventions

A convention in term of media is a object or item that is associated with a type  of genre or just things in general that are associated with a genre for example in a romantic film you will see flowers chocolates just to name a few so below you will see some thriller conventions.

Some conventions of thriller films could be knives, masks, fake blood, dark lighting, dark alleys set in cities common locations.

Knives these are one of the main things that you see appear in a lot of thriller films sometimes you just see them with blood on it and that creates the mystery  these are the sort of props that keep the audience on the edge of their seats and this what thrillers are all about.

Masks are another convention of thriller films these are what cause the thrills sometimes because the tension is been built up and when u get the people jumping out with mask it gives you that thrill and it is a good way of making you think who is under the mask and why they are wearing the mask.

You also  find a lot of dark lighting and dark alleys in thrillers and this is done to again build up the tension and these are always good in creating plot twists because you think something bad is going to happen through a dark alley but nothing happens then the thrill comes.

 

 

 

 

There is also a high emphasis on the location this sets the scene  and is important in knowing

whether there is a thriller or not because thriller are set in the same places most of the time you find them set in cities or a common location .

 

Another convention of thriller films are twists in the plot this keeps the audience guessing

keeping them intrigued and leaving them with questions that they want answered.