paronormal activity

The film builds suspense becuase the demon creates sounds but not so terrifying then, is builds it but my making scratching sounds,loud banging ect and this builds up the supspense to when the girl is not in control and the demon is in her body.the sound buils suspense becuase the sunds get worse every time they go to bed even though we can not see what is making the sound we are still scared becuase of this and it creates a tense atmosphere.

Camera-The camera is uses through out the film to show the night and day activity of the demond and the camera is used to view the whole of the house and the werid activitys that are going on. also in the film is the use of mise en scene , this is :
Costumes-in the film the acotrs are wering very casual cothes , this shows they are normal people getting sormented by this demond
Lighing-in the film the lighting is dark and the lights flicker on and of , as the actors move around there always seem to be light shows their the nice people in this and when its dark the demond is a work shows his in control of everything and is dark and mean.
Actors-The actors are very good becuase you can see that they are scared by their faces and the emotions that they show becuase of the wird things that are happening to them they are facing.
Make up-the actors have hardly any make up on sure that they are pure and inersent in all of this wierd activity.
Props-the props that are used is a things that you find in a house e.g. bed, sofer. ect and they also use a camera,voice recorder , laptop, to show what the demond is doing.
Setting-the film is set in the couples house , mostly in the bed from but it does travel round coursing pain and make them feel insucure in the house .
The narrative structure is when the sub titles are presented to the audience , In the film the the sub titles were presented in white writing and were clear for the audience to read about what is happening in the film.

Black swan "psychological thriller"

A ballet dancer wins the lead in "swan lake" and is perfect for the role of the dedicated white swan princess Odettle- but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the black swan.in this psychological thriller they have used clamp.
Costumes-one is wearing a dark black swan type dress and has lots of detail were the other is in a glamours white swan dress.
Lighting-when they are dancing on the stage they have used a single sport light and low key lighting.
Actors-she plays the part really well being friendly and happy to be the white swan, but we can see the fear in her eyes and the lack of perfection in her prefomances and she loses her mind.
Make up-the white swan has delicate sliver branches across her face ans soft pink lip colour, whereas the black swan has red eyes, purple, red colour lips and silver,green branches coming of her eyes .
Props- the lights- chandeliers hanging from the ceiling in the dance scene.moving gates
Setting-it is set in New York city at a ballet company.

Zodiac

In the film Zodiac , it starts of with two teenagers in a car driving around and instead of going to the burger bar with loads of people around , the girl drives them to a quite place, with know one around , it is very relaxed , then out of know were these people in cars start throwing fire crackers at them, this gives us a glue that something bad might happen but we are not sure, then it goes all quite again, a couple minutes later we here a car coming , it goes in and goes back out again, then a few minutes later we here a screeching of a car and the mysterious black car comes back and parks behind them, and turns its head lights of, then a man gets out of the car with a flash light, the boy in the car thinks its the police but its a man with a gun and kills both of them, however when the man starts to walk away one of them starts moving , so he goes back and shots them again . In this film there are small little hints to tell the audience that something bad is going to happen and this builds up the suspense of the film and it is unexpected, and the audience will want to watch on to see what happens .

No country for old men - Opening Scene

PSYCHO !!!


That is the only way to describe this thriller of a film , it starts of with a narrator talking about the film using boring country scene in the middle of no were , then you see a police officer , taking a man in to the police car with a oxygen chamber , then then drive down this long road and we see the police officer talking on the phone as the police officer puts the phone down , the criminal slowly gets up and with the cuffs on him he strangles the officer down to the floor until he is dead, he then washes his hands and takes of the cuffs, he carries on his murder by killing an innocent man in the car with the oxygen chamber , this film is very scary but it is a great opening to a film because people will want to carry on watching it to see what happens next!!!!! Here is a clip of the film.


http://youtu.be/_kqoJevTIIQ

A history of violence

In this thriller the director has started the film with two guys coming out of a motel, looking all calm and cool , one of them is wearing all black , he looks bossy and in-charge and the other guy looks normal and laid back, in the film them come out of the motel , and put their bags in the car , as laid back guy drives the car along the, guy n black goes back in we are still unaware that anything has happened , then when the laid back guy goes in too get some water we see a load of blood and a person on the floor and another one in a chair the man does nothing, however when the little girl comes out from her room , he bends down and shushes her then kills her , then a another girl wakes up from a night mare , seeing this as an opening make the audience what to watch the film further and see what happens.

Analyzing modern thriller openings!

In media we have started to look at openings of modern thrillers for when we start to do are own thriller!!! To do this we will focus on the mise en scene which is clamps this stands for costume, lighting,actors, make up,props and setting and this is what we will be looking at in the films we will be watching.