the use of music in thrillers

MUSIC IN THRILLERS

music in thrillers is used to build to a climax like in jaws this is just the music however in the actual film this music connotes that the shark is coming and now this music has become iconic in being recognized with the great white shark .

Target audience

Thrillers target audience

It depends on the kind of thriller film. Like all genres, there are sub-genres and therefore with each sub genre there would be a different target audience

Silence of the Lambs and No Country for Old Men and they're rated R. Their target audience was probably for the young male adults. so 18 years of age

Meanwhile, there are those thrillers that are borderline horror films, such as M. Night Shyamalan films The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village. Since they're close to horror (and horror films target teenage girls), the demographic would be slightly different... probably younger and more female based.

And then there are legal thrillers (Fracture, Runaway Jury) and crime thrillers (Memento, Se7en) that target a more mature audience... and classic thrillers (any Alfred Hitchcock film) that are rated PG, but are intended for adults. like the ones we watched in class would appeal to a wider variety of people


But if you just need a target audience for a generic thriller film... I'd have to say the young adult demographic from 18-25. That's my opinion. however again if its a political thriller like the one i analysed that could appeal to a wider audience

Thriller actors

Birthdate:

July 6, 1927

Death date:

October 3, 2004

Grace Kelly

• 1. Rear Window (1954)
• 2. High Noon (1952)
• 3. Dial M for Murder (1954)
• 4. To Catch a Thief (1955)

Matt Damon

Birthdate:

October 8, 1970

• 1. Departed, The (2006)
• 2. Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007)
• 3. Bourne Supremacy, The (2004)
• 4. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE ACTOS THAT HAVE ACTED WITHIN A THRILLERS HOWEVER I DID NOT MENTION THE ACTORS THAT WE HAVE ALREADY ENCOUNTERED THROUGH OUR FILM ANALYSIS OF MEMNTO AND SEVEN

Janet Leigh

• 1. Psycho (1960)
• 2. Touch of Evil (1958)
• 3. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
• 4. Fog, The (1980)

the 180 degrees rule

This is the 180 degrees rule

In professional filming the 180 Degree Rule applies while filming (with a digital video camera) two characters (for example having a conversation) where there is an imaginary axis. The camera stays within 180 degrees on one side of the axis. If the camera goes around to the other side of the axis the characters right/left will change (which can be quite confusing) it is called crossing the line. The shot from the opposite side, is called a reverse angle.

the characters should always remain on the same side , which is why we stay 180 degrees within the axis. The 180 Degree Rule is often used in conversations where Shot Reverse Shot is required and it is an important element required for a style of film editing called continuity editing. This way in dialogue you can always identify who is speaking or responding using their facial expressions.

if the 180 rule is not followed then in a circumstances where the characters are talking they can be on the wrong side and this therefore losses its continuity .

we abide by this rule through our prelim task as in most of it we use shot reverse shot and it is really easy to make the mistake this is apparent in the prison scene .

directors

There are various directors who influenced the face of thrillers like such as

Christopher Nolan- was born 30th July 1970. He is a British American filmmaker, writer, and producer. Christopher Nolan is best known for directing psychological thriller 'Memento'. He is known for his thriller movies such as 'The Dark Knight' (2008), 'Memento' (2000), 'Insomnia' (2007) and 'The Prestige' (2006).

Quentin Jerome Tarantino His films include My Best Friend's Birthday (1987), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. 1, 2003; Vol. 2, 2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).he has one various recognised awards .and is considered one of the best thriller directors of our time

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock- Was born 13 August 1899 and died 29 April 1980. He was a British filmaker, and producer who changed the way people looked at thriller films and made way for new ideas and concepts. After a successful career in the United Kingdom, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. He is one of the most renound film

Martin Scorsese

• 
• Birthdate:
  • November 17, 1942 Departed, The (2006)
  • After Hours (1985)
  • Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
  plus many morever (1976)
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Steven Spielberg

Birthdate:

December 18, 1946

• 1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• 2. Jaws (1975)
• 3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• 4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

James Cameron

Birthdate:

August 16, 1954

• 1. Aliens (1986)
• 2. Terminator, The (1984)
• 3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• 4. Abyss, The (1989)

David Fincher

Birthdate:

August 28, 1962

• 1. Fight Club (1999)
• 2. Zodiac (2007)
• 3. Se7en (1995)
• 4. Game, The (1997)

Editing

Today we looked at what we had filmed last lesson and began editing our prelim task we looked at different software and how to crop our footage ... we began with all of our footage and then refined it we edited using final cut pro we began by capturing the footage that we already have on the camera an then we used marking in and marking out in order to make sure the film flowed .

my individual research

after getting briefed about what are task was going to be i decided to do some individual research on what a thriller is and came to the conclusion that there are different sub genres of thrillers such as political thrillers i wanted to investigate further in to a political thriller as it intrigued me so i went to watch a film called 31 east 62 north and also did some research on politics this made me think of this as an option for one our thrillers as it is a thriller but a sub genre and also i looked at different ideas like a murder investigation.

because although there are some structure of a thriller it is quite a broad genre

as research i watched some other schools attempts at thriller and looked at what was good about it and what wasn't

i thought this one had a similar concept to the bourne fims i thought some aspects of it worked such ads the principle and some shots however i felt

the quality of the video i watched was poor this could have just been from youtube or when the where shooting it they could have made it fuzzy

i also watched bigger budget thriller like phone booth and i felt that this was such a contrast from

this the use of shots where amazing at one point they did a 360 degrees panning of the phone booth