Although we changed our plans for our film a few times we always kept around the same genre as its what interests us most. However, we were unsure about what genre our film would fit into (thriller or psychological thriller) After doing research into both of these genres I've realised our film incorporates elements from both and doesn't fit perfectly into just one of them, making our film different from typical thrillers or psychological thrillers.
We researched many conventions for thriller films ( see YouTube video and comments below) and wanted to incorporate as many as possible into our opening. We wanted to initially film our piece outside possibly in a filed or in a woods as this a very common location used for our type of genre. However, due to unpredictable weather conditions we decided to film in a bathroom, i think this worked just as well if not better.
The bathroom was small are quiet closed in which gave it a cold feeling, we removed all pictures and decorations to make the room look empty, the wooden floorboards and white walls gave contributed to the look we were hoping for. In order of the audience to understand what genre the film is in a short amount of time we used a very typical convention of using blood and setting the scene as if a murder had just taken place, straight away the audience will know that 'delusion' is either a horror or thriller. I think first impression of the film due to the amount of blood and dark colours it could be seen as a horror, but because we decided not to show a body and used blurry effects we've created a sense of mystery and suspense implying theirs a story behind the murder which reveals it is a thriller. Our film opening is almost very like 'black and white', we edited the colouring tremendously as we filmed in broad daylight, this would have ruined the effect completely if we hadn't of edited this, it now looks as if its night time which is a most common time a murder would happen making it look more professional. Another convention we used is the background music, we played around with a lot of different music and we thought that we found one which fitted perfectly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0LwGL8QMCA this music has a very mysterious feeling to it and the jolty harsh beat i felt reflected on our character, however at the very last minute we decided to change it as we considered using narrative so using a song with lyrics wouldn't work, and also the lyrics aren't suited to our piece as it talks about love. Another reason we looked for a different type of music is that we noticed our film looked more like a music video, it made it even harder for it to be categorised into a genre. For this reasoning we searched for instrumentals and found a piece of music which actually fits better than the original and due to the positive effect it has on our piece we decided that we wouldn't need narrative as it could possibly ruin our film. We used the music all the way through but used the natural sound of the girl coughing and being sick, this creates realism and bring the character to life rather than her actions being muted out. We decided to use a young adult play the main character as we felt it would be more disturbing to witness a young woman go through unpleasant events which lead to the final scene (the opening scene) our target audience would also be able to relate and sympathise with her.
We used many typical conventions and this made it easier to film and plan. The fact we use a woman as the main character and playing the 'murderer' i feel we have challenged typical media conventions in this genre. This could go either way, that more people are interested to watch something different and more originally or it could have a negative impact in that it doesn't fit in to a typical thriller film and doesn't sell. Most of the elements we used in our piece are typical conventions of thrillers as we conformed to the media which should overall get a positive response, making it easy to watch and sell.
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