Lighting

I've learnt by using different lighting techniques you can change the mood of scene. Backlighting is used to create a silhouettes usually used on the villain of the scene. The image to the left is an example of backlighting. Top lighting is used to highlight the features of the character, which usually gives a glamourous view. Under lighting is the main light used from beneath the character which creates harsh shadows, this type of lighting is used in horrors. For my coursework I would use backlighting to keep the villains identity a mystery, which leaves it to the imagination of the audience to what the villain looks like.

Paranormal Activity Remix

This is the official video for paranormal activity remix. The video is like a horror styled thriller this links to my coursework because I want my thriller film to to be a horror thriller.

My idea for the horror thriller is two innocent children at the park playing in the playground; all of a sudden it becomes dark, there's a serial killer with a mask, the children are alone and have to be cunning. Their aim is to escape the park and stay alive otherwise it will be a bloody ending for them...

Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest

North by Northwest was made in 1959; it is a classic thriller because it has all the elements which are required in a thriller film. I only watched thirty minutes of the film and all the elements were included in the first fifteen minutes of the film such as a villain driven plot (kidnapping, wanting the hero to co-operate) hero (innocent, mistaken identity) cliff-hanger (in this case the hero in the film was literally hanging off the cliff) tension, excitement and suspense (the audience would all be wondering in their minds 'will the hero survive or die?').

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