The different between a horror and a thriller film

HORROR

In film, the horror genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience fright, fear , terror , disgust or horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, into the mundane world.Some of the most common elements include vampires , zombies (and other forms of resurrected corpses), werewolves, ancient curses, ghosts, demons and/or demonic possession , Satanism, evil children, 'slasher villains', vicious animals, inanimate objects brought to life by black magic or twisted science, haunted houses, cannibals, and malicious extraterrestrials. The serial killer movie is sometimes regarded as part of the horror genre.

THRILLER

The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television that includes numerous, often-overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are typically characterized by fast pacing, frequent action scenes, and plots in which a small number of resourceful heroes must thwart, often violently, the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Thrillers typically emphasize plot over character development, and make extensive use of literary devices such as suspense, red herrings, and cliffhangers. They often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, the polar regions, or the high seas.

An Idea for our 2 min thriller

Me and my group (Houda,Alma and Ardit) came up up with our 1st idea for our thriller.

Setting- In school (classroom, corridors)Characters- Geeky girl, science teacher and popular kids.

The story is based around a girl in her teens, who has been a geek all her life. Shes not very much liked by the popular kids.But she does have a secret admirer, who is her science teacher but the audience does not know this. One day she finishes school but decides to then go on and do some more work even after ll the other kids are alone, but she does not know that she is being watched (by her science teacher). While she is doing her work she hears strange noises but doesnt take notice. Finally she finishes and it doesnt occur to her that it has got really dark outside. While shes walking down the corridor the lights turn off onne by one catching up with her. She starts to walk faster as she can hear footsteps but dares not to turn around, while still runing she hears a door slam and the footsteps stop, and so does she. She turns around slowly to find...

Types of Thrillers

Action Thrillers

Crime Thrillers

Comedy Thrillers

Saw 2- Analysis

In this trialer for Saw 2 is shows alot of red which gives you an idea that there is going to be blood or danger involved. The fast pictures of bits in the film looks a bit like flicking and gets the audience wanting to see whats gonna happen the film. There is alot of screaming in the trailer which makes people want to see it in the theatres to see who and why are they screaming.

Alfred Hitchcock-Shadow of a doubt

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood and in 1956 became an Amerrican Citizen, retaining his British citizenship.
Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. He remains one of the best-known and most popular filmmakers of all time.He made his first film in 1920. He made is first sound film in 1928. His first film got an award in 1940. Alfred is known as the master of suspence and a brillaint film maker.

This is a Alfred Hitchcock film I watched in class, its called Shadow of a Dought. I only watched the first 7 mins and 20 secs. Below is part 1.





Shadow of a Doubt 1943

• At first we people dancing at a ball, very formal clothing and upperclass look.
• Then we get a dissolve to a rural place, somewhere outside in town, we see a river, bridge, alot of junk everywhere ,burnt cars ect .Its a polluted place.
• After we get long shot of a street showing normal middle class or even working class children playing outside houses.
• Then we get a close of one of the windows.
• Then we go through the window to seea a man laying down on a bed. He looks dead but then we are mistaken when he starts to play with his cigar.
• Close ups of his money on the floor and drink shows that he is quiet rich but isint bothered about it.
• The landlord then comes into his room and talks to him. After that she draws the bilnds down and at the same we see a close up of the man closing his eyes kind of like a graphic match. But however what I also noticed is once the bilnd is drawn we see him get up. This shows that he is actice in the dark. it is here were the audience can question if he is a protagonist or a antagonist.

Analysis of Title Sequence in Se7en

Begins in quiet. You can hear a slow ticking like a clock. The picture starts to flicker and flash which makes the audience unsettled. The sounds increase which now sounds like scatching and screaming. there are spashes of red which looks like blood. The red signifies danger. There are pictures of people in which the character of the film crosses out their eyes with a black marker.

Introduction

My name is Eustacia Gaston-Monerville. I'm working in a group with Houda,Alma and Ardit. We are going to be creating a 2 min opening sequence for a thriller film.

Thriller Conventions

A crime at the core of the narrative (often murder, but not necessarily).
A complex narrative structure, with false paths and resolutions.
A narrative pattern of establising enigmas which the viewer expects to be resolved.
A protagonist is the central charcter in a film.A protagonist who is systematically dis-enpowered and drawn into a complex web of intrigue by the antagonist.
Extraordinary events happening in ordinary situations.
Themes of identity
Themes of mirroring
Themes of voveurism
Protagonist with a "flow" which is exploited by the antagonist.
Titles often reflect an aspect of the pro/antagonist's psychological state.
There is often a scene near the end of the film in which the protagonist is in peril.
Mise en scene which echoes/mirrors the protagonist's plight.