Creating suspense Homework assignment
First Video Points:
- Give information at the start of the scene to let the audience know what is going on.
- Develop the character and make the audience relate to the character so that they feel more emotion when something bad happens to that character.
- Also develop a backstory to the danger so that the audience knows of the scale of the said danger.
Second Video Points:
- Ask yourself what would the audience want to see
- Crowd pleasing
- Empathizing with the audience which will create suspense
- Watch hands
- Dark lighting
- Make small objects large when wanting to build suspense
Third Video Points:
- Give information to the audience to create suspense
- prolong suspense
My 5 examples of thriller movie openings:
- Joker
- Split
- Shutter Island
- Knives Out
- Bird Box
Many themes are shown throughout these thriller opening scene such as showing the audience the immediate threat and telling them that what the actors have to face, also make the characters more believable by relating them to the audience so the audience can show empathy towards the characters. Having backstory and flashbacks to a characters previous life or previous day can help the audience understand what is going on as they know the beginnings. Films focus on the hands, use dark lighting and make small objects big to emphasize the importance of that object. I am going to try and replicate these techniques used in the industry to make my next short film more suspenseful.
Hi Addison
ReplyDelete11/15
Some great points here from your research using those videos, it shows you have an understanding of how the 'pro's' create suspense. You have communicated your understanding well.
With part 2, coming up with 5 film examples, this isn't detailed enough to really demonstrate what techniques you found in each one and talking about the 'why' behind implementing them. You have put in most of the work, try not to rush it otherwise you are not getting the marks you can. Pictures of the movies you 'like' won't get you the marks. I really need to see in depth analysis of the techniques so we have evidence of you research.
Also, at this point, like the brief requests, we are needing to see you use blog tools for presentations. I know it's a bit of extra work but it is necessary to show evidence that you are learning and gaining online presentation tools too. It's a part of the assignment.