Analysing Of Previous Student Thrillers

After analysing an existing thriller opening we analysed a student thriller opening.

I decided to do Negative.

The good things about this sequence is that it created alot of suspense and mystery. It also showed a flawed male lead as the bad guy. It started the web of intregue by getting you to ask questions like 'who is the woman?' and 'why is he following her'. It also shws some quite clever shots of the guy fiddling with some negative film strip and editing it together. The titles came on in an interesting way by coming in with some sort of wavey effect which could represnet the fluid used to develop camera footage.

The problems that I found with this is that it didnt reach any kind of climax and the music di drone on lowering the suspense. Also alot of the footage was quite quite boring and again it dragged on. Also you see the stalkers face which lowers the mystery.

Analysis of a real thriller opening

We needed to do an analysis of a real thriller opening and i chose to do 28 Days Later. I really liked this sequence because it created alot of question from the moment it started.

This opening sequence also complies with lots of the thriller conventions. Firstly it creates an enemy, the virus, but it doesnt give too much away so it still has some fear of the unknown. There is also a flawed male lead who doesnt listen to people and ends up getting killed at the start. There is also a vunerable female character who also gets killed because she cant defend herself. The tense music that plays throughout the sequence increases the fear and builds up for the climax where the people get attacked.

The way that the title of the film is introduced is interesting because not only does it introduce the name of the film it also introduces the next scene by saying in the bottom corner, 28 weeks later.... which cleverly indroduces the name of the film and the next scene in one go.