Pitch Feedback

We presented our pitch for our opening sequence idea and afterwards we got asked questions. One of these questions was, 'how will you put the title onto the barrel of the gun?' which was one of our ideas, this helped because we had to think into it more and we came up with the solution of photoshop. This shows that presenting the pitch was a good idea because it helps our group improve our work to make it a better finished product.
Another question was 'what time will it be set' and our reply was whilst it is getting dark. This was one of the thoughts we had during making our pitch and that idea still might change. This was our answer as it is our initial idea, showing that there is still work to be done in the planning so we can come to a final decision about things like time and location etc. Showing another good point about the feedback from the pitch as some people might see bad points that our group didn't.
Our group now needs to move on to finishing the plan and then finally putting into a storyboard format so that we can put our ideas and plan onto paper. Once this is done we can move onto the filming.

Here is a picture of our mood board:

Classic thriller analysis

This clip complies to many common thriller conventions such as the tense soundtrack this is used to make the audience feel in suspense which keeps them interested in the film. The film goes very dark around the sides of the screen this focuses us to the center of the screen where the characters are, this adds a certain feel of mystery to the film which is generally required in a thriller. The action in the film, where the protagonist is jumping from rooftop to rooftop chasing the antagonist is also very tense making the audience on edge wanting to know what will happen to him, especially when the protagonist is hanging from the gutter. This leaves us wondering whether he will survive, having these two characters in this scene also is a convention of the thriller genre as there is a good guy and a bad guy.

Analysis of the thriller Avatar

We chose to analyse the trailer for Avatar. In this, it shows that it is a hybrid; it has adventure, action and thriller. This is represented with the fight scenes showing that it is exiting and full of action. The adventure is shown when a new land new creatures are seen by the audience. the thriller aspect is shown during all the fighting and this would draw the audience in because it is scary but exiting. It makes the audience want to see more and it still leaves a lot for the audience to think about. At points the music is quite eerie and this gives effect to the thriller genre. Furthermore, there is lots of fast and quite dark shots, that also give effect to the thriller genre.