Evaluation Question 1

Our thriller, which is of a supernatural genre, uses many of the conventions which would usually be used  in professional thriller film openings. We were inspired by thrillers such as, The Grudge, Paranormal activity, The Exorcist and many more.

In the pictures of our thriller opening TWELVE, and in The Grudge, both the titles and the cast names share a similar level of formality. We chose to use to use this convention of a plain font because we believe it is effective in raising an intent atmosphere when watching the opening. Also the conventional fades of the font keeps the pace slow.

Although the music is not heard by just by looking at the pictures, the musics is non-diegetic. For The Grudge, the music is at first non- diegetic, but then goes on to being diegetic, such as the women
breathing. However for our thriller Twelve the music is non- diegetic all the way through, but in one part towards the end of the opening we used diegetic sound of the protagonist shutting the book, due to frustration.

Women breathing

The charm book 

Both title sequence use non-diegetic music, which is conventional. They both create suspense and gives an eeri feeling, this is conventional in thriller films, this helps to also add suspense.

Our thriller Twelve and The grudge use a key prop or an conventional icon. Twelve uses the time on the phone, this is our main prop because it reveals the time it was set at and the title of the thriller.  The grudge uses a diary or a book. We also used the time on the phone because we believe that it contributed to building up the suspense.

There are many elements of intertextuality we have used, such as the bathroom scene from Psycho, the mirror from the supernatural thriller Mirror, the stairs from The grudge and The exorcist. Overal We have used  all the main conventions of a thriller film opening such as the name of the cast, director, producer and production company.