Research - Thriller Conventions

Video 1: How to create suspense through camera movements:

  • Subtle Dolly movement
  • Anticipating motion
  • Push on nothing (walking into an empty hallway)


Video 2: How to create Suspense and Hitchcock:
  • make the audience wait for something terrible to happen
  • limited view creates tension of the unknown
  • silence nerves us, music stabs like a knife
  • tension isnt about whats happening its about what might happen'
  • "make audience suffer for as long as possible" - Hitchcock
  • tension is about control, the more we wait the sweeter the release



Video 3: Art of the Title Se7en:

super scary, teeth chattering and wind sounds, screams, scratching sounds. distorted eerie text, visuals are distorted just like the sound. Layered and chaotic. Dim colour.
  • Font for credits, Layered sounds
  • Dim colour
  • Flashes to black
  • Wind sounds
  • Scratching sounds


Video 4: Nobody (2021):
  • Darkness
  • deliberate music, action
  • Lots of tension of the unknown
  • limited view shots
    


Video 5: The intruder
  • limited view
  • supernatural elements
  • sneaking around 
  • creaking doors


Video 6: Fractured
  • close cowboy shots
  • appropriate lighting



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