My media product develops conventions of thrillers by following the same genre that is a psychological thriller, this genre is in a range of films one being the sixth sense. But our film is very different to this type of psychological thriller.
My film challenges thriller convention as our villain and victim are sisters, but twins not just sisters. Films that have twins in tend to be of a different genre for example the film Twins. But like our film establishes movies that have twins in them will only want to use one actor/actress; so a technique called a split edit will be used to clone that actor/actress making them a twin. This device is used in The Parent Trap as well as my own film.
Another convention we have developed in our film is that it does not flow chronologically as our ending is at the start of our film. This is used in many films to confuse and make the audience feel uneased. For example Quentin Tarantino uses this technique in Pulp Fiction.
The recent film Triangle uses similar simple titles as I mayself did for our film; I also used them to keep in with my binary opposition theory we had incorporated into our film. Both Triangle and my own film had black and whithe titles although in different fonts and presented differently. But still both used for the same genre of film.
Another device I have used which is shown within another film is binary opposition theory, this ia a pair of theoretical opposites. This is used in the film Scarface on the main poster to the film, and as the front cover to DVD'S and Blu-rays. Binary opposition is used here to show the transition form good to evil, very similar to how we have used it in our film.
Single White Female this film has many comparisions with my own as this was my initial research for my idea. The plot has a twist much similar to ours but not identical, this film allowed us to make our idea our own but still follow the guidelines of a psychological thriller.
Dead Ringers is already a film and of the same genre to my own, I again developed the convention of a typical guessing game title. But Dead Ringers is very different to our film as it is more male dominate in actors and is mouch older. Whereas our film is much more modern.
Lastly our film develops another convention of a thriller with the soundtrack we used, very eerie and chilling a sound to go along with the plot. Similar music is used in the film Schindlers List, the music has been used in a similar way as to create a certain feel before the film has began.
The films I have used to highlight my challenging and development of thriller conventions I have presented below in a photoshop document.
Another convention we have developed in our film is that it does not flow chronologically as our ending is at the start of our film. This is used in many films to confuse and make the audience feel uneased. For example Quentin Tarantino uses this technique in Pulp Fiction.
The recent film Triangle uses similar simple titles as I mayself did for our film; I also used them to keep in with my binary opposition theory we had incorporated into our film. Both Triangle and my own film had black and whithe titles although in different fonts and presented differently. But still both used for the same genre of film.
Another device I have used which is shown within another film is binary opposition theory, this ia a pair of theoretical opposites. This is used in the film Scarface on the main poster to the film, and as the front cover to DVD'S and Blu-rays. Binary opposition is used here to show the transition form good to evil, very similar to how we have used it in our film.
Single White Female this film has many comparisions with my own as this was my initial research for my idea. The plot has a twist much similar to ours but not identical, this film allowed us to make our idea our own but still follow the guidelines of a psychological thriller.
Dead Ringers is already a film and of the same genre to my own, I again developed the convention of a typical guessing game title. But Dead Ringers is very different to our film as it is more male dominate in actors and is mouch older. Whereas our film is much more modern.
Lastly our film develops another convention of a thriller with the soundtrack we used, very eerie and chilling a sound to go along with the plot. Similar music is used in the film Schindlers List, the music has been used in a similar way as to create a certain feel before the film has began.
The films I have used to highlight my challenging and development of thriller conventions I have presented below in a photoshop document.
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