Research And Planning

As individuals we closely investigated the horror genre and the thriller genre understanding how they have changed over time. We decided that both these genres were quite broad and needed to be looked further into, so we looked at the sub-genre of psychological thriller which appealed to all of us. We found artofthetitle.com to be particularly useful as we could look at different openings which were broken down and analysed. I took this exercise further by exploring se7en which closely related to our idea, below is the image I created which I used to create a detailed response to through three key concepts; mise-en-scene, cinematography and editing.

Iconic directors showed real conventions that exist among genres for example Todorov’s narrative theory shown in psychological thrillers is still used now.


For our group we explored conventions more for our opening task as we had to select a genre and apply these conventions where as in our preliminary task we did not explore this because we did not have a specific genre and we only aimed to meet the requirements. One main convention was the impact that music has on the audience, we all discovered that music builds tension and puts the audience on edge making them want to watch more. This was our main aim and so this inspired us to create a horror piece that will have this impact.