Thriller Introduction

Our new task is to create the opening of a thriller. On Monday, our teacher talked us through the codes and conventions of thrillers in our lesson and taught us what a thriller requires in its characters, its plot and its atmosphere. We then watched the openings of 'Lost Highway', 'Signs' and 'Blood Simple'. We discussed use use of camera angles, mise en scene, editing and sound in the openings and how they help make it a thriller. We then began watching the beginning of 'The Usual Suspects'.