Evaluation for my thriller opening sequence

I've have decided to have my thriller opening sequence use popular conventions such as having the non diegetic sounds to add to suspense and drama. It also starts with a particular event of panning the street to make it look like someone is looking for a particular house.

Another convention of titles is that usually the most important film companies or actors in the film are shown first in the credits. I have decided to have the credits at the beginning of the opening sequence showing the important characters and film crew then panning around the streets. At the beginning and at the end of the opening sequence I have decided to fade the credits in and out also I decided to use a font to make it look like the name of the film was smeared by makeup. Best of friends begins the story with the protagonist Natasha.

Camera movement - Tracking and Pan Shots is what I used in the beginning of thriller opening, particularly the first character this is where the camera tracks a certain person at certain points and doesn’t reveal who the person is. Zooming in and out not giving too much away.

Framing of shot - I used close up and over the shoulder shot, greatly used in both forcing in on the 2nd character looking at a pacific image and also the close up of knocking at the door, to build suspense and mystery in the beginning. Long shots have also been used by tracking the characters from behind to set the scene and show the audience where the action was to be taking place in the upcoming events of the sequence.

Camera angles- Low levels of framing and the high angles at certain points show different levels of importance of the characters, the high angle is used mainly to show those in a powerful. There are both main characters in the beginning so they both have a high importance in the film, which seems to have the majority of power and this, is shown through the camera angles.

Mise en scene - The general location used in the thriller movies I've studied depends on the story of the movie themselves therefore I decided to have my thriller opening in a quite street and in a house in the middle of the day which shows the contrast and doesn’t make the audience think its scary straight. Lighting is a key aspect used in most of the films such as in some parts of my film I have made it dark to make the audience think something is going to happen and the in others I have made it have a bright affect showing that that it’s a happy time for instance the picture with the girl looking at it makes a happy moment, this shows I have used different lighting but for different reasons. I chose the characters to have causal and normal teenage clothes on to make both characters look normal.

Editing - Cuts become a commonality this is usually because multiple things are happening that we’re unaware of and the jump cuts fill us in, they allow us as the audience to make assumptions on what the story or characters will be like I have used this at the door when the two girls are speaking together. While the jump cuts are built up they eventually draw to a close; however the cutting rate seems to increase which ultimately seems to lead to a miniature climax of the introduction. Here shows all the different cuts in the opening sequence and the diegetic sounds.

Here is the diegetic sounds that I have including into my opening.

Here it shows the non-diegetic sound that I have also included into my opening thriller.

Sound – In my opening sequence I decided that after researching different films that I would only have a bit of non diegetic music playing in the background to create a certain atmosphere at the beginning at write of the end of the sequence when the name of the film comes up to leave the audience thinking. We also used dialogue, to give the audience an insight to the characters motives or their relationships with the other character. Silence is very thought provoking and does well to build up tension, which seems to be a strong convention for thriller films.

Who would be audience for my media products?

They figured the intended audience for The Roommate is too young and naive to think it could be so unoriginal. The latter explanation seems more fitting since this is one movie that fails to give the audience any credit. I chose my film advert to be presented in a young girl’s film magazine like slant as shows different film advertisement for young adult girls.

Slant Magazine is a publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival.

I think that this film magazine is appropriate for my media product because it is a young girls film magazine 15 and over and there are what the audience age ranges. I think that it will get more girls to watch it as they see themselves in it with friendship problems over boys. They also have an online publication, which will also help advert my film as a lot of young girls are mainly on computers and using the interest nearly every day.

I have also looked at another film magazine that I think is appropriate for my thriller opening sequence and it is called ‘girls life’. This is aimed at the age group I think that my audience would be.

Best of friends was set, but even more so, it's a naked representation of beauty as the key to attaining everything, and something to be wanted with murderous stubbornness. Natasha and Charlie who used to be best of friends until Charlie decided she wanted to date Natasha’s ex boyfriend Sam.

If attractiveness is this vapid, it's also what apparently gets Natasha into stalker trouble with her ex boyfriend and best friend, who takes one look at fetching Charlie and immediately decides that being her BFF is the only goal worth attaining.

Making sure Charlie doesn't lost from her side, however, is a difficult task for Rebecca, who soon finds herself having to, including other things.

Best of friends begins the story with the protagonist Natasha going round supposedly going round for a girly chat though looking more like she is straight off the catwalk. At this point we should probably assume she’s nervous or apprehensive and awkward as she doesn’t know a soul but if she is we get no visual clues. She then where she gets an instant boyfriend who was Natasha’s boyfriend, followed by Natasha attitude changing and being 2 faced and making out as though she is happy about it soon after her attitude hen changes becoming obsessive and jealous behaviour rears it’s ugly head. Charlie must soon face facts that her best friend leaning heavily towards the obsessive and unhinged category. Only she doesn’t so much face it as casually refer to it and seems less terrified and more just slightly miffed.