Past student thriller openings.

I watched some previous students work and analysed them, to see what kind of level i should be working at and what kind of things i should be including in my film. 

Behind The Net Curtains. 
This opening contains a enough of the codes and conventions to make the film a thriller however i feel it does not contain many C&C's.
The music is played throughout the entire duration of the opening and it is very bone chilling, sinister music. It makes me feel quite uncomfortable and i feel fits with the film very well.
The lighting is very un stereotypical of a thriller film as the lighting used is quite bright and usually the lighting in thriller films is dark and uses lots of high lighting and chiaroscuro. However i feel like breaking the convention worked well in this case because it contrasted with the emotion of the events currently taking place.
The use of a twist at the end plays on the audiences mind because we are lead to believe that the old lady is an evil, malicious killer. We are lead to believe this from the types of things she does, for example cooking liver and laughing hysterically at nothing in particular (that we can tell). However at the end she is pushed down the stairs so our idea of her changes and we suddenly feel sorry for her.
My main criticism of the opening is that i do not see how they would carry it on to make an entire film. It in itself seems more like a short film rather than an opening.



Deadline. 
This opening also only contains a few conventions of a Thriller film however the main plot is a 'deadline' which is a theme often explored or featured in thriller films. I feel that if it were to be carried on and made into a full length film the remainder of the film would be the father of the children who were murdered attempting to find out and seek revenge on the killer. so unlike the first film i wrote about i think this worked better to the task of making the opening because i can imagine the rest of the film in my head. Revenge is also another popular convention of thriller films.



Sinful. 
This is probably one of my favourites of the past students work. It features many codes and conventions needed to make a good thriller opening.
The music used near the end of the film when they have a nursery rhyme playing chills me to the bone. Nursery rhymes make me feel really uncomfortable, especially in those circumstances so that really made the opening for me. There is no speaking in this which i quite like because it didn't need words, the happenings were easy to follow and trying to add unnecessary lines of dialogue could have made the film seem cheesy.
They use lots of close ups which i think a very powerful, especially for that particular film. They helped you to concentrate.