The fully black clothing which my protagonist is wearing creates an eerie and mysterious feel around the character, as well as representing her as being dark and gloomy. As she looks like a young pretty girl, you would expect her to be happy and quirky in bright girls clothing. However dressing her like a boy suggests she's not your typical young girl, but she has something different about her, a bad side. This determines the genre of the film as people can easily tell that its not a romantic comedy or sci-fi from their first impression of the character. Also using the black and white effect makes the protagonist stand out against the grey and white which are lighter, suggesting she is different, representing her as being evil and disturbed as the colours are opposites.
The credits fade in and out to create a feeling of suspense, and also to break up the routine which the character is performing, they all fade to black which again represents that their is a twisted feel to the character and the acts in which she is performing in her routine. You never know what she's going to be doing next which keeps the audience interested as they want to see what she is doing with the photographs in the small room, and also makes them want to understand what's going on. Also black is a code and convention of my thriller genre, I'd expect my audience to be aware of this.
Other than the few close ups used, the camera is usually quite far away from the protagonist, its usually behind her watching her, this is a subtle warning to not get too close to the character, using the camera as a discrete way to inform the audience that they and the character in the film should stay well away, which foreshadows the upcoming events in the film. The camera usually watches from afar keeping its distance, e.g. when she is drinking and smoking, also when she is writing on the picture its behind her.
The whiskey and smoking tells us that the protagonist has had a troubled past and so she numbs the pain by resorting to these things, this is a code and convention which we would expect the audience to know as she is psychologically disturbed, hence the thriller being psychological. This intrigues the audience as it makes them want to know what else she does in order to forget and avenge her past, and what actually happened to make her the way she is.
The music is a typical code and convention of a psychological thriller as it represents what is going on inside the protagonists head. Its slow and makes you feel uncomfortable. I'd expect my audience to already know this and so would associate the music with what's going to happen in the film, also it helps the audience put the film into the genre it belongs in.
The chosen theme of our film was revenge, we found that the audience would find it difficult whether to agree or disagree with the protagonist as she is trying to avenge her parents but is doing something abnormal, which would keep their attention as they would want to see how it ends. It gets the audience thinking about their families and what they would do in order to avenge them, and so would be close to the audiences heart because they could relate to it because everyone has a family.
A successful film that's similar to mine is Colombiana.
Columbiana - A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.
This film opening is similar to ours because it has a similar storyline and the theme is revenge, which is the same as our film. However this is an Action Thriller. In the film opening there is a chase, which is a code and convention of an action film, this kicks off the action nearly instantaneously from the beginning of the film and pulls the audience in as they're on the edge of their seats wondering if she will get away. During this scene there are a lot of fast cuts used to show all the different things happening at the same time. The fast cuts keep the audience updated on the whereabouts of the characters and build up suspense. The fast cuts imply energy and keep the audience in anticipation. The cuts bring our attention to the antagonists getting closer to the little girl, so from the beginning we want to see her get away. The chase is a code and convention of an action movie because it determines who are the good and bad characters, also it captures the audience’s attention and keeps them guessing throughout the whole scene.
Props such as weapons are usually seen in action movies. Knives and guns are codes and conventions of action films, so the use of them here will be similar to our idea. They show the danger the main character has to face in order to complete a task or quest and makes the experience more scary for the audience, making them feel fear for the protagonist. As well as this they help the protagonist defeat the enemy, however many good characters don’t use violent weapons that hurt people. This is done to distinguish the bad from the good and help the audience understand the characters and their purpose.
As well as this the setting is typical for an action movie because it provides lots of obstacles for the protagonist to overcome in order for them to get away. For example running on roofs and falling though wooden shed roof tops, they usually provide some kind of injury but the protagonist has lots of spirit and has to continue to get away. You become attached to the protagonist and want them to get away for their own safety. You feel sad if they're sad and worried when they're worried.
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