Thriller introdution, 18 december

In this lesson we were being introduced to thriller movies which we watched and then talked about. we discussed the codes and conventions of a thriller movie such as young teenagers being the usual victims, the feeling of tension and suspense and the murderer usually bing a male figure.we watched many thriller openings in this lesson such as "Arlington Road", "The Shining", "28 days later" and "The Collateral" this was very interesting because we got tips on how to make our opening very successful but not reveal to much information so that this would create tension and suspense.
I particularly enjoyed watching "Arlington Road" as i think it made a really good opening as it made me the audience want to ask so many questions why, how, when and What happened and i think that this created tension and suspense and this forced me to want to watch the rest of the film. The lighting was very bright and was used as a point of view of opening and closing eyes of a little boy who was in the middle of Arlington Road with his arm full of blood. The shots were used so that the boys face and arm full of blood wasn't revealed to the end of the clip which built up the suspense and shocked the audience. He was then discovered by the main character who was a middle aged man coming back from work, when he found the boy he was shouting and screaming and rushed the boy to hospital. The man was deliberately made to be middle-aged and to rescue the boy so that he appeared to be the hero of the film and so that the audience could relate to him as he was very ordinary.