Thursday, 25 October 2012

Scream Opening Thriller Conventions

Analysis of scream opening looking at thriller conventions.





 
 

The point of view shot help to emphasise tot he audience how close the women is to her parents and to be saved. this heightens her death as she was so close to being saved and allows the audience to feel sympathetic for the young women. this shot also highlights how much pain the women must be in not to call out for her parents. in addition it also frustrates the audience that  she cant call out being so close to survival. this ratifies to the audience the last chance for her freedom but is quickly crushed as her parents enter the house.





 

This shot is scene just before the women is killed. The close up of the iconography highlights to the audience the hope of survival ending as she is stabbed many times. in addition the little glimpse of survival in the scene has come to a end and have intensified the conclusion of her death. The blood on the knife helps to illustrate her death, her injuries and her pain plus the unlikeliness of survival. the knife is a common convention of thriller films as it is used as a weapon to kill. The close up of the knife helps to intensify the death of the women this is illustrated by the close up of the knife and gives a greater impact.



The extreme long shot help the audience to relate with the young women as she is so far from any help. However there is a glimmer of hope as a car comes down the road, this is then transported on to the audience as there is a glimmer of survival which then intesified the scene and creates a urge to see what happens. the distance is intensified by the lack of sight of the car the Fields and the hedges give the effect of allot distance. the audience can relate with the women as she is so far from any help, plus anyone in her situation would be terrified.


this mid shot illustrates a lot to the audience. Firstly the audience see the blood on the women's back highlighting the women is in pain and is hurt. this could suggest why she could not shout out for her parents. The audience also see the killer and the knife which suggests that she will be killed as she couldn't call out for help. this is a sign that all hope of survival is lost for the women. the iconograpy illustrates this to the audience that her life will be ended in a horrible way therefore following the connotations of a thriller film. The shot also highlights how close she was from getting help as the audience can see she is only foot steps away.


The audience are left with a final image, a long shot which bring conclusion to the scene, this then cuts away any gilmps of suvrial left in the audiences mind. it is a long shot to show the young women hung. the blood highlights the pain she went through, and illustrates it was not a simple killing but a gorry heartless killing, this is also suggested by the blood and gutts left on the floor hilghting the womens dignatits has been lost. which is a connation of thriller films. the audience are made to feel simpothy for the womens parents as no parent should see the child like that. the point of view allows the audiece to see what the parents would see, therefore highlighting the simpothy feeling given. This shot highlights what the killer is capable of and sets the audience with the mind set that the killer is very dangerious. The shot is left on the screne for a while giving the audiece to take in all the events that had happened in the scene

1 comment:

  1. This needs to be completed. It is now very overdue. You need to complete posts as and when they are set in order to demonstrate good time-keeping skills.

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