Friday 17 April 2015
Friday 6 March 2015
Monday 19 January 2015
Reaserch: Breif History Of Thriller Films
Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as its main elements. Elements of thriller is literature can be dated back as far as ancient times with poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and Homer's Odyssey which use similar narrative techniques as modern thrillers. Another example is Little Red Riding Hood which is a psycho-stalker story released in 1697.
However, it wasn't until 1926 where one of the first thriller films was created by Alfred Hitchcock which was called 'The Lodger'.He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres and was renowned as one of England's best directors.Hitchcock continued to perfect his recognizable brand of suspense-thriller and in 1940 won an Oscar with the film Rebecca which is about the unusual romance between a young woman and an emotionally distant rich widower.
The decades of 1970 and 1980 saw a violent start in the thriller genre, with Frenzy (1972), Hitchcock's first British film in almost two decades, being given an R rating for its vicious and explicit strangulation scene. The decades also saw conspiracy and spy films scattered throughout.
Present day thrillers are now following a theme of the very popular thriller genre – detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killers. An example of this is the highly acclaimed Best Picture-winning crime thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991) where a young FBI agent Jodie Foster in a psychological war against a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal Lecter.
After learning about how different thriller genres have been effective and how successful they have been, it has given me more of an idea on what genre to base our thriller opening on.
However, it wasn't until 1926 where one of the first thriller films was created by Alfred Hitchcock which was called 'The Lodger'.He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres and was renowned as one of England's best directors.Hitchcock continued to perfect his recognizable brand of suspense-thriller and in 1940 won an Oscar with the film Rebecca which is about the unusual romance between a young woman and an emotionally distant rich widower.
The decades of 1970 and 1980 saw a violent start in the thriller genre, with Frenzy (1972), Hitchcock's first British film in almost two decades, being given an R rating for its vicious and explicit strangulation scene. The decades also saw conspiracy and spy films scattered throughout.
Present day thrillers are now following a theme of the very popular thriller genre – detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killers. An example of this is the highly acclaimed Best Picture-winning crime thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991) where a young FBI agent Jodie Foster in a psychological war against a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal Lecter.
After learning about how different thriller genres have been effective and how successful they have been, it has given me more of an idea on what genre to base our thriller opening on.
Final Storyboard
This our final storyboard with all the alterations made and added details to each shot.
Tuesday 13 January 2015
Storyboard
This is the storyboard to our opening of the thriller. This is our first draft of the opening and will probably changed later and will have much more detail added to it.
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