New Topic - What I Learned Today.

In todays media lesson we have temporarily moved on from video games and looked at a number of things. Firstly, we were given our brief. It was: to create the title sequence and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. We then reviewed the mark scheme as a whole class and looked at what we needed to do. We know that our coursework should all be up to a level 4 if we are to achieve good grades and that involves making sure our research and planning, practical work and evaluation all show excellent work and that we have incuded all of the nessisary conventions.

After this we started to look in depth at the conventions of a thriller film. SOme of the ones we came up with are: tension, a sense of eerie-ness, a protagonist and antagonist, a murder, a setting that usualy takes place at night, low key lighting, lots of action and a quick pace, quick jump cuts between shots, and atmospheric music to create tension. We also had to make sure that we clearly understood the difference of a thriller and a horror; that a thriller is not so "obvious" in the stroy line and lots of things are kept from the audience, making them ask lots of questions and have to think about it and try and work out the problem. Towards the end of the lesson we started watching 'Memento' so that we could try and spot the conventions in a typical thriller.