We have been researching psychological thriller opening as it is our chosen genres. I liked the idea of choosing a psychological thriller opening as it's interesting and would attract the target audience immediatly. When researching Psychological thrillers I came across a website as to why this genre was the most successful and popular to teenagers. It is because the genre is unisex so both boys and girls could watch this at their own pace and they would both enjoy watching it, it's suspensful which then wants the teenager to view the film to the end in order to know the twist or the ending of the psychological thriller and also allows teenagers to feel old enough to watch genres such as these. When we came to the decision of doing our opening to a psychological thriller we had many ideas to put forward too but we were clueless as to how we were going to show the viewer that our genre was a psychological thriller if we only had two minutes to show it. Our group decided to talk to our media teacher Miss Mayo, who explained to us that as a opening our genre did not have to come across as strong but if we did want our genre to come across then we should use conventions of a PT* to get it across or use a voice over which relates to the story we have chosen. After a brief discussions we decided to research on the movies that have come out which are PT.
What we were looking for was:
- The font of the title
- The transition
- Conventions
- Institutions
- Voice overs
- Ideas and set out of the opening
- Effectiveness
and anything else that would relate to our opening too.
We did watch it on a DVD, however we could not get the opening up on youtube, so we have decided to put the trailer up. These are the openings that will help us when expanding our ideas for the opening.
'Hide and Seek'
As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace, at first, in her imaginary friend. Hide and Seek is a 2005 American thriller film starring Robert De Niro, Famke Janssen and Dakota Fanning. It was directed by John Polson. The film opened in the United States in January 2005 and was top of the box office.
'Kiss the Girls'
Forensic detective Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) is shaken by the sudden disappearance of his niece, Naomi (Gina Ravera), and heads to her North Carolina college campus to investigate. There, Alex meets Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd), a young woman who managed to escape from the same man who kidnapped Naomi. With seven women missing and two already found dead, Alex and Kate must work quickly if they are to save Naomi and the other girls before this sick, self-described; takes their lives.
'Cassadaga'
A young mans past leads to the death of several innocent girls, kidnapping, turning them into puppets and leaving them to die. Thriller staring Kelen Coleman (The Office), Kevin Alejandro (True Blood, SouthLAnd) and Oscar Award winner Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and Lucius Baston (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans). Directed by Anthony DiBlasi (Dread, Midnight Meat Train).
'The Butterfly Effect'
The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American science psychological thriller film that was written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. The title refers to the butterfly effect, a popular hypothetical example of chaos theory which illustrates how small initial differences may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time.A young man blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life.
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