Thriller Comparison

Overall, I believe that I have created a successful thriller sequence. This is because, I incoproated conventional micro elements for example, costume within mise en scene. before doing so, I also researched into all of these elements, and how they were added to other successful thriller films. Lastly, I made sure that my sequence appealed to my tagert audience by adding these elemtns and researching other films. The use of my unique narrative also added to this, as the audience are engaged to this and my unique characters added.

I believe that the micro element used that best shows my creativity is the use of mise en scene. This is firstly because of make up and costume. The wedding dress highlighted the bride/killer's importance within the sequence. This showed that she was once innocent. The fact she murders victims in this costume, further highlights her deteriorating mental state. Her make up and hair is also messed up, showing her negative emotions and the fact she is broken.

Setting is another aspect of mise en scene. Within my sequence, the main setting is the dark secluded room. I believe this is creative as the bride's negative outlook makes the audience engage with her character. She is shut off from the rest of civilisation, which causes her negative mind set to be shown explicitly. Aswell as this, another element of mise en scene is lighting. Low key lighting was used alongside this setting. The darker lighting caused suspense as the audience were unaware of what would happen next, causing them to worry more. The dark lighting also showed the bride's mindset and negative emotions, causing the audience to engage with her further. This type of lighting is conventionally used in thriller productions to cause suspense and makes the audience fear for the worst.

The bride's body language/facial expressions are highlighted all throughout. When she is sat in the room, she seems miserable and pained as she reflects on the negative events that unfolded around her. This causes the audience to sympathise with her on some level. Her body language when she murders victims contrasts to this. She appears strong and menacing, showing that she strives for revenge and she enjoys killing these people. From this element, her character appears more sinister. She frightens the audience as she has the power to make them feel for her and against her.

An influence of mine was the film 'Orphan'. This film is popular and is conventional within the thriller genre. This is an influence of mine as the storyline and characters are unique and contains conventional micro elements that help make the film a success. 

The narrative is based around an orphan that appears to be a innocent, young girl. She is fostered by a new, welcoming family. However, she isn't as she seems and is actually and older woman in a child's body. As can be seen, the narrative is extremely unique. I believe the successfulness of this film is because of the unique narrative. This influenced me as I made my storyline more unique, wanting to appeal to a wider audience. 

The orphan is an extremely unsuspecting killer as she is a female child. This causes her to become more sinister as she tricks the audience as she is believed to be something she isn't. The fact that she is so brutal, also makes the audience feel sympathy towards the family/victims for being so open and unaware. This overall influenced me, as I wanted the characters added to my thriller to be unique. The audience should engage with the characters and feel certain emotions towards them such as fear or sympathy. I made my killer a woman, as she is unsuspecting yet surprising and sinister. She too tricks the audience, causing them to feel tense and uneasy.