3. FILM TITLE AND TAGLINE
“Ignis Fatuus”
“Something that misleads or deludes and
illusion”
Both the title and tagline, I thought, is very
catchy, intriguing and somewhat clever as it
pulls the audience into watching our film as
there is a sense of mysteriousness which is
exciting for the audience.
4. COSTUME AND PROPS
This is a feature that all films have. Costumes
and props help give an overall appearance of a
character and the atmosphere.
Example – In our film, the wife is seen wearing
a red satin gown.
In most films, red can be used to portray a
character being playful or aggressive.
However, the meaning of red in our film reflects
herself as she is the victim of her husbands
abuse. Also, it foreshadows a coming event.
Therefore, we developed the use of red in films
by giving it more meaning.
5. EDITING
We challenged the conventions of trimming
cuts in films by adding transitions, split
screens and motion blur.
Example – In the end scenes of our film we
added transitions and a split screen to enhance
the atmosphere of the scene. We also used
motion blur in the running scene to create
suspense and excitement as most running
scenes are usually fast paced, we decided to
blur the scene and decrease the speed to
maintain the suspense and excitement.
6. USING CONVENTIONS
Psychological thriller is a genre that focuses
heavily on a character. Certain themes in a
psychological thriller include mind, identity and
reality. It usually contain elements of mystery
with horror.
Our film focuses heavily on a male protagonist
who has a conflict within himself (mental
stability v mental illness). However, the
audience does not know this until the very end of
our film. Therefore, there are certain elements
in our film which creates suspense, but we see
this through his expressions and his actions.
7. DEVELOPING CONVENTIONS
In most Psychological thrillers, there is always a
character surrounded by conflict, and this would
be within itself or the outside forces.
In our film , we developed the conventions of a
psychological thriller of characters being in
conflict, by adding an argument between the
husband and wife in the opening scenes of our
films. By doing this, there is already heavy
tension between characters at the very
beginning of our film.
8. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS OF
THRILLER
The thriller genre usually consists of dark
lighting and lurking shadows to create
mysteriousness. However, our film didn’t
include these typical lighting. Instead we
filmed in daylight using natural outside
lighting and still successfully we managed
to create the tense mood and atmosphere
we aimed for.
9. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS OF
THRILLER
Most conventional Psychological thrillers end
with a solved problem or situation. Films such
as Memento is a good example of this as it ends
with a twisted puzzle.
The way in which our film has challenged
conventions is by leaving the ending unsolved
and in a confused manner for the audience. We
leave the story In our film with the protagonist
knowing of his situation but walking away from
it. This allows the audience to think about their
own ending and whether he gets help or not.
11. THE POSTER – TYPICAL FEATURES
Film
Company
name
Picture of
protagoni Date of
st release
Film
Title Rating of
the film.
Tagline
12. USING THE CONVENTIONS TOWARDS OUR
FILM POSTER
Title of film is the largest font.
There is a single dominant image
in the centre of the main
protagonist.
The dark and eerie colour in the
background is a typical colour for
our genre - thriller
It clearly defines the films genre
14. RADIO TRAILER – TYPICAL
FEATURES
Our radio trailer includes the following:
Film title
Name of cast
Production company
Tagline
A male voiceover narrating the story
Music and sound effects
15. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS OF A RADIO
TRAILER
Creating a radio trailer could be seen as difficult
as the audience can only be reeled in by what
they hear.
We used a deep and loud male voiceover as it
would be more exciting and thrilling for the
audience.
Music and sound effects played an important
role as it not only creates excitement for the
audience but you can have a sense of what type
of film it is. For example, fast paced music could
suggest an action film.
