What i learnt last lesson

last lesson i learnt a couple of new things,
the first of witch was the assment brief of are practical mark in media witch is worth 50% of our over all grade. The brief is for us split into groups to make the opperning of a new fiction film to last a maxium of 2 minutes.

when given the brief we was all given a mask scheme with it showing what criterias we are need to meet in order to get the grades necessary, my personal target is to achive the hight grade possible witch is a level 4 to do this i need to make sure the quality of my work it to an excellent standerd anything below this would be unexcepable. Also i learnt witch was made very clear by my teacher was that even though you are working in a group and essentualy it needs to be a group effort to make the film your going to be marked indevisual on your contributions and efforts, this is to ensure that people in the groups do not try to take credit in work they did not them selfs part take in.

Also that lesson we begain to discuss and find out, what makes coventions of a good thriller. As a group we managed to work out most of them witch was:

-Shock tactics
- Strange and tension building music
- edgy audince
- mystoreis
- More sophisticated/intelligent characters and story lines
- dark (night time)
- Violence
- Unexpected drama
- Scream sound effects
- Mist/fog
- Split personality
- Complicated twists
- Crime
- Victctims
- serspence

We learnt if used correctly thease were the perfect ingreedence to make a smash it thiller film !

towards the end of the lesson we started to watch a film called Memento, which was a American film made by Nolan in 2000.
When the film started i Immediatley started to look for signs of the conventions, and found some. For example the fist shot we saw was a blood scene witch strait away mad me as the audine think "hmmm whats going on" witch comes under the convetion of mystory.
One other smart covetion of a good thiller i never learnt untill i was watching the film was the ability to input non linner naritive in it, witch ment that as a audince we was almost cluelous for the fisrt 10 mins and then all of a sudden things came together witch made the story line clever and effective.

Prior to watching the film something i learnt was that often people get confused between the dffences and deffent coventions of horror and thriller.
when discussed this i learnt that horror films are more grity and gory with alot of obvouse plots, blood scenes and murrder, icluded realy to try and make the audince squing and squeam. Were as a thriller is more of a lead up to the gory part were actualy you hardly ethier acutaly see it but only antisipate it wich keeps he audince on a knife edge, also its much more interlectual and sophisticated were the audince needs to be completely engaged to follow the story line.