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He stated that narratives are led by events in a cause and effect format:
1)      Narrative starts with an equilibrium

2)      An action/character disrupts the equilibrium

3)      A quest to restore the equilibrium ensures

4)      The narrative moves to a confrontation/climax

5)      Resolution/equilibrium is restored

This is a simple structure which our thriller follows in some aspects.
For example, the first one, our thriller opening does not follow it as it starts with missing posters, which shows there is a problem straight away. However, if our thriller was a movie, after the opening was shown, I think it would go along with the first one because it would have to show why Imogen has gone missing.
Our thriller follows the second one as we have the antagonist character.
If our thriller was a movie, there would be a quest to restore the equilibrium as the parents and friends of Imogen are trying to help her. This would then be a challenge (fourth point) as the antagonist character, Emily, would still be on the scene. However, by the help of Imogen's friends and family, the equilibrium will be restored however, as the main story line is about if Emily is in Imogen's mind, it will challenge the audience to see what they believe.

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In my blog post on the director James Cameron, I found out that he uses sound to emphasise emotion. This displayed to me that sound is a very important element to our thriller opening. Our thriller opening had no dialogue which I think is unusual so we used numerous non-diegetic sounds to add effects and make it more dramatic. In the beginning of the opening, the sounds were used more quietly, however, we increased this as it went on. At the most tense scenes, we increased the volume of the sound and also over-lapped a few non-diegetic sounds to make sure it was how we really wanted it. This massively helped to add tension to the movie and engage the audience.

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As Emily plays the antagonist character, we got her to wear really dark eye make-up. This helped as when we colour corrected the shots to make it darker, it created shadows on her face and dimension to it. This helped her seem very creepy and mysterious. Also, she wore all black clothes. This added to her mysterious image as in shots where Emily is kind of hiding, she just looks like a black figure which is what we wanted as it hides her identity. However, Imogen wore her normal, typical clothes. We wanted her to do this as it portrays a normal teenage girl.

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In our thriller, we used low key lighting to make it seem creepier. This was done mostly in the post-production process as we had to colour correct the natural light as it was too bright. This process was documented on my blog. One of the main reasons I wanted to use low key lighting is that in mostly all thrillers I've watched, they all use it and as a member of the audience, I know that this type of lighting really creates an element of suspense as it makes the characters look more scarier. We also tried to use chiaroscuro lighting in the low shot of Emily. I think this successfully went to plan.

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When researching, we looked at a few movies for inspiration. We looked at Blair Witch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kok69) and The Village. For editing, both of these movies were good as in parts, they were fast pace. This made the movie more dramatic and created suspense. This made us think about what shots we wanted to cut down in the post-production stage to make our opening feel more engaging to our audience. In particular in The Village, I liked how they transitioned and contrasted the pace. This can be seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IretteYxt2c 1:18:40 – 1:21:55. This is good as there is a fast pace event happening which is really engaging but then they use shots of the surrounding location which makes it seem a bit calmer in comparison. This helps to make it more tense and it shows the location more which is helpful to the audience. We were inspired to do something like this as we thought it would fit our idea and it worked really great as it made the story more intense.

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We set our thriller in the woods. We thought this was good as it plays on fears with the audience as the woods are unknown and isolated. This works especially for wider audiences as for us, we are local to the woods, meaning we are more aware of what woods are actually like. Whereas for people who are from the city, they would be more frightened and unaware of the woods.

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We mostly used the typical thriller conventions to establish the thriller genre clearly. This is something we achieved well as we used camera shots to further establish the genre more. There is a low shot of Emily when she shushes and this clearly demonstrates a thriller convention as they are typically used, so this inspired us to use shots like these. We also used an establishing shot at the beginning of the opening to display the location in so the audience could understand what was happening more. We furthered this idea by using cutaways to establish the location in depth and this walked well to make the pace look different in some scenes. We then used a wide shot of Imogen to give a sense of isolation and to really show how panic and worry which are displayed by her facial expressions and through sound.

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In my research for ‘In Her Mind’, I looked at the typical thriller conventions used in films. This was done throughout lesson time and by looking at past student’s thriller openings. This was helpful as it gave us ideas for what our thriller opening could include. I then did a blog post on a director to find out key techniques they individually found good to portray important ideas.