Today in class the first people presented there thriller opening, amoung these 2 people from our group presented there's. These were Alex and Dan
In this blog post me (Dan) will be showing what i presented to the class as well as my reasons on why the film i picked is a thriller.
The film i picked to present was the day after tomorrow, while not counted as a traditional thriller it is still classed under the thriller genre. The movie is about global warming and gives a insight it to what may happen to our planet if this happens in real life. The film was disrobuted by 20th century fox as was released may 2004.
The film starts of with the 20th century fox logo but for this film it has been changed to include thunder and lightening above it. This put the viewer on edge as it makes them think that straight away it the film has some element of death or a horrible event.
This then fades into a black screen with white text, this for the viewer adds suspense about what is about to come when the black fades away into the movie. The typography on this text is also very blad and is verry straight, this adds a more serious tone to the movie and shows it will not be something like a animation.
The music in the background is a very relaxed panning pad sort of synth. This adds a sense of suspense to the video and again makes the video have a more serious tone to it.
After this we then cut to a scene of going over the ice with black text, this shows a sense of purity and that the it is good. The place that the camera pans over looks very open and looks like there in no life around. This makes the audience think and look about to see if there is anything about and makes the audience on edge incase something comes up by surprise.
After this we see some men in jackets drilling into the ice, because they are the only people around we think that they could be spy's. We also see them with lots of equiptment because of this again this makes us think even more that they are spying on someone or something.
We then see the people who are working have US government on them this makes us think even more that they are spy's and that they are looking for something. We see the man come inside the cabin with samples of some kind this makes the view thing that the samples are valuable, to back this up we also hear the man say about how he doesn't trust the new guy on the drill. This shows that it is important as they don't trust the new guy in doing the job.
We then cut to a shot showing the new man drilling and the ice cracking, this is showing the view that whatever they are doing they are going very deep in, so deep that it causes the ice to crack. We cut to a close up then of the mans face looking anxious and then to the crack of the ice this is showing the view that something has gone wrong.
