Posters of Thriller Films

These are examples of Thriller posters designed to advertise certain films. When designing the posters you have to look closely at the text, imagery, colors and context. Your posters have to be suitable for your target audience in order to engage interest from the correct bracket of people. 

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and video game designer. He was born on the 18th of December, 1946.During Spielberg's 40 year career, his films have covered many different genres. In Spielberg's early years his science-fiction films were seen as good modern Hollywook blockbuster film making. In later years his films his films started to portraye issuses of Holocaust, Slavery, War and terrorism. I think that he is largely influential as a film maker and extremely popular in the industory. Spielberg is also a co-owner of the Dreamworks movie studio.
He also won the academy award for Best dierector for Schindler List in 1993 and Saving Private Ryan in 1998. three of Spielberg's films achieved box office records. They where; Jaws in 1975, E.T the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982 and Jurassic Park in 1993. 

This is a video from youtube of the trailer for Jaws, made by Spielberg. His work is very beneficial for me to look at as there is good editing and filming used when we see the shark, as in reality it would be impossible to go and film that up close to a shark.   

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock is one of the biggest Thriller film directors and producrs from England. He was born on 13th August 1899 and died on the 29th of april 1980. After a successful career in Britain Hitchcock then moved to Hollywood.In 1956 he beamce an American citizen.
Hichcock's career lasted over a century.He created a camera made to move in a way that mirrors a person's gaze, making viewers engage in the voyurge.He framed shots to show anxiety, fear, or empathy as mush as possible and used innovative film editing.Hitchcock's stories often feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside pretty female characters.Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring violence, murder, and crime.
Hitchcock directed more than 50 feature films in a career that lasted 60 decades. Often known as the greatest British filmmaker. Hitchcock came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph, this said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else." 

This is a video from youtube which is a trailer of one of Hitchcock's most famous films called Psycho. Looking at his work helps me as you can see the wonders which can be created.

History of Thrillers

Thrillers are a genre of film, etelevision programming and literature. The main elements of Thrillers are tension, suspense and excitement. A psychological Thriller is another type of Thriller. They incorporate elements from the mystery and drama genre, creating a horror type atmosphere.
 With the help of President Kennedy, the political thriller and the paranoid thriller film became largely popular.The films from Alfred Hitchcock are examples of successful thrillers. 
Thrillers stimulate the viewers mood, for example high levels of anticipation, high expectancy, anxiety, uncertainty,excitment, fright and tension. During thrillers to help create the mood literary devices are used, such as enigma codes given and cliffhangers which are the most used device. Although each sub-genre of Thrillerhas its own methods and characteristics in all sub-genres common methods used are, cover-ups of important information from the viewer and fight and chace sense.

Location shots!

These are some location shots which we took whilst filming our opening. 

week 13!

This week we brought our extra footage into school, uploaded it and continued to edit. During editing we have added credits and started to try out different pieces of music.

week 12!

This week we continued our editing process and discovered that there was a few more out side shots that we could shoot. This week we also had a man called Mike Smith come in and talk to us and the media students the year above us about audience. He was from a good media background working for many major companies. We learnt many useful things and how to aim our Opening Sequence to a Thriller to a pacific classes of people and age groups. We worked in pairs and on our own to carry out different tasks and discussions. 
This week we also scheduled to film some outside shots, which we did on Sunday evening.