The Blair Witch Project !! (Opening)

The Blair Witch project starts with the characters in the film getting ready to start their project. The project that they are doing is to find out if the rumour about the Blair Wicth is ture.

When watchin the opening you are introduced to them one by one.
If you was to just watch the first 5 minutes you would want to watch the rest as you would want to know if they find out anything or whether anything happens to them.

Thriller Brief !!

My task is to plan, film and evaluate a new fiction film in the thriller gerne to last a maximum two minutes.

Aspects of the Thriller
Suspense - Example, Camera reveals that theres a bomb under the table to the audience but the characters are unaware of it.

Shock - Example, Camera does not reveal bomb, goes of without warning, explodes and KILLS ALL.


Hitchcock's Maguffin
A Maguffin is a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story but has little other relevance to the story.
- Necklace in crook stories
- Papers in spy stories.


The Physcological Thriller
- Comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, playing deceptive games with the other or merely trying to demolish the other's mental state.
- Suspense comes from one solitary character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own minds.
- Conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them.


Narrative - Structure, formulas and devices
- The clear establishment of 'cause and effect' which establishes character motivations and helps tell an interesting story which proceeds logically and steadily.
- Automatic use of 'Continuity Editing'.

Enigmas
- Something mysterious or unexplicable, riddle or difficult problem.

-Commonly something that the protagonist has to find out or solve before the narrative is resolved and the film finishes.

Red Herrings

- A device which intends to divert the audience.

-Can work with other devices (Enigmas) to create suspense.

• - Example -> 'North By Northwest' (Hitchcock- 1958) - Main character, Thornhill, sent to meet a man who explains why he has been mistaken for a government agent and we believe, helps him.

Cliffhangers
-Sometimes, not always used.

-Main character in a difficult dilema , or confronted with a shocking relevation.

-Can entice the audience to keep watching in order to see how the situation resolves itself.