Comparasion of the three thrillers

hello I am now back from my geography trip and I am now up to date with the latest ideas and plans the group have discussed while I was away.

The three thrillers differed tremendously. Se7en was more scary and the cuts were very short and quick while One hour photo and the Day of the Jackle had long cuts. But they all had one thing in comon, they all built tension suspense and mystery in there own way.

At the begging of the film we see one of the characters lying in bed with a metronome on the dresser we see an extreme close up on this focusing on the sound and the swing of the pendulum. This could represent the time ticking away while he is lying there thinking or his heartbeat. This can make the audience feel quite nervous as this is the only sound we can hear in this clip. The metronome could also be the audiences heartbeat as we stare at the character waiting for something to happen, this creates a lot of suspense and mystery.

Next is the credits and introduction. The first thing you notice is the credits are in an old style of writing and as they change, are stretched and blurred. There are lots of short cuts through the opening sequence. We also see an extreme close up of a razor blade which we, as the audience, are meant to focus on. This adds a lot mystery to film and as we see further into the clip there are extreme close ups on peoples faces-which have been crossed out, needles and thread. When seeing the extreme close ups of the crossed out people, it creates a lot of mystery as we are asking, who are they? why has this man got pictures of these people? and why are there faces crossed out? With the low key lighting and the close ups on the items such as razor blades, we assume that this man could have psychotic personality and the reason why there are pictures of peoples faces which have been crossed is because he has killed them. We see red lighting which represents a photographic room but could also represent blood and death.

The images we see create a lot of suspense as we want to know what is happening or is going to happen. From the begging of the opening sequence the cuts are quick, but as we get to the end they get even quicker as the music gets quicker which builds tension.

However, completely different from se7en, one hour photo had a very long shot on what looked to be a camera which we were very slowly zooming in onto This created suspense as this clip was so long we didn't know what was going to happen, this made us nervous. This silence of the clip built tension which also added to our nervouness. Another difference was the length of the opneing seqence, this was an incredibly short openeing sequence but still had the same effect.

Simlilar to One hour photo, The day of the Jackle had a lot longer cuts than Se7en. In this opening sequence we were focusing on the man on the motobike. There was a lot of tracking as we were following him wondering what he was doing. While we were tracking we also wanted to know who the man on the motobike was following building mystery. This didn't build as much tension as Se7en or One hour photo but it still had suspense and mystery.

Although these thrillers are completely different they all have things in common. One is that they build suspense, tension and create mystery which draws the auidence in and creates different feelings through different types of camerwork, lighting and sound, editing and mise en scene. These are key things as i found out in my questonaire.