rough Cut feedback

-it is really disturbing
-she looks dead at the end so we need to add something to explain that she is not dead
-we need to show that the person being kidnaped is also the person in the dark room
-we need more of the dark shots
-possibly have the two girls laughing before the kidnaping
-add some more contrasting shots
-sounds are good it add something extra to the disturbing feel
-we need credits/they should be minimalistic  

Advertising Our Film.

In order to make our film successful we would need to have good advertising to make people aware about the film. For example we could advertise our film through television, this would mean having a trailer to raise awareness of the film and get people wanting to watch it. Another way we could advertise it is by using poster situated around cities and on different mode of transport such as buses, trains and taxi's. Advertising could also be done by getting permission to put trailers or posters on to other peoples web pages ,on the internet you could also have a trailer on youtube.

What Kind Of Cinema Would Your Film Be Released In?

Our film will be released worldwide in a number of different cinema's which are big companies such as Cineworld and Vue. It would then be released into Imax and smaller cinema's across the country including The Picture House in Cambridge.

ideas for editing

in our editing we could try parallel editing so we have a contrast of something that could seem pretty and not at all off putting for the audience and something that is a bit disturbing.this is a way of editing that thrillers use and it seems to work well by doing this and helps stick to the thriller convention.

we could also use quick cuts which also help to disturb the audience as they can not tell what is going on very clearly and that puts then on edge and want the many questions they have to be answered.

the music for the film will need to be edgy and have contrast in pitches between instruments so then it does not sound right for a piece of music.

RUN LOLA RUN (Tom Tykwer, 1998)

In the opening sequence of Run Lola Run, a german thriller film, we see a lot of people on a busy open area and it zooms in on people until you get to a police man and he is talking all about games, which leads us into the idea that the film is going to be like a game. Then the police man kicks a ball in the air as if to start the game and you begin to see credits with an animated background. This moves into introducing the main characters which are the same as the main people that were focused on  in the public area right at the beginning. One of the main characters we are firstly introduced to, Lola, shows a point of view shot of when she walks through a corridor to a phone which rings and the other character, which is Manni, her boyfriend, is on the other end and we see a heated and tense phone call.

Thriller Conventions

Throughout the opening sequence we are introduced to many enigmas which is a thriller convention like what is wrong with manni why is he so destrested but before this you wonder who is going to pick the phone up that is ringing and you also start to wonder who is calling the phone you see.
you feel as though you are part of what is happening as you get dragged in in the intences opening sequence you have a feeling of confusion as you want to know what is wrong with manni and lola but you wil have to wait leaving you in suspence antious to see what happens to them.

evaluation on alfred hitchcocks essay ''why thrillers thrive''



alfred hitchcock trys to explain why people go to the cinema he says it is to reflect life but not always lives like our own as we would never experience them ourselves but the differences in the lives of the charaters like the emotional disterbances or thrills. so these thrills would be in thrillers hence the name and this is why we like to see these films for the thrills maybe because our own lives are more boring than these of the charaters on the thrillers.

he also goes on to say how we need ''shake ups'' basically to be scared of worried other wise we get bored and lazyand that the environment we live inhas made our lives so sheltered that we are not able to get the thrills first hand which is quite sad really saying the only way that we would get thrills in life is through cinema because our lives are so boring.

the only way to experience this thrill is through the cinema as it is the best way.it must be the best way because you have the images to add on to your own imagineation.

he mentions how the things that happen on stage are detached from ourselves like the termoil and struggles which could be a good thing because if somethings happened in our lives that happen in thrillers it could ruin our lives for ever and he says that we just look at it through a window like it is not our own life because it is not.

he also says how to feel what the characters a going through on stage or screen we make try to make ourselevs feel what they feel in there consciousness but we unconscisley feel it and this is the most effective way for us to get our thrills without us actually experiencing it ourselves which could be a good thing as i dont think people would want to feel what the charaters feel.

he also says how we participate we participate in the scence we feel see and hear all what the charaters do and it helps us to understand and want to watch the film.

he describes a film that he knows and says how you feel for the main character and that all the pain he goes through you feel and that makes good cinema for the viewers as it is exciting and interesting.

he then goes on to a story of a side show that promises thrills it is a memory of his so people went in to a room and expected one thing to happen but the complete opposite happened a pillar started to fall on top of them this may have supplied a thrill to the public but not a thrill that they certianly enjoyed in fact i imagien it would have made them uncomrfortable as it is not something you would experience also it is actually happening to you and not on the screen unlike the films.

the thrills that we get from thrillers at the cinema are secondary types of thrill as we dont actually endure them but we do participate in them as in we feel exactly every little detail that the characters feels we find that enjoyable but if it was first hand we do not enjoy that even though it is also a thrill but we feel the effect more so and it is harder for us to accept this form of thrill as it scares us more.

he says how horror and thrillers are entierly different from each other thrillers are ment to add suprise and suspence and have you on the edge and not knowing whhat is going to happen and not having all the answers where as horrors give every answer and are just there to scare you not to have any sort of suspence or questions.