Thriller movies

 For the first movie we researched, we watched Jurassic world. The movie is an action thriller that was released in 2015. The movie is about a resort that houses artificial dinosaurs that break free. The movie uses a lot of high angles, over the shoulder shots, wide shots, medium close up shots, and closes up along with extreme close up. For example the scene where the T-rex is attacking the sphere with the two boys begins with a tilt then a low angle as the T-rex is revealed. Then when the sphere is attacked and begins spinning we view an over the shoulder scene which transitions into a medium close up shot. The editing helps make these scenes more impactful. For example in the scene where Owen, the main character, along with two other workers are in a cage that actually had a T-rex in it. The T-rex begins to chase them which the editors put in cross cutting, cutaways, and jump cuts. The scene also uses a lot of non-diegetic sound i.e background music to make it more tense along with sound motifs.   

Along with diverse shots and editing, the movie also has many mise-en-scene. The set is set up as a forest and a luxury theme park. The lighting is usually kept dark with multiple flashing bright lights along with smoke. The costumes generally stay the same but the make up makes the characters seem more run down, dirty and injured.

All of these elements help bring the genre, thriller, into the movie by making the film tense and anxiety ridden. These elements must be included in our final task to allow it to be classified as a thriller. The usage of sound and also the lack of sound is a key part in this film with its effect. The biggest thing in this film that we are going to stir away from is the usage of special effects. The film uses special effects to animate the dinosaurs, along with the objects in the location breaking. Since we are simply high school students we have decided to not use special effects to the same advancery.