Codes and conventions: May 2012

The final shot of our film

The final shot of our opening will be an extreme close up shot of my face. This shot will focus very carefully on my eyes as my character wakes up upon realising there is an intruder in his home, which is right before the screen suddenly fades to black. We had used this type of angle in particularly becuase we were able to make the very quick movement of my eyes widening very quickly match with the our digetic sound.The fast paced soundtrack that was playing over the coarse of the thriller had concluded with a sudden loud non digetic 'boom' which is what we had used to play over the shot of my eyes opening so that both thrilling codes could be in sync with each other.

The use of these two could are effectively used together because, they both help to 'thrill' our audience by immediately surprising them with the sudden loud sound and the quick movement when they are least expecting it.

In addition this camera shot helps to build suspense as it causes our thriller opening to be left on cliffhanger. This is shown by as when the man wakes up , he is now aware that there is another person in his house which therefore implies that there will be a confronation in-between these two men and that this man is now in danger.

Here is an example of how the same extreme close up shot technique is used to create tension in the 1990 film Sepultado Vido

The sound that we had used in our film

In our film we had used this sound instrumental in order to help convey the feeling of thrilling excitement to our audience during the action sequence in the film as the agent is preforming his task by leaping over the wall and breaking into the house. We had used the first 50 seconds of this instrumental in our opening because that section was the most exhilarating part of the this soundtrack and if we had used the whole 2 minutes and 31 seconds of this sound it would've just dragged on and parts of the opening wouldn't match with that sound that was being played which would've made this sound come off as Asynchronous.
We had discovered this soundtrack on Youtube while searching for a type of loud, exciting and fast pasted sound so that we could use it as a digetic synchronous sound that would be used to build excitment as well as suspense in this opening.
We had chosen this type of fast paced sound with an extremely quick rhythm to be played over our thriller because the violin string and the drum instruments that are used in this music help to convey the theme of excitment to the audience during the Spy's action sequence in the opening. This music was also edited by Cameron so that the pace of the music would gradually build up and become faster as the opening progresses in order to represent the intensity of the thriller's atmosphere gradually building and therefore becoming more suspenseful.