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The significance of using Beth’s passout as the start of the opening titles shows the audience how high she is and that she is unconscious, so they can follow the story. The narrative is linear as it follows the present.

The most significant way of showing our film genre in the first minutes was through the opening titles because they are very distort and unnatural, like the film storyline. The title sequences uses very innocent baby music but because of the context doesn’t seem as innocent more like creepy. Other films that have followed this approach in the genre are Inception. As it uses a piano sequence and a violin to add an effect of seriousness and implies that there is something that is not ordinary about the film.

Our main focus for the cinematography was the lighting and double vision shots because they both show the conventions of unusual in them. The dark lighting or grudge looked lighting gives the film an edge of darkness and secrete like in Se7en (fig 2). Also we used double vision to show the condition of Beth and to show there are two meanings to this film.  The editing of this film is fast pace when Beth is in the toilets to show paranoia, this is also used in other films to show the same emotion (fig 3) for example Stir of Echos when Tom is hypnotised. The music and sound in this film is very subtle and quiet. I think that when Beth is in the toilet the light in the bathroom is a humming noise, which sounds like something out of a mental institute because it is very mysterious and gives a paranoid vibe from it. I think that most films use music that plays on the the mind for example in Se7en opening titles it sounds like the man is peeling this skin off when it could be a vegetable. I think my media product develops this because there is no other sign on a mental institute in the film so it is a subliminal message about the state of mind of Beth.

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The pace of our film is very jumpy and becomes more and more jumpy towards the end because it shows the thriller genre. Other films that have done this is Party Animal (This film  is a comedy but uses jump cuts the same way). We used the rhyme of the editing to vary so that not shot was the same.

The music we used was very innocent a spookey like Nightmare on Elm ST. this uses the conventions of the genre because it was proven successful with a lot of films. 

The diegetic sound of the opening of Cape Fear can be heard, we used this because the audience know straight away what type of genre the film is. We added impact to the opening scene, by using an awkward dialogue because the audience can see there is no real relationship between cetain characters which will make the film plot more interesting. After the title sequence Beth is heavily breathing because she is panicing. However, this could have been done through silence as well.

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Our mise-en scene was used to challenge and developed conventions of thriller films because Lola is very selfish and self centred and shows this with what she wears. This is used in most thriller films with girl groups. However, this is challenged when Lola is hanging out with Chloe who is a nerd.

 

• The costumes and clothing – all the customes belong to the characters, this is because we didn't have a budget for clothing and we needed the charaters to look realistic
• The location- most of our filming is in the house for the two minutes because it is quite normal and it is in the Barnsley area
• The porops- most of the props we done by us. The magazine was just from the Sunday Newspaper and the "joint" was a cigerette from one of the cast memebers