Five Thrillers:

Se7en:

Plot: Se7en is a movie starring Brad Pitt and Morgan freeman, as two detectives trying to find a serial killer who kills his victims linked to the seven deadly sins. 

Type of thriller: Crime Thriller.

Acting: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, and Kevin Spacey are the main characters. All their performances are extremely convincing. Brad Pitt's consistent character leads perfectly the the dramatic end of the film. Kevin Spacey plays the villain and his calm exterior throughout the film gives the creepiness that makes a good villain. 

Lighting: The lighting is used a lot during the movie to represent the different sins.

Dim lighting is used for gluttony, as it is the first death so it's quite shocking, and this sets the dark theme for the rest of the film. 

        

 Greed is shown with bright natural lighting. This shows clarity, as by this point in the film the detectives are starting to understand the method of the villain. As are the people who watch this film. 

Sloth is represented with yellow lighting, this shows the laziness and lack of care that the house is in because of sloth. As the yellow lighting makes things look aged, and unkempt.

Lust is shown with red lighting, which is usually a colour representing love or lust. This is an known representation which leads the viewers into relating to the detectives as they can identify the colour with the sin. 

For Pride, the lighting is white, and the whole room is very white which shows purity which could represent the woman's beauty who was killed in this scene. 

Wrath and envy are both in the same scene, these are shown by bright natural lighting. This shows a conclusion as the viewer can see everything that is going on, which shows theres nothing left to figure out as there are no dark secrets left shown by no darkness on the screen.

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Sound: Throughout the trailer of Se7en, there is a non-diegetic voiceover. Which is over a tense soundtrack and a small ticking. The ticking noise is initially diegetic, as the audience see's it come from a metronome. Yet then the scene's change and the ticking still commences, making it non-diegetic. Also there is a gunshot and a scream which is non diegetic.

Shots: The majority of shot's in the trailer are closeups, due to the detail which is commonly referred to throughout the trailer. There are also a number of Two-shots between Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, showing that they are the main characters. 

Thriller conventions: Se7en includes thriller conventions such as:

•  Tension - there is tension in the last scene especially, and in multiple scenes before.
•  A dark atmosphere
• Suspense - there is suspense in many of scenes before a crime is discovered.
• mystery - the audience is left wondering who the killer is.  
• Plot twist - at the end, there is a massive plot twist which changes the theme of the film
• Innocent victims - Though the killer claims all deserved to be killed, the victims are all innocent, especially the wife killed in the last scene. 

Taken:

Plot: Taken is about a father, who while on the phone to his daughter when she's on holiday, hears her and her friend being kidnapped and decides to track down the kidnappers to get his daughter back.


Type of Thriller: Action thriller.

Acting: Liam Neeson is the main character, his acting is convincing and enhances the audiences emotional attachment to the film as they believe he is really in distress.

Lighting: At the beginning of the trailer, the lighting is mainly natural but is really bright, then there is a crack of thunder, and all the shots that follow are either dark, or in dulled lighting. Which shows that the plot gets darker as the movie goes on.

Sound:  The sound in Taken is diegetic for the beginning, until the daughter starts talking about her going on holiday, then the video scenes start to montage and the sound goes non-diegetic as she is still heard talking about her holiday.

Thriller conventions: Taken includes thriller conventions such as:

•  Tension - there is tension throughout the film, as the audience wonders whether he will get his daughter back 
•  A dark atmosphere
• Suspense - there is suspense in many of scenes before she is taken
• mystery - the audience is left wondering who the kidnapper is
• A happy ending - at the end his get's his daughter back which is a happy ending
• Innocent victims - many innocent people are killed throughout the film.

The Talented Mr Ripley:

Plot: Tom Ripley pretends to have gone to Princeton when playing at a garden party, Tom pretends to know one of the rich fathers son's and he is soon offered money to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return back to Manhattan. When everything doesn't go to plan, Tom starts trying to take over Greenleaf's life.

Type of Thriller: Psychological Thriller

Sound: The music is quite light and upbeat at the start, under the non-diegetic narrator's dialogue. Then another instrument is added to the first which start's showing that the theme get's darker as the music start's taking a more menacing tone. Then when the narrator says "He'll do anything to keep it" The music changes and is suddenly a lot more menacing which shows the film get's extremely dark.

Acting: Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow are both extremely good actors, and this comes across in the movie, they are realistic character and draw the person watching in more due to their accuracy. 

Lighting: The lighting is mainly natural, with occasional fast changes in light which show that the movie will be about a bit of hidden meanings. The lighting goes black and white, and x-ray.

Thriller Conventions: The Talented Mr Ripley includes thriller conventions such as:

•  Mystery - There is a lot that doesn't become clear until the end. 
• A paranoid atmosphere - Since the whole film is psychological it creates a paranoid atmosphere.
• Plot Twists - it is not expected that he will try to take over Dickie Greenleaf's life.

Gravity

       

Plot: When a group of astronauts and one medical engineer go into space, their shuttle is destroyed by debris. And the majority of the crew killed, except for Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalsky. They travel through space trying to find a shuttle they can use to return to earth, before the debris strikes again.

Type of thriller: Drama thriller

Sound: The start of the trailer start's off silence, which reflects the silence in space. Then a sudden loud noise of the space shuttle breaking happens, which shocks the audience and makes them interested. There is no music until the end of the trailer, as the earlier sound is dialogue to give an idea of the plot. As its Ryan Stone yelling that she's stuck out in space, and a voice telling her what to do. Then music begins and it has a lot off bass in it which creates tension. 

Acting: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, are the only characters for the majority of the film. This is a hard role to hold up, yet the acting was really good as they were both extremely convincing in their characters. 

Lighting: Since the majority of the movie is set in space, the lighting is very simple and consistent throughout the film. The light seem's quite natural but is put there to be able to see the action. 

Thriller conventions: Gravity includes thriller conventions such as:

• A happy ending - Ryan Stone returns to earth in the end of the movie.
• Mystery - The audience does not know who will survive or what will happen
• Suspense - the silence of space provides many times of great suspense.
• A dark atmosphere
• Tension - many tense moments throughout the movie.

The Purge

Plot: One day every year all crime is legal. When a family accidentally let's in a homeless man, a group of hunters demand they send the man out to his death, or they will come in and kill the family. Yet the man is hiding, aided by the son Charlie Sandin.

Type of Thriller: Horror thriller

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