The Purge
I decided to watch a few trailers of thriller films to get some inspiration and ideas of what thriller films look like. From 'The Purge' trailer I learnt that thrillers are mainly dark and gloomy, this sets the mood of the whole film as quite depressing/scary. Although this is just a trailer, I can see that the editing is very fast paced during the most exciting scenes to keep the audience on edge. Music used in thrillers varies from creepy, high pitched music to loud, fast, action music. From thriller trailers you can see that the majority of thrillers start with a few normality scenes to show the audience what life is like before the actual story takes part. This would be a problem for us as we need to create a thriller opening and we can't just have a normality scene for our whole film. Therefore we will need to make it out of chronological order, showing part of the actual story first then the film would go into a normality scene after the first two minutes. This could actually work in our favour if we were to make the full film as it grips the audience at the beginning with the action and also leaves them thinking throughout the rest of the film 'I wonder how that is going to link to the action we saw previously.'
The props used in this film are somewhat horror-like (the masks and knives etc) however, the typical thriller prop, the gun, is seen a LOT throughout the trailer.
Costuming is very subtle in this film as it is supposed to represent normal people 'letting off steam' so they wouldn't be wearing the typical thriller genre style clothing for a villain (All black).
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