So far in year 12 media we have looked at various openings of psychological thrillers in order to allow ourselves to become familiarised with the conventions of thrillers in order to help us prepare for our subsidiary task, as well as our two minute opening for our final piece. We have seen and analysed various opening sequences, such as Memento, Pacific Heights and The Usual Suspects, all made by many Auteur’s. Especially Alfred Hitchcock as he has written and directed various psychological thrillers, such as: The Birds, Rope, Peeping tom, vertigo, which we also watched.

We have also completed the filming of our subsidiary task, in which a person walks into a room and exchanges two sentences with the other character that’s in the room. With Mr Gibbs we have learnt to handle a camera, and we are currently in the process of editing our piece. So far our mini film includes a medley of extreme close up’s for exaggerated effect of emotion, panning, tracking, zoom in, and on the computer we have learnt to split scenes and add special effects.

With Mr Graham recently we have been looking at short stories to gain inspiration to write our treatment for our two minute opening, also we have researched and presented institutions, also we have looked at two minute clip of a psychological thriller of our choice, and analysed how it is typical of a psychological thriller genre, so we have good understanding of the genre we will be portraying in our own two minute clip.