Monday 18 January 2010

Student thriller example - The Yearbook

We chose the Yearbook as our Student Thriller example because we thought it was very realistic and also believable, as some of the student thrillers didn't look realistic or professional.

This has good props and ideas in it, the use of blood is very effective (they have used something as well as blood to make it look like they are grating the skin), and also the scribbling in the yearbook, almost to say each one the people in the book that gets scribbled out has been murdered, this is what we liked about it the most, the anger and sound of the pen scribbling.

At the start of this clip there is a ring around a certain person, which is obliviously saying he's the next to be murdered. The eye after this is really effective also as the flicking, then the titles are flickering and really fit in with the whole theme, then the circling of the names really fast (planning may be).

The sounds are really fit in to the clip as well and in the background sometimes there's sounds of a little girl/boy laughing which is adding to it, and the camerawork is very nice, they have got some of the main ideas at the right angles and things. The editing is maybe a bit to fast but this is to add to the effect of everything happening so fast.


We have chosen this video because its gets the story across to the audience very well, the way that the pictures in the year book are crossed out gives it the affect of murder.

Also we liked the way that the group used mise-en-scene, this gave off secretive affect. This is because alot of the clips in the video are filmed in the dark, or low light. Also the clip had a lot of flicky affect, which sends off that its a thriller.

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