Examples:
- Noir (dark) non ambiant (artifical lighting) lighting: connotes fear and adds visiual interest to the audience keeping them engaged.
Example: "Sin City"
- Wet Shiny Streets: connoting nightmare and also used for reflecting low levels of chiaroscuro lighting. Example: "Once Upon a Time in America" - directed by Sergio Leone (1984)
(to add clip/ shot of flashback scene while soundbridge of phone ringing)
- Long shadows: reinforcing the connotions of nightmare or suggesting of a sense of a mysterious presence.
- Unglamourous, decaying locations: connoting corruption.
Examples:"The Third Man" (1949)
- Claustraphobic spaces: connoting entrapment.
Examples: "The Third Man"
Well done for providing examples of how directors use generic conventions in thriller films. If you can find time I suggest you, Laura and Chelsea get some screen shots (on sugar paper or on a slide show) of the clip of the introduction of Harry Lime in "The Third Man" and analyse use of lighting, camera movement and angles (note tilt and low angle shots), character types (Harry Lime as anti hero), costume, location, sound and use of suspense. Also the positioning of the camera when Lime is first spotted - low angle shot of feet and cat! What do you think the cat indicates about Lime's character?
ReplyDeleteYou could call this "How Carol Reed develops generic conventions in The Third Man".
Keep up the good work and I like the way you are using and developing your knowledge and understanding of research you did last year and looking ahead.