Thriller comparison- Miss Georgiou

Do you think you have created a successful thriller sequence and why?

In my opinion I feel that I created a successful thriller sequence as it had some typical conventions of the thriller genre that the audience know and would recognise the sequence as a thriller sequence, but I also created a thriller genre that does challenge some typical conventions of the thriller genre, for example with the female character that goes against the stereotypical roles that young girls play in other thriller films. We included this element as we felt that this would attract other audiences because our thriller film is different to others, but is still conventional to the thriller genre that the audience like.

Which micro element, best shows your creativity and understanding of thriller conventions the most?
The micro-element of the young girl who turns out to be the killer shows how creative our opening sequence is as it hasn't been done in any other thriller film before, and the audience would like this because its something different instead of films that follow stereotypical basic conventions. This shows that we understand the thriller genre as we had to research to see what is acceptable in the thriller genre, what the audience like in thriller films and what films have used conventions that we were thinking of using in our own thriller opening sequence, so this research led to us using this Young female killer as it was original and was from our research what the audience like.

Compare your opening sequence to a successful thriller and explain how your thriller is conventional. Consider the narrative, representation of characters, sounds, editing, mise-en-scene.
 
I am comparing our own thriller film to a very popular thriller film that is Scream, this film uses a main killer, that chases people and is notorious for murdering them. The women characters are often killed and portrayed as dumb. Scream often uses fast paced soudtracked for the chase scenes that build intensity as the murder is coming closer in the scene, they do this to build suspense, and is popular in other thriller films. Along with this fast paced soundtrack the use of fast paced editing, is used to build suspense in some scenes, this is also conventional to the thriller genre. The murder in scream always uses a knife to kill his victims, this is quite important iconography for the film and the character is recognised by this.
our own thriller film is conventional to the thriller genre as it follows some of the conventions that are used in Scream, for example we decided to give our main character a knife, this was done to show the audience as soon as they see her with it that she is the killer in the scene. Other conventions that we followed are the tense soundtrack and fast paced editing when there is a murder scene, we decided to follow these conventions as they're effective at building suspense amongst the audience, and relate to the thriller genre.