Genera psychological thriller

Genre psychological thriller

Techniques used

• Low Key Lighting - In psychological thrillers low key lighting is used to unsettle the      viewer  when watching this film. This could be by ether the low key lighting affecting the way we are able to see the character or to hide parts of the setting. The low key lighting on the character could distort what we are able to see of them by hiding large parts of their body or by hiding features on their face which would unsettle the viewers.

 

• Confined spaces -  In psychological thrillers confined spaces are used in films a lot, to scare the audience and also to make them feel  uncomfortable and give the idea of insecurity to an audience when watching the film. This is used as any phobia is aimed to make the audience members to feel insecurity about the things that they dread. (E.g. Bats, the dark, heights, falling) The use of confined spaces could also be used to make the audience feel sympathy to ward a character in the film if it is known that they are scared of confined spaces but also help to play on the audiences fears as with it been confined spaces could make the audience feel that they a re a lot closer to what is going on and that they could be right there. This is shown in the film 127 hours as the use of the confined space more graphic and scary knowing that there is very little chance to escape.

• Shadows - While shadows are closely linked with low key lighting in pyschological thriller. They are used to show a sense of danger and to the story and can make the audience feel scared and vulnerable, as quite often we only see the killers shadow and often we see the murder happen in shadows. We also know that the often things can be hidden in the shadows and make it hard to see things.

 

• Time -  Time is often used in pyschological thriller as we often see flash backs and dreams about what has happened to make the character who they are today and or why they are  acting the way they do.

 

• colour - There often is uses of black and white in pyschological thriller as well as the colour of red as this is the colour of blood and the use of this against the black and white would make it stand out more, but also red is the colour of danger, violence and evil. This also helps create an unsettling atmosphere and cna help to build tension.

pyschological thriller often focus on the antagonist mind using a first person narrative to give us an inside luck on how our antagonist ticks. The use of what is real or not is quite often used . This can intise the view it pay attention and to make they try to figure out what is real and what is not, however if this is not done correctly it can often leave the  viewers are left confused. The characters often doubt who they are or what they arte meant to be doing with there life.