Past Student Thriller Analysis

There are many things in which good openings of a thriller need to keep their audiences attention. These are things like music, action scenes, voice overs, etc. These effects will grip the audience and make them want to watch more of a film, which is why a good opening needs to involve these aspects.

In this past student's thriller opening, it starts off with a girl walking along a path, seeming very happy. The music playing in the background builds the tension and lets you know that something is going to happen. There was no dialogue in the opening, but that built up the suspense more, which would make the audience want to watch more of the film to see what happens. Although there was no dialogue, there was still diagetic and on-screen sounds, which was the mobile phone ringing on the girl's bed, for her boyfriend, we know for it came up on the screen of the phone, was calling her. I would want to watch more of it for it has a great name which relates to the opening, and I would want to know what happens next in the film, whether the boyfriend tries to save her or if he was in on the kidnapping, what the kidnappers do and why they kidnapped her and whether she survives the film.

I think this opening to a thriller, Mortifer, was quite suspenseful and tension building for it starts off at a park with a guy talking to a girl over the phone, the music is playing throughout the opening which builds tension for you know that something is going to happen which will match the music's tone. The girl ends the call and puts her phone away. Then someone walks into the park and shoots the guy in the head, twice. We see the girl walking past the killer, and at first I assumed that she was a part of the killing, that she was a friend who betrayed a friend. But then she gets a call from an anonymous person with a disguised voice and she says who are you, and the disguised voice says you know who I am. Then the opening scene finishes with SEVEN MONTHS LATER. This makes the audience want to watch more of the film to see what happens later, how the girl knows the killer, how she was a part in the killing of the boy and whether she too will die. The scene includes diagetic and non-diagetic sounds and on-screen sounds when the gun shoots the boy and with the conversation between the girl and the anonymous voice.

I really liked this opening for a thriller. it starts off at a forest where a group of boys are going to camp. However, it looks like something is going to happen because they are mucking around and shouting. However, there is parts where the screen jolts, and black and white lines come across the screen as though signal is lost. The boys get drunk and fall asleep, but one of them needs to go to the toilet, and gets out of the tent. Someone then attacks him, and the rest of the boys go to see what happens, but they get attacked too. It then goes to the shot of a guy waking up in his bed, with his television on, talking about the missing boys. What i like about this is the effect of no signal, where the screen gets cut off by white and black lines, for it adds tension and suspense, thinking that something is going to happen. Throughout the opening, we see a clip of an eye, and then back to the forest where the boys were camping. near the end of the opening, it goes to a shot of the eye again, but this time we see whose eye it is. This is effective for it makes it look like a dream, but then it shows the television talking about the missing boys, which makes the audience wonder what that boy was actually seeing. This makes the audience want to watch more to see what happened to the group of boys, whether they would be found, and how that boy who was asleep could see what was happening.