During the trailer, there is diegetic sound being used throughout enhance the audience's relationship with the actors. This ultimately makes the audience immediately want to go and see the film, but the music is constantly playing throughout the trailer.

The music also represents the era that the film is set in, during the second world war. As the camera cuts between the clips, so does the music and it shows the audience how the trailer is becoming increasingly intense.

Quantum of Solace trailer analysis

The music whilst James Bond is walking around is quite and sinister to create suspension and to represent the thriller theme. When he is in combat and there are action scenes, the music gets a lot more dramatic and picks up a higher beat which represents the action side of the thriller. Furthermore, as there are jumpcuts in the trailer, the music follows the same pattern with jumping between different beats. The music is synchronised with the edits for example, when James Bond kicks an enemy, the music gets a lot louder and intense to fit in with the fight.

In addition, the trailer uses diegetic sounds when the characters are speaking and also when James Bond is on the motorbike, this adds an effect to the audience to entice them to watch the film as it contains action such as chases and stunts using a motorbike.

Protagonist/Antagonist in Batman

During Batman there is a good example of each, an antagonist and a protagonist. The protagonist during The Dark Knight would be Batman who is trying to stop the evil Joker (Antagonist) from performing his evil deeds.



This shows how the Antagonist is provoking the good guys (police) to get annoyed and to react in a harsh way.



This trailer briefly outlines how the Batman is trying to prevent the plans of the Joker by trying to get one step ahead of him or just to hunt him down and stop him once and for all.

The Joker

This character is relevant to the antagonist in our film as they both dress up and are quite frightening yet witty in their approach to terrorising their victims. Furthermore, they both enjoy mentally-affecting their victims which will give them an edge and make the audience acknowledge that they are the antagonists. This antagonist is trying to provoke the Batman by attacking mass amounts of people whereas ours will be just focusing on a few victims that will be mainly attached to the protagonist.

Batman

This character is the protagonist who tries to prevent the bad occurrences during the film. This will be the same during our film as the antagonist is provoking the protagonist by torturing his close friends, so this will force the protagonist to react and to perhaps make a wrong mistake which will lead to the antagonist gaining superiority over the protagonist.

Analysing Other Student's Work

This thriller opening shows the audience the location and consequences of what is occurring at the start. The opening is set between two different places which are completely opposite, one is at a party and the other is set in the woods. The editing cuts between these two locations to show the aftermath of the party, furthermore during the party there is a focus on the feet to show the viewers that there is similarities and to acknowledge that the person in the woods is the same person who is attending the party. Throughout the opening sequence, there are many different shot types being used for example, during the wood clips there are high angle shots on the woman laying on the floor to show that she is not dominant and afraid. There is also use of medium shots during the party to show the viewer the location, which are also used during the woodland clips to show the change in location. The music is non-diegetic but the viewer can tell that during the party clips there is going to be that type of music playing. There are different editing techniques used to show the credits to the audience, for example there is a black screen to set the credits apart from the film yet the viewer still feels in touch with the opening as the music continues to play during the credits. At the end of the clip, the title "Daiquiri" appears, with different editing effects, for example it is put on its own black screen to make it stand out from everything else and the title also fades in and out to draw attention to the audience, furthermore the title is in time with the music to give it a more prominent appearance.

Fight Club - Psychological Thriller theme analysis

Psychological conventions;
drama/mystery
danger on a mental level rather than just physical.
2 or more characters preying on one anothers minds or one solitary character with mental struggles.
Characters will have fear or fascination with death.
Characters try and discover own purpose.
Narrative confusion over what is real and what is not.

During Fight Club, many of these conventions are represented, for example there are two characters who prey on each others minds and are always trying to out-do one another, also there is a mental illness with one of the main characters as the audience finds out at the end that it was just his mind playing tricks on him. Furthermore, both characters have a fascination with death as they continuously fight each night. The film also does well to fool the audience with a confusing storyline which only becomes apparent at the end of the film when the real truth comes out. The main character is lonely and suffers from insomnia, so his mind begins to play tricks with him and he starts up fight club showing a psychological effect on him.

se7en opening analysis

In this opening clip there is a lot of non diagetic sound throughout, firstly, the city life outside like cars etc. also, diagetic sound such as the conversations during it. At the end of the clip there is a clear indication as too what morgan freeman and brad pitt are representing (police force, detectives) this is because of the sirens and the talk of going back to the precinct. There are many different camera angles; low angle shots on morgan freeman and brad pitt to show they are the dominant figures in the film, also, medium shots down the corridor during conversation with another detective. We also see a lot of close ups during the credits to indicate the killers actions, witha high angle shot on the dead person to show that he/she wasn't dominant.

There are many different editing techniques used during the opening sequence of se7en. The first one used is an over the shoulder shot in the mirror of Morgan Freeman to show the audience how he is being portrayed in a strong-mannered way. As the opening sequence progresses, during the conversation sequence there is a shot reverse shot section between Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, which resembles them as the dominant characters. Furthermore, there are jump cuts into different rooms to show how the main characters continue with their lives in se7en. During the credits, there is a montage of clips and pictures that gives the audience an insight into what type of genre this film is. There is a range of costumes being used by the main characters, Morgan Freeman is wearing a suit which establishes him as the dominant figure whereas Brad Pitt is wearing a less casual suit without a jacket to show his less dominant, casual approach to his work. Finally, Morgan Freeman wears glasses which would resemble to the audience that he is intelligent and clever.