Sunday, 23 September 2012

Iconography - Thrillers

This collage demonstrates the iconography of a typical thriller movie. Thrillers are most famous for their mystery and suspense. All of the items I have chosen above are mysterious, there is no explanation to them and the audience would have unanswered questions towards some of these screenshots above. The disc on the far left of the collage is an unidentified DVD and the audience will want to know the contents of the mysterious disc. The words 'fuck you' bring a negative vibe to the DVD so therefore the audience know immediately that the disc isn't going to be pleasant.
In the shot below that there is a man that seems to be angry and holding a syringe. The liquid contents is unknown to the viewers, this therefore brings a sense of mystery. The photo of the phone with '1 missed call' displayed on the screen is also mysterious as viewers would ask the questions 'who rang him?' and 'why?'
Moving onto the picture of the autopsy, these take place after a murder has happened to determine the cause of death, this also begins to confuse viewers minds making them wish to find out how this woman was killed.
All of the remaining images also bring suspense and mystery upon the audience to make them question Who? What? When? Where? How?  All locations pictured are dark and dingy which is a typical iconography of a thriller.

2 comments:

  1. L4
    Good effort Rosie
    To improve:
    Draw a greater link to specifics of the mind map - characters, lighting, costume etc
    Well done

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  2. L4
    Good explanation as to why you have chosen some of the images.
    To improve:
    You could do with including more images to do with thriller settings rather than just props.

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