A psychological thriller is a sub-genre of thriller and it often involves conventions of a horror, which can be seen in films previously discussed such as Obsessed and The Experiment. This genre of film can involve conventions of mystery and drama genres and sometimes, very rarely, comedy, with just a few parts of the film that are humorous. While researching i noticed that there are themes associated with psychological thrillers, the one i have chosen is Mind. This is where its all about the characters mind and personality and intelligence and just basically everything to do with the character.
I am taking inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock. He is a world famous director of psychological thrillers the main one being Psycho. I personally studied Psycho in my GCSE's and some of Alfred Hitchcock's other films. Alfred Hitchcock believe in a film technique called the Mcguffin. This is where he attracts the audiences attention to particular objects, dialogue or characters to try and make the audience pre guess the ending. However these things have no relevance to the ending of the film and by doing this he allows himself to put a big twist in the story and surprise the audience and shock them as they didn't see it coming. I wish to also follow a long a similar line in my trailer. By making something in the trailer seem like the whole narrative of the film and then leave the audience with a cliff hanger at the end of the trailer. This would therefore achieve its goal of grabbing the audiences attention and making them want more and ultimately spending their money in seeing the film at the cinema. I haven't yet decided my whole narrative of my film but i do know that i will involve two/three main characters with a woman who is craving after this man because of a fling ages ago. It will involve horror elements and i have been considering killing of a main character in the film to cause a twist and suspense. However its all still progressing in ideas and can hopefully only get better.
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