How to film a thriller

How to film a thriller

This thriller encountered many thriller conventions which were very fast paced. Each shot was a maximum of 2 seconds long creating a panic feel to the short film. The thriller included many different angles and different shots including: 

• close up to show reactions of the character.
• extreme close up of the eye and the bottle to show danger.
• point of view shot which created effect of us walking in his shoes.
• high angle shot to show venerability.
• tracking shot to show that he is being followed. 
• long shot to show how lonely he is in the area.
• wide shot to show the atmosphere which can be calm however also can be scary as we can see he is isolated, therefore if anything dangerous happened to him he would get no help.
• low angle shot to show power.
• match on action when he was entering the cave.
• shot reverse shot of what he was seeing
• a silhouette from the light coming in.
• frame through a window to warn us that someone is watching him.
• tilt shot.
• canted angle shot to show danger.  
• camera cuts on movement to shorten the travel.
• deep focus to pull our attention away from other things to only focus on one thing.
• medium shot of his reaction after leaving the cave.
• camera shows a short pan of the scenery to show us that no ones there.

There was no dialogue throughout the short film however the thriller consisted of many diegetic and non diegetic sounds which contrasted to create calmness and fear throughout the thriller:

• diegetic sounds of the birds singing which indicates calmness.
• diegetic sounds of him breathing to show panic and fear.
• diegetic sounds of the droplets of water.
• diegetic sounds of the character hitting the bottle.
• non diegetic sounds of a sinister music to create fear and danger.
• non diegetic sounds of a deep sound to show something dark entering the cave.