By Ruairi Pammen
Mood board; analysis
My mood board was intended to
convey my all-time favourite thrillers that have shaped my perceptions on what
makes the genre so enthralling and entertaining. I wanted to choose a wide
range of thrillers from the cult classics; all the way up to the modern
Hollywood blockbusters because it’s interesting to see the adaptations that
have gradually occurred overtime due to the audiences tastes.
The word art-
I used words that would be typically associated with the Thriller genre, describing the audience’s thoughts and feelings that great directors such as Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino would be able to successfully incite in a fully engulfed audience during a good thriller.
Image 1 (Gravity poster) -
This helped shape the format of our plot as we wanted it based on the rapidly advancing technological feet’s humans have relatively speaking only recently started achieving and how these incredibly impressive, powerful and brilliant hi-tech progressions could result in the downfall of humanity. Intercutting with Gravity and man’s yearning to expand their knowledge on the unknown, the desire in-turn completely enveloping them resulting in the safety of a human life being a lesser priority to the goals of the advancements. I also liked the Hawthorne effect presented in gravity, how everything they do is being monitored and scrutinized resulting in strange behaviours and emotional turmoil. In the context to our film Britain is the most heavily monitored country in the world using CCTV cameras in every town and major city.
This helped shape the format of our plot as we wanted it based on the rapidly advancing technological feet’s humans have relatively speaking only recently started achieving and how these incredibly impressive, powerful and brilliant hi-tech progressions could result in the downfall of humanity. Intercutting with Gravity and man’s yearning to expand their knowledge on the unknown, the desire in-turn completely enveloping them resulting in the safety of a human life being a lesser priority to the goals of the advancements. I also liked the Hawthorne effect presented in gravity, how everything they do is being monitored and scrutinized resulting in strange behaviours and emotional turmoil. In the context to our film Britain is the most heavily monitored country in the world using CCTV cameras in every town and major city.
Image 2 (Hunger games)-
The narrative is set in a future ‘dystopian’ where entertainment is worth more than the safety of a person’s life, highlighting a more brutal prophecy for how far the human conditions and desire for ‘blood sports’ will drive us, by completely disregarding a human life for the satisfaction of gratifying their need for entertainment. This intercuts with our storyline showing similarities in; being set in the future, the thirst for entertainment, the value of human life’s deteriorating in value.
The narrative is set in a future ‘dystopian’ where entertainment is worth more than the safety of a person’s life, highlighting a more brutal prophecy for how far the human conditions and desire for ‘blood sports’ will drive us, by completely disregarding a human life for the satisfaction of gratifying their need for entertainment. This intercuts with our storyline showing similarities in; being set in the future, the thirst for entertainment, the value of human life’s deteriorating in value.
Image 3 (American Psycho)-
In American psycho the antagonist ‘Patrick Bateman’ is a wealthy investment banker, on the surface he’s just a clean cut yuppie however, beneath the bravado possess a psychopathic alternative ego. Although this slightly contrasts with our main antagonist ‘The Hacker’ who isolates himself from wider society, performing horrific acts of genocide from his desktop computer in his dark ominous den. Although both characters are seemingly different there’s a metaphorical connection because Patrick Bateman internally suppresses his twisted and sadistic alter ego however The Hacker hides his demonic behaviour under the cover of darkness in the sanctity of his own home.
In American psycho the antagonist ‘Patrick Bateman’ is a wealthy investment banker, on the surface he’s just a clean cut yuppie however, beneath the bravado possess a psychopathic alternative ego. Although this slightly contrasts with our main antagonist ‘The Hacker’ who isolates himself from wider society, performing horrific acts of genocide from his desktop computer in his dark ominous den. Although both characters are seemingly different there’s a metaphorical connection because Patrick Bateman internally suppresses his twisted and sadistic alter ego however The Hacker hides his demonic behaviour under the cover of darkness in the sanctity of his own home.
The word art-
I used words that would be typically associated with the Thriller genre, describing the audience’s thoughts and feelings that great directors such as Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino would be able to successfully incite in a fully engulfed audience during a good thriller.
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