Monday, 11 February 2019

Analysis of Themes in thrillers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NTaDm3atkc

Happy Death Day trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THq6KlWgiqw

Happy Death Day 2U trailer

- Identify the key theme
- Describe how the theme is shown in the trailer (3 sentences, examples, screen grabs, time-codes)
- Explain how the effect of the theme on the audience i.e. creates excitement, fear, suspense (2 sentences analytical tone)
- Explain how you might explore that theme in your film (1 creative sentence)

 



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The Film Happy Death Day is a sub genre of horror and thriller. The film covers many themes throught the film.

Violence is shown very heavily throughout the film.
31 people said the violence and gore was moderate out of 42 for HDD.

We see the protagonist is seen falling with a rope tied to her neck which leads to her death at 1:35 in the trailer and then in then immediatley after 1:37 we see her getting hit with a bat on her head, where she falls. the wakes up reliving the same day. this creates fear in the audience because they don't know when the next death is going to happen and how. This also creates suspense because they have to wait for the next day to repeat to find out how she's going to die again.

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