Starting The Research

Mr Michie and Mr Ford decided to put us into our groups on Tuesday. This meant we found out who we would be making our thriller opening with, and who we would be researching with. They tried not to put us in our friendship groups, as this would make things harder and they wanted to get the best work out of us. My group ended up being me, Averielle, Alice W and Rhiannon. I think this is a good group because we can all bring different skills to the team, making working easier and hopefully, the outcome better.


We found that we had to research a lot more than we thought we’d need too. This got split up into a few different categories. Firstly, at home we each decided to find something different including things about the thriller genre, the conventions of a thriller, the codes of a thriller – such as misè-en-scene, lighting, costumes and camera, and also the BBFC. The BBFC is the place where it tells you whether your film can be a 15 or an 18, and what you must do to stay within this category.


I had to find out more about the Misè-en-scene and the lighting. I found that the Misè-en-scene refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement such as composition, sets, props, actors, costumes, and lighting. Misè-en-scène also includes the positioning and movement of actors on the set, which is called blocking. I also found out about the lighting in a thriller. I found that most of it is shadowed and dark. This is because it’s tense and needs the lighting to be like this.


Averielle was researching the BBFC, and Alice W was researching the thriller genre, and Rhiannon researched the conventions of a thriller, however this changed and she helped me complete things on the codes of a thriller, finding out about costumes and camera.


When we went into the lesson, we decided that we didn’t have enough research, mixed it around and all went off to research a different section.