Resit - Evaluation and Conventions of titles for Psychologial Thrillers

Fatal Attraction (1987)
The opening titles, are clearly written in the centre of the frame with block text with a white colour font, which fades in and out on a black background.





Memento (2000)
The opening titles are in the centre of the frame with block text coloured blue, clearly written over the of the text, fading in and out.




6The 6th Sense(1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44VRhcFxFF4

The opening titles are in the centre of the frame with block text style font coloured blue, placed on a black back ground clearly. The text fades in and out.


From viewing the opening titles from three different psychological thriller films, I have discovered that it is a generic convention for the text to be; capital letters and block style font in the centre of the frame. The text also fades in and out, so I will follow this by including all these into the opening of my film. By doing this I will be following a generic convention of a psychological thriller.  By viewing these three films, the text has been placed over the image or on a black background, in my film I shall be placing the text over film.

Resit-Conventions found in Psychological Thrillers

'Psychological Thriller's' come under a sub-Genre.

 A convention found within Psychological thrillers, is for the main character to be fighting for the balance of equilibrium, which follows 'Todorov's Narrative Theory'.  Commonly another convention is that the protagonist will use their mind to figure out the solution to balance the equilibrium which links to the 'Psychological' part to the genre. For example the film 'Knowing' (2009) uses numbers and the protagonists quest using his mind to figure out what the message is and how to reinstate the equilibrium. 

 

Numbers is also a generic convention found within psychological thrillers, linking back to the previous convention of using the mind. The film 'The Number 23'(2007) also uses numbers, which constantly loops back to the number 23, a manipulation of the lead characters mind. 

We would have to apply some of these conventions to our film, to make our film a successful psychological thriller, as our audience will be expecting similarities. We have decided to use the convention of the mind. The lead protagonist using her mind in a battle of wit to retrieve her daughter back, which reinstates the equilibrium.