Our Thriller ‘Angel Café’ was inspired by many Thrillers and the key influences that the thriller conventions have on the mise-en-scene of a film. The Third Man was a key aspect in the ‘noir’ style to our film – with the strong shadows and key lighting at some points. Also the wonderful cinematography used by Carol Reed, the director, influenced our tilt shots – such as the tilt shots used on doors and windows, of which is echoed in our film by the tilted window shot and also other tilt shots used.
The enclosed space of the café and the freezer where the female character is locked in is very similar to the enclosed and claustrophobic spaces such as the toilet scene in 'Witness' where the young boy witnesses the murder. The dim, chiroscuro lighting was something that we tried to show and use in our own film. With the lighting only being from inside the café, it is ambient lighting, just like in Witness. 
The costume for our Thriller was inspired by the costume in Carol Reed's 'The Third Man'. The sleek black coat and wide rimmed hat, which is typical of the 1940s Thriller, was a key influence in the costume of our own thriller. We thought that it creates an enigma due to the man being able to hide himself under his clothes - making the audience not know who he is - remaining enigmatic.
You're on the right path but you need to develop your points. For example what do titlted shots connote? Why was this type of shot important to reinforce meaning? Why are tilt shots used so much in The Third Man.
ReplyDeleteYou have only linked the generic convention of enclosed spaces to one film when we have looked at a large number of films which utilise or develop this convention. For example Essex Boys 9garage and white van); Eve isolated in her dark bedroom when she is gunned down; in Jackie Brown, Beaumont is in an isolated dark area outside an apartment complex when he is tricked into the boot of Ordell's car and a little later shot in the car boot. At it's extreme the confined space is developed by Tarantino when The Bride is buried alive in a coffin by Bud and his trailer trash friends near the beginning of Kill Bill Vol 2. And I could go on.
What about sound and how diegetic and non diegetic sound are meshed to gether to create suspense and establish the genre of the film, think about when Marion crane is murdered in the confined space of a shower over a bath in Psycho, thus adding to the grotesque nature of her death.
The convention of the deviant female - your waitress has echoes of the classic femme fatale, for example she steals money from the till thus suggesting Marion Crane's buch bolder theft in Psycho.
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