Monday, 29 October 2007

Inspiring Clips

Watch the beginning of this film, i know they've distorted the sound and sped up the amazing theme music BUT i think it's a really clever, effective technique.
It's from one of my favourite movies 'Requiem for a Dream' and although it's not a thriller I recommend everyone see it at some point...
Someone had 'remixed' it so it isn't quite like it is in the real movie but it was the best clip i could find.
The use of lots of different close up images all in a short space of time and resting on each image for less than a second (a montage) is very enigmatic, disorientating and creates a strange feeling for the audience making them want to keep watching the film. There is also a lot of emphasis on sound in this sequence which adds to the enigmatic effect. In my opinion, Student Thriller films never really work well with dialogue and I feel amplifying the sound of everyday noises e.g. traffic, a clock would work really well. I thought it would be amazing to use this sort of technique at the beginning of a thriller (the whole all will be explained later idea and making the audience wonder why the film makers have put these particular images together).
It would get me interested anyway and is something that will influence me when planning my thriller sequence.

However, I am aware that this sort of thing would be very hard to do seeing as we are limited to equipment etc but it's a very clever, highly effective technique...

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