On your marks...

And so it begins!  It's time to start researching for our Foundation Portfolio task.

For now, I'd like us to do the following:

FIRST -

Research thriller sub genre codes and conventions.  Familiarise yourself with the types, and blog your findings on a post titled Thriller Sub-Genres: Codes & Conventions.  (This will assist you when you plan your filming!)

SECOND -

Research four opening sequences from thriller films (I suggest you include Vertigo, since we did this one in class).

• Upload the sequences to your blogs, and 
• analyse them to answer the following question:

Why is it engaging, and how does it conform to institutional codes and conventions?

(So their use of Sound, Mise-en-scene, costume / make-up, enclosed spaces, weapons, setting, editing, etc. - use your notes, and more research on the interwebs is also a good thing.)

Good luck!

- T. Marcus