SPIDER DIAGRAM

Before creating our own thriller title sequences we looked at different conventions and ideas that have been used in other thrillers to create tension and mystery. Creating a spider diagram was the best way to record all of these ideas as we could group them into the different categories, for example lighting etc. We began by looking at the different codes and conventions first and so this meant that we could build on and discuss our own ideas that could relate to or feature within our title sequence. By doing a spider diagram we found that we really liked the idea of having the voice of a child either as diegetic sound or as a voiceover. This led to us thinking about having a little girl as the central protagonist within our thriller and so this meant that we could incorporate the idea of having a child’s voice as diegetic or as a voiceover. This made us think about the connotations of a child for example, youth, innocence and purity and so this meant that we would have been thinking more about the narrative as we were discussing different ideas that would create binary opposition and that were also found in both of the narrative structures. This led to us discussing our initial ideas and how we could incorporate our ideas in order to create tension, suspense and more importantly an effective thriller title sequence.