Unit 3 3. Thriller Mood Boards

Taken:

Taken is an action thriller film of which where a former government operatives daughter is kidnapped during a holiday to France, which then leads the father (Liam Neeson) to hunt down the people behind the kidnapping and rescue his daughter. Being an action-thriller sub genre movie, throughout the film it has many typical conventions of a thriller film, one of which being the very sudden change in mood in the trailer at 0:37, as the different shots at the start of this begin to slow down a lot more and focus on the kidnapping, which leaves people quite disturbed and on edge, an effect which also plays on the viewers emotions is the sudden darkening of the surroundings to the kidnapping, which almost foreshadows that something bad is about to happen, the change in music also plays a very vital role in creating suspense for the viewer, as it becomes quite eerie and creates worry and suspense on the viewer.

 The Sixth Sense:

The sixth sense is a supernatural thriller where a young boy is visited by ghosts, which leaves him too afraid to tell anyone besides his child psychologist. The film honestly may also borderline between a psychological thriller or horror, as at 0:15 the mother of the boy asks "where is she?" as they are passing an accident in which was fatal to a woman, the boy then responds at 0:23 with "shes standing next to my window" after also giving some very grim and disturbing detail in how the woman actually came to die, this dialogue creates a very large sense of discomfort and fear in the viewer, mainly due to the grim description the boy had previously given about the dead woman, however as the trailer progresses, it has the typical thriller convention, in which fast cuts and flashes are used to create discomfort in the viewer, which helps create a large amount of suspense surrounding the different situations displayed in the trailer, something that also adds to this is the lack of lighting in some of the scenes displayed, as at 1:49 the surroundings are very dark which connotes mystery and also creates suspense as it is the fear of the unknown.