Conclusion to Black Swan clip

My analysis of Black Swan has made me understand the codes and conventions when it comes to making a psychological thriller. To begin with, the titles are mainly shown in a white font against a black background. This has been done to make effect as it shows contrast. To back up this, I also looked at The Talented Mr. Ripley and it too also had white font against a black background. However, even though I have only studied two doesn't necessarily mean titles should have white font. 

After this I looked at the camera techniques. I found out that the camera is always follows the main character as this makes them seem more important. Furthermore, because its a psychological thriller it has to be from the characters perspective. For example in Black Swan Nina experiences looses her mind and this is reinforced through the cameras always showing her side of the story. Secondly, there is mainly mid-shots and close ups as this reveals more emotion on the characters face. In Black Swan it always cuts to show her face which reveals to the audience what she is feeling etc.

What's more, the editing techniques also showed typical conventions of a psychological thriller as the camera panned to follow Nina when she was dancing. This shows that the camera is trying to follow the characters movements. Cutting was also used to show different shots of the scene. For example the camera went from a long shot to a mid shot then to a close up of Nina's face. This exposed her frighten facial expressions which shows that in physiological thrillers you have to include the characters emotions.

The mise-en-scene was also interesting as it showed contrast in lighting and symbolic meanings in the clothes they were wearing. Firstly, the lighting showed that thrillers should include dark backgrounds to establish a tense atomsphere and the clothing should represent symbolic meanings for the characters. This means that I should be thinking about what my actors should be wearing and the lighting when it comes to filming.

In my opinion, sound is the most important aspect of thriller conventions as when I watching Black Swan the music from the violins added fast pace to the film thus making the whole movie more exciting. The music also indicated when there was danger (eg- black swan comes to dance with Nina) and this could be very important when it comes to filming my thriller film.