Inspirations

The thriller genre was build up on legendary and unforgettable movies and directors.
Many scenes of our project have been influenced by existing popular productions. We watched a few examples for our project including very successful movies like Se7en, which is traditional thriller. However we will have to mix the styles in order to keep our movie up to date and simultaneously stick to the traditional style. One source of inspiration, although not a movie, or thriller/ horror is the highly acclaimed televeision drama, LOST, as it uses some very innovative camera shots and editting techniques. Lost is considered as adventure drama, but it's uniqueness relies in thriller elements such as the importance of good sound. When correctly synchronized non-diegetic sound is a very powerful and fear creating tool. The creators of LOST, very often played with audience's emotions by using various soundtracks and attaching it to appropriate scenes. We can see the classical, sad and miserable songs played while someone dies, or dramatic and growing when fast action takes place. Moreover, a few episodes start with a breathtaking and unusual technique: extreme close-up on the character's eyes-opening, also with loud and dynamic sound synchronized creating right from the beginning the thriller atmosphere and excitement. Therefore the audience is curious to see what happened, they are eager to see more. Such shots could be also used in our project, however we would not start the whole thing with that, but more of a reaction to what happened previously.
There are not many successful modern thrillers, when we look on the most recognizable icons, we can notice that they are all from late 90s. As exception considered may be Inception (2010) as it has reached high rankings in the best thrillers lists. The success of Inception is quite similar to LOST. As we know they both are thrillers with the unrealistic elements, however the elements are realistic enough to be believed in. For example the time travel, or aware dreaming. We can infer that the thriller elements are very universal and could be successfully mixed with any genre, making it even better, more exciting and popular. Another example of the popular mixture is Se7en including the elements of crime and thriller. Crime gives us the developing plot, mysteries and investigation. Thriller gives shocking death scenes, unknown and complex villain and many other unknowns to be found by viewer.