Today (November 9, 2011) as part of our research we watched Animal Kingdom. This critically aclaimed film which has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival (a festival especially for Independent Movies) was directed by David Michod.
The Characteristics of the characters which would make this a Thriller Film include:
- Innocent Victims
- Characters on the Run
- People involved in twisted relationships
- Drug Addicts
The film also uses Generic Conventions that should be in a Thriller Film, these include:
- The film uses artificial and non-ambient lighting
- The film was also shot in locations such as small rooms and art galleries, which challenges thriller films because you barely see Thriller films that are shot in these locations.
- One good thing that is good about animal Kingdom is that it is unpredictable, unlike the Thriller Films released in the past, like the ending of the film, I myself didn't even believe that J would shoot the Pope.
An example to how Animal Kingdom uses Generic conventions is when Smurf was talking to the lawyers on getting Pope and Darren out of Jail.
Throughout this whole scene the film never breaks the 180 degree rule and it has the same continuinity in the mise-en-scene.
The scene also uses generic conventions of thriller films. Bright artificial non-ambient lighting and also the use of small and isolated places such as offices, shows that the film is following traditional conventions found in thriller films.
Tim you need to make more detailed comments about the way the director of "Animal Kingdom" utilsed the conventions of the thriller genre. Referencing a clip from the film would be useful, or as you have the trailer on your blog you could analyse the purpose and effect of aspects of location, character types, props and objects. We will discuss in class. You need to reference your coursework booklet for support
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