Understanding of Thriller Sub Genre [Psychological + Supernatural]

     For the past 2 days, the class was grouped into random people to work with for a small project about the understanding of sub genres of a thriller. We get to choose two from a list of sub genres. These were action, psychological, supernatural, spy, crime and film noir.

    My group consist of Bamm Bamm, Bing and myself; we discussed together about what two sub genres we should do, at the end Bamm Bamm came up with the idea of combining two into one which were Psychological and Supernatural. While we were discussing the story line and the location, at the same time Bamm Bamm was designing the storyboard as well.

     Along the way, we must also gather some information of what conventions are there in both of these sub genres of thriller.

Conventions of Psychological Thriller:

Conventions of Supernatural Thriller:

Combining the edge-of-your-seat tension of the classic thriller with such basic horror oriented ingredients as ghosts, the occult and psychic phenomenon, the supernatural thriller combines the best of both worlds in creating a frightening but often restrained film that will have audiences hearts pounding and palms sweating. Generally eschewing the more graphic elements of the horror film in favor of sustaining a mood of menace and unpredictability, supernatural thrillers often find the protagonists either battling a malevolent paranormal force or trapped in a situation seemingly influenced or controlled by an otherworldly entity beyond their comprehension

     We were thinking of taking a photo of the two sheets next together and upload the picture to this blog straight away, however Bamm Bamm stopped us and showed an app that amazed me called FastScan; it's basically an app where you take a photo of any sheet of paper and it'll convert it into a pdf or a picture that we can save and use for many purpose like the photo shown above.

     Once we downloaded the app and put the file into Google Drive, me and the other two went out and film for the first group which was quite amazing. We follow the story line exactly including the alternate ending, but when edited we felt like the alternate ending doesn't quite fit in so we cut it out instead. The POV shot when the girl fell down (which is actually me who film it) we went to the drama room to get borrow a cushion from the teacher for safety reasons in order to protect my back from the fall.

     The editing process took three to four hours for putting all sound effects and soundtrack in the right place, the soundtrack used was called Awkward meeting from the YouTube audio library and I must put a tiny thing in crediting the creator in the description as well. Other than that the other sounds and green screen effects such as the blood and the glitch effect were all presets from Youtube and from a website called freeSFX. I also look for tutorials on how to make text look glitchy and that happens to work out pretty cool in the final product at the very end.

     The screenshot below is the color grading options I used in order to create a feeling of it being in the afternoon before the sun sets and gave it a darker tone overall.

Here is the final video:

     PS. There is one sound effect which can only be heard with mono ( Phone speaker, Internal TV speaker) audio source but can only be heard through stereo (Speakers and Headphones) audio devices.