Favourite thriller sub-genre

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Derailed (Mikael Hafstrom, 2006)

Derailed beggins with scenes inside a prison, the mise-en-scen and sounds are typical for a prison with fairly relaxed music playing over the top.
There are quite a few shots looking down on the prisoners while they are outside from on top of the prison wall, which helps to represent the prisoners as low.
The movement round the prison finally settles down as a narrator begins to speak and you see a prisoner form inside his cell writing down his past, after this the main narrative begins.
This makes the audiance want to know why this man has been imprisoned and therefore follow the narrative.
We could use this technique in our film however I feel that beginning with a reflection on the past would not fit in very well with our current plans.
Instead we plan to make the shots of the wifes murder more of a cutaway to a past act, we may change them to black and white or edit them later to make the significance of this scene clear.

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