Past Student Thrillers

Past Student Thrillers

We have looked through 5 student thrillers. We have been asked to choose 3 of them and talk about them. In lesson the class has been given a choice of 1-4 to rate the thrillers.

4 - Excellent

3 - Good

2 - Basic

1 - Poor

We have looked and rated these thrillers in order to understand and remember the main mistakes students make when creating their thrillers. This should help us to not to repeat the mistakes and know what is the best a student can do with resources provided from school.

These are the three thrillers I chose to write about:

1. Hidden

  I have rated this thriller to 1 point (poor). My opinion was based on Mise-en-Scene. There was a lot of mistakes and poor choices made when filming this thriller.

  The group of students has chosen to film their thriller in the evening which was a very bad decision as the thriller was very hard to see and understand because of the darkness. The acting in the thriller was not good enough and the setting was not well organised. To prove my point I could say that the actors in the thriller did not manage to cross the road together as the female actor had to push the male actor to cross.

  The use of camera was poor as in the thriller there was a one long shot of the actors walking towards which took about 2/5 of the sequence.

2. Hunter

  In my opinion this thriller was worth 3 points (good). The students has chosen a good place to film their thriller as it was related to the idea hidden in the thriller.

  The thriller was about a missing student and a police officer coming to school to question a teacher. I liked the fact that the thriller was filmed in school and it went along with the sequence. I was pleased with the acting of the actors in this thriller and the way it ends makes me curious about what is about to happen next.
  The camera work was done well however the sound was hardly possible to hear and understand. 



3. Watch Your Back




  This is a thriller I have chosen myself. I would rate it 4 points(Exellent). I really liked the presentation of this idea even knowing that the idea itself is nothing special.
  'Watch Your Back' expressed the name very well as it kind of made me feel unsafe. Good job was done when editing this thriller, it really interested me and got my attention. 
  Even though there was not a lot of acting I still was pleased with the actors. The thriller seemed interesting and unpredictable as well as drawing into.