Product Reseearch

For my product reserach I will look an American pyschological thriller called Fight Club which is about a young man who suffers from insomnia and starts a viloent ckub aimed at rebuilding society. I have decided to look at the ending of the film because it ends with the same scene from the begining of the film which is when the narratore of the film finally figures out along with the audience that he has created a character up called Tyler Durden and his isomnia is to blame for his illusions.
Below is the clip which i will analyse so that it will help me get ideas that i can use to make the opening of my thriller better and also it will help me get tips on some techinques which i could use in when it come to filming my own opening thriller sequence.



My main focus will be:

• Lighting
• Editing

During the scene the unknown narrator and Tyler Durden are in an alinated place and the use of lighting is very dark this bulids up psycholigcal tension for the audience as it implies that it is the end of the protagoinist journey through his thoughts and the audience will no longer be confused. This is an idea that I think will work with my thriller because my main character is going to be shown to be problimatic and so having dark lighting adds to that as it shows her confusion. Also we are thinking of having my thriller in reverse order so that the ending is at the begining which will confuse my audience, as they will think its the end of the characters journey in her headm but its only just the start. Furthemore the lighing be dark may suggest to the audience that it symbolises the characters pass and adds to the confused state of mind, because there preplexed and only just begining to realise who they are and what they have done.

I will now focus on the editing in the final because it is the most emlematic as its when the main characters, finally recognizing that he is in control. This shown through fast editing emphasizing to the audience that he has realized he has been sharing the same body as Tyler. The audience get the full effect off the main character shotting himself in the mouthm without killing himself, as the editing goes in to slow motion and cross- cuts to the illusion of Tyler who collapses with an exit wound to the back of his head.

With the editing in my own thriller we will try to use the same techinques of slow and fast editing. For example i will the editing be very slow paced to show that the girl seem quite normal and inocent and then once her state of mind takes over and she become problimatic the editing will turn fast emphasising her confusion as to no knowing who she is. Also with the cross- cutting we may use it show there is two sides to her character and also maybe to show flashbacks of her pass as this will confuse the audience which is the effect that pyschological thrillers are meant to have until the narrative is resolved at the end.

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