Get Out Thriller Movie

This weekend my group and I watched 4 thriller films individually to write our blogs on them.  I picked the movie, Get Out, to watch and write about. While watching I was looking for certain things including the camera angles, shots, and movements. As well as common costumes, makeup, and props. Lastly, I specifically looked for common sounds and editing techniques. The common costumes I found in a thriller film particularly "Get Out" were, regular clothes and masks. They did not have any extravagant costumes because most of the time the actors are pretending to be normal people, not anything special that they would have to wear costumes. Sometimes however, thrillers include scary and creepy masks that the 'stalkers' use. It creates a suspenseful and scared feeling. Lighting that thriller genres commonly use are dark and eery lighting. Most scenes in a thriller usually take place during the nighttime to make the audience anxious, thus creating the dark lighting. In thrillers there are certain acting techniques used to enhance the scenes. Regular acting in the genre include a lot of terrified expressions, for example screaming and crying. Makeup techniques are used as well in thrillers. There are two certain makeup looks that are the most common. These include simple/normal looking makeup and bloody/dirty styled makeup. Most of the time the 'victims' will be hurt from the antagonist so they will have cuts and dirt on them to enhance the actions of the antagonist.
Another thing I was searching for while watching, was props. I found that all the props had violence in common. A lot of the times they used knives, guns, and bats. Most of these props are used to harshly hurt or kill actors in the film. Lastly, there is common settings in thrillers. This usually includes an outside setting for example when the 'victim' is running from the bad guy. As well as inside a house. These settings mostly allow for the enhancement of suspense in the film. We were also asked to look for camera angles, shots, and movements. I recognized that there was a certain pattern when it came to camera shots. The most common shots used were wide shots, close up, point of view shot, and long shot. Most of these shots were used in the point of view of the protagonist/main character. The camera angels used were, low angels trunk shot. It allows the audience to feel what the actors are feeling and put the audience in their shoes. This makes for a better movie and allows for more sales.
Lastly, I observed particular camera movements. The important ones that I witnessed were tracking shot and pan shot. I found that a tracking shot was used very often to follow any character. For example, during the movie, there was a scene that I recognized as an important tracking shot. The character was on the phone while the kidnapper was following him in a car, however it used a tracking shot to follow the guy while being able to show the reactions on his face. This added a dramatic effect to the scene. Next, I looked for sounds. The movie included many sounds like diegetic sound, sound motif, dialogue, score, incidental music, and ambient sound. Much of this occurred when an intense scene was taking place. Then I searched for certain editing techniques. I found that cross cutting, cutaway, insert, and eye line match were the usual in a thriller. Throughout this assignment I learned a lot of things that I wouldn't have previously looked for if it wasn't for this. I noticed the specific techniques they used and realized the effect it had on helping to enhance certain parts of the film.