1.     What type of things do you like to see in a thriller? Why?

2.     What is your favourite thriller?

3.     What types of thrillers do you like?  Crime, action, horror (bloody), mystery?

4.     Do you like thrillers? Yes, no why?

5.     How old are you, are you male female, ethnicity?

6.     What’s your favourite thriller?

7.     How often do you watch thrillers?

Analysis of thriller openings

Cape fear (old version)

Sound

• non diegetic sound 
• thriller type music
• sound is telling us what is happening
• orchestral

SFX

• NONE

Camera shots

• long shot of man walking ( tracking shot)
• he has power with the low shot types making audience look inferior

Mis-en-Sceme

• old style of font
• loyal building 
• the scene of the inside of the building was shot in a studio
• the scene of him walking was shot in a location

Editing

• black & white
• continuity 
• slow waking to the phase of the music

Conventions

• creating suspension & tension for the audience

Cape fear (new version)

Sound

• music slow & steady then slowly builds up to create tension
• thunder & rain (diegetic sound)

SFX

• changing of colors into red & blue
• the tear drop changing in the water into blood
• the eagle (a bird of prey) fyling out of the water in the begining signifying hunting.

Camera 

• extreme close up of the girls eyes 
  

Editing

• font not as big as the old version, slightly smaller & tilted.
• montage

Conventions

• dark opening
• red water signifying blood
• voyersim, her eyes watching