CAMERA SHOT INSPIRATIONS

As we have studied many thriller openings, we were told to research about the conventions of a thriller. We have thought of some conventions and are using them to highlight to the audience the genre of the opening (psychological thriller).
As shown in earlier posts, non diegetic sounds are obviously conventional of thrillers, as they build up tension and suspense.
In the previous post it was emphasised that our main inspiration was The Black Swan, however in terms of directors we used Stanley Kubrick as an inspiration. Stanley Kubrick in several of his films used close ups of eyes in order to build up tension and enigma. The fact that it was the eye made it significant because it allowed us to be in the character's place and see things from their perspective. It was almost as if we were the characters.
We are going to use Stanley Kubrick's motif of close-up of the eye in order to build enigma and to keep the audience interested in our thriller. Examples of these are in 'A Clockwork Orange'