Research: Mise En Scene Setting and Iconography - Mrs Begum

Research: Mise En Scene Setting and Iconography - Mrs Begum

Setting and iconography are important to thriller because they both tend to attract people see the film, for example if the person likes guns and films based in the city and they see this in the poster or trailer they would tend to go and see that film because thats what they want in film. It's also a must to stick to conventional settings and iconography because it's these ideas that keep a film interesting and original, because they stick to the best thriller types.    

If it's an action thriller a typical setting for this would be in the city and if it was a Horror thriller it may be in an isolated place, a small city or a church somewhere isolated to main branch civilisation. This is because with this setting the director can get the most out of the narrative this is because it's more tailored to the storyline an example of this would be something such as 'Nightmare On Elm Street' or 'Children of the Corn' Both setting is in isolated areas far from someone to help them making them more vulnerable and easier for the antagonist to prey on their victim(s) without being caught or stopped. 

How are settings dependent on sub-genres? - examples

Typical thriller settings all depend on the sub genre because thriller has such  various ideology and genre so when matched up to a sub genre it can be decided as to where the settings will be from there. For examplev a Horror Thriller is much different to an action thriller for many reason one being iconography and narrative. this is why something like the 'Bourne' trilogy is set in cities and alot of public filled areas becsause it can be use to express just how good an agent he is when he's on the run with so many people chasing him in such a tight, compact area. 



And somthing like Sci-Fi thriller like 'Riddick' Is set in places of Science fiction (non-exsistant) like planets and star ships because it's an inter-galactic based film.

 

Typical thriller iconography would be guns and knives this is because these are both deadly weapons. As for connotations a guns primary use is for peace keeping puropses but they can kill people, however a knife has many other uses mainly for cooking. As for dennotations by the way they are shown in the specific scene via lighting and the soundtrack can identify the intentions for the objects used. In this clip we see BatMan suiting up before going out to fight crime when thge lighting and soundtrack has been added to the film alothough its his costume it has added meaning to what he is doing, it's different from some just picking up objects.    

iconography is dependant on sub genre because sub genre changes exactly what kind of film the thriller is for example once again  'Riddick' being a sci-fi film has alot of futuristic weaponary like laser beams and non exsistant creatures where as a reular action thriller like. '007 James Bond' is set in present times so he deals with regular present timed weaponary.