From the opening the audience assumes that the woman has committed a murder and it's clear from the amount of blood and the title that it was a brutal murder. This goes against the normal conventions of a thriller which usually feature a woman playing the vulnerable victim of a protagonist male murderer. Here is an example of a scene from the film Scream which features these conventions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulykPn5ZUVs Even if the woman is the murderer she do so by poisoning the man and not brutally doing so. I think the changes in convention mean there are more questions that the audience want answered and so they will therefore be more likely to continue watching.
However we have not strayed too far from thriller conventions; the way she acts in the opening, the filming style and the camera angles suggest that she has little control over the situation and is as a result vulnerable. I think the fact that we shot using hand-held and using the distorting sheet of plastic played a big part in creating this sense of lack of control. The film appeared dream-like, as if the woman's sight is blurred which means she can't be in complete control. Camera angles, like the one in the last shot which makes her appear small in the space around her, help to add to her vulnerability and even loneliness. The close-up of her eye lets the audience know that she can't stop thinking about the murder and we sympathise with her. Her actions imply her vulnerability; the way in which she deals with what she's done, for instance she turns to alcohol as a way of drowning her guilt and regret. The extreme emotions she feels even effect her body when she throws up after having a drink of vodka. It could be argued that the fact that she can't handle the situation and the drink represents women as weak.
However we have not strayed too far from thriller conventions; the way she acts in the opening, the filming style and the camera angles suggest that she has little control over the situation and is as a result vulnerable. I think the fact that we shot using hand-held and using the distorting sheet of plastic played a big part in creating this sense of lack of control. The film appeared dream-like, as if the woman's sight is blurred which means she can't be in complete control. Camera angles, like the one in the last shot which makes her appear small in the space around her, help to add to her vulnerability and even loneliness. The close-up of her eye lets the audience know that she can't stop thinking about the murder and we sympathise with her. Her actions imply her vulnerability; the way in which she deals with what she's done, for instance she turns to alcohol as a way of drowning her guilt and regret. The extreme emotions she feels even effect her body when she throws up after having a drink of vodka. It could be argued that the fact that she can't handle the situation and the drink represents women as weak.
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