The opening sequence of Limitless, uses all 4 areas of media language; Cinematography, Mise-En-Scene, Editing and Sound to engage the audience from the moment it starts. The beginning of the extract begins by confusing the audience, as it starts part way through the narrative, leaving the audience to wonder what has happened, encouraging them to continue watching.

During the extract the director creates uncertainty for the audience. It does this in several ways. Firstly, he uses a lot of close ups of both the characters and objects and places in the room. This suggests to the audience that these are of importance, however they are being given little information to work with and understand what has happened therefore not knowing if the are significant for good or bad reasons. Whilst this is happening the director also uses zooms to slow down the pace of the editing and make the audience feel perplexed. At the same time as this banging sound effects are being used to connote that someone is trapped, or something is happening on a time scale, this is a juxtaposition with the slow paced editing as the knocking makes the extract seem more upbeat.

Se7en uses many conventions of the thriller genre, for example;The extract begins as we are shown a series of faced paced clips,

formed into a montage. The montage is not in chronological order, this creates the idea that the character is in the middle

of an investigation, creating confusion for the audience. During the montage, one image has been blurred this can

connote a sense of danger, and unknown.The sound during the opening extract is non diegetic, this

creates and builds the atmosphere during the first few minutes. This creates a sense of mystery for the audience. The audio also had no lyrics, therefore we got no narrative

from the opening sequence.

Flightplan had a much different approach to the thriller genre, because of this it fitted different types of conventions to the other sequences we looked at.

During the extract the director uses Mise-En-Scene to show contrast. For example at the beginning of the extract the high key and low key lighting shows the contrast

between the two scenes that are being crosscutted. High key lighting is used whenever the woman is in the morgue, this is an anti-stereotype of thriller

movies, as stereotypically low key lighting is often used to create mass amounts of confusion and mysteriousness.

Also during the extract the director uses cinematography to make the woman look weak. For example, a few high angle shots of the woman are used. This makes her look really small in comparison to the other people in the scene with her.

Linking with this, Mise-En-Scene is used to also connote that the woman is weak. We know this because at the beginning she is sat at the train station, however

train stations are stereotypically busy, therefore this suggests she is alone. This is a convention of the thriller genre as during thriller films, when danger is about to

happen the victim is alone.At the very beginning of the extract the editing is very faced paced and non-

continuous, imitating a train the location swiftly changes to a train station.