Silence of the Lambs.

Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs.

Silence of the Lambs
Director: Jonathan Demme
Release Date: 31/05/91(UK)

• The trailer starts with creepy music and quick flashing transitions of hannibal lectors face.
• Throughout the whole trailer a deep male voice over is heard describing what is happening and what may be yet to come.
• Quite a few bangs and loud noises are heard in the trailer, making it quite jumpy.
• A couple of dead bodies being carted off appear in the trailer.
• When the title comes on screen, the words come in seperately and 'silence' is in red possibly signifying blood and death.
• Creepy and mysterious music is heard throughout the whole trailer building up and building up for something to happen leading to a close up of lector and he whispers 'thank you clarice, thank you' then the titles & credits appear with more louder and more creepier music.
  
  
  

  2001/Silence of the Lambs/Jonathan Demme

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/

  
  

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‘Genre Codes and Conventions Research’

We chose to do a pyscholgical thriller.


Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the broad ranged thriller and Horror genres. However, it often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre, in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre.


The quality of being real. Characters often try to determine what is true and what is not within the narrative, this often results in the films core or the films twist.

Perception – A person's own interpretation of the world around him through his senses. Often characters misperceive the world around them, or their perceptions are altered by outside factors within the narrative, such as visions, nightmares ect..

Mind – The human consciousness; the location for personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. The mind is often used as a location for narrative conflict, where characters battle their own minds to reach a new level of understanding or perception.

Existence/Purpose – The object for which something exists; an aim or a goal humans strive towards to understand their reason for existence. Characters often try to discover what their purpose is in their lives and the narrative's conflict often is a way for the characters to discover this purpose.

Identity – The definition of one's self. Characters often are confused about or doubt who they are and try to discover their true identity.

Death – The cessation of life. Characters either fear or have an interest in death and murder.

We're the Average Joes!

After last lesson we were finally sorted into 2 groups, I am in a group with Nasema Khanum and Matthew Cartwright. We were fairly happy with our group and thought something good could come of it. We called our group, well our teacher decided we're called 'The Average Joes' for obvious reasons...

Decisions...

Today, we have tried to discuss what groups we want to be in for this year's project. We're finding it really hard as we want different groups from what we normally choose. We tried names out of a hat and picking ourselves but for some reason it was too difficult. So hopefully by next lesson we'll have selected our working groups and be ready to work.