ANALYSIS OF THRILLER CODES AND CONVENTIONS

Dont Look Now (Nicholas Roeg,1973)

• Editing: tension and suspense are built up through editing in this thriller opening. The film cuts between shots of a couple quietly working in their sitting room and shots of their beloved daughter who is playing in the garden. When the father cuts his finger, the blood flows across a slide of a Venetian church window. The next thing we see is the child in her red coat drowning in the garden pond. Colour codes make a link between the two events and set up an enigma code.