Charles Dardenne Evaluation

1) In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real products?

In our film we used cinematography such as the different shots like close ups on the actors to get there facial expressions, cross cutting to the different characters and had both slow and fast pastes to make the film more exiting. We used different sounds and scores to make our film flow well. Editing was our favourite part in the making of the film because once we had our shot and scenes it was like starting a new film as we had to put the shots into the correct places. Mise en scène was very important in our films because we had to have our characters acting correctly to make it realistic. Our cast had to look the part so we dressed them up in a way that would make it look better so for example for one of the actors we gave him a hoodie to make him look more suspicious and scary looking. As for another character he dressed up in his own way to make him normal and be a victim.

In our movie we looked at how different angles could make the movie seem more better, one of them was to see if a low angle would make a person seem more bigger and a high angle would make another person seem smaller. We used this example in a scene were one character was being thrown at the back of a car and made two characters look big and the other character look small in the car by the different angles that we used.

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We try to make our coursework enjoyable for all ages between 15 and above and are both suitable for men and women. We also used a lot of stereotypes such as hoodies for someone who is an antagonist. The movie is set in west London in an urban area on a sinister night. We represented our characters as a big tough person to be our antagonist, a nerdy looking character to be the victim and an average looking protagonist to search his friend.

Also we use a lot of stereotypes like how when you see a person wearing a hoodie you will have to stay away from him if you don’t want to get mugged more beaten up. Another stereotype is that usually the girl would get kidnapped in the middle of the road but seeing as we didn’t have any girls in our movie we had to make one cast look a bit nearly so it would look like an easier Vitim to mug or capture.

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Our film is an independent film we didn’t have any budget to make our film look better. We also didn’t have any A-list celebs to be in our film so we had only had our friends to act out for us. There are 3 types of filming we got told about:

Mainstream films were big celebrities and big Hollywood films are made with big budget and special effects are made like “Avatar”

Independent films were British films are made with a low budget and not so famous actors.

Lastly there are Art house films were it’s an even lower budget film with no actors not making a very good film.

Our film would have to be in the independent films as we had no money to use.

4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience are the people who enjoy watching a conspiracy thriller, and people who want to know what happens next in the film. We took our examples from the film “Taken” and “Phone Booth” as they are both thrillers and have some action.

We tried to make our film suitable for a 15 certificate, only for young people between the ages of 15 to 20 will understand as there are there is some dialogue that some older people will not understand. Two films that I knew which had slang throughout the movie were “Kidult hood” and “Adult hood” these movies are only suitable for young people as it is there generation and they will understand and relate to the urban areas.

5) How did you attract/address your audience?

In our coursework we try to attract the audience by using a variety of scores throughout the film and have good acting skills from our actors. We have some feedback from our audience and most of them enjoyed it, but there were some areas to work on such as the placing the score in the correct part of the film, and editing the dialogue to understand what the actors are saying. One fault that we made was to get the cross cutting in its correct places to flow better and to make it look right, I think that that was our biggest mistake and we had trouble finding the correct spots to place them in. we also have unseen footage that we didn’t put in because it would have made the film long and we only had a few minutes to place everything in.

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We had some information on different thriller genre films that we researched to get a better understanding on how to make a thriller. We looked at some sites like YouTube and Google to get our information. We then looked at the history of Directors and how they became famous such as Alfred Hitchcock. Also we had a look at a website to get our scores to fit in our film and make it a lot better.

We used the internet for a lot of things to make our film good such as research on different directors, old and new to see how they created their films we saw it on YouTube and different other website to get more information.

7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I have learnt a lot, some examples are the cross cutting from different angles that we use when characters are talking together. And the different angles to show the person, if he is big have a low angle and to show he is little have a high angle. We also looked at the score and see which one goes well together with our preliminary task. We have also planned everything out before we recorded it on paper and making a lot of draft copies of the writing and the strip we had, and chose the actors correctly and gave them the right roll to play.

Also the locations were correct as it looked scary and terrifying to walk in at night. The sound improved the movie a lot as we carefully chose the right score on different websites and downloaded them onto iTunes. We then discussed who would be strong in our positions for example directing, producing and acting. As director it was my job to see there the set would take place and what time of the day would be better for everyone to work on and everyone thought that I was very good. I tried to get all of the Mise en scene right and camera angles in its right place.

evaluation

daniel mutabazis evaluation.

1. in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions for real media products?

There are many different conventions for a thriller genre. These are recognised through the constant use of close ups , fast editing, the use of dramatic and tense sound that has a fast pace, the use of cross cutting, as well as the use of low key lighting. The conventions of a thriller genre can also be seen in the types of characters that have been chosen for the movie, such as vulnerable females or a femme fatal. In addition to this they can also be seen in the type of sub- genre that has been used for the movie, such as psychological, crime and espionage.

The conventions of a thriller movie can also be split into classical, such as Hitchcock-style films or contemporary, such as modern-action thriller. I believe that we created a movie that was more contemporary, because we used a lot modern techniques, such as making an action thriller, rather than following one of the more classic sub genres for a thriller.

To add to this we have taken many classic thriller conventions and changed them, such as using a vulnerable female. We chose to use a vulnerable male, because it would make our film stand out from more classic thrillers. In addition to this we used a wide variety of scores for our film, because we wanted to get different sounds for different actions, instead of sticking to more tense and dramatic scores. However we also used some classic conventions, such as low key lighting, to add more drama to our movie. We also used fast editing towards the end of out movie, to make it more tense and keep the audience on their feet.

We were influenced by many different thriller films, such as the opening to 28 days later, where there is a lot of low key lighting used, which made it scary. There were also a wide range of angles that we saw and incorporated into our film, so that it would be more intense. We took advantage of these different angles through the fast editing we used, so that they were more effective in creating tension and making out film more suspenseful.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film changes the representation of men and women in thriller films, because we made a male the victim, rather than using a woman. This showed that the kidnappings that happen to women can also happen to men. However we did use youths as the antagonists in our film and this can be seen as depiction of youths being kidnappers. This is a different representation from that seen in real life, because this role would usually be associated with people of an older nature. We did not use any ethnic minorities in our film. The cast was made up of people of Caucasian background. This is because we wanted to change the normal representation of ethnic background being represented as the common kidnappers. We also showed some representations of age within our film, through the fact that all the actors were teenagers. This was because we wanted to portray that these types of crimes are not only associated with people of an older nature.

We chose not to include a representation of all social groups, because this would make the messages of the representations we did make difficult to understand and identify. Some were also not very relevant to our story and would have made our film less effective in being an opening thriller sequence.

In our film we have tried to not give a negative representation of any of the social groups that can be identified within our film, because we do not want to discriminate against any social groups. We simply changed the roles of some social groups, such as youths and the ethnic minorities, because we wanted to illustrate how these common crimes can be committed by people of nay nature and background. We have reversed the roles of some social groups, because we did not want to show stereotypes, but rather change them. This made our film different to a normal thriller, because they would commonly use a stereotypes and specific social groups. A lot of our representations challenge the typical dominant representation, because this makes our movie unique by reversing roles, but also to give off a message that stereotypes can be reversed.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

An institution is a company or organisation that distributes films. This means that that it can get a film to the audiences.

Our film is an independent production, so will most likely not be seen on major screens, such as Vue, Odeon and Cineworld. An independent film is usually going to be British or foreign and will have a low budget. We fit into this category because we did not have a lot of equipment available to us and it was very difficult to afford high profiled celebrities in our film. The other category is called mainstream and will consist of films that have come out of Hollywood and had a big budget to complete their films, such as bond films, the Bourne trilogy and the most recent ‘Avatar’.

The result of our film being an independent production would be that it would most likely be distributed at independent screens, such as Everyman, Curzeon and Watermans. In addition to this our film could also be screened at film festivals around the world, such as the Sundance film festival. It could also be screened at the Media that matters short film festival, as well as the Angelus student film festival.

My film could also be distributed across the internet, via video steaming sites, such as megavideo and YouTube, as well as social sites, facebook, twitter and myspace, where you can upload a video for your friends to watch. I could also use a public service broadcaster on television, such a BBC1 and 2, which is owned by the government, but they mostly use big budget content. A better possibility is channel 4, also a public service broadcaster, but one with a remit to promote independent British films. Alternatively I could focus in community channels on cable TV, which use user created content.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Thriller genres often attract a number of audiences due to the films containing moments of suspense, intrigue, mystery and most often action such as fast paced chase sequences like Fast and Furious or moments of feats of defying gravity like Matrix.

We decide to do a certificate "15", because it wouldn’t limit the audience to the extent that an 18 certificate would, but it would still allow us to incorporate some of the stronger thriller conventions. Overall the certificate "15" would allow us to do everything in our opening sequence, such as use drugs, violence and bad language. However it will have to be portrayed with very little detail, so not to be too explicit for the age rating.

With this chosen age rating we would aim for an audience who were both male and female, as our film is not meant to exclude any sexes. We would also hope that our movie could attract an age rating up to about 23 because we created our movie to catch the attention of a mature audience, but without being to explicit.

We decided to make this the minimum age for our target audience, because we wanted to be able to incorporate a wide range of techniques to our film, so that it could be as good as possible. I believe that we did make a film that was suitable for an audience of fifteen and over, because we used a cast of young actors, but made the storyline mature enough to attract people of an older age. We did not use any explicit material, as we did not need to and this may have lowered the range of the ages we could attract, however for a main target audience of teenagers, I believe we made a suitable film.

5. How did you attract/ address your audience?

We managed to attract and address the audience in a different number of ways, within our movie. Firstly we were able to make our very relevant to the thriller genre. I believe we achieved this through the different type of convention we incorporated into our film, as well as the way in which we were able to use a wide variety of scores to make our film more impactful.

Secondly we were able to make our film suitable to the age group, through our use of a modern score and casting young actors to make it more relevant to the right age group.

Thirdly, we chose the right plot for our film to make it appealing to our audience. We did this through choosing a kidnapping as the main frame for our film. This kind of thing can happen to a lot of young people and we believed that addressing this issue would catch our audience’s attention.

However we did encounter some problems in addressing the audience. We were able to notice these problems through the audience feedback we got back from our class. To begin with it was said that we needed to add a more mysterious tone to our movie, as well as create a more steady film, as we had too much movement. The audience said that this made our movie hard to concentrate on. We also needed to lower our score so that the speech in our film could be heard, because it was too loud. The speech is an important part of our film, so we too this seriously in making it the right level. We also had to alter our score to match the action on screen, because it was making out movie less effective in creating tension. Once we had gotten past these problems we were able to make a good movie and were definitely able to attract and address our target audience.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

For our movie, we used a wide range of technology, which helped us to make our final product. To start the whole process of we had to use the internet to set up a Google account on http://www.blogger.com/ . On this blog we were able to post blogs on the different topics we had to research on thriller genres, such as audiences and conventions. We also used the website http://www.youtube.com/ to view clips of other peoples work on the thriller genre, so that we could get an idea of the type of production we had to make.

After the research and planning were complete, we were handed mini-DV camcorders which provided realism, but did make the style of our film a little less clearer than we were hoping for. We also got tripods. Theses were the instruments we were to use to create out films. It was very difficult to use these tools, but after some practise we were able to complete a film. The last software we used was I movie, which is a non linear form of editing. I movie can be found on an apple computer. This software provided us with the necessary components to edit our movie, as well put it all together with the score. The film took its shape in the editing process and we had to make a lot of changes to the original storyboard, because some parts of our movie became too long. We also wanted to experiment with different parts of the movie, to see if we could make it more realistic and effective to being a thriller opening sequence

We had a lot of limitations as we made our film with some of the technology. The camcorder had no external mic, making recording dialogue very difficult. We weren’t meant to use a lot of dialogue in our film. This was difficult, because it meant we had to find a different way to create tension and anticipation. To add to this, we had to film in the dark and the camcorder had no light. This made it difficult to get the right lighting for the right shot. We had to make use of natural light, meaning we had to wait for the right time to film. This extended the amount of time filming actually took.

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full productivity.

When we were filming the preliminary task, it was a lot easier to complete, because we did not have to incorporate as many aspects as we did for the main film task, such as characters and lighting. The preliminary task did give us an idea of the type of thing we would be dealing with for the main film task and it helped us to gain some skills on using the equipment.

The preliminary task showed me how to get the right lighting for a scene and showed me why this lighting was the most effective, through the final product. I also saw how important a score is to a film, as well as the difference that you get in the film once you have edited it. The most important thing I learnt from my preliminary task was how to use mise en scene and how important it is. The research we did for preliminary task for mise en scene was not concise. In the main filming task we had to do thorough research into the location, casting, lighting, performance and props. We would have not realised this if we did not to some research in the preliminary task, resulting in more time being spent on research, rather than filming for the main task. In addition to this, the preliminary task helped me to learn how to organise the storyboard and script, because we had to complete these for both tasks.

Overall, without the preliminary task, making the film would have been difficult, because we would not have gained any skills to make it easier to complete the main task, as well realise how cinematography, editing, sound and mise en scene could have been important in creating a good film.

By Daniel Mutabazi

evaluation

Evaluation

by justin colombini

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our media product follows the conventional narrative structure of many thrillers; we used basic ideas to help connect each part of our clip together so as to show tension and suspense towards the viewers. The characters we use are all male this is to help show towards the viewers that the two main protagonists are good friends chatting on a phone about going to a cinema.
We used low key lighting so as to draw viewers into this dark, gritty area of London that our character was walking through to emphasize more that our character is in a dangerous neighbourhood. Thus further implicating towards the viewers that something bad is likely to happen here.

We tried developing our thriller on more contemporary, modern films than to the old hitchcock plays, but in some parts to our clip such as the low key lighting it relates it more with the classical hitchcock style. As with most films that use femme fatals as the intended victim in the thriller we chose to use instead a male character to take up this role so as to challenge the viewers concept of what kind of person should take up certain key roles in a thriller, since traditionally woman were mostly seen as the innocent, vulnerable victim.

We used cross cutting to help show conversations between the two characters so as to give viewers a bit of free space to know more about what the other character is doing behind the phone, we also used point of view to show that our antagonist was looking at the protagonist as well as the black and white screen to help viewers understand that this is the antagonist stalking the main character.

The score that we used during this moment also helped to keep tension and suspense as to what would happen next such as when the score went louder as the antagonist grabbed the protagonist from behind and slowly die down and a new score slowly rising up as that character was being taken away by car this was to give more action to the viewer. The challenge of which we pursued was to use more modern day music for our clip, such as rock to give more heart pounding responses during which the crime was committed the reason we chose rock music was because it was very aggressive and loud and that really helped emphasize the tension and cruelty being done.

Throughout the clip we used contemporary conventions so as to make it a modern day thriller the theme of which was a hybrid genre using psychological and crime to make up our clip. The films of which we were inspired to use to help us in making a storyline for our clip was Saw and Phone booth, both for their use of psychology to break down the character and crimes they commit to panic and terrify the characters in the film as well as the viewers which we believed where very effective. Although both these films we chose were done in America we chose to make ours more British using places such as the urban streets of London, the way our characters spoke to further identify towards the viewers that this is a British film. In comparison with our clip towards the films we were inspired by we try to use several aspects from the films to our advantage which I believe do not stick out a lot but instead are very subtle, such as the scene in the beginning our character is tied up and blindfolded to a chair in a dark room with only a small light hovering above him this way it should make the character feel scared and nervous as to what is happening around him while he is struggling to break free.


How does your media product represent particular social groups?

For the character we have used they are all male around the age of their late teens who are all white situated in an area of west London and judging by the room that one character lives in he is a middle class person. The character walking on the streets looking at his clothes it would seem he is connected to some gang but by the people he talks to it would seem he has connections in higher places or that the fact he is an middle class person that is involved with a gang, we leave these answers to the viewers so as to not ruin the suspense as to who this character really is and why he is who he is.

With the attack on him by a hooded figure and being tied on a chair in a dark room it further strengthens the notion that he has some dealings with a gang. The conversation being held between the two characters on the phone also strengthens the idea that they are both good friends planning a night out. We use some stereotypes such as the hooded figure that attacks our character from behind although you cannot see his face, the way he moves and the clothes he wears it gives a stereotypical gangster individual, which is a quick and easy way to explain his character. But why he attacked and kidnapped the protagonist we leave that also to the audience to figure out so as to wanting to watch more of the clip as to what is happening. The scene at which the protagonist is being attacked may make certain viewers (certainly the male viewers) feel offended by the fact that a male character is being easily overwhelmed from behind, this was all done to show them that not only can the feminine can be the innocent or weak but also the masculine as well so as to open their eyes to the real world that not one sex is better than the other but are equal, again this breaks the classical tradition such as alfred hitchcocks work.

We use three different representations for our character; one is the middle class character, the other is gangster likely to have a poor and violent background and the last representation is a mix in between the two so as to show audiences a conflict between two dominant classes one being more financially better than the other but the latter being more resilient. You could say that the protagonist is a stereotypical character as he wears a hood, the way he speaks all pointing to a gangster but we try to break this by not changing his appearance or how he behaves but by the people he talks to. In London most often you would see gangsters speaking to other gangsters and no one else but in our clip we try to point out to the viewer that individual gangsters have personalities that are not so intimidating but more "average" would be the term we could use, as he talks in a normal southern accent through the phone, he asks his friend to go cinema with him. These key aspects of the character are what we show to the viewers so as to convince them not to be judgemental about the appearances of hooded teenagers.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

With the resources we had been given and the people who had helped us with mise en scene and despite our lack of tools and equipment for more refined images our clip would be listed among the Independent because of our low budget and the fact it would have to be done in a British studio. Since all the major cinamas companies like Vue or Odeon would never distribute an independant film such as ours since the films they distribute are by filming studios such as Universal studios and Warner Bros which are not independent film studios.
There are different ways of which we can distribute and exhibit our clip; Through Independent Art house cinemas Waterman’s in Brentford, Electric in Notting Hill etc. Film Festivals like Short film or Student film festivals, we could also easily put on video websites such as YouTube or Myspace this way we create funds by charging people for each download and commercial broadcasters on television like Channel 4 which is a public service broadcast.


Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our media product would be targeted at Mainstream audiences giving them a non-linear narrative so as to show them how the character regrets what is happening and what has happened. It is mainly targeted at the teenagers and mature viewers in the mainstream audience so as to show them the consequences of getting involved in gang related activities as well as to better understand the entire social group of gangsters towards the more mature audience who are quick to judge them by their appearance. The theme of which this film is based on would most likely attract the gangsters as this relates to them and they would want to see how people view them, this is similar to the british film Kidulthood and its runner up Adulthood which both explain the gangster life during their teenage life and their lifes in the future after the past actions they have done that make them who they are today.

In my opinion I would say this meets the suitable standards of viewing for the audience as although there is moderate violence there is no blood, scenes of sexual nudity or any use of drug related paraphernalia and so since their was no concerns of breaking the age restriction we have not made any changes to the clip whatsoever.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I discussed with my colleagues as to what attracts the viewers to a thriller film, violence was one of those key aspects as this is found most common in all thriller genres without it it wouldnt be a thriller, and another aspect we decided to use to attract viewers was psychology a perfect example in the use of psychology would be the Saw movies. The use of psychology attracts many viewers to the film as it gives them something to find out and analyse in their mind thus further persuading them to watch on.

We looked at audience feedback and found that people had a hard time looking at what was happening since in some scenes it was too dark for them as well as the score being too loud which drowned out the characters voices. So during editing we found the problems and put up the tone of light enough for viewers to see but dark enough to keep its low key lighting of a dark, gritty street as well as lowering the score down for audiences to hear the conversations between the two characters. The conventions we used specifically to the audience were the timing of certain parts of our score to create tension as well as a plaque near the beginning to help audiences understand the timeline in case of confusion.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Use of technology such as non linear editing has helped alot during our editing since we could film the ending on our first day of filming and edit it to be at the end of the film which helped us in filming different scenes for our clip in the same room and edit them onto our film giving an illusion of being a smooth well timed layout. It was also very helpful in allowing us to cut and paste certain clips together, removing any unwanted footage in which with out it we would have to redo the scene over and over again until it was right. At first we only used the internet for our research as well as our blog to help publish what we researched about and what we intend to do, the internet helped us a lot in finding images, websites such as BBFC and finding footage of other films for us to view and compare.
The internet has helped us to find websites with copyright free music for our score and to view audience feedback on how our film was and what needed changing. To help us with doing non-linear footage we used Imovie to help us with our editing sequence and to also apply the score and play with it to experiment with new ideas such as raising the volume in key events to changing to black and white in various scenes. Even though their wasn’t a lot of dialogue in our clip due it being a part of the thriller convention we wanted to lower the score down so as to allow audiences to hear what they were saying and since we recorded the scenes on camera during night we had to raise the tone of light higher for audiences to see properly.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at my preliminary task I found that when doing certain camera shots I would also have to rely on the actor to get his timing right such as when doing a panning shot I had to make sure that I wasn’t too quick or to slow when the character was moving, to combat this problem I decided to loosen the tripod more and keep my head closer to the camera so as to imagine I was the camera to get the movement just right this helped out a lot as well during my main task especially when in the dark in London.
Another thing which I had learnt from my preliminary task was when sorting the scoring out during editing when playing the score during the clip I found they did not match very well and so sifted through many other tracks but could not find the right one to counter this problem I decided to keep to my original score but this time cut and extend to match the timing using the various tools on Imovie by doing this it helped made my scene look very effective thanks to the timing and volume adjustment to the score which in turn did well on my main task the choice of score was also important for our preliminary as we decided to do a comedy drama genre clip we choose a clip that had that gangster style but also a bit of comedy attached to it as well which helped bringing to life to our clip, we put this idea again on our main task but this time since it was a thriller we chose rock and like I explained from above it was because of its aggressive, rough soundtrack which was very effective in putting tention and suspension in our scene .
In researching various locations for where we would shoot our scene we decided best we used an area that we found familiar and close to home and since it was to be a thriller we thought of using the darkness to help us and so we waited till night that we started our scene, we had done a similar idea during our preliminary although we did it during the day time we used the shadow of the buildings instead to add emphasis to our footage. When choosing the street and room to where we would shoot we had to make sure it matched or was similar to that on our storyboard that way their would not be any confusion when looking at our blog.

mise en scene

Location - Acton - alley way - the location for our clip will be in acton, in the middle of a very dark alley way, which is dark and foreboding, to make it the perfect location for a kidnapping. we chose this location, because we thought it would be the best to create tension and anticipation as the kidnap actually builds up. 

 this is a picture of where the protagonist (rory) will be attacked by the antagonist (max).

main character - Rory - was chosen for the main role, because he fitted the right age group, for people who may get kidnapped and fitted description for the type of person we were looking for.

he will be wearing casual clothing e.g. trainers, t-shirt, jeans. to fit the profile of a normal teenage boy going out.

main characters girlfriend - Cecile -  is the girlfriend of main character in real life and also fitted the description of the type of girl we were looking for to play the role of the girlfriend. will also be wearing casual clothing for girls as she is a normal, casual girl and will be spending time off screen in her home talking through the phone to her boyfriend until she runs out of her home.

villain - Max -  is a shadowy type of guy, not a lot is known about him and he remains a conspicuous character throughout the whole clip. Since he is the villain and remains for the majority of the clip as a shadowy figure he would be wearing a hood over his head and perhaps wearing a scarf around his face to conceal himself as well as wearing gloves to keep up with the appearance of a shadowy figure.

van driver - charles' dad

synopsis

Synopsis

Synopses are summaries of a film though does not reveal everything towards the audience this is to help give them an understanding of the setting of the film and its plotline without spoiling the suspense and tension in the film.

A written summary starts with a lead, including title, author, text type and the main idea of the text. It has a clearly arranged structure and is written in a logical, chronological and traceable manner. In contrast to a résumé or a review, a summary contains neither interpretation nor rating. Only the opinion of the original writer is reflected paraphrased with new words without quotations from the text. Unlike a retelling, a summary has no dramatic structure and is written in present tense or historic present. Because summaries should be significantly shorter than the original, minor facts have to be left out. However all major conclusions should remain. In summaries only indirect speech is used and depictions are avoided.

I will be giving summaries to the situation of the character in our clip so as to help the audience understand what is going on without trying to give too much away this way it will help audiences want to know what happens next. The subgenre that will be used for this clip will be mixed between conspiracy and psychological thriller an example of a psychological thriller I would use to help me would be Phone Booth which helps give a good understand of a Psychological thriller as in this film you never see the antagonist only hear him through the phone mocking and taunting the protagonist. The psychological impact of this causes the protagonist to change his ways of lies and deceit. Another example would be Saw often containing riddles that will either save or kill the unfortunate character though often these riddles contain a secret message that tells them another way to save each other though this is never revealed until the end

script

scene 1 - interior

night

scene starts in a dark room with a lone figure tied in a chair, blind folded and gagged, with heavy breathing heard from the character who's shaking and shivering. the only light illuminating the room, sways slowly above the character. scene fades away with a tableau saying "6 hours earlier". credits go on through scene 1.

scene 2 - exterior

night

establishing shot of the city at a distance. camera moves to alleyway where character from scene 1 is walking along, chatting to his girlfriend, cross cutting back and forth from character to his girlfriend until a shadowy figure from behind him, grabs him.

scene 3 - exterior

night

the girlfriend can only listen as her boyfriend is struggling with the shadowy figure. the boyfriend is knocked unconscious and is thrown in to a blue van. the phone lying behind on the ground. girlfriend sticks her head out the window seeing a blue van drive by. she runs out to the alleyway, finding his phone on the ground.

scene 4 - exterior

night

back to scene 1. in the dark room, the door opens and a flash of light pours in, a shadowy figure stretches towards the bound character. title roles on.

scene 4 was changed at the beginning, because we wanted the audience to make the assumption of the character being kidnapped by themselves, rather than telling them. scene 4 was originally meant to begin with the girlfriend running to the police station and telling them that he boyfriend as been "taken". eventually we thought it better, to take this out, as the audience are capable of working out for themselves what has happened.)

audience for thriller genre

Audiences: What audiences may be drawn to the thriller genre? Which types of thriller could appeal to different audiences?

Thriller genres often attract a number of audiences due to the films containing moments of suspense, intrigue, mystery and most often action such as fast paced chase sequences like Fast and Furious or moments of feats of defying gravity like Matrix. The thriller genre has a number of sub genres that attract different groups of audiences that watch these films such as:

Action thriller: In which the work often features a race against the clock, contains lots of violence, and an obvious antagonist. These films usually contain large amounts of guns, explosions, and large elaborate set pieces for the action to take place. These films often have elements of mystery films and crime films but these elements take a backseat to action. Notable examples are the James bond films, The Transporter, and the Jason Bourne novels and film. This is often the most popular sub genre that audiences often view because of its fast pace sequences and scenes of violence.

Conspiracy thriller: In which the hero/heroine confronts a large, powerful group of enemies whose true extent only he/she recognizes. The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum fall into this category, as do films such as Three days of the Condor and JFK. Often they contain a mystery that needs solving which is revealed at the end this is also used in crime thrillers though not as large scale as a conspiracy.

Crime thriller: This particular genre is a hybrid type of both crime films and thrillers that offers a suspenseful account of a successful or failed crime or crimes. These films often focus on the criminal(s) rather than a policeman. Crime thrillers usually emphasize action over psychological aspects. Central topics of these films include murders, robberies, chases, shootouts, and double-crosses are central ingredients. Some examples include The Killing, Seven, Reservoir dogs, Inside Man. Crime often contains red herrings, suspense and often with a climax at the end. Same as conspiracy, crime often has a mystery that needs solving at the end.

Drama thriller: In which the story consists of the elements of a thriller and drama film. These films are usually slower paced and involve a great deal of character development along with plot twists. Examples include The illusionist, The Interpreter and The Prestige. These are focused mainly on audiences who are focused on character build up on pro/antagonist characters that would reveal a secret towards the audience such as gossip.

Psychological Thriller: In which (until the often violent resolution) the conflict between the main characters is mental and emotional, rather than physical. The Alfred Hitchcock films Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, and Strangers on a Train and David Lynch's bizarre and influential Blue Velvet are notable examples of the type, as is The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highstands and The Good Sons starring Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin. This sub genre is fairly popular amongst the audience as it often plays mind tricks which help pull the audience further on to solve it at the end of the film.