A power point presentation for our media production for A2 Media

1. EX-cessive
Brought to you by Jayden, Anthony, Beni and Stephanie (A.K.A J.A.B.S)

2. CLEAR IDEA
 Tyrell and Mia went to the same secondary school
 Tyrell has been obsessed with Mia since then.
 We then see Mia out shopping with Brian
 Brian leaves her, to meet his friends
 We later come to a scene were Mia is waiting for Brian to return
and calls him
 Mia then gets KIDNAPPED!!
 Cuts to the room were she is being held
 Brian realises that she's missing

3. Clear idea p2
 Brian then locates her with phone app
 We cut to Tyrell revealing his intentions and past actions to Mia
 Brian is outside (gun and moped)
 Then he sneaks in to find Mia and confront her kidnapper
 Brian and Tyrell fight
 Steph is then saved
 Or so they think

4. Profile of the genre
Thriller
• The aim of the thriller is to create suspense
and excitement for the audience
• The Thriller film often uses the busy streets
and environment or usual urban or
suburban areas.
• The hero is the only person able to solve
the enigma and reveal the truth
• Violence is central to most thriller films

5. Conventions of a thriller
 Low key lightning
 Quick cuts
 Shadows
 Tension music
 Changes in the angle of shots
 Diegetic sounds of breathing
 Black and white shots ( Past )

6. Sub Genre: Psychological thriller
 Psychological thriller is a thriller
story which emphasizes the
psychology of its characters and
their unstable emotional states.
 Elements of drama, mystery and
horror often find themselves in the
psychological thriller.
 The victim depending on the story
line should be shown if she knowns
her attacker.

7. Conventions of characters
 Convicts, Criminals, Stalkers
 Assassins
 Innocent victims, Prison inmates,
Menaced women
 Characters with dark past
 Psychotic individuals
 Terrorist, Police, FBI

8. Main themes of Psychological thriller
 Many psychological thrillers have emerged over the past years, Despite
these very different forms of representation, general trends have appeared
throughout the narratives. Some of these consistent themes include:
 Reality
 Perception
 Mind
 Existence/Purpose
 Identity
 Death

9. List of psychological thrillers listed by
IMDB
 1. Se7en (1995)
 2. The Machinist (2004)
 3. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Some of more known films to the demographic core :
1. Saw (Franchise)
2. Paranormal Activity (Franchise)
3. Frozen

10. Target Audience
•Our primary target audience is aimed at 15 year old to 25 year old Males
•From an white ethnic under, working / middle class background
•Who I living at home with their parents
•Are in full-time education
•They enjoy watching films, spending time with friends and reading
psychological thriller books such as Gone Girl

11. Target Audience
• Our secondary target audience is aimed at 25 yards 30-year-old females
• Who are also from a white ethnic under, working / middle class background
• Who have left home living on their own for the first time trying to pay for
themselves with only a limited amount of support from their parents
• They Love watching psychological thriller, spending time with friends and
who are working part time job

12. Character 1 (tyrell)
 This is the film antagonist
 This character has an unhealthy obsession with the character known as mia
 They met a long time ago in primary school
 He's a tall man of considerable strength
 He's could be considered an unstable sociopath
 He's 18 years old
 He's from a working class ,single parent background
 He's an African male
 The stereotype that are lived is that a black person is committing a crime

13. Character 2(Mia)
 Mia is a typical girl in love
 She likes to shop and chill
 She's a 17 year old girl
 She's of Greek ethnicity
 She's from a middle class family
 Her past is coming to get her in the present
 The stereotypes that are lived would be that she
cant defend herself and needs saving

14. Character 3 (Brian)
 This is the protagonist of the film
 This character is macho/brave
 The boyfriend of Mia
 He's a 18 year old
 He's from a working class
 Deeply in love and would die for her (and he just might)
 The stereotypes that are lived is that he will find trouble

15. Narrative Structure
 Our film is to follow a single strand narrative
structure, as our storyline develops in a
straightforward sequential time. As each event
follows the one before. For my film our
storyline is as follows:
 Girl and Boy together - boy leaves girl – girl
gets kidnapped – boy realises girl is missing –
villain is known- boy aims to save girl – conflict
begins between villain and boy- boy saves girl.
 These events are linked by cause and effect,
and therefore follow Todorov’s theory of
narration

16. Narrative structure
 The plot however is not led by a single character but
told through the view of three view points, meaning that
the hero’s role may not be completely central.
 Our narrative is open-ended as it concludes with a cliff-
hanger, leaving the audience to interpret what would
happen next.

17. How our film will look
 Cinematography- In order to properly allow our film to look authentic and
typical of our genre, we have chosen to incorporate a variety of framing,
shot distance and camera movements, that are used in psychological
thrillers. These will then be useful in the development of our Mise-en-scene
 These includes use of close ups to show the raw emotion being shown by
our characters in times of intensity. Also, dynamic shots when there is
something moving like a moped, this helps advance the pace of our film.
 Steady cam and tracking shots will be used in order to put us in the
footsteps of a particular character; this is also dependent on the setting of
the scene as to whether the camera movement is steady or tracking

18. How film will look
 Mise-en-scene- when looking at the mise-en-scene of our film we are focusing
on every aspect of the film that we see, such as movement of characters,
space and spatial awareness, lighting, the location and costume design.
 Our film, in order to stay true to our conventions will evidently show details like
 Dark setting, usually a forest or small town at night time
 Eerie and empty surroundings
 Darkness, hardly ever any sunlight, grey
 Dreary weather conditions, e.g. snow, rain, storms
 Simple and realistic costumes
 Metaphorically relatable characters who are anti heroes