Evaluation question 1 for Media AS

1. EVALUATION
QUESTION 1
BY CHRIS HIMATHONGKOM

2. TEXT
‘HOMECOMING’
▸Our thriller opening sequence involves a messy house and a
vicious murder scene of a teenage boy.
▸This murder scene showed a sign of psychopathology as it
involves a lot of blood and the fact that the body had been
abandoned at the scene, suggests that the killer may be a
psychopath.

3. TEXT
HOMECOMING: FINAL SCENE
▸The final climatic scene of my thriller opening sequence
involves a dead body lying in a bedroom covered in dust
sheets, with blood splattered everywhere.

4. TEXT
AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)
▸American Psycho is an American thriller/drama film
▸Plot synopsis: “A wealthy New York investment banking
executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-
workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent,
hedonistic fantasies.”

5. TEXT
AMERICAN PSYCHO: AXE MURDER
SCENE
▸In this scene, the main character brought the victim to his
flat, covered all his furnitures with dust sheets as well as
putting up the newspaper on the floor before violently killing
him with an axe

6. TEXT
SETTINGS COMPARISON
▸American Psycho
▸Homecoming

7. TEXT
SHOT-TO-SHOT COMPARISON

8. TEXT
HOMECOMING- HOW DOES IT
CORRELATE?
▸The idea of covering the room with sheets so that the blood
doesn't splatter on it shows a sign of well-planned murder,
which also suggests that the murderer may be a psychopath.
▸These 2 scenes involve a lot of violence and blood in which
makes it very similar in a way

9. TEXT
AMERICAN PSYCHO: AXE MURDER
SCENE
▸https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruw9fsh3PNY

10. TEXT
GRAND THEFT AUTO: V (2013)
▸“Grand Theft Auto V is an open world, action-adventure
video game developed by Rockstar North and published by
Rockstar Games.”- Wikipedia
▸Grand Theft Auto is considered one of the most violent game
ever made, it allows the players to kill and massacre random
people on the streets, as well as completing mission such as
robbing a bank, committing a murder or dealing drugs.

11. TEXT
GRAND THEFT AUTO: V
▸In the latest release of the game series, Rockstar developed
a first person perspective of the game, allowing the players
to experience committing these violent actions as it is real
life.
▸This involves a lot of gory and mutilated dead bodies.

12. TEXT
GRAND THEFT AUTO VS HOMECOMING
▸Both GTA and Homecoming involves a lot of blood and
violence. One of the character from GTA is a cold blood
psychopath in which correlates with the plot of Homecoming.