The document describes the key characteristics and portrayals of three main social groups in the film "The Vengeance":
1) The interrogator is portrayed as self-confident, independent, and opinionated. She wears smart, minimalist clothing and uses direct questioning techniques like over-the-shoulder shots to appear dominant and in control.
2) The victim is portrayed as independent but vulnerable. She wears pretty, floral clothing and speaks with stress to appear gentle yet in danger. Crane shots are used to make her seem unsafe.
3) The villain is inspired by mysterious characters from other films. He wears all black and remains silent to seem threatening and add suspense. High angles show his dominance
4. We moulded our interrogator around Carrie-Anne Moss from the
'Unthinkable' a female interrogator. Within the film she is known as
'Special Agent Helen Brody', the leader of an FBI counter-terrorism team
assigned to interrogate. She appears very self-motivated, smart,
opinionated and dominant. This being exactly what we intended for our
interrogator, Detective Inspector Smith.
The mise en scene used with the film appears very smart and formal, this
being a feature we decided to include in the vengeance as our interrogator
Jenny wears a smart stripped shirt, with neat hair and minimal,
simplistic makeup. This giving her a serious attitude, undeniably perfect
for the interrogation role.
To make our character's intended characteristics come across to the
audience, we followed certain procedures with the mise en scene,
lighting, camera angles and speech to help do so.
To show her dominant side, we did an over the shoulder shot/mid shot,
showing her to be almost in control of the screen whilst questioning John
Mulberry. Minimal lighting was used also, to maintain the focus on her
rather than anything else. Highlighting the importance of her being and
showing good versus evil as John is left in the dark. Her positioning is
very forward and encouraging as she aims to get the truth out of the
suspect.
6. Our victim, Rebecca Jane Foster was intentionally put across as a
helpless soul, who is dominated and murdered by the coniving John
Mulberry.
This idea was inspired from the film Kill Bill, with Uma Thurma being
the helpless victim, who is shot by a mysterious man. In which we
included within our film, through the use of Johns identity not being
shown. Overall influencing the thrilling atmosphere and making it a
mystery encouring the viewer to want to watch the rest of the film.
We chose to dress her in casual, pretty clothing, covered in flowers to
resemble her gentle and vulnerable nature. She speaks in a 'stressed'
tone, to help build up the tension as the sequence goes on, creating a
sense of danger. To show her vulnerability we did various ariel/crane
shots of her working and walking around, with the lighting always
focused on her as she is one of the main protagonists. This also making
her almost appear inferior, that she isn't safe and something is about
to happen. Encouraging the audience to watch and become involved in
the film, worring for Rebeccas welbeing.
8. Our villain was inspired by three separate thriller films, Casino Royale, Kill
Bill and Flight Plan, in which we moulded together to create John
Mulberry. The dark mysterious outfit was inpired by casino royale as we
felt it helped viewers identify the villain from the victim easily. The
conspiracy within our film was enouraged through flight plan as we felt it
adds a mass of mystery and unanswered intruiging questions to occur. We
then tied this all together with the use of Kill Bills mystery footsteps and
dark boots as we felt it added suspense to our villain John.
To carry on with the theme of mystery and to give John a dark menacing
image we dressed him in all black, like in Casino Royale, with his hoodie
up to hide his identity. Unlike Kill Bill however, we chose to give John no
speech as it adds to the suspense and mystery of his actions and character.
A high angled shot is used to show his dominance over Rebecca as he
watches her leave her precious office.
This also shown with his posture and actions as he visciously pushes all of
the pieces of unwanted paper on the floor along with anything else in his
path, showing he is looking for one thing and one thing only. To enhance
the realism of this we used a hand held camera shot to help build up to the
climax of the opening.
Our aim was to make John silent but deadly, he did not speak, he did not
have to, hes being was thrilling enough.
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