2. How does you thriller represent particular
social groups?
3. Versions of reality are chosen through the
process of…..
• Selection-This is when the most important parts of the story are
picked out. These may be chosen from a wide range of options.
• Construction-This when the camera angles and shots are chosen, this
is also when the mise-en-scene is chosen. This is when the
soundtrack is chosen.
• Presentation-This is what draws the attention of the viewer. This is
what creates meaning for the audience and where they figure out
what is important or not.
4. Preferred meaning
• A media text could be understood in many different ways by different
audiences.
• When someone makes a film they have a preferred meaning to it.
This means that they have in mind a way they want it to be
understood.-The message they want to get across to their audience.
• This preferred meaning may be effected by someone's
age/ethnicity/gender if they may have a different view on something
because of one of those things.
• Some people just like to have their own meaning to the film because
that’s what film is good for.
5. My thriller……
• Selection-This is when as a group we worked together to decide what
message we wanted to get across to the audience.-What the main storyline
is. –What we want to get across to the audience: ‘There is a new girl and
she wants to joins a soriety but it all goes wrong’.
• Construction- In this section we decided what camera angles we wanted to
have.-As a group we decided that we wanted a lot of close ups of Luna and
the sisters getting ready-we wanted the audience to be able to see the
differences between them getting ready. We also wanted the soundtrack to
sound quite innocent but then build up as the opening gets going.
• Presentation-To engage the viewer we added the soundtrack to the
footage and gave it transitions and titles. We show the audience what is
important by using the close ups.
6. Character representation in thrillers
• In thrillers the same kind of characters re appear all the time.
• There will be a hero and a villain. At the beginning of the thriller the
characters that play these roles may not be so clear to the viewer but
they will be by the end.
• Hitchcock said that villains should ‘be normal and look attractive’
then the rest of the characters will know that they are the villains and
neither will the audience which makes it more thrilling for them.
• There are many different types of villains which include murders and
psyncopaths.
7. Men in thrillers….
• In thrillers both the villain and the hero and normally played by a male. This
may be as they are seen as the stronger sex.
• The hero may be a detective, policeman, a commoner or private investigator.
8. Women in thrillers…..
• The woman in thrillers are normally the damsel in distress or the one
that needs help.
• They are normally the victim.
• For example: In the thriller Dream House the victims are the wife and
the two daughters.
• The women is always the one that seems to need help.
• More recently women have had the more prominent part in thrillers.
9. Gender roles in my thriller……
• The characters in my thriller goes against the typical role that are
played by both men and women.
• The main characters are played by adolescents. The characters that
they play are the villains and the victim.
