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The document outlines a psychological thriller opening sequence called "WHO?". It will follow two couples where the antagonist, who has a secret obsession with the protagonist, attacks the protagonist. The sequence will begin with the protagonist walking alone and injured the next morning, then use flashbacks to show clues about what happened the night before. It discusses the genre, inspirations, locations, production roles, and that it will likely receive a 15 BBFC rating due to strong language, sexual references, and violence.
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A man returns home covered in blood and dragging a weapon. He scrubs his hands and clothes but cannot get the blood off. He burns his clothes in a panic. Throughout the film there are flashbacks showing him killing a woman and dragging her body through the woods to bury her. The film follows this man as he acts normally the next day while flashbacks reveal he killed a female relative.
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2) It also uses visual elements like blood and ominous music to shock and create tension, drawing from techniques in "Seven" and "Jaws".
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Who am i powerpoint evaluation
1) The opening of the thriller follows conventions of the genre by having the main character be the killer and including a character profile to shock the audience. It also uses blood, gore, and ominous music to create tension.
2) The opening deviates from conventions in some ways, such as by showing a Soviet-style montage and having a younger killer than is typical. It also switches from color to black and white.
3) Elements that were included to make the opening successful as a thriller were not showing the actual murder, having an average person as the killer who doesn't know they committed the crime, and creating suspense around the unknown victim.
The Curse
Marianne awakens from a nightmare about her deceased twin brother and discovers scratches on her body. Questions arise about whether the events she experiences are real or imagined. The opening sequence is meant to keep the audience curious without revealing too much of the plot. The film aims to have Marianne uncover secrets of her past until she becomes psychologically ill and believes her antagonist is the ghost of her brother.
Psychosis Media Presentation
The document discusses representations and elements in a short horror film including:
1) The victim is a young female pub worker shown to be vulnerable through physical injuries and blood.
2) The setting is a traditional British pub to show British iconography.
3) Scenes include an establishing shot of the pub, a close up tracking shot of the victim's blood covered face, and a bedroom and pub interior shown in a naturalistic style.
Pitch Presentation | The Girl in Red
This document outlines a film idea combining the romance and thriller genres. It follows a female protagonist who witnesses a murder committed by the male antagonist in the woods. They later meet in school and fall in love. The antagonist later confesses to the murder, creating conflict. The trailer will feature the woods scene, their growing romance, and the confession to build intrigue. It discusses marketing the film through reviews, posters, and targeting both romance and thriller audiences aged 15-24 with a focus on the color red throughout.
Forms and conventions of media texts
The document discusses the conventions and forms used in psychological thriller films. It analyzes the film being created, comparing elements like camera shots, sounds, mise-en-scene, and narrative to other well-known psychological thrillers. The film challenges the genre by having a female antagonist who is mentally and physically powerful, hiding her identity as a serial killer and challenging gender stereotypes by being more powerful than the male policeman character.
Geezah
This document outlines a proposal for a classic slasher horror film that draws inspiration from movies like Halloween and Friday the 13th. It will follow slasher conventions like an iconic killer murdering victims in a suburban setting. The target audience is young adults who are eligible for an R rating. The film will take place both during the day and night in a non-specified suburban area. It will explore themes of death, fear, evil, and the unknown. The characters and setting are meant to be relatable while not focusing on ethnic or gender specifics. The narrative follows a girl whose parents are murdered by a dark figure that continues killing others in their new town.
Forms and conventions of media texts
1. The document discusses the conventions of action thriller films, including camera shots, angles, sound, mise-en-scene, and narrative elements.
2. It provides examples of how the described media product incorporates these conventions, sharing techniques with films like "Maniac", "Fight Club", "Haunt", and "Gone".
3. The media product challenges genre conventions by having a female rather than male dominant figure who is secretly committing murders without being caught, challenging typical gender power dynamics in psychological thrillers.
Treatment
The document provides details about the target audience, narrative elements, and style of a film trailer. The trailer is aimed at both male and female audiences aged 15+ and will include violent and gory scenes to appeal to stereotypes of each gender's interests. It describes including three victims in the trailer and revealing late that there are two murderers. Non-diegetic elements like a changing musical score and omitting titles until the end are discussed.
Planning and pre-production
The document discusses plans for a student thriller film project. It includes initial ideas for the narrative, which involves a female villain seeking revenge on her ex-boyfriends by stalking and killing them. Locations mentioned include a local cycle track. Research on successful thriller films like Lucky Number Slevin, Wanted, and The Dark Knight is also summarized. The planned narrative, characters, costumes, locations, and props are outlined.
Question 1 media
Our media product uses common conventions of horror and crime genres. It introduces the main characters - a typical "dumb blonde" victim, a mysterious killer resembling Michael Myers, and professionally-dressed detectives. The opening sequence shows the victim waking alone at night, seeing strange movements in the woods, and being chased and attacked by the killer. Detectives then search for clues about the victim's fate. Common horror themes of violence, crime, murder and mystery are explored through realistic settings, costumes, lighting and a suspenseful narrative structure and soundtrack.
Planning and pre production
The document discusses plans for a student thriller film project. It outlines an initial idea for the narrative of a female villain taking revenge on ex-boyfriends by stalking and killing them. Locations, characters, costumes, props, and a production company name are mentioned. Market research on successful thriller elements and the intended teenage target audience is also summarized.
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Who
- 1. WHO By Holly Moran, Jade Potts, Liberty Carrington and Molly-Anne Noakes
- 2. The reason for our thriller opening sequence to be called ‘WHO?’ is because, the audience has a huge range of enigmas rising to the surface by the end of our sequence.
- 3. The Narrative From beginning to end, there are two couples, the main girl (the protagonist), her boyfriend, the antagonist and his girlfriend. They are all friends but we discover that the antagonist who is also the boyfriends best friend, has a psycho love for the protagonist. After a night out the protagonist is left alone with the antagonist in the car which leaves us to discover her walking alone in the morning injured and covered in blood...
- 4. Our Opening Sequence It begins with the main girl walking down the street in the morning covered in blood, weeping. This is when the enigmas start for the audience as we wonder where she has come from? Why she is in the state that she is? And what happened? Then the sequence goes back in time with flashbacks for the audience to get hints of reasons why she is covered in blood. Images and clips of the antagonist waiting to attack the protagonist from the night before.
- 5. Sub Genre Our opening sequence is a psychological thriller. What makes it a psychological thriller is because it plays upon the audiences mind and also there is emotional conflict between the two main characters, the antagonist and the protagonist.
- 6. Films That Inspired Us The films we were inspired by are: American Psycho, Black Swan and Prom Night. They are all psychological thrillers which are also based on love.
- 7. Locations Our locations that we are going to use will be a hang out spot which will possibly be a pub (The Trooper) or a alternative hang out. We will also be using Vansittart Road (this is where the protagonist will be walking the next morning).
- 8. Mise en Scene For the night before scenes we will be using ambient lighting so it’ll look very low key. Also, for the early morning scenes we will be using ambient lighting to look as natural as possible. As for make-up, we will only be using fake blood for the main girl to show she has been attacked. As for the other characters, there is no specific look we would need.
- 9. Mise en Scene Props Used The props we will be using will be: A necklace (belonging to the protagonist) A mobile phone (also protagonists) A car A form of weapon (broken beer bottle)
- 10. Roles Within The Production Filming: will be shared among us Editing: will be shared among us Cast Members: Main girl: Alice Stone Boyfriend: Tom Walker Antagonist: Sam Hilleard* Girlfriend: Liberty Carrington *These aren’t confirmed cast members but are suitable for the roles applied.
- 11. BBFC Our psychological thriller will be certificated a 15. This is because it only contains some strong language, some sexual reference and violence. The listed aspects below are examples of what would make a thriller film classed as a 15 by the rules of the BBFC strong violence frequent strong language portrayals of sexual activity strong verbal references to sex sexual nudity brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence discriminatory language or behaviour drug taking