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thriller sound track

Thriller Pitch

My thriller is based on a girl being followed by a mysterious man. I aim to build suspense and mystery through different camera angles and using the Enigma code and the non linear method. By doing this it will create suspense for the audience and an enjoyable watch. Because my thriller is aimed at 16-18 year olds i will not be trying to make it a glamourous thirller. I want to make it as dark as possible and really want the audience to think after they have watched it. I would like my film to be a Shane Meadows type film (This Is England) because he makes films that are set in really poor and deprived places but the film and the settings are so good and thats what makes the audience really think about his work and are rally interested in it. My thriller needs to look like i have made no effort in a way, but also want it to really make a huge inpact. Because it is aimed at 16-18 year olds i am going to use scenarios that apply to every teenager at that age, HOUSE PARTIES. The idea is the girl walks home from the party with a friend. the friend decides to go a different way home. So she bids her friend good night and our girl carrys on taking the shortcut through the park A man spots her and takes advantage of a good looking young girl under the influence of alcohol.

This will hopefully make a good thriller because the sound tracks that i will use will be mysterious and really make the audience be on the the edge of their seats. Then it would disappoint because nothing will happen. this will happen throughout the course of the film until obviously the man gets her. Hopefully my thriller will turn out like i hope it will and i will really be able to make it look good.

Audience research

My target audience for my thriller is teenager between the ages of 16-18. The reason i have chosen that target audience is because i am 16 and i know what i want to see out of a thriller film. It has been proven that when it comes to teenagers, suspense and mystery is the main thing that we want out of a thriller film. Films like James Bond Skyfall appeal to us purely because there is violence, suspense and a love story. The reason we appeal to this is because this is what teenagers are interested in. For some reason we find that these things create a good thriller film for us. That is why i have chosen Teenagers between the ages of 16-18.

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Picture for thriller

Unfortunately the picture has come out blury and will not rotate. This location is good because the lighting gets darker further down the track. That automatically creates suspense because the audience will want to know why it is darker further down the track. I didn't want to get an even amount of people on the platform otherwise the picture would of looked like it was taken out to look as if i had been on a day trip.

Picture for thriller

This picture has not come out well and was not edited well enough. Although saying that it is a good location because it has an eary feel to it and it is such a well known locaton, The River Thames. The boat coming out of the other end of the bridge adds good effect to the water as it ripples. I only got half of the bridge in because the full bridge wouldn't of got as much of a dark and eary effect it would of made the picture look more fun and not as mystical.

Narratives of a thriller

Omniscient - The audience knows everything about the character
Restricted- Where the audience only knows what the character knows
Linear- where there is a clear beginning, middle and end 
Non linear- When the film shows flashbacks to throw the audience off track and make them think
Enigma code- It is a form of grabbing the audiences attention. It works by gradually finding things out throughout the film which builds suspense and mystery

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Alpha Male

Camera angle shows he is sizing the others up

Beats him up to show authority

He goes alone to show his weakness and it is a high camera angle to make the character look small.
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Portraying women as masculine as possible

Alpha female

Shown as alpha female because she walks into room first

Camera is always looking up at the alfa female

She blows smoke into another persons face

Shows the women and male are at the same level because the camera is level
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Post masculine man

Not a stereotypical man

Effect of camera angles "Male Gaze"

The idea of the male gaze is how the audience views the people presented

For feminists it can be thought of in 3 ways
-How women think men look at them
-How women see them selves
-How women see other women

A woman called Laura Malvey made the term "the male gaze" in 1974. She thinks that in film audiences must see the characters from a hetrosexual males POV

The camera shows the curves on the female body and however the men react is how a female wants to be seen as. It puts women lower down in society because they are seen as sexual objects.

Objectifying the female is through a combination of camera works and editing. A lot of body shots are used emphasising the sexual treatment of the character.

The sex object as a whole is a stereotype of provocative women made into a reality as shown through male eyes.

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Challenging Stereotypes

Some T.V dramas CHALLENGE stereotypes

There isn't one specific meaning
EXPLAIN
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1) What social groups groups, could you be asked to write about?
2) 4 areas of analysis
3) What are the 4 steps for the framework of analysis
4) How is the scene structured
5) Posotives and Negatives of social groups

"Normal"

By June I will think differently from my friends.
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clues-male)What roles?)what behaviours
          female)What roles?)what behaviours

Any meaning) WHY?


Analysis-give meaning WHY??

Guns-weopan- to kill
Man was wearing a pink shirt without a gun to show he is still masculine and without a gun to show he is comfortable in his sexuality

Media Notes

1960's office
Stereotypes between men and women
Fallic images
women are wearing tight dresses
The camera is at a high angle to show the weakness in the character
The camera is at a low angle and facing upward to show dominance in the character
Pink t shirt shows masculinity
women is dressed in all black and her hair is cut short to show how she can be portrayed as a man because she is doing a very manly task which is driving the digger
The women saves the men to show role reversal

Different Camera Angles

Media Camera Angles

Long Shot
Medium Long Shot
Close Up
Extreme Close Up
Arc Shot
Pan Shot
Tracking Shot
High Angle
Low Angle
Rule Of Thirds

Shots and Angles

Women In Black Spoiler

The Woman In Black

In a British village in the Edwardian era three little girls walk out of a window in a trance like state being watched by a woman dressed in a black veil, “The Woman In Black.” A widowed lawyer in London, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) must sell the El Marsh House in which the three little girls died and look over the papers that the dead owner left, Alice Drablow. Whilst in the village Samuel Daily (Ciaran Hinds) and his wife Elisabeth (Janet Mc Teer) Lets him stay at there home.Whilst Arthur is in the house he hears lots of strange noises coming from the marshes which sound like there is a carriage with a screaming child but every time he looks he can hear anything . After hearing this many times he reports the strange noises to the police, when he arrives at the station two little boys enter carrying there sister. The sister is ill and dies in Arthurs arms. The locals blame the loss on Arthur because he saw the woman in black.

Strange things keep happening over the next few nights and Arthur finds Correspondence between Alice and her sister Jennet Humfrye (Liz White.) Jennet says how she denies Alice’s word as being “mentally unfit” and wants to see her son Nathaniel who the drablows had adopted. A death certificate shows how Nathaniel’s died in a carriage accident on the marsh. Jennet blames this on her sister by saying she only saved herself

Taken Spoiler

Taken

Taken is a 2008 French action thriller film which is co written and produced by Luc Besson. A former CIA operative tries to have a closer relationship with his teenage daughter. Whilst working as security for pop star Sheerah he saves her from an assailant after a concert. Bryan (CIA agent) explains to Sheerah how his daughter wants to be a singer. Sheerah gratefully agrees to tutor his daughter to become a singer. Bryans teenage daughter asks hm if she can travel to paris with her friend Amanda. Bryan is not happy with this and says no. His ex wife then tells him that he is too over protective so he lets her go and gives her an international cell phone and makes her promise to that she must call everyday. When the girls arrive at Los Angeles international Airport, Bryan finds out that the girls are not staying in paris, they are following U2 on their European tour. When the girls arrivein paris the girls meet a kidnapping scout. Clueless to who he is the girl take his offer of a cab ride home. Back at the apartment Kim realizes that Amanda’s relatives, who they are supposed to be staying with, are in spain. Kim rings her dad bryan, and she realizes that Amanda is being kidnapped. Bryan gives Kim strict instructions to drop the phone hide under the bed and when the men find her, shot out there descriptions as loud as she can. The phone is found and destroyed.