EVALUATION Q5

Q5

Our film is created as a psychological thriller because our story is about a girl that has a nightmare and gets flashbacks of the dream, which slowly becomes reality throughout her day .Our film also includes aspects of an action thriller as it gradually shows a guy following the victims every move, which he will eventually ends up kidnapping the girl. We are going to use important aspects that have been picked out from other related film, such as the way our kidnapping scene should be portrayed, also how the atmosphere of the film should be to set to get that feeling of tension and suspense. The main themes in our sequence will be mostly based around kidnapping, which will be slowly developed throughout the sequence. As there will be range of clues/traces that will all be make sense and fit together to help the audience to know what the storyline is really portraying. The camera angles that would we used will also be used to explain and show what sort of characters our actors are portraying, such as tilted angles which helps build up some form of a story to the character, e.g. when the girl is running out of the house in fear of the kidnapper the angle of the shot is low angled and tilted upwards to show she has little power. The tilted angle shots to build suspense and tension, which will get the audience more involved. Long distance shots are also a very significant camera angle for a thrillers because it gives us and idea of how the characters feels due to the body language, it also gives the audience a great idea of the ambient the opening scene is trying to connote, which we used for some scenes such as when our character was walking fast away from her house looking for somewhere to escape to. The sound used in opening sequence is what will help set the tension and suspense as to what is going to happen, this will also help the audience have a better understanding of the characters. The location that our opening was set was a strong point that helped improve the film as in the scene where the torturing was taking place was made in a dark gloomy place which helped set the scene, as in contrast to the characters reality which was light, homely and normal; but after the dream happened the perspective of the traditional home changed in the audiences eyes as they would then start seeing the home as more creepy.

Evaluation Q4

Q4 Who would be the audience for your media product?

 

• Create a profile of your target audience in terms of age, interests, gender and ethnicity
• Why did you choose to target this group?
• What would their expectations be of your film?
• What would attract them to watch your film?
• What would you need to have in your poster to attract the target audience?
• What other films would your target audience be interested in watching? What films do you think they may have seen in the last six months?

Evaluation Q1

 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Q3

Q3: In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real thrillers?

Our film is a thriller genre but it also includes some action and sociological aspects (sub-genres). It is a thriller because there is a lot of tension included in this movie along with some aspects of suspense. The action is the scenes where he is hurting her in her imagination; this could be seen as some action. The sociological aspect is the fact he is mysterious and maybe not even existing and possibly not even real and just in her dreams.

Evaluation Q2

Q2: Who will be the audience for your specific thriller? Explain which sub-genre you have chosen

My target audience should have these similarities and interests:

< My audience are an audience that enjoy thrillers a lot with a little bit of action in there as they should enjoy films that include a lot of tension

My audience will be mostly male

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I chose to target this group of people because I felt like they were the ones that will end up going to watch my film. I think that my target audience will expect little shocks here and there but mainly followed by a large amount of tension. The thing that will attract my target audience is the story line as it will make them think they are going to know what happens but they really don’t. If I was to make a poster to attract my target audience I would make it dark with just the villain and victim in the photo and the villain is behind her and got his hand over her mouth but still stays mysterious. I think my target audience will be interested in films like ‘Taken’ including Taken 1 and 2 these films include a lot of tension and also a little action.

Evaluation Q7

Q1: How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups?

In my opening scene there will be only 2 characters. One of the characters is going to be the main character in my film and opening the character is a female, she looks like a young innocent girl/lady. She will be around 5ft6/7 and she will have brunette hair this goes against the typical pretty blonde innocent girl you would find in thrillers. The other character in the opening is the villain he is going to be a black big male (6ft) preferably having a bony face as it adds to the creepiness about his character.

The villain in my opening will wear very dark/black colour clothing, with black leather gloves. The victim in my opening will wear pyjamas and then she’ll wear casual clothing this shows the audience she is an ordinary person so that the audience can relate with the film. During scenes when the girl is getting hurt by the villain there will be high angled shots facing down so that the victim looks weak and venerable.

I would like my villain to look like Denzel Washington but if possible a little bonier as Denzel Washington maintains a serious character and I have seen him feature in a thriller movie ‘De ja vu’. The victim in my film would look a little like the actress Jessica Alba as that is the look that will suit that role the best.