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Evaluation Of Thriller

Opening Sequence:Stationary Point

By Muhammad Khalid



My opening sequence is a thriller

genre. It is like that of a common thriller asit sticks to the thriller conventions such as:

• Minimal Dialogue

• Formal and dark clothing

• Suspense

• No violence

• Intense music

• Suggestive messages

• Low key lighting

•

Conventions of Real Media Products Related To My Film



My group analysed the opening sequence of Phone booth ( , ), ( , ) Joel Schumacher 2002 Collateral Michael Mann 2004

and ( , ) The Dark Night Christopher Nolan 2009 and we noticed that many of the codes and conventions

mentioned in the previous slide were present in these.films

Conventions of Real Media Products Related To My FilmContinued



This is the establishing

shot of our opening.sequence We decided that

it would be best to use low key lighting as this is what we observed in our

analysis of thriller.openings

We then showed a train.approaching a platform

We were advised by colleagues to use this as trains look very

.powerful on screen There was also a lot

of train usage in the film .Collateral

How Real Media Products Influenced OurDecisions



How Real Media Products Influenced Our DecisionsContinued

,From our analysis of thriller openings we thought that

it would be an excellent idea to put suggestive.messages in our sequence The main film that we analysed

which used suggestive messages was .Collateral The images below shows how we used suggested meanings and

.implemented them in our own sequence

Images from Phone Booth

Images from our film showing suggested.meaning



How Real Media Products Influenced Our DecisionsContinued

Both wearing shades to show a sense of mystery

Both wearing very smart

,clothing which are dull in

colour

,Strong solid posture to portray

power andauthority

,Keeping a straight expressionless face which portrays sternness



Portrayal of SocialGroups

Both the antagonist

and protagonist are wearing smart clothes

which shows that they both come from a

middle or higher class.background

This shot shows the victim purchasing a broadsheet,newspaper which suggests

that he is educated therefore- .more likely to be upper class

From our film analysis we noticed that most antagonists

are from a lower social.background We also tried to

portray this in our sequence by shooting in different

locations which reflect the.character We also tries to

show the struggle of lower.classed people

Surrounded by goods which

represents.money



Distribution

We as a group are aware of the fact that our film is low

budget and would be distributed by a smaller company like Film Four or Vertigo Films than 20th Century Fox or Warner

.Brothers

Film Four Has been Very successful with distributing low,budget British films such as The Hide and .East is East

Even though Film Four have done incredibly well in,distributing their films none of them match my target.audience which could be a major problem



DistributionContinued

.Another distributor I researched in was Verve Films

This company has also had success with low budget,British films like Film Four but Verve Films has

distributed films which are aimed at my specific.target audience A film they distributed was Bullet

boy .which was a success They also distributed the film Straight Heads , .which targets my audience



Audience

This shows that from the audience research my group

,carried out people enjoy,watching thrillers therefore

we thought it would be best.to target this large audience

This was quite biased as

the male to female ratio.was not equal However we

still used our research to.plan our film

,From this we established

that our target audience was- .between the ages of 15 25 We

decided that it would not be a good idea to make an action or western as we simply did not have a high enough

.budget



Attracting TheAudience

We decided that the best way of approaching our target

.audience was online We uploaded our sequence on to the, .social networking site Face book We also uploaded it

.onto YouTube which attracted a large audience The main.advantage of this was that word of mouth occurred Our

friends also began to upload it on their profiles so that.their friends could also view our sequence Images are

.shown below



Technology

’As we were using the new Mac s we had to use.them more to get better at editing We as a

group only had experience with the older Macs.which had a completely different layout We

were very happy that we now know how to edit.on a more advanced piece of technology

The older version we already had experience with

The new version we now.know how to use



PreliminaryTask

The preliminary task taught us a lot

.about the basic rules of filming These consisted of the 180 degree, .rule continuity and match on action This task also improved our editing.skills



The final title shows the name

of the film with a blue title.on a black background This is

normally used in actual.thrillers

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