Q2. How does your thriller film opening represent particular social groups?

Detective Furnace - Furnace (Firgure 1)

Our thriller film opening represents one particular social group, that being the male detectives of the 1990's, who were at the age of around 40 years old. We represent this social group through the mise en scene, for example the formal suits that the main character (Detective Furnace) wears. This represents the social group of 1990's detectives because this is similar to what they would've worn, as it portrays a formal and intelligent/business like character.

Detective Somerset - Se7en (Figure 2)

 In terms of gender, our thriller opening doesn't represent any form of female social group, due to the fact our opening marginalises women in the way that there are female characters in the opening of the piece. This could be seen, however, as females (and other social groups not presented in our thriller) as a minority in this era/social group, which becomes reinforced by the formal and powerful suit of the main character, showing how the males in the social group have the dominance compared to females, showing them as a minority, therefore being represented as this in our thriler.
  The thriller does represent the main character as a typical hard boiled detective who conveys connnotations of power and authority through his job and formal attire, which makes the character familiar to the audience as they can become fimiliar through this stereotype. However, we also twist this representation at the end of the piece where he lashes out and seems to lose all power in the situation and loses control of himself and the situation he is in.
  We represent the social group of middle aged men (30-40 years old) as formal. business like and organised. However, we also represent this age as confused and psychologically tormented, through the desk swipe in our opening, along with the pill he takes, showing how something has happened throughout his life that has caused this pain, meaning he could live a double-life. 

 Our thriller represents crime in a suburban and "normal" way, through the very suburban house/setting that the thriller takes place in. This could be seen as representing crime in a familiar way to the audience, as it is taking place in unsuspecting places but also everyday locations like a semi-detached house in suburbia of Norwich, which could lead to representations of the hidden darknesses in these locations, and that is the direction our thriller takes, similar to a location and idea such as Walter Whites house in "Breaking Bad".

AS Media Thriler Final Cut

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Thriller Rough Draft Edit:

Thriller Story Board Planning

Figure 1

Thriller Planning Story Board: Figure 1 & 2 show the first scene, with Furnace walking towards his house with the credits playing throughout. The scene will use lots of close ups and mid shots to create an enigmatic feel around Furnace, as we don't know anything about him. The audience doesn't get to see his face until later on in the scene (shown in figure 2), where it is shown in a mirror. 

Figure 2

The shots in Figure 2 uses relatively fast paced 

editing to create distortion and enigma around 

what is going on in the scene. 

Figure 3

The scene in figure 3 is slower paced than that of 1 & 2 with more mid shots and tracking shots with less fast paced editing. Also possible slow motion shots when the locket is falling to the floor and opens to reveal the picture of his wife inside. 

                                                                                                                                                          

Thriller Planning: Characters, Costumes and Props

Ideas and Details:

• Name: Detective Furnace.
• Nationality: British.
• Hat/Suit - Formal.
• Duffel Bag - Enigmatic/MacGuffin.
• Locket - Enigmatic/Chekhov's Gun - Picture of wife inside - tells audience about the past of the main character/gives hints about the past. 
• Wall of 'stuff' - tells the audience about the character being organised due to the amount of information and how he is keeping track of the possibilities about who murdered his wife.

Connotations and Effects:

• Enigmatic/Mysterious.
• Formal/Authoritative.

Suitability for the Genre:

• Suitable; suits the genre because it is enigmatic.
• Takes influences from Se7en, detective/enigmatic film with similar style to our film/characters.

Logistics:

• The character we have created is very accessible. Clothing is easy to get, only needs to wear a suit/shirt/hat. Personality is easy to achieve too.

The First Shot:

• The first shot we see of the character is an establishing shot of him walking towards his house and opening it. However we do not at any point see the main characters face in the opening shots.