Q4. Who would be the target audience for your thriller task?

This is James. He is a 26 year old man living in the UK, studying at university and has a stable part time job. He has an interest in films and especially the thriller genre, and also enjoys crime/detective dramas. He prefers to watch these as they give a sense of thrill and become a challenge when watching them, as you can't tell whats going on or whats going to happen during the film. He also enjoys a more niche market of films, so the UK based films as he has an interest in the smaller budget films due to how it shows you don't need money to create a good thriller. Examples of films he has previously watched and enjoyed in the thriller are films like The Disappearance of Alice Creed, and Layer Cake, which was again a UK based thriller film. However he also enjoyed Se7en, which was a more global and higher budget film, but still fit the genre he enjoys to watch due to the challenges they present, as well as the enigma and intense plots. Due to the likening of smaller more niche films, he enjoys going to smaller, more niche cinemas such as cinema city, rather than cinemas like Vue which tend to show the larger more global films, or the "blockbusters".

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.