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. 

Pitch and Treatment:

P1 - Extreme close up of the key in the door (to his house) and (guys name) walks up the stairs. Goes into room with a wall which pitcures of suspects (mostly crossed off with red marker), newspaper cuttings/articles, maps etc with pins and string linking them. Whilst walking towards the wall he picks up a pen (red marker) and crosses off the last face. Looks at the wall and leaves to enter the bathroom, which has a cuboard (with a mirror on it) and opens it. He picks out some pills/medication and closes the cuboard. Then takes the pills with a glass of water. Stares into mirror/washes face. Gets angry and wipes desk clear/pulls down the wall. Walks down the stairs and leaves the house, when slams door shut, black screen fades to the shot of the outside. Walking down an alleyway with the locket in his hands/looking at it. He, whilst walking down an alleyway is bumped into by another man, and drops the locket. As the locket hits the floor it opens and the audience see the photo inside it for the first time (the mans wife). Shot reverse shot of the locket and the two characters faces. Main character flips and kills the other man. Camera follows the man down as he falls to the floor, and final shot becomes an over the shoulder from behind the man on the floor, with the main character walking away. Fades to black and Title is shown.
P2 - Taking influence from Se7en, we are using a duffel bag as our McGuffin by having it placed on the floor (closed) with blood seeping through onto the floor. We are seeking to establish the character of Detective Furnace, a man who lost his wife to a kidnapping and murder, along with his unborn baby dying in the process. And so vows to find his wifes murderer and bring them to justice by any means