Analysis of a thriller from long road media

camera shots

This thriller is based on various types of camera shot for example point of view shot when the antagonist is looking a he protagonist running through the woods, zooming to show the props, long shots to show where the protagonist is running of to this creates enigma code, high angle shot of the antagonist to make him look small like bird view shot, extreme close up of the protagonist to show facial expression. the camera is not steady need to use tripod more often.

Editing

 Theme song at the background from the start, the song is quite fast which creates tension, black out to show the time is passing and to make a new scene, the typography is simple but the way its fading away looks really attractive. overall the editing is really good.

Miss-en-scene

The thriller is filmed outdoor in the woods which is one of the most effective location to create enigma as it is as unknown place so no one would know about what the protagonist had to go through. The protagonist was wearing casual normal clothing. The antagonist was just hiding his identity with his hood (casual clothing).

lighting: evening time as it is quite bright but getting dark.

Conclusion

overall i think the thriller is really good but the only thing they need to improve is the camera movements because the whole film is steady too much of movement which makes hard for the audience o see the thriller. other than that it is good.

Story Board of my Thriller

Opening Sequence of Dark Knight

(first 2 minutes)

The establishing shot is of the city zooming in into a window of a building with a background music and the more near it gets the louder the music gets. When it gets really closed to the window the backgorung music stops which creates enigma and the window crashes down into peices and we can the the anotonist ( disequilibrium) as they are shotting some one.
All the antogonist shown are hiding their indentuty as with a colouredfull mask and very formally dressed.
The audience get to see the other antogonist back with and then zooms into the mask of the anotgosnist which he is holding in his hands. This also creates enigma.

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Location Reeces Antagonist

These are the places where the antagonist walks through to get to the protagonist.

Location Reeces Protagonist

These are the places where protagonist is kept.

Outside view of the room.

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SE7EN ESSAY

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Lighting miss-e-scene for my thriller

The location of my thriller is a room and a guy walking through some unknown place. As it is winter its mostly dark outside which is a good thing for my thriller because dull natural lighting creates a sad mood and also suggest mystery and danger.
the lighting inside the room is going to be quite dull as well as the protagonist is being kept away from the outside world.
Both characters will be dressed smart as the protagonist is an engineer and has been kidnapped. The antagonist is a business man himself this is to give a twist in the story make people think why would business man  lock someone up in a unknown place.

Sound of my Thriller

Background sound is not really an issue for my production. The only sound I'm going to put is of the antagonist walking, the sound of taking steps which creates tension for the audience because the identity is hidden and it is going to be a POV shot. make the audience feel like a the character for a bit. The other sound I'm going to put is the Little nursery/ baby songs. This is because it creates sympathy for the protagonist and make you wonder about his daughter. the theme song is going to be the baby music as well.

Target Audience of my Thriller

No film is for everyone. Each film has a target audience. the age limit of my target audience is
16-40 as the protagonist is quite old and story is based on working class people and also flash backs to college times there fore teenagers from from 16 upwards. The audience can be any form any ethnicity as England is a multi cultural country which suggests that the race is not limited.Someone into intrigue (the curiosity or interest of by unusual) and mystery with a tint of a twist. someone who like to try and work things out for themselves but sometimes never quite gets there. a person who never gives up trying and will always give it a shot on working out what is happening.

Openning Sequence of my Thriller

as I am just filming the opening sequence of my thriller. the establishing shot is going start with a guy dressed all smart with a briefcase and newspaper in his hands. The person walks through a field to suggest that he is going to some unknown place which creates Enigma code, which makes people think why would a business man go to such a place?
The antagonist(business man) walks into some sort of house away from the town and delivers a meal and newspaper from the bottom of the door and pushes it inside the room of the unknown house. The identity of the antagonist is not revealed yet.
The audience then get to see the protagonist waking up all confused and scared thinking why, where and when was he brought to this place. The noise of the stuff getting into the room wakes him up and makes him curious to read the news. The headline of the newspaper he reads was "ENGINEER SPIELBERG STILL MISSING" with a picture of the engineer.
the camera then moves to the protagonists face, which makes it clear for the audience that the person is a well known engineer and people are looking for him.
Then the room is shown properly with the objects in it for example the TV and the camera watching the protagonist. this creates voyeurism because someone is looking at the protagonist.
Then and the end of the opening scene you see the protagonist reminiscing about his daughter and the it ends with the little nursery song.

Thriller Treatment

Story line:

A software engineer arrives in England with his wife. However, one fine day, he is abducted by someone for mysterious reasons. When the protagonist wakes up, he finds himself in a locked room, with the only human contact being a faceless person who delivers his meals. His only window to the outside world is the television in his room and from it, the main character learns that his wife has been murdered and he is the prime suspect. Days become weeks, weeks become months, and months turn into years as he remains locked up, with the television bringing images of a changing world (bombings, Tsunami, underworld gangs).

Then, inexplicably, he is released after spending 10 years locked away. However, he quickly learns that his locked up life is far from over, as he is handed some money and a cell phone, which makes him fink that the game is not over yet. He knows that he’s still being watched this is an example of voyeurism and also raises loads of question, creates enigma.

He starts his hunt for the unknown enemy. He pieces together clues that eventually lead him to the person responsible for his imprisonment, which is a businessman.

The protagonist wanted answers to the two burning questions. 1) Why was he imprisoned in the first place? 2) Why was he released 10 years later? The protagonist uncovers more than a few shocking revelations.

However after a very long period of time the business man tells the protagonist that he’s daughter is still alive which he hasn’t seen since he left her when she was only 4 years old. The antagonist takes the protagonist in a room and makes him watch a TV. A little girl roughly aged 14-15 was getting priced in a prostitute house. Old men were raising bids to buy the innocent little girl.

The protagonist finds out that the girl he was watching was his daughter and tries to get her out of that place. The antagonist tells the protagonist to think about what he did when he was in secondary school. The audience finds out a little story about the protagonist through a flash back of when he was in secondary school. This is what happened:

The protagonist went to the girls dancing lessons after school and tried to rape her but couldn’t really do anything as she ran away but he told everyone how he had sex with her.

Now the innocent girl comes back to school the very next day and people start abusing her and making fun of her. She was quite light hearted as she had no parent just a little brother which was in the same school so she decided to kill herself.

One night the little boy had to see his own sister getting burned in her room and he couldn’t do anything about it as he was too young and the door was locked. So he decided to kill the guy who he thought raped his sister. He waited for more than 20 years to get him. As soon as the protagonists daughter turned 4 he locked him up till the protagonist daughter was the same age as he sister and makes her go through the same thing but however at the end the protagonist get his daughter back all safe. And the antagonist kills the protagonist and looks after the little girl as she was his own sister.

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