Saturday 15 December 2012
The Results Of Our Questionnaire
This shows that most people go for comedy as a genre, then horror.
This chart shows that people prefer mystery for the opening scene instead of knowing what's going to happen.
From this, it shows a lot of people enjoy investigations.
Monday 3 December 2012
Our synopsis of the film we are making;
Our film is about a young girl at the age of 10 and her father 42.
In the part of the film we are filming you (the audience) never find out the name of the little girl, so to help you understand the name of her is Isobella. Now Isobella is to be seen as living an ordinary life like any other 10 year old apart from, she is not.
Her father, who also doesn’t have a name in the first part either, Mark was once in the army as a young boy. He continued for as long as he could but stopped at the age of 32.
Mark used to have a wife while in the army, and the three of them made one happy family. But things all changed for them when Mark was diagnosed with severe shellshock. His wife Anna couldn’t cope and left Mark with Isobella with him. She now lives somewhere in America with her new husband and family. Mark and Isobella hadn’t heard from her since and that was over 15 years ago.
The walk out of Anna distressed Mark even more and he turned sick and twisted keeping his only daughter in a dog cage at the end of his garden, only feeding her dog food and the occasional treat such as his leftovers, and that was on a good day. This goes on for years at a time and is the only life Isobella knows.
Towards the middle of the film the next door neighbours of the big house Mark lives in arise a concern to the police of screams being heard from his back garden, nothing really comes of it and is dropped.
Out of surprise Marks wife Anna comes back into the picture and comes to visit her daughter, only to find out the terror of her daughter living the life she does.
Conventions of a thriller genre
The thriller genre is contained in wide range of films and is easy to identify the characteristics of a thriller. The aim of a thriller is to keep the audience excited and keep them on the edge of their seats. The popular sub-genres used in thrillers are horror and psychological. The key elements used in thrillers are characters, plot and theme. In thrillers the main character usually comes across death, the plot is usually focused on mystery that needs to be solved or the characters are on a long-term quest that lasts throughout the movie. Thrillers are also filmed from the main’s character point of view so it’s easier for the audience to follow and understand the character’s story. Thrillers are normally stories that the audience can relate to, but are just exaggerated a bit more to make the story more interesting. There’s also a villain that is corrupting the world in some way and a hero that serves justice.
Friday 30 November 2012
Programmes which give you an insight into thriller/horror!
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead is an award winning series that has got America on the edge of their seats! The Walking Dead is an American TV series which is based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman. It's a horror/thriller series which involves the likes of an zombie apocalypse. This programme gives an insight on the thriller/horror genre because it's shows elements of what thriller/horror programmes are about. For example in The Walking Dead they shows a group of people trying to survive having to protect themselves whilst going through obstacles of getting attacked by the zombies. Another key element they include is death, where they show the death of zombies and humans either getting killed by a weapon or getting infected and eaten alive. The series also shows the fights and struggles the group of survivers go through, including the tension between them which creates enigmas for the audience because they start to analysis the programme and wonder how this all started, which grips the audience, because they want to see more.
True Blood
Another thiller/horror programme is True Blood which is another programme that has done well in the USA and the UK. True Blood is a little different to The Walking Dead, although both series includes supernatural elements. True Blood is an American TV series created by Alan Ball and is based on the novel called The Southern Vampire. True Blood is a series that follow a woman called Sookie Stackhouse, who can read minds, but her life gets turned around when the 'Vampire Bill' (a group of vampires) comes into her life. True Blood also shows some conventions of the genre seeing as the main characters are innocent people trying to get on with their life but are targeted by hungry vampires. It also shows elements of death because the vampires can sometimes kill the humans by drinking all their blood. The series also shows elements of tension as they add romance into it which creates also of tension for the audience because it includes the 'Will they or won't they?' story. This is also another popular convention in horror/thriller genre because there is always a strong man defending their girlfriend/partner.True Blood also creates enigmas for the audience aswell as they would anaylsis the series and want to find out who will survive and what will happen in the ending as the series also tells a story which the audience are likely to follow.
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