Costume Design- Characters - James

JAMES - Nicholas's son who he needs to protect

     

                                                            

Asset list - Props

Asset list - Filming Equipment

FILMING EQUIPMENT

 

 

 

 

Audience And BBFC research Guidance, references to Taken

Audience & BBFC research Guidance & examples on Prezi

Audicnece expectations of thriller- Vox Pop

I picked three people that would have different opinions on thrillers due to age, gender and different interests. This allowed my results to show a wide range of different opinions on what is expected from thrillers.

Final film brainstorm - Motive

Where a thriller could be located.

I took this picture in Germany. Many thrillers are located in busy, conjested,rural area's such as this location in Germany. This location would offer a variety of different typcial thriller scenes- chase and action scenes on the river, the streets and bridges. Addtionally many thrillers are set in europian country's such as Taken. Some of the  buildings are company buildings. This would easily relate into a location for a thriller due to typcial charatcers in a thriller are buisness men.

Framework How sound presents social class

Framework how sound represents the social class- gender- how they are represented form this and how this challenges or reinforces there genders on society. From the series ‘the street’

Step one feminine- women character is represented as feminine uses quiet, soothing sounds- to infer her motherly side. Stereotypical for a female to be motherly as a mother is represented as the one who looks after children. Typical motherly role.

Masculine- shouting- shows aggressions and power installing authority into the male. Stereotypical representation for the male is to be dominant which is apparent in this character. As he raises his voice to be seen as intimidating and in control.

Feminine- represented as being a sexual object to males- content to wanting ot please the male gender. Through when eating the food’ the slurping noises’ hint the suggestion of sexual frustration which is foreshadowed when she has the affair with the other man. Represents women as specially being a sexual object to men.  Also highlights women to being disposables the man had cheated on his wife.

 

Step two- power- man and women both dominant as shouting which exerts power and authority.  however they both have moments when both genders are singularly most dominant. For example-  noise of dishwasher water spraying everywhere is loud, piercing  and aggressive- stereotypical characteristics of a masculine persona therefore this noise is masculine. Subsequently, this masculine sound is dominant amongst any other sounds, which impersonates the male character as the woman cannot deal with the noise as stereotypically symbolizes as weaker and unaware about technology. However,  technology is within a mans territory of knowledge, therefore the man inverts authority and takes on the task of diminishing the sound, implying that the male character has the dominating role.

Step 3- man acting in a way that is socially excepted for example is shouting, raising his voice exerting an aggressive typical dominant male. Trying to exert authority to show he is in charge of the argument and his points are significant, he raises his voice as he wants to be heard and listened too, this makes him look normal as males are represented frequently as being dominant and in charge.

Step 4- This reinforces male stereotypes as he is reinforcing and idolising himself around a typical male persona so that no social pressures are inflicted onto him, must live up and act in a way that is socially accepted and expected.

 

Individual Idea- Presentation

 

Thriller action crime thriller idea.

PITCH 

• Crime/Action Thriller
• Target Audience 18-25 years old. 

Title- Obsession
Plot- Nicholas  a man who lives in london originally from france is tracking a 17 year old girl called Nicholas. The girl's father works for the government in London. Her father organized an operation to capture and torture Nicholas's brother .( As he was proven to be murdering children in parts of europe such as germany and france.) This man' son was killed and he believed it was Melissa's father who worked in the government who murdered him  however it was because Nicholas's son committed suicide due to rather being dead then being put into prison. As a form of revenge this man is hunting down Melissa and is planning on killing her. The story is about Nicholas hunting Melissa down and having to become close to her and her relatives so that he can abduct her. However he becomes attracted to Melissa but he still wants to kill her to get Justice for his brothers death. This leaves him obsessed by her in a deadly and emotional way.
Influenced by-Pierre morel as the film has a similar story-line to Taken.
Enigma Code- Will he kill Melissa
Fit the sub- genre-  Crime as weapons are used in the thriller and its an action film as it involves interrogation scenes and abduction.
How does it appeal to the audience- Even though the audience will automatically take a distaste to Nicholas for wanting to kill Melissa . They will be intrigued into knowing if Nicholas has a dark relationship with Melissa. They will also find it thrilling to found out if he will kill her too. Also at the beginning of the film he will find her, and how he manages to get close to her family and her in order to abduct her.

Characters

KIM - TAKEN

The character of Kim in Taken/ Taken 2 is the daughter of a man who used to work for the goverment. Similary in our Thriller opening- Obsession, the character of Mellisa has a Dad that works for the goverment. Therefroe these two chaarcters are similar and have similar roles in the thriller as the girl who needs to protecting and is in potential danger.

BRYAN - TAKEN

Bryan plays the character of the Dad who used to work for the goverment. In 'obsession' Mellisa's Dad works for the goverment. This helps give an indication of what Mellisa's dad will look like and how he is as an character.

GEORGE HARVEY- LOVELY BONES

 

Similar to the fim -Taken

 

falling down foley by nicole, callum and Tom

Falling down Foley By Nicole, Callum and Tom
This was our Falling down Foley remake. We created it through looking at the falling down foley opening sequence and recording all the individual sounds used within it. We plotted this information by creating a timeline. We plotted when each sound came in and when it finished. Also which sounds continued at the same time and overlapped eachother. We recorded the  sounds from 30 seconds to 2 minutes 30 seconds. Furthermore, once the sounds were plotted onto the graph we used garage band. Gaage band allows us to insert sounds into it and merge the sounds into eachother. We needed sounds that were similar to the sounds from the film therefroe we used sound bible. Sound bible was a website that stored loads of sounds for us to choose from to allow us to have the most realsitic sound that sounded as close and acccurate to the real one from the film. The pictures below show the timeline. This helped develop my knowledge on what sounds should be expected within a thriller , and which sounds i should consider using in my own thriller opening.  It also helps increase my capabitltiy in using garage band and what websites are useful such as 'sound bible' .