Response to the Client Brief

 Response to the Client Brief

Explanation of Demographics

what information do you have about your audience?

The audience is aimed at 16–24-year-olds, which in the UK, would have the film rated 15. However, in the US, the rating would be PG-13. In the thriller there will be blood included in certain scenes; mild swearing to bring more emphasis on emotions; and humour to make the audience feel amused. These specific choices will be included as the target audience find violent humour and scenes appealing for a thriller film.

What are the advantages and disadvantages in making your thriller for this audience?

The editing software along with the cameras provided, we are able to edit lighting in scenes to fit the appropriate mood, such as filming in the daytime then having to edit the scene to be more cinematic and darker. There will also be fake blood used in order to have a similar effect to real blood, effectively making the audience curious yet disturbed. The ability to get the audience to understand what`s going on visually will allow the audience to connect the dots themselves - which may be a struggle with. On the contrary, editing needs to be accurate and realistic to make the film be the best quality. If the scenes do not flow visibly, you can tell as an audience that it is unrealistic, thus giving the urge to not continue watching as its not appealing at all.

Conventions:

What are the Thriller conventions you will have to include in your work?

The enigma will be who was involved in the black magic activity and will the protagonists successfully banish and cleanse of the black magic. The suspense is built with creepy visuals and only one protagonist sees visions that trip them all out.

Each convention will include trippy visions, key scenes, the enigma that builds within all the suspenseful scenes and unsettling visuals leading up towards the investigation of the protagonists.

Industry Requirements:

What institution is your Thriller being produced for?

The institution our thriller is being produced for is Blumhouse Productions and 21st Century Fox. Blumhouse Productions is well-known for its iconic horror films such as Happy Death Day and Get out. 21st Century Fox is also a very famous institution known for its various, popular films. With this combination, we are certainly able to produce an incredible thriller film. 

Considering your target audience, what regulatory issues must you consider in the UK?

With our target audience being 16-24, the regulatory issues considered will be ASA, OFCOM, BBFC in the UK.

What institutional information must your text include?

The information our text must include will be age rating as there is a specific target age range for the audience and film. We must make sure the customers are of that age range. If they happen to be below, they must be accompanied by an adult.

Medium:

What medium are you working in?

The medium we are working in is the film industry. We are producing a two-minute opening sequence to our thriller film. The genre our film fits into best would be a comedy/supernatural thriller.

 

Analysis of Themes in Thriller 

Thriller film name: Joker (2019)

 

Key Themes:

 -Death
 -Revenge
 -Perception of Reality

How Key Themes are Denotated within the trailer:

Revenge- In the movie, Revenge can be seen when Arthur (Joker) cannot control his laughing disorder on the train. This causes a few guys to take advantage of Arthur (Joker) and beat him up, however Arthur (Joker) continues to laugh this allows the guys on the train to continue taking advantages of Arthur (Joker) as they assume that he can't help himself. Once the train stops at the last platform Arthur (joker) picks up a gun and shoots one guy in the leg he then shoots the other two, this is Arthur's way of revenge and getting back at the guys who thought they could take advantage of him. 

Death- In this movie, death can be seen when Arthur (joker) kills the Tv Presenter Murray. Arthur (Joker) attends Tv Presenter Murrays Live conference where it all takes a bad turn for Murray where Murray offends Arthur and makes jokes out of Arthur. This is when Arthur takes it personal, Arthur then lashes out and shoots Murray in the head In front of a huge audience and then sits there with his legs crossed this is a key theme of death.

Perception of Reality- In this movie, Arthur (Joker) has a personality disorder. Arthur see's the world differently to everyone, he relies on his mother but when his mother passes away. Arthur gets into shock and his whole world flips this can be seen as Perception of reality. Arthur is still trying to find himself in his own world.

Themes seen within the Trailer:

Revenge- In the trailer revenge can be seen when the guys beat Arthur up and he is on the floor however towards the ending of the trailer Arthur is running away with the bag as the police sirens head towards the scene. (1:52) In this Scene we can see that Arthur has raided the whole city and people are following in his footsteps ready to destroy Arkham with him as he laughs away.

Perception of reality- This theme can be see in the trailer when Arthur talks about how his whole life he didn't know who he really was or if he really existed, we can also tell that Arthur has some kind of mental health condition as he goes to see someone weekly about therapy and to see if he is okay. (1:32) In this scene Arthur quotes " I  didn't know if I really existed."

Death- (2:03) Moments before Murrays gets shot dead on the Live Conference Arthur asks him to do a favour and bring him out on show as the 'Joker'.

The Effect of the Theme on the Audience? 

Revenge - Revenge plays a big effect on the audience this is because the word 'revenge' is usually used in a bad way when it comes to human society. In 'Joker' the revenge is shown in a violent way this could encourage the audience to use revenge the way Arthur (Joker) did or even a worser way.

Perception of Reality- This theme does not affect all audience however this could play a big emotional role for some people, many people now days in society suffer with many different mental health conditions and a perception of reality comes under the mental health condition. Perception of reality is when you don't see reality the same way as other humans do which usually comes under mental health/health conditions. Some member of the audience themselves could suffer with a condition which could be very upsetting to them other may feel sorry for Arthur (Joker) as he was attached to his mother, others may feel the pain of Arthur and his mothers passing, Overall the audience could have many different reactions.

Death - Death is a very sad theme to a lot of people who have lost a loved one, death could triger many different reactions such as crying, anger and sadness. The audience watching Joker may possibly be shocked when seeing what Arthur (Joker) does to the Tv presenter Murray , and have no words, this is because Murray being shot on a live conference was unexpected to the audience watching Joker.

Exploring the 3 Themes in My Own Film:

In my film that i will be creating i would explore the theme 'Revenge' i have chosen to explore this theme i my future film because you can create a lot of possible scenes with the theme of revenge in good and bad ways however i would explore my theme of revenge in  bad way which would lead to consequences and a plot which expands further into the film/ scene i would be creating.

Thriller Tech MoodBoard

 Thriller Mood board

Mise-En-scene 

Lighting

- The lighting in this movie was shot through the sun and was angled off from a low camera point so that it could show how tall the tower was. 

- The Lighting was also shot for dramatic effect when they were at the top of the tower this can be seen 3/4 of the movie and mostly towards the end

- The lighting is quite strong as the movie is filmed during broad daylight.  

Location

- The Location set in the 'Fall' movie is set in a desert in California. 

- The environment is isolated.

- Set around the 'B67' tower.

Costumes

- The costumes worn throughout the film would be casual clothes that would be worn in the Summer.

- The main characters throughout the films had other essentials on them such as backpacks and climbing equipment.

- they are wearing casual clothes this could show that they are middle class people who are just dressed for summer.

Era

- The movie is set in present day. 

- Broad daylight

Performance

- This Thriller film is a survival thriller film.

- This movie has elements of jump Scares where the audience feels a certain way towards the two girls being on the top of the tower. 

Props

- The props used through out the film was a Backpack , ropes, water bottle and a cardigan from around the waist.

- The Backpack was used to carry the ropes and water bottle

- Ropes were used to help when the girl had fallen down they had used the ropes to try and pull her back up.

- The water bottle was used to drink water as they would get dehydrated due to the heat from the desert.

- The cardigan around the waist was used for help to help her reach out.

Camera

Shot Types

- Moments of close up shots to focus on the characters emotions.

- There was long shots to show how tall the tower was and how scary the tower looked from above.

Camera Angle

- In the film the camera angles start from a stable horizontal angle and then changes into a low angle showing the desert floor to the top of the tower, the top of the tower is spotted to represent the distance from the desert floor to the top of the tower.

- Angles that are used to show the difference and distance from the bottom of the desert floor to the top of the tower:

- Low angle shots

- Short angle shots ( used to show emotions )

. The angles used is to attract the audience and keep them focused when watching.

Camera Movement

- The Camera movement in the film has been used a lot to show the characters emotions throughout the film , the camera also captures the height from the ground to the top of the tower.

- The thriller is a survival thriller which can be seen as they are trying to survive wile being of the top of the tower, this is because they did not think of a way to get down together in a safe manner.

Editing

Pace

- The film ' The Fall ' started off very sudden, this is because the film started off with a shock and throughout the start of the film the main character was grieving from the loss of her boyfriend. 

- The film is set with a slow pace this is to build up tension within the audience.

- However through out the film the film goes through a slight change which then leads to the pace becoming fast as the two girl set out to climb the tower.

Techniques

- The techniques used within the film would be the transitions being used to show the top of tower to the bottom of the tower.

- The hallucination after one of the girl had died and the main character had been seeing her all along.

- The use of CGI to create tension within the film.

Transitions

- The transitions used were controlled by CGI and it switched fast showing the whole angle at the top of the tower and the view of the ground bottom from birds eye view.

- The transitions were also used to engage the audience this would be an example of when the girl was griefing over her lover and then the fast transition between her going on a trip with her best friend to climb a tower.

Sound

Sound effects

- The sound effects used for this particular film was:

. The scream sound effect was made by the characters, throughout the movie we could here effects which contained sound within them such as the ladder creaking and the siren going off.

- Majority of the sound effects were human voices made when the characters were speaking.

- ladders creaking 

- Wind blowing

- car sounds within the distance

- The sound effects used were created to cause suspense and tension for the audience, this way it engages them and want to find out what happens next.

Music

- The music used within this film was:

- the music used was creating tension, it was a high pitched sound like a purge alarm.

- After the death of her lover their was low base music used to show her loss and grieving towards him.

- Towards the ending scene the same grieving music was used to show her loss of both her lover and best friend.

Dialogue

- The dialogue used at the start of the film was tense, this is because at the start of the film the three of them were rock climbing and one of the characters takes a fall this is when a scream comes out of the main characters mouth this was a tense scene which was created by tension within the dialogue.

- The characters were unique and spoke differently to other film characters, the characters in this film based their dialogue of the tension at the top of the tower.

Voice Over

- There was no voice over in this film.

Mise-En-scene 

Lighting

- The lighting in this film started off welcoming and bright however through out the film the lighting got dark and eerie.

- The Light had causes tension and makes the audience more eager to find out what is going to happen next in the film.

Location

- The location of the film is set in Colorado during the 1970's in the suburbs.

- The main part of the film is in the suburbs in an isolated house which is unknown to the neighbour hood, it is a eerie place which is not visited by any people. This isolated house also allows the film to look realistic for a kidnapping to take place in.

- However the start of the film starts of in a normal neighbour hood and a walk back from school on the way home.

Costumes

- During the film the antagonist is dressed in a suit with a face mask which is attached with two horns the mask is white and has a wild smile across it hiding his face, however the protagonist is a young boy who is dressed in normal pair of jeans and a blue and grey top. 

- The two different costumes allow the audience to be able to tell the difference between the villain and the victim.

Era

- The time of the film was set in the 1970's in the suburbs, we can see this by the other school boys who were also kidnapped we can tell this was the 1970's from the way that they were dressed.

- The Era it was set in also shows how it was more easier to kidnap children and how their was not much security in the olden days. 

Performance

- This film is delivered in a more serious tone it is to bring an awareness towards kidnappings.

- The film is based on the kidnapping and how many children have suffered torture through kidnappings which go unnoticed. 

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