Evaluation 1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? Narrative Narrative of my film : a killer hidden in plain sight, in the position of love/caring, i.e. someone who we trust. My narrative is essentially a well-known tailor with an alter ego of a serial killer, who kills by night, and is a tailor by day. Their motive is not fully known, it’s rather personal and a mystery for the audience to uncode and discover. Her motive is past trauma, and her killings are a testament to her emerging from her trauma and growing. As compared to traditional Thriller openings, my opening features a serial killer who kills with a sharp, deadly object — this is conventional of the thriller openings, as most main characters are either murderers, serial killers, spies, etc, They who kill. However, my character doesn’t kill with traditional weapons, but rather a needle, something they’re very familiar with and uses...
Thriller films vs Horror films Differences in: 1. Narrative: • Horror films can have a mini-plot (multiple victims) or arch-plot, featuring a single protagonist . The Thriller typically has a single protagonist. 2. Themes Controlling ideas (themes) A story’s controlling idea (sometimes called the theme) is the lesson you want your reader to come away with. It’s the meaning they will assign to your story, usually unconsciously. A prescriptive or positive story is about what we should do. A cautionary or negative story is about what we shouldn’t do. Horror • Prescriptive: Life is preserved when the protagonist overpowers the monster/antagonist and becomes the hero. • Cautionary: Death or a "fate worse than death" results when the protagonist fails to overpower the monster and is succumbed to defeat. Thriller • Prescriptive: Life is preserved when the protagonist unleashes their special gift/power • ...
ZODIAC (2008) opening scene: Zodiac is a psychological thriller film, based on the original, real-life serial killer, known as the zodiac killer who's written messages contained different transcripts of messages. This film also relates to my own film, as it’s based on the original zodiac killer, who’s been hidden amidst the shadows since his last murderers and his identify was only revealed earlier this year (2021). As the killer’s info is scarce, and his motive was and still us unknown, it relates a lot to my film, as I wasn’t too sure whether the motive was unknown or known. In the opening scene, the setting is first shown - San Francisco. The location looks 3D as though it's not real and completely CGI. The typography used is Futura light, and through a fade out of the characters, the original writing the zodiac used is then shown. The subtleness of the fade out, really helps build our understanding of the mov...
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