CCR1 - script for presentation

The way the script turned out after the first draft seemed fit into the genre of thriller. We had ended up in included many general conventions of the thriller genre in it already (examples listed). 

Some other thrillers we used for inspiration were: 

You: 

you season 3 follow the story of a man and wife killing duo. our opening sequence contains a jealous wife who kills her husbands mistress, creating a power shift in the couple. This show really influenced our type of script as it gave us more ideas to play with whilst writing it. 

As you can see we used a similar shot which shows our main character the wife looking through a window both characters eyes visible to the camera to display as much visible emotion as possible.

Shot comparison: 

You, took our original story, and turned into a deeper more darker. We all liked the edit of the shot ending as soon as theres contact from the bat to the victim the shot changes. In our instance our entire sequences ended leaving a cliffhanger for the audience. Another convention of thrillers, leaving the audience uncertain or wanting from the story.

Sounds: 

theres not many diegetic sounds in our piece, the final part with the bat coming down the stairs and the hit of the baseball bat. The music from the show is similar, with you using a cover indie version of hit me baby one more time and ours using Kate bushes babushka. To songs used frequently in the thriller genre. 

Mis-en-scene: our costumes were simple, suburban nuclear family style. The wide wearing a jacket and shirt similar too You.  

Gone girl: gone girl is the story of a wife who tries to frame her husband for murder for him cheating. 

We used gone girl for a-lot of inspiration for the way out shots were filmed and the lighting used. David Fincher used a-lot of light blues and greys too create a misty type of aura around the film and we incorporated that into our opening sequence. 

I spit on your grave — 

I spit on your grave is a 1978 rape/revenge film which is one of the first films to categorise and show a strong female protagonist whom takes revenge upon her attackers. This film was one of the inspirations for the aforementioned film gone girl and we liked the idea of a strong female lead who does convey to the stigma of, ‘pretty so dull’.

Conventions of an opening titles sequence: 

In thrillers, they typically open with some establishing shots of the setting so the audience can get a feel for the time period etc. and the general genre. For example a comedy title sequence typically look more like this: shows. 

Brighter colours and images. 

Gone girl does similar to us, establishing shots than the introduction of the main antagonist. Ours is a shorter more condensed version as we have a shorter sequence. We have 1 establishing shot, then a close up of our antagonist the wife. As they are the first character seen it shows their relevance to the film, then secondary characters etc are introduced after that. with These three characters are all introduced at the same time to automatically show their close connection and automatically establish an image of them together in the audiences head. 

Social groups — our social group introduced portrays to a certain degree the nuclear family. Hetero-sexual parents with a child however its split by the introduction of the ‘mistress’. 

But she is introduced with the husband and son, making it unaware of too whoms more involved in the relationship.

Editing — shown through window with first introduction. Cuts of the ‘new family’ 

Mis - en -scene — environment in the cafe.  

Slide 15 — male gaze — Laura mullvey.. is where women in the media are viewed from the eyes of a heterosexual man, and that these women are represented as passive objects of male desire.  

Sort of with freya as her only purpose is the mistress of the husband and has no noticeable attributes.  Contrasted by the strong female lead. Of the wife taking revenge.