Credit Lists

Credits Lists

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

Final Synopsis

With my group we decided that our final synopsis will be about 17 year old Janet is a quite lonely girl who doesn't have many friends or personal life. She's use yo being by herself and not needing to impress anyone. However when new girl Claire comes along and pays Janet a bit too much attention it becomes a strange feeling.

Claire has paid a peculiar interest to Janet and wants her to always be by her side. Claire's fascination for Janet isn't sexual but an obsession of her personality. They go out to a party and when Janet doesn't want to play along to her rules Claire isn't happy about it. Prier to this Janet had found multiple pictures of herself in Claire's bag; and she had started to have doubts about their friendship.

Claire decides she's had enough of Janet's behavior so she spikes her drink. Janet drinks it and wonders into the road, where she drops and dies.

Now innocent, quite, Janet is dead and there's no trace of Claire.

Treatment

Treatment on Prezi

Character Profile

Character Profile on Prezi

Character profile on Prezi

Risk Assesment

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment 2

Risk Assessment 2

Location Recce

Location Recce

Location Recce

Location Recce 2

'Just Friends?' Costume List

Costume List

'Just Friends?' Prop List

prop list

What is Censorship?

Censorship

Target Audience Profile

TARGET AUDIENCE PROFILE.

Target Audience Profile

Readership Profile

Analysing other media students AS title sequences

Analysing other media students AS title sequences

Film Openings and Representation

            Representation is how someone or something is portrayed. It may alter with clothes, background, settings and hair etc. It is important when creating a film opening to represent the characters and locations because it is a way of molding the audience’s perception towards the characters. Sometimes a character will be represented in a particular way because of the target audience and the emotions the audience should have to them.

                The genre of my film opening is a Thriller. The narrative of a typical thriller is about injustice vs justice. There are usually events that involve kidnap, murder, stalking etc that somebody needs to come over. Often the events start from the end and work backwards which is the way my group have decided to do out opening. The reason being the audience see’s what has happened but want to know how this has happened. Why are two girls in an alley way? However more importantly why is one on the floor in a pool of her own blood? The audience will come to their individual conclusion and then they can work backwards and we can keep our audience guessing (often wrongly) and try and have as many twists and turns as possible.

                Within the thriller genre the characters never give much away through dialogue. This is one of the aspects we are playing with for the opening sequence. Throughout the sequence you will not hear anything that they say clearly, music will be played over the top. This holds the mystery of what happened. Also you don’t see that one of the girls is becoming obsessed with the other fully so you feel sympathy towards one character which this then turned which provokes new thoughts from the audience because subconsciously they would have an attachment to one girl until they see the other side of the story which changes the whole perception of the plot.

                In a thriller opening sequence the location and setting the scene is very important. Often we see isolated buildings, houses, crime scenes and place out of peoples view. Often they are dark (low key lighting), eerie and scary looking locations. This all helps to create suspense and a mysterious narrative to keep the audience compelled. We chose to have two locations, a party that will set the plot and then an alley way where we will see the dead body and the other female protagonist looking worried. In the party the lighting is fun, bright lights and connotes a good time. In the alley way there would be a deep, dark red or blue filter which gives dangerous haze over the scene, it helps to define the genre.

                We will be using the technique of the Enigma code, which is means you leave unanswered questions for the audience in the opening sequence, it leaves the audience wanting to know more. By working backwards from what it seems the villain’s perspective and finding out why her friend is left dead in an alley gives the audience involvement. It also defies some typical thriller narrative, as usually the main focus is around the ‘hero’ trying to find out how to solve a situation, or a victim’s perspective so this is a bit different but I feel it gives a good twist on the stereotypical thriller genre.

                Another way we are also challenging a typical thriller opening sequence is with our characters, we are using counter types. In most thrillers the protagonist is male which builds the stereotype that men are physically and emotional stronger. The victims are often blonde, pretty and vulnerable. However in our case the ‘stronger’ character is the one that ends up dead. I feel this makes it more relevant and authentic because it shows that men aren’t always the ‘hero’ and sometimes there is no hero at all. Sometimes there’s more than one villain.

'Just Friends?' Script

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Synopsis and concept of film opening

Synopsis:

My film synopsis idea is to have a young millionaire that gets kidnapped and tortured to get to his Father who is a powerful MP. Mixing politics, action and AK47's is the perfect recipe for a thriller. Miles Anderson is a eighteen year old boy that has everything he ever wanted, his Father is a wealthy MP with a lot of power in London. When Miles starts finding notes left for him, he doesn't take much notice until he starts receiving death threats. It isn't long before he is kidnapped on a night out, with the mixture of alcohol and a buzzing group of friends nobody realizes that he is missing. The kidnappers want access to important documents and his Father bank account at Couts. They send his Father  clips of their son asking for the documents for the kidnappers. His father is left in a dilemma to put his job and all other MP's obs on the line to save his son. But what will he choose?