Location
The location is aesthetically pleasing and aids the transportation of the audience into another world that is more myth than reality. This is reinforced by the use of the dissolves and fades to black we used that indicate ambiguity and mystery, much like a myth. Equally, the fades to black enhance the continuity and ensure the thriller opening flows.
Costume
The costume is contemporary high street fashion which our potential audience is able to relate and identify with, this also enables the audience to position themselves with the main characters and become emotionally involved in the plot. Moreover, the audience is empathic with characters as they see them as ordinary people like themselves within extraordinary situations such as murder. This enhances the situation making it more realistic and thus more chilling.
Lighting
Our thriller avoids using the generic 'chiaroscuro' lighting as the bleakness of the winter day we chose to film enhanced the actions so well, any editing or non ambient light would ruin the bleakness of the thriller and make it unrealistic. Those familiar and fans of the 1994 production of Heavenly Creatures will note the similarity between both location and lighting.
Soundtrack
Our soundtrack consists of mixed sections of The Eternal Forest is both melancholic and mystifying much like that of Madame Butterfly in Heavenly Creatures. Usually, media productions that have a teenage demographic use upbeat popular music and although this would have contrasted well with our thriller, it would have also taken away the reality of it. The soundtrack climaxes with action of Danielle (female character) murdering Billy (male character and therefore narrates the thriller.
Camera Angles
Our thriller used many common camera angles that are seen throughout media genres from Thrillers to Comedies. The most used shot we used as extreme close ups, we used such in order to give an alternative perspective much like art house /independent productions.
Stereotypes
We challenged the female stereotypes by attempting to make the main female character a femme fatal and not a damsel in distress, this is affective as the female dominant audience becomes empowered by such. However, some audiences may read the representation of our femme fatal as being misogynistic in that any woman who deviates from the normal behaviour of women is treacherous and is also going against the normal behaviour of society by murdering; therefore the deviation of women should be frowned upon.
Intertextual references
As previously mentioned, we took much inspiration from Heavenly Creatures (1994) therefore our location and lighting is representative of such, as too is our storyline which sees a female character take control. Billy is representative of Pauline's mother in Heavenly Creatures as he is vulnerable in the large open space surrounds and eventually killed. If our audience notes this connection they be anticipating Billy's downfall from the very beginning.
Another reference is to Kill Bill Vol. 1, Danielle represents The Bride both with long blonde hair and a motive of revenge. The demographic audience of Kill Bill Vol.1 is likely to also appreciate such similarity in our thriller, encouraging them to watch on. However, as mentioned in question one, Danille could also represent the character of Bill in Kill Bill Vol.1 through the close up of her hands and rings much like that of the opening sequence in Kill BIll Vol.1 when Bill wipes blood from The Brides face, suggesting the audience that she too is a strong character not to be messed with. The fact Danielle represents both The Bride and Bill suggests to the audience she has an alternative motive for her crime and encourages them to want to discover what such is; again, a similar response to the opening of Kill Bill. Vol.1
Cliffhanger
Despite referring to Danielle's actions as murder, the cliffhanger suggests that perhaps Billy could still be alive. The thought of not knowing will entice the audience to continue watching. The ambiguity of Danielle's actions as well as not much of her character being shown, mainly just her hands and shoes intrigues the audience. Additionally, our thriller does not specify that the action is happening in 'current time' it could be a flashback suggesting the films plot could perhaps be more focused on the relationship and not the actual murder. We also used a fade to black at the very end irritating the audience further by not showing the outcome of the rope around Billy's neck.
All of which makes the audience anticipate every scene, and want to know what happens next.
Lighting
Our thriller avoids using the generic 'chiaroscuro' lighting as the bleakness of the winter day we chose to film enhanced the actions so well, any editing or non ambient light would ruin the bleakness of the thriller and make it unrealistic. Those familiar and fans of the 1994 production of Heavenly Creatures will note the similarity between both location and lighting.
Soundtrack
Our soundtrack consists of mixed sections of The Eternal Forest is both melancholic and mystifying much like that of Madame Butterfly in Heavenly Creatures. Usually, media productions that have a teenage demographic use upbeat popular music and although this would have contrasted well with our thriller, it would have also taken away the reality of it. The soundtrack climaxes with action of Danielle (female character) murdering Billy (male character and therefore narrates the thriller.
Camera Angles
Our thriller used many common camera angles that are seen throughout media genres from Thrillers to Comedies. The most used shot we used as extreme close ups, we used such in order to give an alternative perspective much like art house /independent productions.
Intertextual references
As previously mentioned, we took much inspiration from Heavenly Creatures (1994) therefore our location and lighting is representative of such, as too is our storyline which sees a female character take control. Billy is representative of Pauline's mother in Heavenly Creatures as he is vulnerable in the large open space surrounds and eventually killed. If our audience notes this connection they be anticipating Billy's downfall from the very beginning.
Another reference is to Kill Bill Vol. 1, Danielle represents The Bride both with long blonde hair and a motive of revenge. The demographic audience of Kill Bill Vol.1 is likely to also appreciate such similarity in our thriller, encouraging them to watch on. However, as mentioned in question one, Danille could also represent the character of Bill in Kill Bill Vol.1 through the close up of her hands and rings much like that of the opening sequence in Kill BIll Vol.1 when Bill wipes blood from The Brides face, suggesting the audience that she too is a strong character not to be messed with. The fact Danielle represents both The Bride and Bill suggests to the audience she has an alternative motive for her crime and encourages them to want to discover what such is; again, a similar response to the opening of Kill Bill. Vol.1
Cliffhanger
Despite referring to Danielle's actions as murder, the cliffhanger suggests that perhaps Billy could still be alive. The thought of not knowing will entice the audience to continue watching. The ambiguity of Danielle's actions as well as not much of her character being shown, mainly just her hands and shoes intrigues the audience. Additionally, our thriller does not specify that the action is happening in 'current time' it could be a flashback suggesting the films plot could perhaps be more focused on the relationship and not the actual murder. We also used a fade to black at the very end irritating the audience further by not showing the outcome of the rope around Billy's neck.
All of which makes the audience anticipate every scene, and want to know what happens next.
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