MEDIA ASESSAY QUESTION PRACTISE

By Fahad Nazor

Q1: How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups?

In my opening sequence the cast consist of 4 characters. The first and main character/protagonist is named Tyra chuck, who is the girl that the house in my movie belongs to along with her parents and she is also the character who organizes the sleep over in which all the main action within the opening sequence as well as the majority of the rest of the film will occur in. The second and third of my characters are named Owen Edabor and Sarah B, these two characters are not the main ones but are as just as important and featured in the opening sequence as Tyra is. Together they will all make up a group of friends having the sleep over and the turning victim to a series of unfortunate events within the film based on the storyline. The last character featured in my opening sequence and throughout the whole of the film is spiritual but also very vital, the antagonist , this role will be edited to be played completely to its typical codes and conventions with the antagonist being every bit of evil and troublesome in order to suit its ‘ evil guy’ role.

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The main Character, Tyra will at first be represented as the typical female protagonist, very vulnerable and also very much linked danger. I will use soft music, to show her ‘kind’ vulnerability to introduce and long timed camera shots so the viewers can get to know and understand her quickly by her body language, speech and actions and easily through the extra emphasize on her using those technical aspects. However I will then show the other conventions of her typical protagonist like characteristics by using quick slick camera shots and fast music whenever she’ either in dialogue or action to show her transformation into a heroine throughout. This Character reminds me of a character named ‘Stacey’ from a similar horror movie called ‘cabin in the woods’ because both started off as very vulnerable typical female representations in a horror movie but then ended up to fulfill the full role of the protagonist they are aimed to be in similar story line equally showing how the female can toughen up during the hardest and most scariest of situations

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  The other two characters Owen and Sarah’s

representation will be very similar and basic from the start. With little extra technical aspects of help I will show them to be innocent and normal with little excitement and more cautiousness to their personalities. Suspense building music will be a big factor when it comes to dialogue between these characters as they will be inherit the typical ‘better safe than sorry’ attitude throughout the film, from start till finish which is very common in the genre film I am basing my production on (Horror). These two characters both remind me of Characters from the ‘final destination’ movie thriller and they have been based exactly from the characters in that movie to ensure and increase accuracy within their roles.

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Lastly the representation of the antagonist in my production will involve a large amount of technical aspects throughout. Slow, scary tension building music and fast paced horrific sound effects, dark scenery and quick transitions through camera work will all be used in order for this character to build as much suspense as possible whenever involved and to also emphasize the evil, dark and mysterious characteristics I intend for it to have so viewers easily recognize its typical, common antagonist role.

Q2: Who would be the audience for your specific thriller? Explain which sub-genre you have chosen :

Q2: Who would be the audience for your specific thriller? Explain which sub-genre you have chosen ( Continued ):

Q3: In what ways does your media product USE, DEVELOP or CHALLENGE forms and conventions of real thrillers?

Our media product uses and develops forms and conventions of real thrillers in many different and effective ways.

Firstly, we have looked at many different similar horror thrillers with the same sub-genre in order to enhance our knowledge and understandings of the exact ingredients needed to be used when in the planning of our opening sequence so that we could take note of the techniques and conventions used in those real thriller in order to create a production that will be as professional as possible so that viewers would have the ability to easily recognize and be familiar with the genre we are trying to portray as quickly and effectively as possible

Q3: In what ways does your media product USE, DEVELOP or CHALLENGE forms and conventions of real thrillers? (Continued)

Secondly, we have developed and used forms and conventions of real thrillers by using a large use of common and typical features of codes and conventions with things such as weaponry, blood, dark mise-en-scene, a antagonist and protagonist, influential diagetic and non- diagetic music and death all being very important factors of our production. This itself shows how we have studied many different other real made thriller with the same sub-genre as ours and took their features and put them into play in our product which is the most effective technique when trying to familiarize our sub-genre to its rules and principles. We have also developed forms and conventions of real thrillers by adding our own unfamiliar twist, although story/plot twists are very common in our type of production sub-genre, we have developed this convention, because they tend to be very similar in different movies, by adding a very unique and unfamiliar twist in order to wow our audience all in suspense which should bring success.

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