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Action Thriller (Non Comedy) – Script 1

Setting: Camera in dark room panning from right to left pointing at room, police breach door.

Police 1: Lights! Now! (Pointing at switch advancing away from the camera)

Police 2: Power’s down (Flicking switch) He must have known…

Police 1: Forget it then (Taking out flashlight) search the living room

(Shadow dashes past the camera)

(Camera place on top of the counter behind knife stack shadow looming over)

(Camera following police 1 in the kitchen, parallel shot to close up of police 2)

Police 2: (Making confused face, looking down)

(Camera pan to white powder trail leading to couch)

(Parallel shot to police 1 near the fridge)

Police 1: (pull note taped on the fridge looking intensely at it)

Police 2: (POV shot of police 2 pulling out couch cushion finding bags of cocaine)

(Close up shot of police 2 with shadow over him)

Police 1: (Coming out of the door) Hey I think I found something… (Flashlight pointing to police 2)

(Show silhouette of criminal stabbing police 2)

(Police 1 shoot criminals in shoulder / Criminal picks up gun from police 2 and run)

(Police 1 go to police 2 to check his pulse then run out of door, check corridor to find blood trails)

(Follow blood to bannister look down criminal shoot shoulder of police 1)

(Police 1 struggles down the stairs and find criminal 1 running away POV shot police 1 aiming down sight to criminal blurry)

Black screen gunshot heard

NEXT SCENE

Police 1: (Looking at photo of police 2 and bill of plastic surgery) It’s been the same guy the whole time goddamn time.

(Camera panning out of scenario with picture of police 1 on the floor)

Fin

Target Audience

Specific Aiming!

A Particular group which a product or service is aimed.

IMPORTANCE:

Money from a media product.

Content is appropriate "let down = no"

Advertise to them - Get the message about the product.

SEGMENTATIONS:

Divide marketplace into parts, which are definable and accessible.

Demographics - Studies of populations using quantifiable statistics.

Example Of Demographics :

Thriller sub genre audience from Histmedia

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Thriller Sub Genre - Research and Video

Difference Between Horror and Thrillers

The difference between thrillers and horror is not that much:

Thriller Films

•  For thriller movies, this genre was created so as to “thrill” the viewers. That's is often why thrillers are successful at building up tension and keeping the audience attention at all times.

• In thriller movie the plot seems to be unpredictable, and it seems to have a better plot than thriller films, thrillers films also contains a lot of twists. Read This! http://bibatmediastudies.blogspot.com/2014/11/conventions-of-thrillers.html

Horror Films

• By contrast, horror films are designed to “horrify” their viewers. Horror films usually uses real life "Fears" to portray it into a film and centers it to scare the audience.

• In horror movies the plot seems to be predictable for the audience, but why do they still keep watching? Read This! http://bibatmediastudies.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-do-we-watch-scary-films.html

WELL THRILLER VS HORRORS

1.Thrillers are meant to thrill while horror films are meant to horrify the viewers.

2.Thrillers are contain better plots while horror films are, more often than not, predictable.

3.Horror films are often less practical and less realistic than thrillers.

4.Horror films usually have more supernatural elements than thrillers.

EXAMPLES OF HORROR AND THRILLER FILMS

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS = HORROR + THRILLER

SEVEN = THRILLER

SHUTTER ISLAND = THRILLER

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET = HORROR + THRILLER (MEH)

Representations in Misfits

Representation is misfits are shown quite negatively, such as youth culture. It is a story of a group of teenagers that has committed several crimes and has got themselves arrested and has been sent to do community work. There are 5 representations of teenagers in misfits, first of all: Kelly. Kelly represents a class of people called ‘Chav’, she wears a lot of jewelry and seems to be on the lower classes of people, she uses a lot of slang language, her facial expression within most scene is like she is unwilling to cooperate with teammates, and her body language shows that she has a bad attitude towards people. Simon represents different from the other in misfits, he does not fit in a specific stereotype, and he does not like to communicate with each other, he sometimes threaten the audience with a cold stare to the camera, he is dressed smart but his body language is quite casual.  Curtis represented as an athlete, who is found in possession of drug, he dresses with his jump suit down showing his athlete figure. Nathan representations is of his talkative nature but in a negative way of insulting those around him without care, he dresses quite casually, his body language is quite rude in a way. Alisha is represented as a night girl, kind of gangster and doesn’t really care about anything, she sees everything quite boring and her behavior towards other are no quite as positive. So youth representations in misfits is represented in a stereotypical way.

Representation Of Bangkok

In the trailer only god forgives has portray Bangkok as a city with an active drug trade and a corrupted police force working within them, the light in the trailer has set to be dark, with a vivid red colour showing violence within the trailer, parts of the trailer shows the downtown of Bangkok; very urbanized with a sense of danger floating in the air, mobsters/gangster with hidden guns ambushing the police, this shows that in Bangkok guns are acquired easily within the downtown of Bangkok and killing is just a casual thing in Bangkok downtown. This is exaggerated by the vengeance of the main character ‘Julian’ which his brother has been killed, the concept of revenge has been shown in the video by violence and the repeated voices of the word ‘Kill’. In the trailer locations in Bangkok are usually in downtown, nightclubs strips clubs and hotels but though they are some existing parts of the trailer that shows cultural Thailand but in a dismissive way, the police man ‘Chang’ has been presented in a cynical way, he likes to kill, but he has respect in his foes and is not scared of anyone, unlike the ‘Julian’ which he is presented in an adventurous kind of guy, but the trailer has fused their intentions of vengeance, for Chang it is his fallen police comrades, for Julian it is his murdered brother. Overall trailer shows a concept of downtown Bangkok with its exaggerated violence and the sense of danger in Thailand, a gloomy side of Bangkok.

In the documentary ‘Harry Bikers’ Thailand is represented in a positive way, the songs in the documentary is nearly all soundtracks in cultural Thailand why? Because they care trying to refer to Thailand’s cultural food as much as possible. The camera has shown different shots in the documentary, usually long shots for the environment and the landscape of Bangkok and the close up shots for details and the ingredients of food. It is represents Bangkok in a very cultural way, there are not even a scene of negative effects. The lighting in the documentary is all natural lightings, it gives warmth within the morning and the vivid night lights of Bangkok, contrasts it as a city of life. Unlike only god forgives, they are no violence within the documentary, the video is not as face paced as the trailer. Overall it shows Thailand as a very peaceful country, a very cultural country, traditional food and a beautiful, relaxing place to live in.

Heat Analysis

Media Studies

Heat Shootout Scene - Camera Shots





Heat Shootout Video

Here the director has chosen to use a tracking/big close up shot to show the emotion (serious) of the armed robber and to show what he is looking at. Here the armed robber is infiltrating the bank, observing the surroundings, very calm.

This is a low angle shot, a low angle shot is shot to make an effect to emphasise a person or an object to be bigger, more terrifying, from the situation, the director is trying to show that the robbers are in control of the situation, and civilians are panicking.

This is a high angle tracking shot, the director here is tracking the armed robber while he is intimidating the civilians to settle down and be quiet, it gives also gives an effect that the robber is in control of the situation, and the interior of the bank.

This is an panning extreme long shots, show 2 police running. It is showing a police chase down with a sense of urgency and distress, the camera panning helps set up the environment of the city before the firefight starts

This is a very high angle long shot, after the first shot has been fired, the scene has cut into civilians fleeing in distress, it gives the firefight more of an hectic atmosphere while the robbers and the cops are firing.

A Canted Close up shot, this shot shows that the police car is under fire, a canted shot is used to portrays madness and a desperate action for the police force that are taking fire, it helps builds up the tensions in the firefight.

This is a close up two shot + a shot reverse shot. The robber going to to save his comrades, this shows trust between the 2 of the robbers, portrays the relationship between the 2 as comrades. Close up is also to express the pain from the injured robber.

Here is a normal close up shot but adding a shallow depth of field, here the police aims down his sight, the background is blurred out isolating him, while he focuses on the robber, it is like everything depends on this one shot, it builds up tension and adrenaline.