Title: Eva.
Brief synopsis of your production:
Produce marketing material for a new thriller film; 2 posters, DVD front, back and margin.
Genre:
Thriller hybrid-
Thriller -using tension, terror, suspense, anxiety.
Drama - stories involving intense character development and interaction.
Target demographic:
- 15+
- Working Class
- Students
- Aimed at both genders
- Consumers who enjoy drama with slight terror and gore
Brief overview of the narrative:
Events-
- 40 year old male, drink driving,
- Causes a car crash
- Killing Eva’s parents
- Leaving Eva in her uncles care and his girlfriend(prostitute)
- Her uncle sexually abuses her as a child
- At 19, she flips out at the anniversary of her parent’s death, goes home drunk, leads her uncle on sexually and then stabs him.
- Heidi arrives home after work to see Derek dead, cries out.
- Eva then kills her
- She then searches out the man who caused the car crash and goes out after him and his family
- She locates them at a family party, she kills the drink driver, and is about to kill his daughter, when Eva sees the children crying and hiding,
- Eva breaks down and slices her own throat.
Characters:
- Young Eva(9)
- Eva(19) - Main character
- Josie and Philip - Parents
- Derek - Uncle
- Heidi - Uncles girlfriend
- Grant - Drink driver - Granddad
- Jane- Grant’s daughter
- Holly and Ben – Jane’s Children
Other relevant information:
Location-
- Quite country lane for car crash scene
- Semi dirty, lack of material items house for Uncle Derek’s home
- Warm family home for Grant’s home.
Thrillers are a genre of film and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main components. A common subgenre is psychological thrillers.
Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods such as; a high level of anticipation, lack of expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, suspense, excitement, tension, and terror. Devices such as cliffhangers are used vastly. The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight/chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods.
Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, hostages, heists, revenge, kidnappings. More common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the “who is it?” technique. Common elements in psychological thrillers are mind games, psychological themes, stalking, confinement/deathtraps, horror-of-personality, and obsession For example: the “Saw” films. A genuine thriller is a film that provides thrills and keeps the audience waiting at the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the character is placed in a menacing situation, a mystery, or a trap from which escaping seems impossible. Life is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspectingly or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the threat is sometimes abstract or unseen.
Thrillers with a crime-related plot mostly keep the attention away from the criminal or the detective, where they focus more on the suspense and danger that is created. The conventions of the thriller genre are to do with sound and editing. For example a quick cut, camera angle changes, music that gives tension and is passive when appropriate. it can be to do with lighting, especially the use of shadow. Mirrors and stairs are also conventions of thriller movies.Thrillers are often hybrids with other genres - there are action-thrillers, crime-caper thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir thrillers, even romantic comedy-thrillers. Another closely-related genre is the horror film genre. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations. Example of thriller hybrids are Saw saga. They are a hybrid of psychological thriller and horror.
Phonebooth is a thriller that does not play to the typical theme of narrative conventions as it takes place in one setting. It avoids darkness and shadow etc. the one way to link it to standard conventions is to say that you hear and see the story from the killers point of view. It plays to other thriller conventions such as the bullet hole, and action pose. we are made to feel sorry for the male protagonist and that we are told a story with the use of flashback and quick passed editing. otherwise the this film is unlike most thriller movies and avoids the main conventions and may even not be classed as thriller but psychological thriller as it plays with your mind rather than shows you like a conventional thriller. Crime in this film is also reinforced by the setting as it is set in ‘typical’ New York City.
Half Light is a psychological thriller that is hybrid with a romantic genre. It plays to the conventions of psychological romance with the portrayal of a relationship, with the contradictory ghosts and trauma. The front cover shows the man adoringly looking at the female, which suggests a relationship and love, however the use of the cemetery reels us in and makes us question the film. The writing itself is made to look eerie and ghost like, which represents the horror thriller part of the film. The colour on the cover is rather dull and dark, which adds to the horror portion of the film, and the use of lightening reinforces this.
The Amityville Horror is a hybrid of psychological thriller, horror and to some extent biopic. It fits the conventions of a psychological horror with the dull and dark imagery of the house. The word horror is also in the title, which insinuates the horror. We see it is biopic as it says based on a true story. It also reflects on the thriller side as the horror side of a true story appeals to us as an audience, and lets us emphasise with the characters. The writing of the film is in red, which is suggestive of blood and murder, reinforcing the horror genre.
Ghost Busters is a typical hybrid thriller of comedy and action. It is typical of thriller conventions of a thriller with the cast as Bill Murray is known for his comedy films. The use of silly costumes and the cartoon ghost reinforce the idea of the action comedy hybrid thriller. Throughout the film, it offers suspense and thrills to entertain the audience, whilst still having them wanting more.
Batman Begins is an action thriller. It plays to the conventions of a thriller by having the mysterious protagonist on the front cover. The use of him looking away from us presents mystery. The action isperceived from the action of the bats, as it makesthe cover look fast moving and in action.
