Credits

We will be producing our Credits at the end of our film. This will include the soundtracks we have used, the roles in our company, the actors and actresses and our company name. It will show the audience who produce the film.

Roles

Analytical Director/Actress/Equipment Manager - Heba Mustafa

Heba Mustafa will be our analytical director. She has web given the responsibility of analysing the scenes to see what we can improve in our scenes to make it more effective, more thrilling and making it clear for the audience to understand. Heba is also acting as Katrina in our film and she is also in charge of bringing the equipment such as the camera and tripod so we will be able to film. Also, to bring an extra battery in case the camera has run out of battery.

Roles

Actor/Writer - Alpha Barrie.

Alpha Barrie is acting as Marcus in our film and will have a large influence in directing the scenes for our film. Alpha has good experience of directing in productions and school production. As well as acting, he will be maintaining an important job of making the scenes effective, clear and easy for the audience to understand. Alpha has also been given the responsibility of making sure we having all of the necessary props and clothing for our film.

Roles

Director/Actor - Omar Reeves

Omar Reeves is acting as Denzel in our film, he is one of our directors and is a film editor as well. He will have a joint responsibility with one of our other directors of what exactly happens in each scene, what it is going to happen and how it is going to happen. He has the most experience with editing and will be doing the editing for our film and teaching other members in our company how to edit certain parts of our film.

Ethnicity & Representation

The main characters in our film present different ethnicities to the target audience. By having a mixture of ethnicities among the characters,  it helps to present a more realistic atmosphere towards the audience because in our society today, especially in London, there are a wide range of different cultures. Deprieved areas usually have a strong presence of mixtures of different people of all colours and consists of estates that include crime and drugs. Deprieved areas are always looked at as the causes of crime by the public and by recent UK Governments and are the origins of teenage gang culture. It also relates to our target audience strongly because our film focuses on teenage gang culture strongly and the narrative will relate strongly to the target audience. Teenage gangs in the UK mostly consists of teenagers of all colours but most black and is one main factor which has lead our production company to have our main characters as mostly coloured people. 

Actor

Alpha Barrie - Marcus.
Alpha Barrie will be playing the role of Marcus as he has vast acting experience. He is also young and relates to our target audience which will gain the attention of our target audience across the globe. He has the attributes to fufil playing the role of Marcus.

Actress

Heba Mustafa - Katrina
Like Omar, Heba Mustafa has similarities with her own character Katrina and has plenty of attributes the contribute to presenting Katrina. With Katrina, our company have subverted the conventions as normally in romantic thrillers the girl in the film who goes to meet the guy immediately falls in love, but in our film she sets up Marcus to get killed by Denzel. Heba is young and urban woman which is one of the important elements needed because Katrina is young and we need her to relate to our target audience to engage with them for them to understand the narrative. Heba also has experience of acting and we are confident that she can fufil the attributes to act the role of Katrina.

Actor

Omar Reeves - Denzel
Our production company chose Omar Reeves to act as Denzel because we agreed that their are similarities between Denzel and Omar. He is young which is very important because the audience will recognise that he is very young and relates to our target audience. It will attract them to watch the film as they will be intrigued about what the film is about. Because there are similarities between Omar and Denzel, it is an advantage because Omar will be able to exceed in portraying Denzel in a sinister and evil way to the audience and this is what we want in order for the audience to gain critical understanding of the character.

Audiences

Audiences watch thrillers to entertain themselves and experience spontaneous elements of life that may not occur to them such as horror. Thrillers can consist of different varieties like mysteries, super hero action films or a puzzle. There are even documentary thrillers like Kidulthood which portrays tennagers life style in London. Because there are different varieties of thrillers it attracts different range of audiences for example, Kidulthood would appeal to teenagers over 15 and young adults because it relates to teenagers strongly and young adults could learn about different teenagers life styles in London. When a thriller relates to a specific audience, it would attract a large proportion of the audience. For example Kidulthood relates to many teenagers and most of their target audience are teenagers over 15 and for young adults. London is a globally international city. Once the audience sees the promotion of the film through adverts, they will recgonise London which will grasp the attention of the audience instantly and will lead to people telling other people about the movie which promotes the film and increases the hype about the film further so that it is known worldwide. Audiences also watch thrillers to escape from their own personal problems and can play a 'Detective' role in a mystery thriller as they will play a role in doing their own investigation or interpreting what will possibly happen in the film. This will certainly occur in police series like The Bill where the audience are highly likely to be engaging with the show by doing their own investigation during the drama.

Propp's Narrative Theory

'Propp's narrative theory can also be applied to "LTROI". He said that every character in a story could be put into one of 8 broad character types:

1. The villain— struggles against the hero.
2. The donor— prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.
3. The (magical) helper — helps the hero in the quest.
4. The princess or prize — the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her because of an unfair evil, usually because of the villain. the hero's journey is often ended when he marries the princess, thereby beating the villain.
5. her father — gives the task to the hero, identifies the false hero, marries the hero, often sought for during the narrative. Propp noted that functionally, the princess and the father can not be clearly distinguished.
6. The dispatcher — character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.
7. The hero or victim/seeker hero — reacts to the donor, weds the princess.
8. False hero — takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess.'

Source - http://owa.st-thomasmore.org.uk/users/06WatsonM/weblog/67d1e/

The Propp's Narrative Theory does not apply in various of elements of our film like the Todorov theory does. Marcus is not prsented as a hero in our film but Denzel and Katrina are presented as the villains. There is no characters in the film that are presented in the film as the helper, false hero, princess or donor. It also does not apply to our film because it is based on real life situations in London so to make it more realistic, we decided not adopt the Propp's Narrative Theory.

Todorov's Narrative Theory

'Todorov's narrative theory claims that each story follows the same structure. It starts with a period of calm, and equilibrium, which is then disrupted. The disequilibrium is then brought to an end by the hero, and the chaos comes to an end. "LTROI" follows this structure.' Source - http://owa.st-thomasmore.org.uk/users/06WatsonM/weblog/67d1e/

The Todorov Theory applies to our film in various of areas because it starts off calm but then it is disrupted by action that causes conflict within the scene. Effectively, the equilibrium has been brought to an end. However, there is no hero in our film and the disequilibrium continues which leads to the death of Marcus. In many ways we have subverted Todorov's theory because the audience would expect Katrina to stop the violence but instead she lets the violence continue which results to Marcus dying and shocks the audience. This way we've shattered the audience's expectations and will build the suspense within the film and spread amongst the audience.

Poison Ivy; Freeze's Wife Dies

The backwards tracking shot from the start to 0.12, it allows the audience to follow the action that is happening in the film. Our company intend to use a tracking shot in the scene where Katrina is on the phone to Denzel but we are going to have the camera shooting from a mid-shot angle so to focus on the dialogue in the scene between Denzel and Katrina.

Camera Shots - Long Shot

The long shot from 0.00 - 0.05 enables the audience to look at the surroundings of the characters and to see the big stack of money. It is effective because the big stack of money emphasise the power of the Joker and his power is reinforced with Lyle at the top of the stack with his mouth taped and hands tied behind his back. Our company want to use this long shot to show Denzel's power over Marcus when he and a gang of youths surround Marcus. The long shot will display Marcus as weak and notably the damsel in distress.

Camera Shots - The Two Shot

This is a two shot from the film You Got Served. Look here how the two shot is establishing the relationship between both characters to the audience. Their relationship is presented clearly to the audience because the audience can see the face expressions and the body language between both characters which clearly shows that they are a couple. Our production company intends to portray this shot to present what kind of relationship Marcus and Katrina are building up when they first meet by the lockers. It will also lead the audience on to think that they will become a couple later on in the thriller as our trailer will subvert this as Katrina sets up Marcus. 

Camera Shots - Mid Shot

The Mid-Shots on 2.05 is an effect shot and is one of the shots our company intends to portray in our two minute thriller because it creates a atmosphere full of suspense which conforms to the convention of a thriller. The mid shots work effectively because it creates tension and suspense, establishes the relationship between all characters and the fear created within the film spreads amongst the audience as well as the trailer itself.  The composition of the mid shot allows the audience to view the surroundings of all the characters, to view the body language and face expressions of the characters as it presents the relationship between characters clearly to the audience.

Props & Costume

The Joker’s wears his face paint throughout the movie to show that he is insane and that it suits his character ‘The Joker.’ The purple suit presents his unique character, shows the audience that he is very different villain to the past villains in other superhero thrillers. The gloves and the knife show that he is a vicious serial killer and shows violence towards his victims. The Joker’s costume and props all conform to the convention of the thriller because all the elements contribute to the joker have a very scary presence about him which conforms to the convention of the thriller.

 

 



Thriller Conventions - The Dark Knight

The Narrative is atypical because firstly, the damsel in distress in the film dies and usually the damsel in distress is always saved by the superhero. Secondly, Batman is looked at as a villain at times during the film where as we the audience look at him as a hero. At the end of the film he takes blame for all the chaos caused by Harvey Dent and the Joker which makes Gotham look at Batman as the villain.  The Propps narrative theorist idea where you have the hero (Batman), the villain (the Joker), the helper (Alfred) and the damsel in distress (Kate) has influenced the narrative of the movie. Also, Todorov’s theory comes links in with the Dark Knight because it is Batman who ends all the chaos caused by the Joker and saves the day.

The Dark Knight OST 1 Why So Serious?

One of the conventions is that tense music can build up the suspense in a situation in a thriller which would lead to action. This soundtrack from the Dark Knight creates suspense in selected scenes by the director in the film. This soundtrack is mostly used in Scenes the Joker is in. Our production company look to use soundtracks to build suspense within the scenes.

Joker Interrogation Scene - The Dark Knight

A Two shot is often used to establish the relationship between characters.

The two shot from 2.15 - 2.22  is a two shot from The Dark Knight, the shot establishes the relationship between both the characters. In this shot you can clearly see the relationship between them both and as you can see Batman is showing towards the Joker which shows to the audience Batman's hatred towards him. Camera Angles are one of the conventions that conforms to a thriller as it can establish the atmosphere or the relationship between characters.

Camera Movements

Tracking Shot

Tracks backwards and forward.

Tracking in draws the audience into the action. Tracking out signifies that the action in the scene is over and the narrative is moving to the next piece of action.

A Sideways Track (Crab Shot)

Often used to follow the movement of the character or object so that the audience keeps up with the action.

Tilt Shot

Simple movement upwards or downwards.

Upward movement is used to show height and power.

Arc Shot

The camera moves either a full or semi circle around a character, characters or an object.

It enables the audience to see the characters reaction and often increases the intensity of the narrative.

Crane Shot

The camera is attached to a crane and allowing the camera to see further than what the camera man can see.

Panning Shot

Moves left to right or vise versa.

Often used to follow a moving object in the frame.

Commonly used in conjunction with a point of view shot for when a character is searching a room.

Costumes

Katrina - Navy Sweater, Hand Bag, Trainers, Hair Tied Back, Earrings, Black Boots and Make Up.
This is what Katrina's costume will consist. She will be wearing these clothes and accessories because it presents her as a normal London teenager. We want to present Katrina as a normal teenager to the audience because we want them to be lead with the idea that she is a good girl where as the trailer will show how she is involved in teenage gang culture. It will also show the audience that a female teenager does not necessarily need to be dressed in colours that represent evil or danger in order to show that she is a teenager that should not be approached.

Marcus - Black Jacket, Black Formal Trousers and Shoes.
As a tall black London Teenager, stereotypically Marcus's presence will intimidate anyone who comes across him. Although Marcus has stayed out of trouble recently, he has a history of getting up to trouble which gives him a presence of fear and we want to maintain his presence by him wearing all black as it will show his dominance to the audience and also so the the audience feel his presence to understand that type of character Marcus is.

Denzel - Grey Hood, Black Trousers and Trainers.
Denzel is deeply involved with gang culture and has a history of violence and crime himself. He is a tall individual that also intimidates people that come across him and has a strong presence not only on the characters within the film but on the audience as well. The grey hood is the most important clothing of Denzel because it presents him as a stereotypical anti-social London teenager. It is vital for the audience to feel his presence because they will feel fear each time he is on the screen and by this, tension will rise amongst the audience and within the scene.

Friend One - Blue Jacket, Afro, Shirt, Trousers and Shoes.
To maintain the education environment in the thriller, Friend One will be wearing Sixth Form Uniform to show that he is part of the Sixth Form. Friend One will also have big hair to maintain the stereotypical view of teenagers always looking scruffy and 'not bothered' about anything.


Props
Toy Gun - This prop is needed because it is the weapon going to be used by Denzel to threaten Marcus. A Gun is a very powerful prop and will give Denzel complete power over Marcus and Katrina.

Pens, Pencils, Writing Pads, Tables and Computers - These props are being used to maintain the education environment of the Sixth Form.