BEHIND SCENES PICTURES FROM FILMING THE INTERROGATION SCENES
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Wednesday, 26 February 2014
SOUND DESIGN
For our film production we are going to use a number of different soundtracks and sound effects and I will be layering these sound effects in order to generate a powerful and atmospheric vibe to the short film. Using these sounds from various websites such as http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?feels%5B%5D=Intense&page=5
and http://soundbible.com/2069-Realistic-Punch.html to help with this and further more I will also be using numerous sound effects from the video co-pilot files.
and http://soundbible.com/2069-Realistic-Punch.html to help with this and further more I will also be using numerous sound effects from the video co-pilot files.
G324 Advanced Portfolio : Group Roles
Group Roles
Cinematographer - Jack Quinlan
Sound Editor - Jack Quinlan
Editor - Matt Healey
Director - Matt Healey, Jack Quinlan
Cast
Psychopath - Matt Healey
Henry - James Robinson
Mary - Jakiya Sultana
Unnamed Victim - Natasha Sizer
The Friend - Jack Quinlan
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
AUDIENCE PROFILE
The demographics for my target audience are those who are aged at 18 to 24. The reason for this is is that the short film will contain graphic images and violent underlying themes, that the effect theory would show to be as desensitization for younger audiences. Also in terms of psychographics, the short film is a thought provoking piece designed to make the audience uncomfortable and to shock, so psychologically in theory people aged 18 and above should be able to handle the mentality behind the film.
Also in terms of demographics, the film would be aimed at the social category C1. This is because this class of society would become more enthralled by the psychology behind it and it the narrative’s conclusion would play upon their minds afterwards.
The main audience in terms of gender for this short film would probably be female over male. I believe this because from speaking with different social circles, the number of female people that have seen psychological films such as ‘Shutter Island’ and loved it were much higher than the males.
Also other genres and things the audience would be into watching, would be things like horror and thrillers.
Reception theory apllied to short film
The individuals in the audience will have numerous different reactions to the narrative. Some will decode the enigma and twist in the tale faster than others, and others in the audience may not agree that the conclusion means the same as their opinion. The film would be left to an open interpretation for all to debate over.
Treatment
Henry (protagonist) has captured the psychopath who murdered his wife and has him bound to a chair. After beating the psychopath in the head, he begins to taunt Henry about the situation and his wife. As Henry grows increasingly angry proclaiming all of these brutal and vial acts that the psychopath has committed we are taken to flashbacks of these crimes. The first is taken to the psychopath holding up a woman by the throat against a wall promising he won't kill her if she tells him where the wife is. After revealing the location and pleading the psychopath slits her throat and drops her to the ground.
We are then placed back into the dark room where the psychopath is cackling out loud, saying that he has but a fragment of the truth, then receiving another punch, it flashes back to a scene in the home of Mary. The psychopath is seated on the kitchen table surface playing with a knife in his hands. Mary walks into kitchen shocked to see the psychopath there, telling him to leave, she'll get help for him. He chases her through house into hallway where he slits her throat (camera does not show this, only shows him cradling her body).
We go back to the dark room, where the psychopath no challenges Henry on his misguided facts of how everything really happened. The psychopath then narrates over a new set of flashbacks where it is revealed that Henry was the actual murdering psychopath, and the flashbacks are the exact same apart from it being Henry in the other place and occasional flickering in the editing changes the setting to a medical ward and then back to the house setting with the women changing from Mary to a nurse.
Back in the black room Henry wakes on the floor and sits up disconnected from the world and as he rises so does the psychopath behind him. Taunting him the psychopath begins to dance around Henry as Henry draws a knife and the screen goes black, slowly as we hear a violent struggle the room begins to slowly gain light, until the knife pierces the psychopath in the chest and Henry cradles him the same he did with his wife. A door in the distance opens allowing natural light to flood in, where we are then transported into reality as he is actually cradling a nurse in his arms in a hospital room. It suddenly becomes apparent to him that he has had another violent episode in his ward, showed through quick flashbacks and as the camera becomes disorientated like Henry it tracks him moving through the corridors of the hospital trying to escape as the sound of the psychopaths voice leads him, ending with the blurred outlines of two workers grabbing and pinning him to the ground as he screams out.
We are then placed back into the dark room where the psychopath is cackling out loud, saying that he has but a fragment of the truth, then receiving another punch, it flashes back to a scene in the home of Mary. The psychopath is seated on the kitchen table surface playing with a knife in his hands. Mary walks into kitchen shocked to see the psychopath there, telling him to leave, she'll get help for him. He chases her through house into hallway where he slits her throat (camera does not show this, only shows him cradling her body).
We go back to the dark room, where the psychopath no challenges Henry on his misguided facts of how everything really happened. The psychopath then narrates over a new set of flashbacks where it is revealed that Henry was the actual murdering psychopath, and the flashbacks are the exact same apart from it being Henry in the other place and occasional flickering in the editing changes the setting to a medical ward and then back to the house setting with the women changing from Mary to a nurse.
Back in the black room Henry wakes on the floor and sits up disconnected from the world and as he rises so does the psychopath behind him. Taunting him the psychopath begins to dance around Henry as Henry draws a knife and the screen goes black, slowly as we hear a violent struggle the room begins to slowly gain light, until the knife pierces the psychopath in the chest and Henry cradles him the same he did with his wife. A door in the distance opens allowing natural light to flood in, where we are then transported into reality as he is actually cradling a nurse in his arms in a hospital room. It suddenly becomes apparent to him that he has had another violent episode in his ward, showed through quick flashbacks and as the camera becomes disorientated like Henry it tracks him moving through the corridors of the hospital trying to escape as the sound of the psychopaths voice leads him, ending with the blurred outlines of two workers grabbing and pinning him to the ground as he screams out.
Brief History of the Psychological Thriller
The Psychological Thriller genre has been constant, popular genre which we can see being used in some of the very early literature texts. It focuses on manipulating the audience, and the building of suspense. It has been popular with authors and film directors alike, as it captures and stimulates the audience in a way that is different to something of the horror genre, or the action genre. Psychological Thrillers, even if in a 'fantasy' setting, tend not t try and suspend the audience's belief of what is going on in the film. They have been known to commonly feature narrative points which are used to catch the audience members off guard; it builds up a high expectation, before making them feel uncertain of what they have just seen.
Examples in Literature:
- The Count Of Monte Cristo (1844) is a swashbuckling revenge thriller in which the protagonist is betrayed by his friend and is sent to a prison in southern France from which he later escapes and seeks revenge. The story uses conventions such as revenge, power and betrayal which relate to the thriller genre.
- Heart Of Darkness (1903) is a first person within a first person about a man who travels the who travels up the Congo River in search of an enigmatic Belgian trader. Layer by layer, the atrocities of the human soul and man's inhumanity to man are peeled away. This could be seen nowadays as a psychological thriller because of the psychotic theme and conventions it contains.
Examples In Film:
- Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller was the third silent movie The Lodger (1926) which was a Jack the Ripper story. This film was a psycho thriller because it dealt with a psychopath murderer and so had a typical story line of this genre. Hitchcock also produced thrillers such as Blackmail (1929)- his first sound film, Murder!, Number Seventeen,The Man Who New Too Much. These were all suspense films.
- The chilling German film M (1931) directed by Fritz Lang, told the story of a criminal deviant who preyed on children.
- me of thrillers was the FBI/agent hunting a serial killer and the most famous example of this was the picture winning, The Silence Of the Lambs (1991) by Jonathan Demme. This was classified as a crime thriller but it also merged into the psycho thriller sub genre as it dealt with a psychological issues. David Fincher's Se7en (1995) is another example of a crime thriller that was famous.
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