Character Profile

Character profiles

In our piece there are 3 main characters in the opening scene who play a significant part in the entire film if we where to film it all :


Rebecca : Female early 20s business woman has had a hard past a bit paranoid of her surroundings has something to hide and constantly feels like she is being watched however she acts ( normal ) on the outside concealing her real emotions. She lives alone because she is sooo focused on her career and the reason the stalker follows her is because some point in her life she has done something that has hurt him physically or emotionally. She went out with the stalkers best friend and the stalker used to like her.

Ollie : Male early 20s as well, is quite a cocky person and thinks he is very good looking. He is in a relationship with Rebecca and has quite an easy past. He used to be best friends with the killer but he betrayed him and went out with some one that the killer thought he could end up marrying (Rebecca) .

Timmy : The killer ( stalker ) HE STALKS AND COLLECTS A SCRAP BOOK OF ANY ONE WHO HAS EVER DONE WRONG TO HIM. HIS FIRST VICTIMS ARE HIS BEST FRIEND AND EX FIANCEE AND THE SCRAP BOOK SHOWS THE ORDERS OF HIS NEXT VICTIMS


Detective Sean Johnson :He is following the case as it happens and tries to uncover who is the next victim. He is not seen in the opening scene only his voice is heard through the answering machine .

Shot list

MCU (Medium close up) - Scrapbook turning pages

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CU (Close up) - Photo

Fades out into..

POV (Point of view) of Stalker - Following Rebecca (non digetic, phone call of Rebecca saying, "shes being followed" , it muffles then it goes silent)

MCU (Medium close up) - Scrapbook turning pages

Zoom..

CU (Close up) - Photo of Rebecca and Ollie in scrap book. (non digetic, voice mail message of detective saying " Ollie should be careful and should phone the detective back")

Fades out into....

POV (Point of view) of Stalker- Voyeuristic shot of man eating chinese through window

CU (Close up) Answering machine bleeping.

THE SCRAPBOOK (BLACK BACKGROUND)

Location, Set and Design

Production Companies

Fox entertainment is an example of a successful production company with a long line of many successful productions. The fox entertainment group was founded in the 1990s, it is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studios, terrestrial, cable and direct broadcast satelite television properties. The company is owned and controlled by Rupert Murdoch.

Fox entertainment have successful movies such as:

.Bride wars

.Street fighter

.Marley and me

.Australia

.The day The earth stood still

Target audience

When talking about target audience within a thriller genre, we all can say that because of the codes and conventions of this genre the target audience is usually for students and above, because of the many story lines that suit the codes and conventions it would not be okey to show younger viewers.

Depending on the type of thriller storyline, In my opinion it would seem males would prefer to watch a action thriller film like The Bourne films, where as females would tend to find romantic-thriller films more interesting.

Young people would usually tend to watch thrillers with sex, drugs and violence because of the entertainment value it can give this age group, also more modernised thrillers would be watched by younger people than older becasue young can possibly relate to many of these modern thriller films.

Sub-genre's (Scary movie)

Scary movie is a well known sub genre as the creators use content from other films to create theirs, such as in Scary movie 1 they use the content of the thriller Scream to create a more comedy approach to it, in others they create spoof movies.

Scary movie produced a sceond movie because of the good effect Scary movie 1 had on audiences, it was creative, clever, funny and original which made it successful; so a second movie was released which the creators pushed the barriers by adding more content from different movies such as the horror movie 'The exorcist' etc.

Music

Music is a really importat feature, music can help provide the intensity of suspense which is a must have when producing a thriller film. An example of a thriller film using music to create this technique is Jaws; the suspense i.e. music is used before the shark is about to emerge or kill someone.


Another thriller film which uses music to capture the audience, is 'Valentine' where in is trailer it uses music as a climax, to capture the interest of the public to watch the movie and also to be entertained. The suspense music is found near the end; a high pitched sound, which is sterotypically used.

Lastly thriller films are sterotypically known to promote intense excitement and high level of anticipation and they do this through mainly music, as a character is approaching the climax of the story. Each of the clips use a fast tempo beat which could symbolise the racing heatbeat of the audience or the character in the dilema.