Due to the loss of a person in our thriller group alot of alterations to the planning have been made. This includes the following:
The character of 'Tag'
The character was originally going to be the third person in our group who we lost, we chose to use him because he would be reliable as he would be with the group at all times. But this had to change so we decided to cast a completely different character, Chris Nolan, my dad. We chose to cast him as he would be reliable since i would know what he was doing at all times and could easily arrange with him dates to film and give him updates to the storyline and how his character should be at any time. Because of this choice of casting the character was also changed completely. He was no longer a 16/17 year old boy but a 40 year old man. The entire outfit changed also, the new character had a black raincoat, a grey hat, dark jeans, dark brown gloves and white trainers. The dark outfit connotes evil, but the white trainers could connote that there is something about this character that is good... or that he believes he is doing good like that of the killer in Se7en.
We also decided our thriller wasn't very clear in showing the storyline and the action, so we added another key prop, the ribbon. This has become the main focus in our two minute film. It is the item Hope drops that is then used by Tag to kill her and is left on her body at the end. The red ribbon connotes danger. Although it is used to kill Hope it is not shown killing her, Tag just plays with it when he is towering over her which indicates that he is going to use it to strangle her. This technique has been used in an episode of Silent Witness with a rope.
Alot of the shots in the film now focus on close ups of the feet, this is used alot in thriller films i have studied such as in Se7en during the chase scene, also a close up of feet is used in Brick when a note is dropped out of Brendans locker and it falls to his feet, it is also used during the murder scene in Heavenly creatures when Juliet walks down the steps on the woodland path. The non-diagetic music chosen to be used over the top of the action is 'The Humming Chorus' from Madame Butterfly, this is an intertextual reference to the thriller Heavenly Creatures, which has heavily influenced our film, as the setting for the death scene is a similar forest-like setting, and the chase has its similarities.
Research into the reason for the Humming Chorus in the Madame Butterfly opera tells the story of Butterfly and her young child beginning 'the long wait' for Pinkerton (Butterflys lover and her childs father) to come home after returning from war. Night falls and Pinkerton still hasn't returned, the child falls asleep but Butterfly 'keeps her vigil'. This is a tragedy in itself as Pinkerton has not returned, this also fits in quite well with 'Tag' as 'the long wait' could connote the period of time where Hope is being stalked by Tag, and the part where the child falls asleep is the climax where Hope is murdered, this could be seen as her being sent 'to sleep'.
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Good references to other thrillers to support your ideas. Nice work, Amy.
Avoid "shots as in .........and then list a number of texts. You need to directly reference mise-en-scene in these texts or provide images that illustrate your point.
Helpful notes nevertheless re source of ideas. Some research into the plot of "Madam Butterfly" and the connotations this soundtrack has would hugely strengthen your marks.
Well done for doing some research into the connotations of the sound track, at the end of the opera Butterfly's child is taken by her husband (marriage not recognised in USA) and Butterfly kills herself, thus reinforcing the idea of tragedy.
Strong Level 3 for appropriate detail.
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