Questionnaire

We were told to create a questionnaire asking people about what is crucial to include in a 'thriller' film. Within the research, we surveyed 40 people aged between 16 and 18 years old. Question 1 asked if jealousy was a good enough motive to commit murder as one of the main themes in our film is jealousy. More than 50% agreed that it was. The next question asked about the viewers favourite genre of film. The answers we received from this question is that more than a quarter people asked said that their favourite type of film was a horror and 12.5% said thriller. Another question asked whether they preffered the film to include a twist, and 65% agreed with this and be in a chronological order. We also asked what a thriller should include and from the answers we received we come to the conclusion that it should involve death, blood, gore and sex.

characterization

name: anna corwin
age: 23
sex: female
clothes & props: blouse + shirt, pyjamas, casualwear (jeans)
-gun
-coffee
-paperwork

character outline:
anna is an upcoming journalist, who faces the everyday stress of life and wants to be 'normal' and fit in with others. anna just wants to settle down into her career and enjoy being young. she doesn't realise the difficulties that will follow.



name: joe kay (joey)
age: 27
sex: male
clothes & props: casual wear (jeans, polo shirt)
-gun
-knife
-car

character outline:
Joe is Anna's best friend. They share everything with one another, even their appartment. Joey adores Anna and always has, but can you ever love someone TOO much?

treatment kym sutcliffe

Alleyway- Man is followed and killed by a mystery man.
Alleyway 2- Anna makes her way home in the exact same alley.
home - goes home and tells her room mate (joe) about her day.
club - anna goes clubbing with friend lucy. lucas tries to talk to her but she talks with someone else. she then dances with another man and later kisses him.
toilet - man that anna has just been with goes to the toilet. he is killed by mystery man.
club - lucy tries to get a drunken anna to come home with her but she does't want to leave.
home - joe takes anna home and puts her to bed.
work - next morning, anna goes to work. lucy enters and reminds anna of the events that happened on the previous night. tells her that the man she was with was murdered. anna gets a phone call yet no-one speaks. finally joe speaks.
work (months later) - annas new work partner (david) stays with anna as they are both working late. end up sleeping with eachother. david takes anna home and as she walks up to her house she hears a crash. david has been involved in a hit and run. anna tries to help david, joe rings an ambulance. goes to hospital, talks to joe whilst waiting for the news. they are then informed that david is dead. anna is very upset and not the same.
death of father - joe takes anna to a derelict house. ties her up, looks and sees that her father is in the same state as she is in. lucas and joe both explain why they did what they did, because they both were obsessed by her. joe kills annas dad.
final death- whilst joe is cleaning himself up in a different room, anna begs lucas for him to let her go. eventually he gives in. she finds a gun and shoots it at joe. she wrestles with him, shoots him again several more times and watches him die. blackout. flashback to happier times with joe.
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thriller media kym sutcliffe

Martin Ruben wrote a book based on a range critics opinions and ideas on a how a thriller should be, the book was entitled 'Thrillers'. Ruben begins with G K Chesterton, who felt he had to defend the genre. Chesterton though that the thriller was a modern genre and mainly has the setting of an urban landscape. When speaking of the genre, he claimed the purpose was to find ''the poetry of modern life''.

Northrop Frye built upon Chestertons' critique. Frye stated that the hero is usually an ordinary person, and strangely that a thriller is very similar to romance saying ''the hero of romance moves in a world in which the ordinary laws of nature are slightly suspended''. He thought that a thriller is what turns an ''enchanted forest'' into a modern city.

Northrop Frye and G K Chestertons' ideas were combined by John Cawelti, claiming that a thriller ''transforms the city from a modern centre of commerce, industry and science into a place of enchantment and mystery'' and this was achieved by introducing ''The Exotic'' into the everyday, normal world.

W H Matthews based a lot of his work around fantasy and fiction, relating to mazes/labrynths. In Matthews opinion, he believes that for a thriller to be successful, there should be twists, turns, dead ends etc. It has to be a puzzling journey, one in which the audience doesn't solve too easily.

Pascal Bonitzer introduced the thought of 'partial vision' in relation to what Matthews had said previously, meaning that the audience should not understand everything that is going on throughout, to make it more interesting and build suspense.

Lars Ole Saurberg talked about two ways in which suspense can be added - concealment and protraction. He thought that the inevitable should be delayed, and that something should be deliberately hidden from the audience in order to make the thriller successful.

The final critic was by a man called Noel Carrol. Carrol said it was important to create questions as it keeps the audience in suspense, for example - ''Will the hero survive?''