Location of our thriller task

Are group went location scouting to find a suitable place to film and to show the atmosphere we want our thriller opening to express.

Here is was we came up with.

A Wasteland full of mysterious objects, we decided this place as it shows the place isn't looked after and suggest it being abandoned and give the audience a reason to think why is the protagonist there to begin with and to show us that nothing good can come from this place .

This place is also flat and big giving us the space needed for all the scenes.

 

 

This puddle is the thing needed to use in the scene in which the antagonist looks at his reflection to reveal his inner self and to reminisce over the murder he just committed . 



The second Photo shows how exactly the puddle would be used in

 our thriller .

 

 

 

 

 

    The following last 2 photos was just to show how much fun we had there and not really helpful to our thriller.

 

This is a group photo in which we took at the end of the session to congratulate ourselves. (Attempting to look serious)

This photo is of a plant which we commonly saw in this area so we thought it deserved some respect to our day there .

 

 





Storyboard for our thriller task

Side 1

Side 1: the first side includes all up to the scene where the victim(Me) gets attacked by the antagonist.

The shots used are wide shot, over-shoulder shot and two shot , the wide shot is technically our establishing shot as it is setting the mood and theme as the location is mysterious and dark. The over shoulder shot is used to show the action of the victim and the camera shot can suggest someone is behind him (In which there is).The two shot shows the comparison between both characters and that they are binary opposites as one is evil while the other isn't.  

Side 2

Side 2:Is the scene in which the victim has fell to the floor and trying to crawl away while multiple kinds of shots are used to create different effects. On the second tile the victim is crawling passed the camera while its on a fixed position just to show how fast the victim is moving and that its just fast enough to escape the victim however the murderer is doing the cliché slow walk while the victim tries to escape. Over the shoulder shot is used this time to show the height distance between the two characters and that  the murderer is in control of the situation and has overall more power .    

Side 3

Side 3:in this scene the witness (Brad) has seen the murder take place and the murder looks at his own reflection and the notices the witness in which he  turns to and then it ends to insinuate that isn't the only murder to happen or that murder is going to get caught. In the last two tiles we use shot/reverse shot to show the emotion on both the murders face and thee witnesses face and the next action they are going to take.  

 

This is our storyboard for our thriller.

 

Disabilities in tv dramas

Disabled people are represented in many ways through media some are seen as a role model and some are seen as a negative stereotype towards them and mostly the disability shown in media is a physical one and not mentally as that's hard to express as there's no way to be certain about that type of disability as some symptoms are faint compared to a psychical one.

 

The type of disabled person used is the "Super cripple" which makes them seem to be better than most other disabled people and despite their condition they can achieve anything and hope any disabled will follow them and also be the strong person represented . Here are some examples of this representation: Stephen Hawking , Ellie Simmonds

 

 

On the other hand they can be represented as someone to sympathise over as they need constant attention when looked after and that every day is a struggle to them and cant do anything and everything is a challenge in which they cant do themselves.

 

Or even worse they can be shown as laughing stock in which people see them as freaks as they aren't seen physically identical to everyone else and was also not seen as equals to non-disabled to people in which it wasn't till the mid 1970s in which they realised that disabled people contribute to society still and that changes have to be made.  

 

Source used for some of the information.

This blog is relevant to our thriller task because our murderer has a mental disability and we tried to make the person not appear to be one of the stereotypes and overall cant be stereotyped.