Editing Evaluation

This is how I edited the children's drama project. A step by step guide to what I did.

Conventions of a Thriller

Key Conventions

• Protagonist - "The good guy"/The main character.
• Antagonist - "The bad guy"/The main opponent to the Protagonist.
• Suspense - Building up the tension, making sit on the edge of their seat.
• 'Theatre of the Mind' - Making the viewer feel involved within the thriller.
• Make it Personal - The Protagonist has a strong reason to solve the problem.

Thrillers are a great way of being creative. There are a variety of ways of telling the story just by the way it is shot and edited. In Jaws, there's the use of the trombone shot where the camera is on a dolly moving in one direction and the camera is zoomed to the other. This gives and effect where the main subject is the same size and framing where as the background changes size in the frame giving a distorted effect making it look as if the person has had a sudden realisation. We also have the dutch angle that gives a strange sort of look. When there's a dutch angle, you know something's not right.

Target Audience

People tend to get bored of the same easy to get story line and what a bit of excitement in the movie where they have to keep guessing and their brain is more active. Overall, the main target audience is most likely young adults as their minds are more focused on these types of things.

Robert McKee's Key Conventions of a Thriller

- Protagonist

- Antagonist

- Suspense

- 'Theatre of the Mind'

- Make it Personal

- Protagonist must be at the mercy of the Antagonist

- Twists and turns

Dramatic Irony

- Dramatic Irony is where the viewer possesses more information than the characters.

- We might even know how the story end

- Therefore our focus of attention is concern for the characters involved.

Research Techniques For The Creative Media Industries - Unit 3

The Purpose of Research

- Provide Evidence of research

- Credible, accurate and authentic.

- Trivial, sense of humour, but still have a matter of fact.

- Interviews with 'experts'

- Equations/Graphs/Percentages

- Articles/Documentation

Building Suspense and Tension in a Scene From Misery (Reiner 1990)

• Make-up - Sweat on forehead and clothes.
• Expanding key moments - Making them last longer.
• Building up 'obstacles' for each character to overcome (e.g. wheelchair/narrow doorways).
• Music becomes more intense as she approaches.
• Close ups of more important elements - Door lock, feet walking etc.
• Paul's POV shot - Puts viewer in his shoes.
• Use of silence to create tension - What is going to happen next?
• Variety of shots and angles - Editing quickens towards the end of the scene (parallel shots e.g. He locks door, she unlocks front door).
• False hope for protagonist (e.g. broken phone).

Character Archetypes

Protagonist - Goodies - Aren't aware of who is actually aligned with them.

False Hero

Handicapped Protagonist

Picaresque Protagonist - Uses wits and charms to escape problems.

Unaware Hero

Unreliable Narrator

Antagonist - Baddies

False Villain

Governments - Conspiracy Thriller

Companies - Conglomerates

Manipulator

Criminals - Murderers, Assassins, Kidnappers.

Handicapped - Deformed.

Absent Villain