Props and equipment used

For the pictures SHENIYA JAY & AAYZA have to dress to impress looking all hot so clothing really is the main factor. The main equipment that will be used is a camera to take the pictures

For the scene of Jay being tied up we will use a spot light a rope to tie him and a chair.

Not many props will be used for the three minute sequel as everything will be simple set to give it that realistic look. It all depends on how well we really film the scenes.

LOCATION

Location

For our location we decided to use Sutton Park as one of our locations the scene that takes place between Aayza and Sheniya will be filmed there because we want it to give an forest effect.

For the scene of Jay being tied we will be using the drama studio in college because it is a dark room and we want to use the spot light to focus on Jay (SHUHAN) showing a close up of him this will give a great effect to the video making it look more realistic in terms of location. We have got permission from my teacher Chris to film there he has kindly agreed to it.

ROLL ALLOCATION

WRITER- Misbah Qayum

DIRECTOR- Misbah Qayum and Tariq Mahmood

EDITOR - Tariq Mahmood

CAMERA PEOPLE - Misbah Qayum and Tariq Mahmood

CASTING

SHENIYA - played by Misbah Qayum (me) we felt that i could play the crazy ex as I study Drama so i would be good at it. Plus I love playing psycho's and i know exactly what Sheniya is about so I would know exactly how to portray her across the screen.

Jay- played by Shuhan Islam- We felt that Shuhan will be able to play Jay as he fitted the characterisation he is a fun loving guy. We believed that he will be able to act well as he has done acting before. Overall he has the looks and the personality he is the perfect package a preety boy with brains too. He will be great on screen and is very photogenic...

Aayza- played by Savita Sandhu- We chose her because we thought that she has the look for the role a cute fun loving girl. She looks very innocent and Aayza is innocent to some extent she will fit well in the role and she has a great ability to put her across the screen well.

Final Pitch

PITCH

We have chosen idea 3 because we felt that we could put the story line across the audience clearly and present the it very well. We thought visually of how we will present it in the three minute sequel. We also chose this as we believed that this is a great idea for a thriller. The main factors of a thriller considered whilst we came up with the idea e.g the generic codes and conventions.

Script

Script

LEARNING TO LOVE AGAIN

Opening scene- Flashbacks of the three main characters
Picture 1. Amir and Sheniya getting hitched (picture will be in black and white to show the difference between the years).
Picture 2. Aayza and Jay having fun and just enjoying themselves ( this will be in colour).

There will be a few pictures each of the couples just showing them having fun


During the flashbacks there will be a voice which will be introducing the characters.

Narration- " This is a story about three people all different from one another named Sheniya, Jay and Aayza. About the triangle of the lives of these people that occurs when they cross paths".
( While this will be said there will be a close up of the pictures)


First shot- Sheniya running towards Aayza shouting

"In gonna kill you run as much as you want you won't escape and that's a promise you little princess no one can help hahaha"

( here she is looking at Aayza in such a way which shows how evil she is and showing that she has something planned)

Aayza is looking terrified she turns back and looks at Sheniya ( close up) and shouts

"What have i done to you? Why do you wanna kill me so bad? i don't even know you"!!

Sheniya- " you cow you know what you done you took my Amir away from me no one takes him away from me his mine ok? no one NOT EVEN YOU YOU and if they try they die do you hear me?"!!

Aayza

"Who is AMIR I don't know anyone named AMIR"

Whilst this is going on you have another scene where Jay is shown tied up he is struggling to free himself but can't. Eventually he does manage to escape and comes to Aayza's rescue!!! ( there is a close up of Jay looking all distressed)

TO BE CONTINUED!!!

Plot

THE MAIN PLOT FOR OUR MEDIA PROJECT

A ex girlfriend who is after a guy who looks exactly like her fiance. But the twist is she is born again whatever happened with her and her fiance happened the birth before. She basically has an reincarnation. The girl is after this girl who she believes that has taken her childhood love away from her she is on a hunt to kill her. The story is based around how the couple react when they cross paths and come face to face with this girl who they believe is a pyscho.

Ideas on our project

Ideas for our project

Idea no. 1 Two friends who are on a mission to kill someone but end up realising that they are asigned to kill eachother.

Idea no. 2 A man trying to escape a hostage situation who eventually escapes but ends up coming face to face with the terrorist who has held him in captive.

Idea no 3. MAIN IDEA CHECK PLOT

List of Thrillers in 2008

List of thrillers in 2008

Here is a list of thrillers in 2008 and their sub genres

• 21- Psychological thriller
• 88 Minutes- Psychological thriller
• Bangkok Dangerous- Crime thriller
• The Haunting og Molly Hartley- Supernatural thriller
• Vantage Point- Political thriller

From this list you can tell that there are sub genre's to a thriller they all involve different things but include the normal elements of what a thriller should contain.

Generic codes and conventions

Generic codes and conventions

GENERIC CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A THRILLER FILM

• Prologue
• Secrecy-gradual unfolding deception
• A twist of some sort –unclear
• shoot outs
• tension
• bloodshed.
• Captivity
• Car chases
• Blasts

GENERIC CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A ROM-COM FILM:

• Boy meets girl girl meets boy
• Fall in love usually at first sight
• Something unexpected happens usually involves another girl or boy
• A solution is found to the problem
• Have a fairy tale ending usually like the book Cinderella
• Two main characters - Boy and girl are persistently adolescents or young mature adults

GENERIC CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A HORROR FILM:

• Young boy and girl - adolescents.-
• Night time - dark – dull and very cold
• Suburb - Middle class.
• Victim - Young girl - Pretty - for all time gets murdered before/despite the fact that /once having sexual intercourse with her boyfriend.

Christian Metz and his development of genre theory

Christian Metz was born in 1931 and died 1993. He was a French Film Theorist best known for pioneering the application Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of semiotics to film. During the 1970's his work had a great impact of film theory in France, Britain and the United States.

In Film language: A semiotics of cinema , Metz focuses on narrative structure- proposing the grand Syntagmatique of system for catogorizing scenes in films.

Metz applied both Sigmund's Frueds psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to the cinema, proposing that the reason film is popular as an art form lies in its ability to both be an imperfect reflection of reality and as a method to delve into the unconscious dream state.

Film Language represents essays from the early stages of Metz’ attempt to found a cinesemiotics. His later work has somewhat superseded this book. Language and Cinema , recently translated and published by Mouton, Belgium, is mostly a recanting of this earlier work. However, Film Language will undoubtedly be the most available and widely read, at least until his later work is also taken up by U.S. publishers. It is easy to take critical potshots at this book; it was a beginning book, opening a new field of inquiry. Cinéthique has already done an extensive analysis of the book and made many important criticisms concerning the relationship of Metz’ theory to his bourgeois ideology. However, it might be more fruitful to try to see what kind of space the book opens up for us in terms of thinking about aesthetics/ideology/cinema and to look at its mistakes as theoretical pitfalls to be avoided. For, even though Metz’ notion of a cinesemiotics and of what constitutes a cinematic code is not yet fully formulated in this book and is there even very misleading, it can still be helpful as a beginning for thinking about films in terms of a culturally and ideologically determined heterogeneity of codes rather than as original and unique expressions of certain “human” themes.

Christian Metz believed that their were four stages to the genre developement theory:

• Classical
• Experimental
• Parody
• Decontruction

Classical-structuring on narrative, mainly victorious/define era

Experimental- encircles generic codes and conventions of a thriller

Parody- Conventions have been deformised

Deconstruction- Generic essentials of thriller varied with current genres such as horror and thriller. Where other genres elements and sub genre's are introduced.

• Se7en- Frankenstein (1931) - Classy/Classical- Dracula (1931)
• Classy/Classical- Carry on screaming - Parody
• Nosferatu (1922) - Experimental-
• The cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)
• Experimental- Scary movie - Parody-
• Abbot and Costello meet Frankinstein (1948) - Parody
• Blair witch project - Deconstruction
• Scream - Deconstruction-
• The sixth sence - Deconstruction

These above are examples of the various stages in Metz theory

Questionnaire Results

The majority of people we surveyed were male (60%). All participants were aged between 16-19 years old. 70% of the sample were White, 10% were African, 15% were Pakistani and 5% were Indian.

The whole sample was categorized as Working Middle Class citizens in the social grade. They all expected to see blood, suspense and explosions in a classic thriller. Only a minority (20%) expected to see some sort of love interest in a thriller. When we put the question across of what genre would you prefer the people's immediate reaction to answer thriller. Hence this would reflect on the amount of males we surveyed for our questionnaire.

Most people have seen the movies Scary movie, Jaws and God father these are typical common thrillers. Scary movie is a Warner Bros production this could also have some sort of impact on the success of the film as Warner Bros are a very huge American film company.

People felt that God father, Jaws and Scary movie were the most successful thrillers of all times. Jaws was chosen as the all time favourite prouduction this is still classed as the best in today's generation. The results are a reflection on the popularity and success of the film it won alot of awards and made alot of money. The number of people are visting the cinema has increased alot of people prefer watching films on a big screen they like the whole theatre effect. There are alot of pirate copies of DVD'S around but still the increase in sales of cinemas have not been affected by this.

Overall the genre thriller was most popular amongst all the people we surveyed. This gives us a reflection of what our target audience would expect to see in a classic thriller. This has helped us alot in our planning of our production of the three minute sequel tas we are given.

Character analysis

Main Characters

Name: Sheniya Dixon
Age: 22yrs
Status: Engaged
Occupation: Fashion designer

Role: Sheniya is a bubbly successful designer who love life she is high spirited and is highly respected. She is loved by everyone and is very well spoken and comes across as really confident. She is in love with a guy named Amir who she thinks is her fiance from the previous life because he has the same face as her fiance but she is mistaken it is actually a guy named Jay. She ends up trying to kill the guys girlfriend who she believes is taking her fiance away from her.

Name: Amir Khan

Age: 22yrs

Status: Engaged

Occupation: Business man

Role: He is engaged to Sheniya in their previous life. He is the sort of man who is very much business minded. He is not besotted with his wife as much as she is he is too much into making money and loves to do his own thing. He loves to have a hand on projects such as he loves buying old houses and making them new it does not matter how bad the damage is but he treats it like a challenge. He loves being challenged he hates it when things comes easy to him he is a grafter and only relies on himself.

Name: Jay Ali

Age: 18 yrs

Occupation: University student

Status: Has a girlfriend

Role: Jay is very much a heart throb in University all the girls want to be with him. He has the car the money the looks and most of all a good heart. He comes across as very vain and arrogant. he is very much a player. He is quiet cocky and thinks the world revolves around him until he meets a girl named Aayza who does not fall him and tells him to stay away. He realises she is not like everyone she is one in a million as she did not respond to him and his looks. He starts to date her and become serious.

Name: Aayza Zidan

Age: 18yrs

Status: Has a boyfriend

Occupation: University student

Role: Aayza is a very much geeky looking girl. She is very much into her education she loves her books. Aayza is not into fighting with people for no reason but she is someone who would stand up for herself if someone came up 2 her wanting to fight. She knows her limits and has values and principals. Aayza has never been with anyone in a relationship and never gave the upper hand to guys in terms of if someone approached her she would tell them straight im not interested. She didnt believe in love she thought it was very bollywood unrealistic. She changed her mind until she met Jay it wasn't love at first sight they started goin out after 2 years of knowing eachother.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

Please tick whickever is appropriate to you

1. What is your gender?

• Male
• Female

2.What is your age?

• 12.15
• 16-19
• 20-23
• 24 +

3. What is your ethnicity

• Pakistani
• Bangladeshi
• Indian
• White
• Afro Caribbean
• Chinese
• Other

4. What is your social grade?

• Upper middle class
• Middle class
• Lower middle class
• Working class
• Underclass

5. Which of the following would you expect to see in a thriller?

• Blood
• Action
• Car chases
• Suspense
• Love interest
• Explosions

6. Which genre would you prefer?

• Thriller
• Horror
• Romantic comedy
• Violence

7. Which of the following have you seen?

• Scream
• Scary movie
• The sixth sense
• Godfather
• Jaws
• Se7en
• Leon

8. Which of the above do you think were the most successful?

_______________________________

9. What is your favourite thriller?

_______________________________

10. How often do you go to the cinema?

• Once a week
• More than once a week
• Once a month
• More than once a month
• Other______________please specify

Thank you for completing the questionnaire!!