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The events that happen in our story is that a detectives 4 year old son goes missing and he is fighting for the rights to see him. He would do anything it takes to bring justice into law breakers. The antagonist has kidnapped the detectives son who has been held captive for 11 years.
The antagonist has been raising the child as his own, however has been manipulating and brain washing the detectives son and has taught him to kill, and learn how to develop explosives to bomb up parks containing families as he believes he has no family.
The antagonist does criminal activity with the number four as he bombs four children, mothers, fathers and bombs four different locations every year. He has a strong compulsion with the number four and does everything in fours in honour of his 4 year old daughter.
The protagonist has been trying to capture this man for years, trying to track him down, however the antagonist is always one step ahead of him.
The angle of article portrays the point of view from which the screenwriter tells the story. This plots out the stories behind each protagonist, antagonist and sympathetic characters and how they are illustrated in the story.
The protagonist's name is Jason where he is a detective who's been going through a rough divorce for 11 years now. This had happened after his 4 year old son had gone missing and had gotten kidnapped. The protagonist had a previous drinking problem where he had done a DUI after finding out his divorce from his wife. He had caused an accident containing father and his four year old daughter which he had not known as he was seriously drunk and emotional. After getting sober, he had realised what had happened the next day and wanted to make amends for his actions, he was left feeling utter guilt and could not live with himself for years. He tried to find the people in the car to apologise to them, to find out whether they were alive or not but had found no record of the people nor any information the car crash ever happening.
The antagonist who is called Damon, wants revenge on the detective as he caused the death of his 4 year old daughter who was killed in a car accident. After the incident, he had hid his identity from everyone and became a serial bomber, to plot revenge against the person who killed his daughter who is Jason. He found his home address and one day kidnapped his son and manipulated him as the years to make him against his family and make him feel extreme hatred for them. Damon had taught and made him develop bombs and plannings out of anger because he thought his parents had left him. Damon's background story is that he was living a simple life before the crash and now he turned into a criminal mastermind.
The other antagonist is Ben who is Jason's son and he lives a life of hatred where he believes that his family had abandoned him. He thinks that he was taken in by Damon who had helped him live a better life.
The sympathetic characters are Jason's wife and daughter who we sympathies with because they have had to suffer 11 years without their son and brother.
The narrative devices that are used in our story is a devices from MacGuffin which is a plot device in the form of a goal, a motivator that the protagonist pursues. Our protagonist has the goal to capture the person that has been bombing locations and killing innocent people, however he learns that he has more then one goal to achieve which is to get his son back from the person causing all the bombing activity. His son is the desired object.
Another narrative device is Flashback where we shown at the beginning a scene where Jason is drink driving and causes an accident. This is recalled repeatedly as Jason has flashbacks about his tragic incident. his son also has a flashback during act two, he flashbacks about his kidnapping.
The thriller themes that the story include are death, revenge and fear. Death is shown at the beginning as Damon's daughter dies. It is also shown in in when Damon and Ben plan bombs in locations and kill innocent people. There are images shown of the bodies and rose petals laid upon them to signify their deaths. Revenge is denoted as Damon kidnaps Jason's son and raises him has his surrogate as Jason lives the rest of his life in misery just like Damon. Fear is portrayed when the people in the park see the bomb and they know it will go off any second and there is nothing they can do about it. All they can do it wait for their death to come.
The antagonist has been raising the child as his own, however has been manipulating and brain washing the detectives son and has taught him to kill, and learn how to develop explosives to bomb up parks containing families as he believes he has no family.
The antagonist does criminal activity with the number four as he bombs four children, mothers, fathers and bombs four different locations every year. He has a strong compulsion with the number four and does everything in fours in honour of his 4 year old daughter.
The protagonist has been trying to capture this man for years, trying to track him down, however the antagonist is always one step ahead of him.
The angle of article portrays the point of view from which the screenwriter tells the story. This plots out the stories behind each protagonist, antagonist and sympathetic characters and how they are illustrated in the story.
The protagonist's name is Jason where he is a detective who's been going through a rough divorce for 11 years now. This had happened after his 4 year old son had gone missing and had gotten kidnapped. The protagonist had a previous drinking problem where he had done a DUI after finding out his divorce from his wife. He had caused an accident containing father and his four year old daughter which he had not known as he was seriously drunk and emotional. After getting sober, he had realised what had happened the next day and wanted to make amends for his actions, he was left feeling utter guilt and could not live with himself for years. He tried to find the people in the car to apologise to them, to find out whether they were alive or not but had found no record of the people nor any information the car crash ever happening.
The antagonist who is called Damon, wants revenge on the detective as he caused the death of his 4 year old daughter who was killed in a car accident. After the incident, he had hid his identity from everyone and became a serial bomber, to plot revenge against the person who killed his daughter who is Jason. He found his home address and one day kidnapped his son and manipulated him as the years to make him against his family and make him feel extreme hatred for them. Damon had taught and made him develop bombs and plannings out of anger because he thought his parents had left him. Damon's background story is that he was living a simple life before the crash and now he turned into a criminal mastermind.
The other antagonist is Ben who is Jason's son and he lives a life of hatred where he believes that his family had abandoned him. He thinks that he was taken in by Damon who had helped him live a better life.
The sympathetic characters are Jason's wife and daughter who we sympathies with because they have had to suffer 11 years without their son and brother.
Narrative
The beginning of the story, a clip is shown of Jason drinking recklessly and suddenly drives into a car which keeps flipping over. However, what he does not know is that the car contains a father and a daughter. The inciting incident is that Jason drives off and leaves the incident behind with the crashed car and the fathers dead daughter. The father who was in the car is now planning his revenge against the person who was driving the car and turns into the antagonist of the story.
For act 2 we see action happening in the Jason's house where we see the camera under the bed showing Ben scared and crying as a intruder has entered their house. The camera shows the door with a man walking towards the room and with black boots and then suddenly pops out the antagonist who drags Ben who is 4 years old in the scene and takes him. You then see Ben screaming and kicking as the man walks away with the child and then you see Jason knocked out on the floor and it fades out black.
It has now passed 11 years where we see Damon and Ben together as Damon has raised him as his own. We show them planning bomb locations in four places where they plan to bomb in a children's park for one of them and it shows them bombing 4 children, four mother and four fathers and after their death they lay rose petals over the bodies. At the bombing scene the camera shows families screaming and panicking when they see the bomb.
We then show Jason who is in his office as it shows he is a detective trying to track down these bombing that he has heard about and wants justice to be served for this vile crime. He thinks that they are terrorism attacks and does not know that they are happening in an act of revenge against him.
Jason begins to have flashbacks of the car crash as he receives a phone call from Damon as he tells him to recall what had happened on the night of the car crash and that he killed his daughter. Damon then tells him that he had kidnapped him son.
The story is going to be non-linear as it has aspects of flashbacks showing the car crash that Jason had caused and when he receives a phone call from Damon he starts the reminiscence the events that happened at the car crash.
The equilibrium is with Jason being an alcoholic and just generally going through a divorced. Damon is happy with his daughter and living his normal life.
The disruption of the equilibrium is that Jason is drink driving and cause a car crash with Damon and his daughter in the car which results in with the death of his daughter. We then have the bombing scene.
The recognition is when Jason realises that he had cause the crash and then we have the bombings caused by Ben his son. There is then an attempt to repair the damage where Jason tries to bring Damon to justice by trying to capture him and arrest him and get his son back.
The narrative devices that are used in our story is a devices from MacGuffin which is a plot device in the form of a goal, a motivator that the protagonist pursues. Our protagonist has the goal to capture the person that has been bombing locations and killing innocent people, however he learns that he has more then one goal to achieve which is to get his son back from the person causing all the bombing activity. His son is the desired object.
Another narrative device is Flashback where we shown at the beginning a scene where Jason is drink driving and causes an accident. This is recalled repeatedly as Jason has flashbacks about his tragic incident. his son also has a flashback during act two, he flashbacks about his kidnapping.
Genre
The three thriller conventions are that it is psychological and had aspects of action in there. The location is set in an urban city where they both of the characters are alone and have their difference.
The story had a lot of enigma that makes the audience ask questions about why Damon had taken Jason's son and why they are bombing families in an act of revenge when he should be after Jason. Why should innocent people have to suffer?
Another thriller convention is that we have a clear protagonist and the story is told from his perspective.
Our sub-genre is a action-thriller as it shows elements of violence and bombings in scenes. Also elements of action are car crashes, explosions and also chasing the antagonist to arrest him and also to find his son. The story also has aspects of psychological-thriller as Jason keeps thinking about the car crash and what his actions of drinking had caused. Also, Damon thinks about how Jason had killed his daughter and that he will never forgive him or let others live their lives in peace and therefore begins to bomb people as he has gone mentally ill.
The thriller themes that the story include are death, revenge and fear. Death is shown at the beginning as Damon's daughter dies. It is also shown in in when Damon and Ben plan bombs in locations and kill innocent people. There are images shown of the bodies and rose petals laid upon them to signify their deaths. Revenge is denoted as Damon kidnaps Jason's son and raises him has his surrogate as Jason lives the rest of his life in misery just like Damon. Fear is portrayed when the people in the park see the bomb and they know it will go off any second and there is nothing they can do about it. All they can do it wait for their death to come.
Style
A camera shot we will use is a close up shot of a childs hand hanging out of a crashed car which portrays blood dripping and smashed glass everywhere. To show this we will be using fake blood and also get an empty bottle that we will smash and safely lay out in the scene where we will then throw away once we have filmed the scene. Another camera shot we will use is establishing shot which will be of a park showing families walking around. This is the location that our bombing scene will take place.
For the post production, we will be using final cut pro to add edits into our film and put all the cuts and footage together. The editing conventions that we will add in an explosion effect that will happen in the park after the bomb goes off. Another editing convention is a fade in and a fade out at the beginning and ending of the film to start and finish it off.
A thriller sound convention is the sound of the ticking bomb and shows a glimpse of a bomb hanging out of a backpack which will be a very tense moment for the audience as the rest of the diegetic sound in the background will be muted to get a more silent effect as everyone is just waiting for it to go off. Another sound effect we will use, is also the car tyres screeching when there is a car crash. The noise of the screeching represents the danger that the audience first see and hear and also the loss of control that Jason has of his car.
For the post production, we will be using final cut pro to add edits into our film and put all the cuts and footage together. The editing conventions that we will add in an explosion effect that will happen in the park after the bomb goes off. Another editing convention is a fade in and a fade out at the beginning and ending of the film to start and finish it off.
A thriller sound convention is the sound of the ticking bomb and shows a glimpse of a bomb hanging out of a backpack which will be a very tense moment for the audience as the rest of the diegetic sound in the background will be muted to get a more silent effect as everyone is just waiting for it to go off. Another sound effect we will use, is also the car tyres screeching when there is a car crash. The noise of the screeching represents the danger that the audience first see and hear and also the loss of control that Jason has of his car.
A thriller mise-en-scene convention is the lighting which we will change to low key as it will create tension and shadows. It portrays predominantly dark tones which makes the scene look atmospheric and also allows the audience to follow the action or movement easy to analyze and guides their eyes. For example following the bomb in the backpack in the park.
The performance of the characters will have to be seriously delivered and create suspicion and tension to make the audience feel uneasy as to what is to be expected towards the end. Will Jason ever get his son back? Will he stop the bombings from proceeding?
The performance of the characters will have to be seriously delivered and create suspicion and tension to make the audience feel uneasy as to what is to be expected towards the end. Will Jason ever get his son back? Will he stop the bombings from proceeding?
Brief Interpretation
A quote from the brief of the Thriller Chiller Film Festival is 'it should include all the conventions of a film opening' which include super imposed graphics, engaging music, enigmas and to introduce the production company as soon as the film begins etc. The production company we would have to create using Fireworks and Adobe software to produce our company name and logo design. Also, the super imposed graphics will be showing a scene of Jason drinking and flashes of explosions going off, maps and location being highlighted and this will all be shown behind the superimposed graphics. The superimposed graphics displays the directors, producers and characters names and anyone else behind the scenes. Our engaging music will create tension and will sound quite eerie to intrigue the audience.
Also, in the brief it mentions that it should be 'aimed towards a target audience of 16-24 year olds. We use the Jason's son Ben who is 15 years old to try to relate to the younger audience.
Also, in the brief it mentions that it should be 'aimed towards a target audience of 16-24 year olds. We use the Jason's son Ben who is 15 years old to try to relate to the younger audience.
It also contains quite a lot of action which they are intrigued with such as the explosions that we will show that Ben caused. There are many plot twists that are involved such as the antagonist Damon taking Ben for 11 years to take revenge on Jason . The audience learn after that Jason had killed Damon's daughter when he receives a phone call from Damon explaining everything. How he took his son, how Jason took away his daughter from him, Damon was the cause of all the bombings.
Another quote that we will include is 'many of the techniques used in the thriller genre' such as plot twists, the themes and characters that make up the thriller. Also, suspense is created as death and paranoia are displayed in slow motion to keep the audience off their seats and makes the audience have feelings of excitement, hope and anxiety which develops from unpredictable and surprising events.
Another quote that we will include is 'many of the techniques used in the thriller genre' such as plot twists, the themes and characters that make up the thriller. Also, suspense is created as death and paranoia are displayed in slow motion to keep the audience off their seats and makes the audience have feelings of excitement, hope and anxiety which develops from unpredictable and surprising events.
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