Our Media product is made to target a teenage audience. There are different social groups that are represented in our film. There are lots of teenagers who are Gothic and enjoy Rock music. There are also lots of teenagers who are the popular type, with a lively personality. There are lots of social groups.. For our psychological thriller we wanted use to opposite social groups, to get the audience's focus.To question them about the friendship between the two characters, and how others respond to them.
These are Genres ,that are associated with the type of films, Teenagers like to watch.
These Genres are not only about the types of film's teenagers like to watch, but these categories also demonstrate the different social groups and different ages,the audience belong to. Our film , is a psychological genre. Psychological thrillers, are not like horror, as they play with the audience's mind. Throughout the film, the audience feel as if they are solving a puzzle.
As there are adults in this film , an adult audience may also watch this psychological thriller, as the psychological genre is also targeted for and older audience. An exaple of this genre, is films by Alfred Hitchcock, who was an English filmmaker, who liked to create psychological thrillers with suspense.
Vetigo is one of Alfred Hitchcocks famous thriller films made in 1958, about a agoraphobic policeman, who is hired as an investigator to investigate an acquaintance's wife's abnormal behaviour.
Lucy Bently, looked like the average school girl, yet she has a mysterious personality, which isolated her from the world of the other people around her, including her popular best friend Phoebe Johnson. Her Dad left home when she was young leaving her with no male figure to protect her. She now seeks the affection she wants from her teacher Mr Collinson. Will this obsessive love drive someone to murder?
Our psychological thriller , Education to die for , is about one mysterious girl's obsessive behaviour upon a new teacher's arrival. Our plot was similar to a film called 'Cracks'(2009), which is about a female teacher and a new student who is also female, and the obsession between them. Our film title is not the same, as our character is different, as she feels the happiness in her life, only when coming to school, because of the new teacher. We also decided to have a different gender approach, as we decided to have a male for the teacher. We also did this to make our story different from the storyline in the movie, 'Cracks'. Our titles appear in a panning movement.
This is the film, ' Cracks'. the trailer clip is shown below.
For our production company name , we decided to come up with a name that had our intials in it. We came up with MAD productions, which has the initials of our group's surnames (Minhas, Ali, DuMay). This also the white font, look mysterious against the black background.
For our location, we used the school, as that it where the story takes place. Our location is similar to the movie, cracks, however ours is in a public school and the school location in the film takes place in a boarding school.
The two school scenes are different as the second image is a strict boarding school and the other image on the top is a average school. This is a long shot of our locker scene.
For our two main characters, the girl who is obsessed and her best friend, we decided to create a opposite friendship. In films, there is often a popular girl and a girl who is seen as an outcast. Te two characters don't get along. However we decided to make a different type of character representation, to make our story dramatic and to puzzle the audience. Our character representation is the opposite to the relationship, in the TV series 'Popular".
For our main character, Lucy Bently, her representation is a mysterious character who is gothic and into rock music. We wanted to do this to create an opposite character, to her best friend who is a more popular and bubbly type of person. Her dark clothing represents her dark personality, and reflects her being an outcast from other people around her, including her best friend Phoebe Johnson, who begins to worry about her friend's strange behaviour.
Cast list: - Lucy Bentley (Main character): Louise lye. - Mr Collinson (Teacher) : Micheal Graham. - Phoebe Johnson (friend)- Rosa Torr.
- Extras- Mahreen Khan, Haleema Minas.
Prop list: - Prison mug shot height chart - Prison board - Photos of Teacher - Sketching materials – picture drawn of Teacher - School equipment: books stationary etc…
Locations: - Mug shots: On a plain white background in school, bright lighting. - Locker scene: English corridor, isolated and dark. - Toilet scene: school toilets. - Sketching picture: Classroom.
Education to die for,is the title of our film. We decided to include all the locations and shots shown in the photos. We decided to eliminate the fingerprint scene, as it was not very successful, and we found that it would not be effective enough. Throughout our opening we have dramatic sound effects which builds up the tension. However there is a clear focus, on the teacher, Mr Collinson, when he laughs.
The above images are shots which we took before filming each scene. This helped us to establish the lighting, for example, as we could see if it was too dark for when filming.
the photo of Haleema with the 'mug shot board' behind her was so we could see if the lighting was as realistic as it would be in a real 'mug shot'.
