Ambiguity

The use of Ambiguity

With the film title, I have been playing around ambiguity. This means you can have a saying or a phrase that means two different things. My Last Ride, for example, has more than one meaning. Firstly, this could mean a last bike ride, last car ride, etc. Or, it could mean a person’s last battle, a last fight for a good cause. Films like “The Kings Speech” use this skill to make the audience think about the film more, maybe cause a little bit of confusion.

Some films even change the language of the film title because it is more interesting and attractive. We have been considering changing the title from promise me to Promise Me This or The Last Promise.

Promise Me This

This title could mean promise something in the event of death, promise something in the case of a pivotal event.

The Last Promise

This title is better than the one above, due to strength of using ambiguity. With The Last Promise, it could have more than two meaning; the last promise could be a promise to someone before they leave, it could also be a last promise before death, it could be a promise to save the life of someone  or, a promise to one’s self,

Survey Questions: The Reasons

The Reasons

This scribid document simply explains why we have picked the questions used for our survey, the people or target auddience they are aimed at and, what we hope to gain from the responses.

Storyboard 01

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Do excuse the mistake. I will re-upload an rotated version later. This is my second Storybaord and I feel that I have improved on this area.

Changes. There'll be changes...

I have thought about what I can change to make my teaser trailer challenge the conventions of a crime-action thriller. In many of these types of genre films, the protagonist is a man and the victim is a woman, further enforcing the stereotype of "the damsel in distress". This has made women in these types of films seem weak, always helpless, and needing a man by their side to help them. If i were to reverse the roles, making my protagonist, Jeremiah, become the victim and, Aldanie (name change, felt more suitable), then this would present a major challenge to the crime-action thriller genre. This complex project will present many boundaries but, if i can pull it off, it will be a major achievement for me personally.

What's New

Well, to begin with, I have added more new shots, interlacing my big story with mini stories. After many discussions with my partner, I have come to the conclusion that the element of surprise will be essential in order to pull this off. Many students who doe the entire AS and A2 Media Studies course concentrate on straightforward and cliché themes. One like "this young boy has always live on the streets and been in gangs. Now he wants to find a way out, for the sake of his brother", or, we get this one; "he is a hit man who is waiting to kidnap the target and get information out of him, one way or another". Yes, i understand that we do come from a more urban environment; do we have to put our mindset into this box? Why should we keep on doing the same things that many British films still do today, incorporate Social Realism instead of branching out, and going further. This is why i have chosen such a demanding genre; i want to try and shock my demographic will something that starts out with things they see in everyday life, in the news, etc, but, ends with something absolutely mind blowing.

Changes to Storyboard

I felt as though the layout of of the old draft was too scruffy and unorganised. In addition to this, it seemed that the old one was lacking conventions of a crime-action thriller, despite me including them. Thus, i have evaluated and re-done my draft and i am now satisfied with the finishing product.

This one has a bigger story, one that is filled with mystery and confusion. I have also made sure that i have some seemingly random shots at the start that will, at first, confuse my demographic (which is what the teaser must do in order to make them yearn or the 'film'), also, the new storyline is essential to the message that i want to portray. I have also Incorporated many different types of shots, some that will be extremely hard, and common conventions like the corny lines, and this films is so similar to "Taken".

The only differences are the ties between the protagonist and the victim are not family ones; the protagonist is a family friend to the young girl. He does not really know her that well. I feel that i know hare something that has a strong foundation ot work with and i shall be incontact with my partner to get thses plan finalised and in motion.

Storyboard

With my new storyboard, I have found various way to keep the cliches and conventions of action thrillers like "Taken" (2008, Peirre Morel). This thriller contains almost every single convention of common action thrillers known within  the media industry. This is the type of teaser trailer that i would like to make.