Representation in our film

In our film we have challenged forms of representation with the major challenge being the representation of gender. In most psychological thrillers gender is represented with the men being the villains and the women always seen as victims. However, our film challenges these forms with the first half of our film the male being portrayed as a victim with his ex girlfriend primarily the villain. In particular the scene where Alex tries to find out where Melissa is by asking her female friends, in this scene the females hold a lot of power over Alex by not telling him anything and just basically telling him to move on which makes him look submissive. At the end of the film the roles reverse and comply with the representations in a psycho thriller with Melissa seen lying dead beside Alex who is alive. This shows that he has murdered her and is the bad guy after all.

Target audience for our film

We decided as a group that our film will be targeted towards a more male target audience. The reasons for this are that men like to try and work out things for themselves, whereas women tend to give up more easily when it comes to finding out what is going on. This film will be aimed towards middle aged men rather than men below the age of 18 as most psychological thrillers are. This is because our film does contain a narrative that has a psychological issue that younger viewers may find disturbing. This does not mean that we would put a certificate of 18 on our film though; our film would be given a certificate of 15 because the material is not overly explicit. Also with our main protagonist being male this straight away relates to a male target audience in terms of men being able to relate to it. Men would also being a target audience for our film because they like that element of surprise and the twist that our psychological thriller conveys.   

Shot Scripts

Once we all came to a decision of what the films narrative was going to be we could then produce our shot scripts. We all have produced our shot scripts for our individual scenes and below are the shot scripts for my scenes.