Media A level- Thriller

 Representation is the way media texts deal with and present gender, age, ethnicity, national and regional identity, social issues and events to an audience.  Media texts have the power to shape an audience's knowledge and understanding of these topics.  Representation is important it can help break down stereotypes that can be detrimental to some individuals and limiting to society.  When a group of people is only ever  represented  in negative ways, it negatively affects the way others see them, as well as the way they see themselves. Stuart Hall representation theory Cultural representation is a concept cultivated by Stuart Hall. The theory states that there is no true representation of people or events in a text, however there are many ways these can be represented. Therefore producers try to 'fix' a meaning or way of understanding people or events in their text.  In order to analyse media  texts to determine how they've represented ideas and issues, it's import

 Using ' Narrative' as a descriptor, ' Narrative media' are media that aim to tell a story.  Narrative theory is the study of the way stories are structured. All media products tell stories in some way. The study of  narrative  explores the different ways that  media  texts can tell a story.  Narrative  is strongly linked to the audience and purpose of the text. The narrative theory is made by Tzvetan Todorov. His theory states that most story's or plots follow the same pattern which is the 5 step narrative theory pattern. First part of the story will display a happy start , where the characters are content and everything is how it should be  There are 3 types of narrative: 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person.  Many stories and novels are written in the  first - person  point of view. In this  narrative , you are inside a character's head, watching the  story  unfold through that character's eyes. Second person  point of view uses  “you” to address the reader

  These are the simple camera shots that all films use multiple times throughout they're films. They are all affective for different reasons, for example and extreme long shot can be used to show the location, extreme close up can be used to show a characters emotions and facial expressions very clearly.  I will be using a lot if not all of these shots in my film as they're all effective and can be used at different times. I have watched films to help me know what type of camera shot is most effective at what time. There are also more camera shots then this that are not as basic but still very effective, therefore I will be using some of them. For example cutaways, two-shot, over the shoulder shot, POV shot, these are shots that will also be good and useful to use in my thriller.

 I have chosen to deconstruct an A level media thriller called ' Silenced'. Silenced starts with quick pace piano music which makes the audience feel tense and curious to what is going to happen and why is it going to happen. The camera then cuts to a POV shot of him putting down a newspaper and picking up a paper that says ' missing person' on it. This is effective as it shows the audience what might of happened and builds the intensity. When he picks up the paper the camera cuts to an extreme close shot that pans up very slowly bottom to top. This reveals to the audience slowly what the paper says and gives us information about the missing person. While all this is happening they're credits with names in the bottom left corner. The next shot is of the missing person who is sitting down at a table, it is a medium shot and while this is going on the missing girl is getting told off by a background voice saying stuff like ' how would you feel if I tormented you?&

I have made a survey for my audience to see what they're demographics are so I can compare them to thrillers they will like. I have asked these question to create a target audience as from the answers I now know the percentages of my audiences age, gender, thrillers they like and genres they like, therefore I can now make my thriller that have similar semiotics to thrillers they like. Also I can now include a sub-genre that my audience like if I want to. The survey has helped me a lot in creating my own thriller as now I have more of an idea of what to include in it based on my audiences preferences.    I asked this question to find what my target audience is, so I can make my thriller relatable to the audience.