The Clone. Thriller Opening

The Clone - Working Script

EXT 1 

 Shot of Amanda walking towards the bus stop waiting for the bus to come. 

We use a close up shot as Amanda sits waiting at the bus stop.

INT 2

Mid shot of Amanda getting on to the bus and sitting down. 

INT 3

 Over the shoulder shot of Amanda looking outside the window of the bus.

INT 4 

Mid shot of Amanda on her journey to meet her friend on the bus.

EXT 5 

Shot of Amanda getting off bus and walking.

EXT 6 

Long shot of Amanda walking around the corner.

EXT 7 

Long shot of Amanda walking down the alley way making her way to meet her friend.

EXT 8 

 Close-up shot of Amanda being abducted.

EXT 9 

Shot taken of Amanda’s clone as she walks away from the corner of the alley way.

Preliminary Story Board

Final Opening Scene: Story Board

1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In our thriller we have incorporated generic conventions which are used to create suspense and build tension. In the first scene it shows the protagonist who is a normal modern day teenager, with all the regular conventional aspects waiting at a bus stop, which then later on in the opening is abducted and replaced with a clone. Our thriller opening can closely relate to the film ‘Taken’ which is also uses a 16-year old as the main character who gets kidnapped and then used for prostitution.

Our thriller opening begins with the protagonist traveling by bus on her own making her way to Broadway as she walks off the bus and down a shortcut in a alley way which is quiet, dark and creepy, she is suffocated by the antagonist who is the kidnapper hidden at the other end of the alley way fully hooded and covered to build suspense and make audience wonder who it may be and why this may be happening. 

Conventions of a thriller include action, suspense, mystery, violence, danger, hero/villain, and victim. Our thriller applies these conventions as the innocent; teenager making her way to her friend’s house is abducted by the unknown antagonist who slyly waits knowing she will be arriving down the alley way at that specific time. Danger is shown in the opening as the protagonist is unexpectedly kidnapped and re-placed my a clone wearing dark sunglasses which creates tension for the audience  and makes them wonder what happened and what is going to happen next. 

As the teenager walks down the alleys way it creates irony for the audience as she seems very vulnerable, walking alone in such a quiet, dark and shadowy place. This all suggests danger and builds suspense which a thriller should do. 

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The type of social group that we have chosen to represent in our thriller film is young teenage college Students. We choose this particular social group as the main character in our opening sequence is around that age and social group.  The characters represent the main target audience that we have aimed our film at. We felt that by representing the social group as main characters in our film it would appeal to the audience as they would be able to relate to them allot more.  

We have chosen to use female characters in the opening of our film. Because of this, this may make our film appeal to more of a female audience. We have chosen to represent our character as what we think is a stereotypical view. Our character is seen a a normal teenager girl.  

Even though the main social group is clearly represented in the opening scene through the main character, Amanda. There is also a mystery character within the opening film however the character does not definitely represent  any particular social group. They are more of a mystery character

 The clothing Amanda is wearing conforms to what normal people of her age and social group would normally wear. We felt that the would also help to reach out to the audience as it would be something else that they could relate to. The fact that the characters are wearing clothes associated with there social group makes the opening more believable.


During our film we have chosen to represent different social classes. We see Amanda as a middle class college student. More people can relate to this class status. 


The Opening of our film displays a variety of races. This is so that our film does not fit into any race stereotype. We wanted to display diversity of cultures in our opening. 

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Our film is not the type of film to be distributed by a major Hollywood studio such as universal, the reason being because our film is a low budget film, because of this It would be distributed by an independent cinema. Our film would be under limited release and is aimed to be a film that  the majority of people will people hear about from word of mouth.   It is easy to see that our film is a low budget film because of the quality of the shots and the general quality of the whole film. It is also possible to tell because of the setting in which our film takes place.  Our film tackles the issue of kidnapping which is a  relevant issue in society, because of this our film could also be seen as raising awareness.   Some of the independent studios that our film could be released by include Film4 productions. This would be a good institution to release our movie as they distribute a number of different independent films every year. Also it is a well known institution therefore increasing the number of people that may view our film. Other ways in which we could promote clips of or film is through the internet, we could use the internet by taking advantage of the many video sharing sites such as you tube. This would be an ideal way to deliver audiences small clips of our film. This would help to create an audience base around our film. As mentioned above it may also help to increase the number of people that can deliver news about the film to others.  (word of mouth). Popular social networking sites such as Facebook would also be an ideal way to publish our movie to a wider audience.  

    

Reservoir dogs, Little miss sunshine and juno are all examples of low budget independent films that are successful.