Research Task 3 - Ben Brown

'Joy Ride'

1.

- Thriller

- Cigarettes, rain, darkness denotes danger

- Antagonists in normal clothes

- Protagonist is in police jackets, helps you recognise who the good and bad people are

- There is a lot of light used from sources in the film, rather than unnatural light they use street lamps, car lights and the sparks of electricity.

- when the man is lying in the middle of the road he is wearing black, which can also show danger, whilst the protagonist was wearing white which is the complete contrast the guys in black which can show the differences between them.


2

- when the drill was forced through the boot and nearly hitting him in the eye, the blood that falls through, followed by an extreme close up of his reactions, was very interesting. How you never see any of the fighting but you always hear it and is left to the imagination of audience which may be better than physically showing the fighting was a very clever convention used which could become useful in my production as it is simple but very effective with the use of sound effects.

- Also there a lot of point of view shot s when he is in the boot, so we can put ourselves into his possition, therefore sympathise with the position he is in.



3.

- this film is quite short, because of that is has less time to explain through the film what is going on so enigma play a large part.

- At the beginning it introduces you to what he does for a living and what he’s like, you find out he’s lazy and can't be bothered to finish his work off.

- The confrontation is what follows the beginning, this is where all the action happens in most films. this is when the protagonist meets the antagonist and where he is trying to find a way out.

- it ends with him ending up at his place of work where he began, the twist is that the work that he was too lazy to finish was the thing that eventually killed him

- This is an inspiring twist and i hope i can also find a twist to use in my own production



4.

- Piano used to create tension (non-diegetic)


- drums indicate different moods and situations, when he is trying to escape from the boot of the car the drums start which build up suspense, like you are waiting for something to happen


- also a lot of the fighting sound effects (diegetic) you cannot see the fighting so they use sound for you to imagine the fight instead, this can be very effective



5.

- The themes and issues of this short film where murder and kidnapping


- The antagonists where males so there is a slight stereotype because there was a woman police officer and the males ended up killing her, which can be used to represent the power of the gender

- The protagonist is a working class male that most people may be able to relate to, wanting to finish their job early and go home, but in the end that electric wire he did not fix was what cause his death
- the police officers at the end were unsympathetic and useless, they did not help any of the situations they were in and the audienence may be able to relate to some police problems they may of had about police not being helpful in some situations


Ben Brown