Our movie concept is about a detective in a race against time to catch a murderer on the loose before he kills again. Our 2 minute clip is the introduction to the killer and his first victim.
The first victim is a blonde, vulnerable young teenage female, who has a struggling family life and is at her family home alone.
This stereo typical structure is used because our audience can relate to the victim as she is of a similar age; possibly encouraging them to 'side' with her. Her youth can be interpreted as easily becoming overpowered and generally vulnerable, especially as she is home alone; making an easily accessible target for crime and suggesting a high prediction of entrapment and lower predictions of surviving or having help. Also, her own personal level of intellect is suggested through her hair colour; blonde women in society are seen as naive and of a low intellect.
The killer is roughly aged 25-30 years, tall, muscular, fully clothed in black, wearing a dark mask, using a kitchen knife as a weapon to kill his chosen victim.
He is of a preferred age, considering his young victims, he has enough muscularity to suppress them and is taller than his victims, giving him a slight advantage and sense of dominance; this may promote the audience to also feel subordinate to him, like a victim.
As he is fully clothed in black, it conjures the idea that he can blend into the shadows, implying to the audience that he could be lurking anywhere. His identity is hidden through wearing a mask, seeming more menacing and abnormal; it is used to help him detach his emotions from the crime. We decided that his weapon would be a kitchen knife because it is a common household object, creating the fear that anyone could use a knife from your kitchen. The knife, generally as a murder weapon, is more personal than a gun because the murderer penetrates the victim’s skin within a close distance, rather than a long ranged weapon, making it more personal and painful.
He is of a preferred age, considering his young victims, he has enough muscularity to suppress them and is taller than his victims, giving him a slight advantage and sense of dominance; this may promote the audience to also feel subordinate to him, like a victim.
As he is fully clothed in black, it conjures the idea that he can blend into the shadows, implying to the audience that he could be lurking anywhere. His identity is hidden through wearing a mask, seeming more menacing and abnormal; it is used to help him detach his emotions from the crime. We decided that his weapon would be a kitchen knife because it is a common household object, creating the fear that anyone could use a knife from your kitchen. The knife, generally as a murder weapon, is more personal than a gun because the murderer penetrates the victim’s skin within a close distance, rather than a long ranged weapon, making it more personal and painful.
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