So it begins with a shot of a stereotypical family house, then cuts to a man asleep in bed. He's wearing light coloured pyjamas (showing he's the protagonist). He then wakes up, looks to where his wife should be and realises she's not there, he doesn't seem to be panicking at this moment, but gets up, puts on his dressing gown and leaves his room. We then see him looking into his childrens rooms - looking round the rooms in search of his children (the audience will know they are his childrens rooms due to the colours, props, mise-en-scene. The audience will also know that he is searching because by this time he will be beginning to look slightly worried as it seems his family is gone.
By this time he is becoming panicked and runs down the stairs into the kitchen - shouting for his wife and children (therefore we know that they are missing, and we understand that he is becoming extremely worried). He looks round the kitchen frantically, and finds a note, the audience will be able to see this note from the camera angles - and we see that it's a ransom note stating that someone has taken his wife and children, and he must find them from a clue within a deadline (hence the title 'deadline') From this moment a clock begins ticking in the right corner of the screen, showing he only has about 5:00 to find his family. From this point there are random short clips around 1/2 seconds but getting longer each time of his family being held hostage in what looks like an old barn.
Immediately it seems as if he knows where he's going, he runs to the car and drives away - we then have shots from inside the car of the dad driving to this place. The tense music has faded in by now and is slowly getting more and more tense - adding to the suspense of the audience. The dad arrives at what also looks like an old barn, he gets out of the car (the shots will be much shorter now to add to the suspense of the scene) and begins shouting his wife and childrens name whilst running around searching for them... after looking around for a while he realises he has obviously come to the wrong place, all the while we can still see the countdown clock in the corner counting down to 00:00. He looks at his clock and realises he is about to run out of time - this obviously makes him break down as he thinks his family will die, although he still gets in his car and drives away in the hope he can still get to his family in time.
The last shot we see is the antagonist shaking his head and walking towards the family who are still tied up.
We feel this ending is extremely climatic and shows enough to hook the audience, therefore making them want to watch the rest of the film. Although it shows a lot we think it conceals a majority of the information about the situation, again making the audience ask questions and wanting to watch on. We think this plot sounds like a stereotypical hostage thriller opening, whilst still being original and different to any we've seen, it includes a huge variety of conventional thriller shots, codes and conventions, and storylines.
Our storyboard will be up later today for you to look at, and hopefully be able to match the shots with this plot line!!
:D:D:D
No comments:
Post a Comment