For our thriller, we didn't want to follow generic conventions of most thriller movies, where women
are shown as inferior and less powerful to men. We wanted to have our female protagonist as the character with more power, therefore challenging the genre. Our inspiration for doing this was the film "Double Indemnity" where the main female character outsmarts the male protagonist, showing that she is more powerful than him. 'Double Indemnity' also inspired the femme fatale aspect of our
thriller opening. We enforced Serena's power from the beginning by using a low angle shot whilst she's on the phone, whereas when Mr Mordecai is being introduced for the first time, there is a very high angle shot used which makes him appear vulnerable and of less power than Serena.
Serena is shown as feminine the way that she's clad in a red dress and heels, but also in the way that she's putting her lipstick on at the beginning. However, the femme fatale aspect is shown clearly here as she's using a knife as a mirror, showing that she is dangerous, but also glamorous. Another prop we used to display Serena's sininster, deadly personality was a gun. At the end of the thriller opening, a gunshot is heard which the audience can be sure that it's from Serena shooting Mr Mordecai. The gun is a physical representation/symbol of Serena herself; although small, she in in fact incredibly deadly.
We presented our male character to be intelligent, as shown by being dressed in a suit and carrying the right tools to be able to enter the house. This is inspired by the film noir thriller 'The Third Man' and a more modern thriller 'Se7en'. In the opening sequence of 'Se7en', we are shown the morning routine of detective Somerset. Part of his routine is making sure his suit is clear of any dust; the suit is what inspired what our male protagonist would be wearing. Holly Martins and Harry Lime in 'The Third Man' are also dressed smartly, and throughout the film Harry is able to outsmart many people, the way he's dressed enforces his intelligence. Also, Holly must be intelligent too as he was eventually able to find out where Harry was.
Detective Somerset in 'Se7en' has all of the things he needs laid out and ready to pick up and use, which inspired us to give Mr Mordecai a lockpick, showing that he's intelligent and prepared. Something that furthers the idea that Mr Mordecai is intelligent is that he pretty much knew straight away where the bag would be.
Women in our thriller task are presented as deceitful and secretive. We achieve this representation by never showing the whole of Serena's face, and never showing the whole of Serena's body in any one shot. The idea of deceit of the woman to the man in again inspired by 'Double Indemnity'. I thought that this still from 'Double Indemnity' best replicates what we were trying to achieve in our own thriller; this scene is supposed to seem like a face off to when the two meet. The male character in both are less out of focus than the female characters who both dominate the frame, making the women seem more superior.
For our thriller, we didn't want to follow generic conventions of most thriller movies, where women 
are shown as inferior and less powerful to men. We wanted to have our female protagonist as the character with more power, therefore challenging the genre. Our inspiration for doing this was the film "Double Indemnity" where the main female character outsmarts the male protagonist, showing that she is more powerful than him. 'Double Indemnity' also inspired the femme fatale aspect of our 
thriller opening. We enforced Serena's power from the beginning by using a low angle shot whilst she's on the phone, whereas when Mr Mordecai is being introduced for the first time, there is a very high angle shot used which makes him appear vulnerable and of less power than Serena.
Serena is shown as feminine the way that she's clad in a red dress and heels, but also in the way that she's putting her lipstick on at the beginning. However, the femme fatale aspect is shown clearly here as she's using a knife as a mirror, showing that she is dangerous, but also glamorous. Another prop we used to display Serena's sininster, deadly personality was a gun. At the end of the thriller opening, a gunshot is heard which the audience can be sure that it's from Serena shooting Mr Mordecai. The gun is a physical representation/symbol of Serena herself; although small, she in in fact incredibly deadly.
We presented our male character to be intelligent, as shown by being dressed in a suit and carrying the right tools to be able to enter the house. This is inspired by the film noir thriller 'The Third Man' and a more modern thriller 'Se7en'. In the opening sequence of 'Se7en', we are shown the morning routine of detective Somerset. Part of his routine is making sure his suit is clear of any dust; the suit is what inspired what our male protagonist would be wearing. Holly Martins and Harry Lime in 'The Third Man' are also dressed smartly, and throughout the film Harry is able to outsmart many people, the way he's dressed enforces his intelligence. Also, Holly must be intelligent too as he was eventually able to find out where Harry was.
Detective Somerset in 'Se7en' has all of the things he needs laid out and ready to pick up and use, which inspired us to give Mr Mordecai a lockpick, showing that he's intelligent and prepared. Something that furthers the idea that Mr Mordecai is intelligent is that he pretty much knew straight away where the bag would be.
Women in our thriller task are presented as deceitful and secretive. We achieve this representation by never showing the whole of Serena's face, and never showing the whole of Serena's body in any one shot. The idea of deceit of the woman to the man in again inspired by 'Double Indemnity'. I thought that this still from 'Double Indemnity' best replicates what we were trying to achieve in our own thriller; this scene is supposed to seem like a face off to when the two meet. The male character in both are less out of focus than the female characters who both dominate the frame, making the women seem more superior.
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