Character profiles (The Purge)

The Polite Stranger

The "Polite Leader" is the main antagonist of the sci-fi horror thriller known as the Purge, though the film is set in a dystopian future so it can be argued the Bigger Bad of the movie is the government itself, however the Polite Leader acts as the main antagonistic force in the film alongside his gang of "purgers" because unlike the government, he directly goes against the protagonists, he dresses with a suit which again is bringing professionalism to thriller movies 

Claude Levi-Strauss Theory

Claude Levi Strauss studied hundreds of myths and legends all around the world, from that he found out that we as humans make sense of the world, people and events by seeing using binary opposites, he then found out that narratives are arranged around the conflict of binary opposites. Levi Strauss is that the conflict is based around the binary opposites and that the binary opposites are the central climax of a narrative structure.

Propp's narrative theory

In the 1920 Vladimir Propp was a Russian critic, whilst the cinema was producing many films, Propp was just interested in narrative of folk tales, He then noticed that often folk tales were similar in variety areas, he identified a theory about the characters and actions as narrative functions. According to Vladimir Propp characters have a narrative function they provide a structure for the text

Audience Research - What does Thriller mean to you?

Audience Research 1

Here is a video of my first initial recording of what an audience member expects from a Thriller film. This has allowed me to have a look at the conventions and what the expectations are for a general audience. This is primary research to give me a first hand account of what an audience expects and wants. 

From this research I will now start to develop the ideas for my own film.

What Is Audience Research?

Audience Research is defined as any communication research that is conducted on specific audience segments to gather information about their attitudes knowledge, interest’s preferences or behaviors with respect to prevention issues. 

Segments may be based on various grouping strategies, such as race and ethnicity, age, education or family income. Some investigators refer to audience research as formative research