Research and Planning: 'Joy Ride' {[Charlea]}

Joyride 1995---Charlea
1. The sound in joy ride was a mixture of both diagetic and non-diageting. Diagetic sound was most evident in this piece but the soundtrack they did play work well alonge the the diagetic sounds. The mise on scence was a classic thriller scene, side of a wood surrounded road at night. The victom however appearing to be a male which was a bit surpriseing as in most films it tends to be a female victom. The male seems to be in uniform showing he's a worker but also changing in the car to more normal clothing. This miese en scene surrgests he is a working class character, this helps the audience relate to him more. The characterisation of the characters in the film work well because they contrast so dramatically, you have the scared but daring victom which is the man you meet in the begginging. This compars to the more phycolically unhealthy male kidnappers/ murders, who are more firce and bold with there cjharacteristics, one more then the other. You also have the local police men who are used to dealing with speeding and broken tail lights, and are a bit shocked to come accross two guys with axes and an alive man in there boot. Themes and issues are that any normal person can turn out to be someone different to what you thought and also that males can also be the victom. Plus fighting back may be dangerous but it may also get you out of it all, back to were you started.

2. The way the film runs back on it's location works nicely as it's a feeling of being back to the known back to square one where you origanilly started. The twist on quite a dramatic sight, when you find out the man laying in the road was only there as a trap so he could be kipnapped makes a masasive story line change, because in most peoples head they would be preparing for a film about a man finding a body in the middle of the road. It's inspiaring as it shows you shouldn't be scared of taking risks and adding twists i your piece. Also simple location can be just as effective as massifve ones. Also rounding things up by coming back to where they started adds an extra story line touch to the piece, a sense of secutity which is taken away from the sparks hitting the man covered in petrol.

3. The film has a good narrative because it covers all angles, it has the twist it has the excitmentment, the sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat feeling the use of qick straight cuts adds to the gosh-what's-going-to-happen-next feeling. The lighting in the production adds to the pices as it is lighted vert subtally, a mix of natural and sudio lighting to crete the eay night affect which could be usful within our production. A mix of naturalism and studio will make it easier for the audience to relate to the surroundings and the situation because it wilol be what they know and are used to, so much so, it complement s the action and doesn't overpower the scene. The way they have ordered the film works well because it fits the normal structer but also contains also of restircted narration. This is particually apparent with the antagonists you don't know why they arekipnapping and killing people you just know that they are. Also you never heard the antagonists name, neither the protagonist. I like the fact that at one point you think it's all over, you think that the protagonstic has made it out alive which is taken away again by the appearence of the phyco again. I would include this in my piece because it gives the audience false reasurence, creating more of a shocking effect.

4. The sound was manily diagetic, peoples voices and sound effects. Alot was emphasis on sound effects, like when the protagonist was hit round the head with the end of an axe, you could hear the emphasis of the blow. There was alot of emphsis on the rain downpour within the film, water and elctricity don't mix, which is emphsised in the last scene. The electric sparks sound effect have been enhanced to creats dramatic tention, as the weather is agrovating the fautly wire.

5. The fact that the male is the victom and not a female, shows a more modern twist to the piece, it shows that men can also be the victom and not just females. You get more of the view from the victom in this piece, like when the police people get kill it's a sound scape over a black screen, this is the POV from the victom in the boot listening to the screams from the police.