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Evaluation question 1

Redemption

• Our thriller had many inspirations and many influences. Upon making our Thriller we noticed the similarities and differences that it had to other forms of media.

• I found three films, The Cube, The Hunger Games and Deerhunter. One TV show, Derren Browns live Russian Roulette stunt and One Music Video, Rhianna’s Russian roulette video. They all had similar concepts, setting and content.

Idea behind Our Final Piece

• Russian roulette• noun• the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber

of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one's own head.– an activity that is potentially very dangerous.

• "we can't afford to play Russian Roulette with our existing antibiotics"

The cube vs Redemption

The cube Six different people, each form a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they’ve been imprisoned. IMDB

The cube vs Redemption

Redemption A an action packed thriller based on a series of games that are controlled by higher forces. Jamie Grey must battle to the death in order to win his ultimate freedom.

Similarities

• They have similar story lines• Both The Cube and Redemption are based off

of a series of tasks and challenges. • They both feature groups of people that

would not normally come together • They are both controlled by higher forces

Side by side

The cube, we see our male character face a dilemma. His face is angled away from the camera and slightly off centre.

Redemption, we see the same sort of shot here. Our male protagonist faces a dilemma on weather he should shot the gun.

Differences

• The cube is based in a series of challenges in a load of different rooms, a maze.

• Redemption is based in several locations as a whole. It’s all done to look quite grimy and like not a lot of effort has gone into it.

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The Hunger Games vs Redemption• The hunger games • Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place to

enter the games, and is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy when she's pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.- google

The Hunger Games franchise vs Redemption

Redemption A an action packed thriller based on a series of games that are controlled by higher forces. Jamie Grey must battle to the death in order to win his ultimate freedom.

Similarities

• Both have similar concepts.• A group of young individuals are selected and

forced to compete in a series of games, to battle to the death. This is the case for both films.

• They are all competing for their freedom.

Side by side

Taken from the hunger games’ cornucopia scene. We see an aerial shot of a majority of the competitors, setting up the surrounding.It shows us in greater depth what is going on around them.

In Redemption, we had an aerial shot to show the whole surrounding similar to THG. In order to do this we mounted the camera on a jib and moved out at a fast pace.

Differences

• THG there is a young competitor age and a larger group.

• Redemption, it’s a much smaller group and our male character is planted to win.

• The games and challenges are slightly different.

Dear hunter vs Redemption

Dear hunter • In 1968, Michael , Nick and Steven, lifelong friends

from a working-class Pennsylvania steel town, prepare to ship out overseas following Steven's elaborate wedding and one final group hunting trip. In Vietnam, their dreams of military honor are quickly shattered by the inhumanities of war; even those who survive are haunted by the experience, as is Nick's hometown sweetheart, Linda. Google

Dear hunter vs Redemption

Redemption A an action packed thriller based on a series of games that are controlled by higher forces. Jamie Grey must battle to the death in order to win his ultimate freedom.

Similarities

• Although plot lines are completely different, there is one scene that is incredibly similar.

• Both contain a Russian roulette scene • Both feature a foreign language.

Side by side

Dear hunter shows three men sat around a table in which they’re about to play Russian roulette. The gun is In the middle of the table. It has been placed in the middle by one of the characters. Wide shot

Redemption, we see three people in a dingy setting around a gun that has been placed in the middle by the leader of the game. Wide shot.

Differences

• In this scene, they’re shooting themselves where as in Redemption they’re shooting each other.

• The characters are energetic where as our characters are limp and lifeless.

Derren Brown (Russian roulette stunt) vs Redemption

Derren brown Derren Brown, the illusionist who claimed he was playing Russian roulette on television using a live bullet. Placed in the chamber by a volunteer who was not held accountable for the actions that were taken.

Derren brown (Russian roulette stunt) vs Redemption

Redemption A an action packed thriller based on a series of games that are controlled by higher forces. Jamie Grey must battle to the death in order to win his ultimate freedom

Side by side We were inspired by Derren in this scene, we therefore decided to base our character (john) off of him. In the sense that he manipulates the people playing the game.

Both have very grimmy and dingy settings that contribute to the overall affect. They both show control over the gun.

They both use a 6 chamber revolver gun and wear a black suit. They both are well groomed. But Derren speaks English and john speaks Bulgarian.

Differences

• Derren brown used mind games to control the situation.

• One was a documentary and it was live. • Derren had the gun to his own head. • Different languages are spoken.

Rhianna vs Redemption • The music video opens with shots of Rihanna hooded, lying on the floor

of a gas chamber. Three men, dressed in black uniforms and wearing dark round glasses circulate around the singer, attempting to extort information from her. Rihanna sits at a table with her love interest opposite. On the table between them lies a silver revolver in which, throughout the video, they take it turns holding to their heads. Other scenes include Rihanna in a woodland at night standing in the middle of a highway before a car speeds towards her, quickly cutting to another scene, giving the impression she is run over. Elements of blood and tears and vehicular assault dominate the video. The final scenes, Rihanna is shown underwater, floating whilst being fired at; one bullet is visually seen cutting her throat. The video ends with her lover apparently committing suicide with the revolver placed between them.

Rhianna vs Redemption

Redemption A an action packed thriller based on a series of games that are controlled by higher forces. Jamie Grey must battle to the death in order to win his ultimate freedom.

Similarities

• Both media forms feature a game of russian roulette

• Both have a male lead character• Both focus on trying to control the other

characters.

Side by side

Here we see emphasis on the gun as it is the focal point of the scene. As the gun is the main point in the game of Russian Roulette.

With the gun being pretty much the Centre of the shot, the audiences attention goes straight to the gun.

Differences

• one is a music video and one a film• Rhianna had more male characters as well as

seeing the powers that be behind it.• Redemption had one singular man in control.• We did not see the people designing the

games/ tasks.