Audience Research

On Wednesday evening we planned to go to the local cinema to interview cinema people on, what they like about thrillers and why.

We chose Wednesday because alot of people go on that day for the Orange Wednesday 2 for 1 offer, and evening because thats when people arn't at work or school and want to go out and socialise. 

we realised we could only go during the day with our camera and equipment, plus we had all made seperate plans for that evening, so interview people in our school.

We chose to ask fellow students at school what they like and look for in a good thriller.
The questions we asked were:

• What is your favourite genre of film?
• What is your favourite thriller?
• What do you look for in a thriller?
• What was the most recent thriller you watched?
• Did you enjoy it? Why?

Audience Research- Interviews

Here is the video of our audience research.

Music

The music that we include on our Thriller opening must be non-copyright music as we don't want to be sued by the music companies or a record label. The websites we can use to get non-copyrighted music are:

-mobygratis.com

-freeplaymusic.cm-newgrounds.com
-unsigned.com



To get music from this web site you will need to email the owners of the website for permission to use the music. All of these website where made for student media classes to access music legally

 Emma,Shelby and myself met our co-actor, Ricky at our local park to take 'couple shots'. We were lucky and it stayed dry, although it was still rather windy on that day . While me and emma decided what type of photos and what positions they thought would look best.

Photographs and Pro

Today, Emma, Shelby and myself met our co-actor, Ricky at our local park to take 'couple shots'. At first we were abit worried that it might rain, but we were lucky and it stayed dry, although it was still rather windy. While Emma and Ahmed decided what type of photos and what positions they thought would look best, myself and Ricky posed and tried to stay focused.
We then looked back over the pictures we took and ruled out any blurry ones, ones which my hair in particular was covering our faces and the ones where we were laughing/pulling strange faces. After cropping some and editing a few into black and white photos, we decided on the ones we will use. Here are a few of the photos we took and edited, ready to print off, put in frames and use as props for our thriller.

Animatic : Storyboard

This is my group's storyboard for our thriller. We had to change some the story because our first idea had some small problems.

Target Audience

To make a good thriller and to get people to watch it, we need to make it interesting for the right kind of audience. It needs to make them want to watch the whole film and not bore them. It also needs to be appropriate for the person watching.
The thriller my group are going to make could be classed as a 15 because references to violence could scare a younger audience, but might not interest the older generation.

Health and safety risk assessment

Film Title: Independent Law

Producers: Emma Sofianou and Shelby Jane Prentice

Directors:  Emma Sofianou and Ahmed Sayed

Date: Friday 13th January 2012

Major Issues:

Filming

1.     Finding a suitable location

2.     Check all equipment is working properly

3.     Making sure the equipment isn’t stolen

4.     Steep stairs going up to warehouse

5.     Safety in the warehouse

6.     Falling of the chair and injuring yourself or others or the equipment

7.     Making sure the person who is gagged can breathing through nose

8.     Make sure every one is safe at all times  

Solutions

1.     Shelby works at Iceland’s so we can use the warehouse to film in

2.     Check if the camera has full battery before starting to film

3.     Make sure there is more than one person around the camera at all times

4.     Go up the stairs slowly and carefully

5.     There a hot boiler in the corner to look out for 

6.     Practice falling of the chair on a soft surface then do the real shot

7.     Have some one who can breathe through their noise with ease

8.     Make sure parent and teachers both have contact details and also some one should have credit with them at all times while filming

Emergency services:

School phone number: 02082704200  

Local Police: 999

Local Fire: 999

Local Hospital:999

Triller opening

Why is it effective?


A history of violence exaggerated slowness short clips of music. Its important that the thriller has one of the most dramatic starts because most of the story ccomes from the start of the film and it also allows the audience to engage with the film right at the start. Also thrillers attend to have great starts.

production meeting-1

Task 1- Create a spider diagrams on paper or in word of potential thriller ideas

Task 2- Taken one ideaand develop it through a second spider diagram corrieder props, camera work and  cost ect.

Task 3- write a proposal outlining you idea for a thriller opening and the loctions propslect that you require.

Task 4- storyboard it 

Cliffhangers

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction. A cliffhanger is hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma.

One of the best cliffhangers in histroy is from the Italian job heres a clip of it 

Do films follow rules?

some film-maker will clam that "there are no rules" or rules are there to be broken. However, most would agree that there are certain conventions that mainstream film observe in order for them to be acceptable to the mass audience.

Here are some of my thriller rules:

• Cliffhangers
• Exposion
• Dramatic music 
• Plot twist 
• Theres a chase 
• Tension 
• Suspence 
• Kidnapping 
• P.OV 
• Mind games 
• Fight 
• Has to be in a city 
• Cool gadgets
• Hero 
• Villain  

Thriller

The thriller genre is a very difficult to define becuase thrillers come in such a wide range of films. Thrillers are films of suspense, tension and excitement which are supposed to install terror and keep the audence on the edge of their sets while they watch.


Types of Thrillers


Spy thrillers
Political trillers
Conspiracy thrillers
Legal thrillers
Psychological thrillers

Suspence and Shock

Alfred Hitchcock is known as the ‘master of suspense’ and a great innovator. He has three films in the Top Ten of the American Film Institute’s top thrilling films. ‘Psycho’, made in the year 1960, was number one. Hitchcock always uses suspense and tension to shock his audience. He does this by using cinematography very well by the way he uses the camera position, angles, movement and shots. He also uses scary music and lighting when he wants to shock his audience or create suspense


Here are some of Alfred Hitchcock films that have suspense and shock


Sabotage- Suspence because we knew that the kid had the bomb but he didnt know. Hitchcock also had itense music in that backgroud that brough suspence to the audience.


Rope- Tells the story of the two young, wealthy men. Brandon and philip who strangly murdered a friend of theirs just to see if they can get away with it. So they put the body in a chest/box. The suspence is created through the body in the chest and only the audience know.