Friday, 10 February 2012
Thursday, 9 February 2012
4 .Who would be the audience for your media product?
Due to a number of questionnaires we decided to target an audience of 16-25 year old males and females and make the Thriller a crime-thriller. We found that people enjoy the plots a lot more of crime-thrillers and after us researching real crime-thrillers already released we realised that an opening for one wouldn’t be too hard to create. We also used market research to find out whether people like to see a crime-thriller from the hero or the villains’ perspective. By this questionnaire we found out that people would rather see the thriller from the villains perspective, but also some times from the heroes, therefore creating a sense of dramatic irony. We think our audience would be a typical 16-25 years old; they would be male, probably from a middle socio-economic class. We thought this because due to our research we found, as you got older you became more interested in the plot of a movie, so therefore 16-25 year olds is the perfect age bracket because they will be interested in the plot and be more interest in what will happen next.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted our audience by making our Thriller opening a crime-thriller; this would attract our target audience of people aged 16-25, who enjoyed crime-thrillers. We focused all the attention of the audience on the villain, in order to show where he killed the victims, but not show how or whether he did kill them. We did show the villain killing one of the victims but this was only two of the four. We did this so that it would ask questions about what happened to the other two, whether they will be found later in the film, whether they will be dead or alive. Or whether they will not be found and we have to create our own fate for them. This would attract people who like to see the crimes from the villain’s perspective and how he evades the police. A lot of people would rather see crime-thrillers this way because you don’t have to work things out for yourself but its more of a case of when, where and how he is going to be caught. Or if he is going to get away with it. Thus creating a kind of dramatic irony. Because the audience know what is happening but none of the main characters know what is going on, thus creating dramatic irony. We used certain camera shots, such as establishing shots to show things like time passing, but also the contrast between the calmness in the establishing shots and the mayhem that was happening in the action shots contrasted really well because we brought mayhem to a calm place and therefore made a really effective Thriller opening. This attracted our audience because it created a sense of disturbance, this therefore would have drawn in our audience because this made them ask questions about ‘Why is this happening?’ And ‘what is going to happen?’ Therefore persuading them to carry on watching the movie to find out what will happen later.
7. Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I think that my skills as a filmmaker have improved dramatically from my preliminary task to my Thriller opening. When I started media studies, I had no experience of filming and editing, but when we were making our preliminary task I was slowly getting better and better. During the filming of my preliminary task we gained knowledge of the 180 rule, which we broke once during the filming and editing of the Preliminary task. We managed to use shot reverse-shot effectively, which we didn’t use in our thriller because we didn’t think that it’d suit the opening because shot reverse-shots are normally used during a conversation and we didn’t have any dialogue exchange in our Thriller opening so we didn’t think it was appropriate. In our preliminary we did use a match on action because we were required for someone to walk through a door, so by having a shot of someone opening the door then from the other side someone walking through the door created a good match on action which we used in our preliminary. But we didn’t use any match on action in our Thriller opening because once again we didn’t think it’d work, due to the thriller being disjointed. But for my thriller opening, we used a lot of out of focus/dark shots in order to create a tense, mysterious ambience. Overall I feel that I have progressed a lot since the Preliminary. The preliminary taught me how to use the technologies. But for my Thriller opening I had to take that understanding to the next level and make it more advanced. Which took time and a lot of work. We had 3 different Thriller Openings by the end of the editing but after weeks of work we choose the best and the one which used the most conventions. Also our editing skills have developed since our preliminary task. In our preliminary task we used some basic but effective editing techniques, but in our thriller we used some complicated editing techniques such as fade transitions, which we used to create tension and anxiety within our audience. Also our planning skills have increased because we were able to plan out what will shot and within what time frame, unlike in our preliminary where we filmed everything at once making it much harder to do re-shots afterwards, plus we didn’t get many shots for each shot in our preliminary task due to our awful planning. Also we were more organised for our thriller opening because we had to sort out what time we were going to start shooting at and what time we were going to finish, therefore we had to organise everything. Unlike in our preliminary task where we had an hour time slot to shoot all the footage we needed, and we weren’t very organised because we hadn’t really planned out what we were going to shot. 
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Conventions Of A Thriller Opening
Thriller openings are designed and create in order to draw in their audience and make them ask questions which will be answered later in the movie or left unanswered for us to make our own conclusions. Thriller openings normally involve a couple of establishing, this is to show the audience where the movie or scene will be set. Most Thrillers are set in a hostile or eerie location in order to create suspense, tension and mystery. Also most Thriller opens, show some sort of action, normally involving the movies
Monday, 30 January 2012
Questionnaire Update and Results
1. What is your favourite movie genre?
· Thriller-1
· B. Horror-4
· C. Drama-0
· D. Comedy-2
· E. Action-9
2. What do you see in the opening of a movie that you enjoy? Two lines max
- Interesting opening credits
- Nice establishing shots
- Something that introduces the story
- Nothing should be too simple
- Cool opening effects
- Story should be not too simple
- Opening music should be good
- Music should be suspenseful
- It shouldn’t be too inactive
- Something should happen
- There should be lots of confusion
- It should be really smooth
- The plot should be clever
- The music should have something to do with the rest of the film
- There should be something impressive right from the start
- It should grab your attention
3. If you had to choose a Thriller sub-genre what would it be?
- Crime-Thriller-13
- Psychological Thriller-3
4. If you had to choose, what would be your favourite Thriller movie?
· Saw films-7
· Donnie darko
· Inception
· Kill bill
· Van helsing
· The matrix
· BBC’s production of the 39 steps
· The great escape
· The godfather
· Memento
5. What do you like about that movie? I.e. the tension it creates. Two lines max
- the plot
- the music
- the action
- the horror
- the use of plot
- the storyline
- the story
- the story
- the way it all fit together
- how clever it was
- the action
- the action
- how clever the story and plot was
- how scary the villain was
- how terrifying the villain was
- how strange it was
6. What setting do you think is best for a high tension thriller? One line max
- in a dark warehouse
- in a small village
- inside a characters head
- it should turn out to all be a dream
- in a creepy alley
- spread out across the country
- in a big city
- it should move from place to place
- a abandoned theme park
- graveyard
- wide open space like a field
- abandoned school
- forest
- abandoned factory
- old museum
- spooky wood
8. What in the opening to a Thriller would keep you asking questions? Two lines max
- I’m not sure-6
- Not much of the plot should be given away-4
- You should be confused by it-4
- A complex plot-2
9. Give your age?
- 11-3
- 12-1
- 13-1
- 14-1
- 15-5
- 16-3
- 17-2
10. Your status (lower class/middle class/upper class)?
- Lower-5
- Middle-11
- Upper-0
11. Do you like intelligent well thought out films?
· Yes-12
· No-4
13. Do you like foreign films?
· Yes-4
· No-12
14. What is your favourite type of music?
· Rock-4
· Pop-4
· Rap-6
· Classic-2
· Country-0
15. What was the last film you watched?
· Don’t remember-6
· Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2-3
· The smurf movie
· Cars 2
· The hangover part 2
· The green hornet
· The inbetweeners movie
· Keeping mum
· Kill bill
16. What was the last thriller film you watched?
· Don’t remember-11
· The matrix
· The godfather
· Saw 4
· V for vendetta
· Donnie Darko
17. What did you like about it? Two lines max
· The characters
· The storyline
· The scares
· The storyline
· The storyline
18. What did you not like about it? Two lines max
· How complicated it was
· The characters weren’t likeable
· The complicated story
· nothing
· nothing
From our market research we found out that people like establishing shots in the opening of a movie, also that they would like a kind of action aspect to the opening, also people like the plots of the opening. We have tried to incorporate everything we have found out from our research into our Thriller Opening.
Friday, 6 January 2012
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