Survey update

I checked my survey today and as shown below, i have now had 20 responses. This is good, however i will be posting it more and checking in order to get more overall responses.

In order to gain more responses for my survey, i'm going to repost it onto my facebook in order to get more people to complete it. This is shown below;

Our interviews; further target audience research

Today me, Connor, Sarah and Hollie carried out an interview involving a number of questions based around the analysis of thrillers and what different genders and age groups like about thrillers and certain thrillers in particular. This was in an attempt to further identify the target audience for our thriller. We asked three questions in order to do this, these included:

1. What is your favourite thriller?
2. Why is this your favourite thriller?
3. What do you think makes a thriller, what main component?

Below is our final outcome, it answers all the questions asked and includes some bloopers too. Enjoy :)

Panic Room, 2002

This is the opening scene to 'Panic room', written in 2002. The first credits are the production company; Columbia. The next are the main characters, Jodie Foster. The font of these credits are large and bold, emphasisng the size of the buildings. The music is tense and changes to cause more suspense whilst the other charcters, directors and producer etc. are shown. the scene changes from the general to the particular, changing from the tall buildings of New York City to a mid-shot of Jodie Foster.

Se7en, 1995

Below is the opening credits to the film Se7en written in 1995. The music within the opening can be described as disturbing and unsettling. The font of the credits flicker on the screen and the text is also very irregular, different shapes and sizes and can be described as sharp/spikey. The two main characters are one of the first credits and then the title follows, others, not as important, follow after. These credits are very powerful as they are both unsettling and disturbing.

Film openings

Today in class, we watched the opening of films in order to analise the opening credits to come up with ideas for what we want to use in our own opening credits for our two minute thrillers. Opening credits are usually shown as superimposed on a blank screen, static picture or even over the action or picture in the background. Opening credits usually consist of the production company, the main characters, other actors, producers and directors etc.

We watched two film openings; 'Se7en' and 'Panic room'. we watched the opening credits and dicussed the order in which the cast and production team are displayed. We dicovered that in both film openings it was as follows;

• The production company
• The production company logo
• the main character, general to the particular
• The co-stars
• Members of the crew such as editor, director, camera man, music, costume etc. 

creating my survey

Today i created my survey using http://www.surveymonkey.com/
In order to gain a variety of answers from a range of different people i posted my survey onto my facebook for people to complete. I asked 8 questions which will hopefully effectively answer my question of who the target audiece will be for our 2 minute thriller. I asked questions such as the persons age, sex, favourite thriller, how much they like thrillers etc. Below is my survey posted onto my facebook wall;

Sabotage, 1935

Sabotage was another of Alfred Hitchcocks brillian creations, made in 1935. This film shows dramatic irony throughout, characters within the film knows something but we as the audience do. In this case, the husband of Stevies sister, Verlock gives Stevie a package to deliver to Picadilly circus by exactly 1:30. The boy does as he is told, not knowing that the package he has been told to deliver is in fact a bomb, set to explode at 1:45. Verlock tells the boy to go straight to Picadilly circus and be sure that it arrives at exactly 1:30, however Stevie is prevented from doing so by many different obstacles such as the Lord Mayors Show. This has deadly consequences!

How Hitchcock creates suspense and tesion throughout;

Hitchcock creates supense in a number of ways, one in which is through a number of close ups and extreme close ups of the bomb and the boys, Stevies, face. They occur more and more frequently as the boys time starts to run out.

There are also many close ups of the image shown above, what time the bomb will blow, and close ups of the time on various clocks to emphasise the change in the time. These also increase as the time decreases for the boy to deliver the package, bomb, on time.

The music creates tension, it sounds as if it is counting down making a 'tik tok' noice, similar to a bomb or clock counting down. The 'tik tok' noice speeds up as the time runs low creating the tension to build. The sound whilst the boy is walking through the market also creates tension and is contrapuntal sound as it doesn't fit in with the surrounding happy atmosphere.