Scenery/location for thriller

Last night me and Sarah went out and took some pictures of the scenery in which will be using for the opening sequence of our thriller. We also took pictures of each other taking the pictures to prove we had taken them. In order to show different ways in which show the scenery from different veiws we tried to get different angles of each shot. Today in class we uploaded them to final cut express and put the best shots together.
This is shown below;

We believe this area will be good for our thriller as it is mostly desserted, very rarely people go there. This means we won't have many disturbances whilst filming is taking place. Also, it fits in with the idea for our thriller and makes the scen look ominous creating suspense.

Storyboard animatic

Here is mine, sarahs, hollies and connors final storyboard for the opening of our thriller which we finished today in class. We edited in it final cut express and added a sound track to it, however when uploading to youtube the sound no longer played in the background. For the time being I have uploaded the unfinishe dproduct but will be aiming to fix it shortly and upload the version with the sountrack.

Treatment for our thriller

Outline of ideas;

• Stalker
• Room for of pictures, obsession
• AN abandoned park - Eastbrook end
• Foggy

What resources we will need;

• A room
• Pictures
• Tent
• Lake?
• Fog?

Justification of ideas in realtion to genre;

• Suspense
• Shadows
• Mysterious characters
• Point of veiw shots
• Danger
• Tension
• Death? (mystery)

Conventions of the genre;

• Lighting-Low level lighting, shadows
• Isolated/deserted/confined spaces
• Quick editing-fast paced
• Point of veiw shots and frantic camera movements
• eerie sounds, silence
• Ominous character

Research into real films of the genre;
No country for old men 2007;

• Antagonist is the main character

Manchurian candidate 2004;

• Political and psychological - room with lights, constant scenes, camera movements

North by North West 1959;

• Crop scene - Red herring

Research into potential target audience;
Young women as our film wuold be psychological rather than filled with action scenes and weapons.

Proposal as to how your project would appeal to the target audience and beyond;
Young women are more inclined to watch thrillers that also fall into the catagory of a horror. Ours would do this, therefore females would enjoy it more. Moreover, we intend on casting a female as the victim: women would be able to relate.

attempted storyboard

Today our group finished drawing up our storyboard for the opening of our thriller. We have a really good idea of what it will consist of, and are working on gaining more licences for different music.
We began the anamatic for our storyboard in this lesson however, didn;t get to finish it so will are planning to finish it next lesson and post it.

Analysing my survey results

My survey was completed by 8 males and 14 females. Most participants were as expected within the 16 and under age group and the 17-25 group. 68.4%, the majority of the participants watch thrillers atleast once a month, 15.8% watch thrillers once every six months, another 15.8% watch thrillers atleast once a week and a following 5.3% of the participants claimed they watch thrillers once a year. when asked on a scal of 1 to 5 how much would you say you like thrillers (5 being at the higher end of the scale) the majority of the participants answered 4. There was a range of thriller genres that were preffered, including psychological, paranoid, mystery, horror, crime. The majority of the participants answered horror, pschological, mystery and action. When asked what would would you say are the most important components of a thriller there many answers. The most common were suspense, tension, cliff hangers, and a good story line/plot. We will take these into consideration and try to use these conponents whilst making the opening to our thriller.

thriller genres displayed using wordle.com

important thriller components, wordle.com

Mobygratis, Approval

The member of our group who asked for the licensing of the two tracks recieved confirmation of the licensing of the tracks shortly after.

Mobygratis

As a group we discussed what type of music we would like to play in our thriller and agreed on two main tracks which we believe will go well with the opening scene to our thriller. One member of the group has requested the use of both the tracks and we are now awaiting the reply. In order to gain a wider range of music we will also visit sights such as unsigned.com. As a group we have decided that we would like to secure the licencing of around ten tracks, meaning that we have a wide variety of music to chose from.