thriller opening

Evalution Question 1

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Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 4

Why would they watch your film? What would appeal to them?


AGE : I done a survey and asked for the peoples ages and roundabout it was mainly under 18s that completed this thriller survey. This is what helped us to produce our thriller knowing what range age group liked what in thrillers.

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as you can see i have done a survey in order to find out if my thriller idea will fit my specific audiences needs and what i need to include. From the responses i have collected majority have stated they like the suspense from a thriller movie and that is a criteria i have accomplished. Also they have said that their favourite thriller is taken and this fits my thrillers needs as I wanted A Done Deal to have some resemblance with Taken , i have successfully done this because in my thriller opening i have included some conventions that have been included in Taken , also the plot is similar and the man's daughter being kidnapped.

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

 This is our "Focus Group "

^ From this we gathered what we needed to include in our thriller.
Also another way we attracted audiences attention was that we did not use just one type of ethnic background, no racism. 

Why would they want to watch your film? 

 

the responses show that cliffhangers and suspense are the most effective in thrillers to the audience , so that is what i have included in A Done Deal (my thriller) where the protagonist is being stalked/chased by the antagonist , this links with the type of audience my thriller can attract :

mainly young teenagers watch thrillers and this fits in perfectly with my thriller because the characters in my thriller are teenagers, so this will result in the young audience wanting to watch it to see what is stereotyped about them as a whole. in my thriller the antagonist is a male figure and protagonist is a young girl. So the young audience relate to this because they feel sympathy for the vulnerable girl , so this will lead to them wanting to finish off the thriller to see what happens to the girl.

Why would they want to carry on watching after you initial 3 minute opening?

Im certain my audience will carry on watching the rest of my thriller because it includes all the conventions of a thriller that they had asked for on my questionnaire, which were cliffhangers and suspense.

Also i published my thriller opening on my friends facebook (social networking site) in order to get feedback for our opening and these are the comments i received :

From my audience's response i know they would continue watching. Also one commenter stated ' i like how you could see things from her point of view' this part was really effective I the protagonist was running whilst holding the camera in order to create that real effect to the audience to make them feel like they are in my shoes and i added in diegetic sound which was my own breathing this showed the fear in my voice and how heavily i was breathing this increased tension drastically.

Another commenter ' loved the last bit' , the ending of my thriller opening was on a cliffhanger where the protagonist was pushed into a car and droven away but we don't know what will happen to her next, so to know that it was effective and people enjoyed it would leave my audience on their end of their seats ! 

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 7

My views on my progression :

This is the final product A Done Deal.

This is my preliminary task - as you can see i have learnt how to keep the camera steady not shaky like in our preliminary task and how to be a better actress. Another aspect we have as a team improved on was our costumes when filming, in our preliminary the characters were mean to play roles of spies and agents but they are wearing normal clothes so it doesn't really make sense or look realistic.

MacGuffin - Thriller

The term Macguffin was created by Alfred Hitchcock  it is used to drive the film plot along, it is like an object which helps the plot to evolve however the object itself is not important tp the audience
The real define of Macguffin is important major players in stories sacrifice anything to obtain their status even if the Macguffin is challenging. Alfred Hitchcokc stated 'the audience don't car..' when he defined a MacGuffin as the object which the plot revolves around but not as to what the object is.

 

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

13 August 1899- 29 April 1980

 Film Producer and Director active from 1921-1976

Here are some of his film that were produced;

The Mountain Eagle - 1926

The Ring - 1927

The Farmer's Wife - 1928

Blackmail - 1929

Murder - 1930

The Skin Game - 1931

Number Seventeen - 1932

The Man Who Knew Too Much - 1934

SABOTAGE -1936

The Lady Vanishes - 1938

Foreign Correspondent - 1940

Saboteur - 1942

Lifeboat - 1943

Notorious - 1946

Under Capricorn - 1949

To Catch a Thief - 1955

NORTH BY NORTH WEST - 1959

PSYCHO - 1960

THE BIRDS - 1963

Family Plot - 1976

The films which are in block captials and bold are the Alfred Hitchcock ones we watched in lesson.

Momento

The Film Opening Of Memento

In class I have seen the opening scene of Memento which is made in 2000. I have made notes on about the thriller opening of the sequence.

This is a unusual film that is edited differently because the film is played backwards. The story is told backwards so the audience find it hard to understand and then they want to watch the next part of the film. At the beginning of the film it shows a guy looking at a picture and waving it around several times. Then the shot of a man dead on the floor is seen then everything filmed backwards where his glasses are placed back on his eyes and then is shot again. Flashbacks were black and white also there was blood involved  The sounds at the beginning were non diegetic which creates a mystery feeling then leads to a heartbeat. At the end of the scene we can here voice over after the gun shot. The camera shots that was taken in the opening of the thriller was Long shot, Over the Shoulder, Close up, Low Key-Lighting and Wide shot.

Shot List

Shot List
Scene	Shot Number	Description
1 1 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37	A black screen with a voice over on 8it A medium shot of a handshake A pan of the girls going in to school A long shot of the girls greeting each other A medium shot of the girls walking past A three spilt screen of the girls walking along corridors to classes, one of a clock and the other of schools kids throughout the day to show the pass of time A medium shot of one girl on the phone A long shot of April approaching Kristina (the girl on the phone) A match on action of the girls exiting the building A pan of the girls walking by Another medium shot of the girls walking by again A long shot of the girls at the gate A long shot of the girls walking towards the bus stop A point of view shot of April pressing the traffic light button A point of view from the stalker of April and Kristina sitting at the bus stop Another point of view shot of the stalker on the bus watching the two girls A long shot of April and Kristina getting off the bus A tracking shot of April and Kristina walking along the bridge A point of view shot of the stalker walking through traffic to get to the other side of where April and Kristina were heading Point of view shot of the stalker watching April and Kristina walking down the slope A long shot of April and Kristina approaching the Zebra Crossing A long shot of the girls walking into the distance A point of view shot of the stalker watching the girls walk while he was standing in the bushes A crane shot of the girls walking into the bowling alley Point of view of the stalker watching the girls dancing and the teacher answering the phone  a medium shot the teacher gets into the car A crane shot of the girls and other dancers leaving the building A stalkers point of view through the bushes of the girls going their separate ways A long shot of April walking into the distance A medium shot of April walking through to the subway and the mysterious stalker follows her A long shot of April walking towards the camera with the mysterious stalker still following Medium shot of April looking behind her at the stalker A two shot of April walking quickly in fear away from the stalker while putting her hood up Long shot of April running away from the stalker A high angle shot of April running up the stairs away from the stalker A medium shot of April running towards the car Another medium shot of the stalker pushing April into the car

Gala Moan Story board

Moby gratis

i have gathered my music for my thriller from mobygratis and it was all non copyright.
i.e.
 moby - wait for me

Certification

This is how movies are age rated , which limits certain age group people from watching a movie in the cinemas. 

Alfred Hitchcock quotes

"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them"

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible"

" If its a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would have a perfectly good idea of what was going on"

Manchurian Candidate Anaylsis

The Manchurian Candiate originally was made in 1962 but a newer version was made in 2004.
This filum was directed by John Frankenheimer , also all the actors of that time were white the country was dominated by whites. Like in this film it has only got white men and no blacks in it, also to reflect the time it was set 1962

In this film there are hardly any women, and the ones that are shown do not have much of a role , this reflects the time it was set where males were dominant and women had no say and their only role was to be a housewife.

The newer version which was published in 2004 is more thrilling and more violent than the original and we see it as more of a thriller with its conventions.

 The film is about a government conspiracy that involve a former Korean POW, Sergeant Raymond Shaw , who has been brainwashed by the Communists to be an assassin. The original version in 1962 has very much been updated which suit the more modern audience by new director Jonathan Demme, written by  Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris starring Denzel Washington who has the leading role in the film, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Jon Voight and Jeffrey Wright. 

This film has used suspense, red herrings & cliffhangers which are used extensively. The genre is flexible & can engage the audience through a dramatic rendering of psychological social & political tension. The villain who is the president is a driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles that the hero must overcome.

Animatic

Contingency Plan

Contingency Plan Name: Lucy, Arafat, Artiola and Gabriele Production: Gala Moan Productions

Potential problems and how to overcome these problems: If someone is sick- and we need him or her then we will have to shoot another scene that they are not needed in. If we are told that we are not allowed to shoot in a certain location then we will change the scenario of the scene to fit another location. If our equipment gets damaged by accident, then we will inform a teacher straight away in order to replace the camera and to avoid future confusion.

Risk Assessment Sheet

Risk Assessment Sheet

Title: A Done Deal

Client: Robert Clack School Media Department

Writer: Arafat, Lucy, Gabriele, Artiola

Producer: Gabriele, Artiola, Arafat

Director: Gabriele 

Date:

Major Issues: getting hit by a car, disruption from students, disturbing the pedestrians 

Filming at: Robert Clack School: school entrance

Gorsbrooke: a bridge, a bowling alley 

 

Solutions: film when there isn't any cars around and students around

 

Contacts: 999

Emergency services: 999

On Site Services:

Local Police:

Local Fire:

Local Hospital:

Production Schedule

Production Schedule Location Visit Sheet Programme Title: ADone Deal Client: Robert Clack School Media Department  Writer: Arafat , Lucy , Artiola and Gabriele Producer: Gabriele , Artiola and Arafat Director: Gabriele  Date:

Dance scene in robert clack dance studio chasing scene Gorsebrook Dagenham. Access to location via:  Bus Name and number of location contact:  dance studio - robert clack leisure centre ________ gorsebrook - emergency number is 999

Health and Safety Issues to note: ●

Potential Filming Problems : ●       Maybe getting injured by cars.

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc)  Weather problems i.e. rain will damage equipment and we need our lighting and weather constant.