lip synch

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

We decided as a group that we should have Miramax Films to be our distributor. We felt it matched the genre and also the mood we created in our opening sequence. Miramax was founded by two brothers; Bob and Harvey Weinstein and they were known for distributing independant films that are low budget or foreign films. Miramax have distributed flms such as Bridget jones's diary, Dirty pretty things and The switch.

This film company is very unique because they distribute films that have been rejected from larger companies such as paramount. These films would have a lower budget and this makes distributing them that much easier and cheaper. I wouldn't say that Miramax was well-known but I also would'nt say that they were. This company is very different from others and that was one of the reasons we chose that company; because its different.

Miramax Films is a unique kind of Distribution Company because they sell directly and license globally through strategic partnerships such as Lionsgate, Hulu and StudioCanal. This is unusual because most Distribution companies do not sell directly, and this is part of the reason why we decided to choose them. Miramax have a name for distributing films that have had previous rejections from larger and more prestigious companies such as Paramount. These films would generally have a reasonable budget. However, Paramount focus more on pleasing wider range of audiences such as families, and our film doesn’t fit this criteria and our target audience is quite narrow and niche, therefore we thought that Miramax would suit us and our general style, better.

Miramax are neither large nor small, and I wouldn’t say they were ‘indie’ or ‘well-known’ which is another reason why we picked them as although our film is mainly ‘Thriller’ is would contain elements of horror, action and espionage. So like the distributor, it is varied. Some films that Miramax have distributed are Scream, Hellraiser, Pulp Fiction and The English Patient. All of which have been very successful, not just in America but all over the globe. Being successful has been the route which many of Miramax’s films have taken, however it hasn’t necessarily been the route that all of their films have taken.

Miramax Films use similar advertising techniques to many other films when they are first released. This will include billboard advertisements, television, radio, magazines, newspapers, etc. The scale on which this is done however, will be different according to both the film itself (whether it is suitable for advertisement) and the budget that it actually has. The kind of audience that we are targeting is male and female, aged from 16 to 30 year olds.

Directors commentry

Question 6

1) what technologies have you used?

From studying t.v dramas, i have used many different technologies to make my work supervisual. i have used technologies such as: Bubbl, Prezi, screencast, youtube annotations, animoto, macs, imovie, still and moving image camera.

Question 7 (Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?)

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From looking back at my preliminary task i found that my camera skills had improved, and
 I learnt  how to make the scenes flow together nicely . I learnt how to put effects on the scene to make it look frighening and mysterious.I learnt how use i-movie, and also more tricky programmes such as Photoshop and final cut to make production logos and the titles for our movie. 

Firstly, in my preliminary task you see me walking into the room and sitting down at the table with Megan, we used a mid shot when you can see both me and Megan and an over the shoulder shot to show each others point of view. Our preliminary task is an example of continuity editing because it sticks to the rules and runs smoothly and was a smooth edit. The conversation we have follows the 180 degree rule because if it didn't, we may disorientate and could confuse the audience.

I have used these camerawork skills in my opening sequence when we see Jacob's feet walk into the bathroom. The continuity editing makes the film easier for the audience to watch,  it seems natural. I feel my skills have developed since my preliminary to now as i can apply many different and skillful techniques to my work.

My Opening Sequence also shows match on action but in a more sophisticated and creative way. Match on action is when an action commenced in shot A is carried on and completed in shot B this makes the movement smooth and looks natural. It is shown in my sequence when Jacob is sitting on his bed, he then picks up his glasses and in the next shot it shows him putting his glasses on and it flowed smoothly.

 

We have used techniques in our opening sequence that would have been too complicated for our preliminary task. For example we used a focus pull when me and Jacob walked across the bridge, talking and being average teenagers/young adults. It was blurred for most of the scene and the effect we wanted to create was to make us appear mysterious,  because you can't see our faces. I like the affect this created because it suited our genre and makes the storyline more appealing to the target audience.  

question 5

We targeted our opening sequence to males and females aged betweeen 16 to 24. We wanted to find out what people of that ages group would expect and want to see in a thriller film. We carried out a course of questions, and analysed the results we accumilated. the questions we asked were:

- Are you male or female?

- How old are you?

- What types of characters are expected to see in a thiller opening sequence?

- What do you expect to see in the first 20 seconds of a Thriller film?

- What sounds/music are you expected to hear?

The results we collected from our target audience is very typical of a teenager/young adult. Most of them expected to see a damsel in distress and also to hear eerie music, this helps to set the tone of the opening sequence. Aswell as that they would also expect to be introduced to the mains characters near enough straight away so they get an idea who the programme/film/opening sequence is going to be based around.

Final Pie Charts

Analysing My Genre Through Vox Pops.

Besides the questionaires and the analysis, we carried out Vox pops which meant we had to ask many different people about what they thought of our opening sequence and what they would expect to see in the thriller genre. The vox pops made us accumilate data faster and helped us to plan our opening sequence and gave us many ideas of what to add in to it.

preliminary task

Feedback results

Question 6

From studying t.v dramas, i have used many different technologiesto make my work supervisual. I have used technologies such as Blogger, the Macs, Sliderocket, Prezi, TubeChop, GoAnimate, Screencast and Youtube. There was a few techniques ive missed out but i feel that the ones on my blog work well in presenting my work in a super visual way.
          By working on t.v dramas, it has widened my knowledge of the different technologies and techniques i can use within my work. The biggest and newest piece of technology that i have used is the Macs. At first i struggled at trying to work out how to do everything, but as I progressed on into the unit further i became aware of what to do and how to use them effectively. Without the macs, we wouldn't have been able to edit our video to a high quality standard and get to the programmes we need such as final cut pro,livetype and imovie. These softwares were important, because those are the programmes that are made for editing clips and photos and i feel without them our dramas wouldn't look as effeftive as they do now.
      I have developed my camerawork skills quite a bit. i never knew about the different rules used shooting, and now i know all the tricks i can pull out all the stocks on the angles and placement of the cameras. This then means i can use them effectively and use them to make my work successful and make something creative.
      I feel by using the go-pro, HD camera and final cut pro, they've allowed me to produce something creative. By getting underwater shots helped us to make the drowning look more realistic and that then appeals to the audience and draws in their attention. It also helps the audience gain a better understanding of the film rather that just getting the jist of it. The HD camera contributed quite a bit to our film. The quality we shot our scenes at were of a high standard and this helped to see the image clearer and see the scenery and characters in more detail than you would on your average moving image camera. Finally final cut pro played a big part in our editing, this programe helped us to piece together every part of the puzzle to make our film make sense and look professional. We added many effects and cut scenes that was and wasn't needed in the opening sequence.
        Imovie has played a big part in allowing us to display our work in a creative way. I developed my skills in imovie so that i could add features like adding effects and tones to shots to make the mise-en-scene of the opening sequence more appealing to watch. Also by developing my skills it helped me when finishing our film and exporting it.

Brick (Johnson, 1999, US) analysis

  At the beginning of the opening sequence to Brick, it shows who the producer and distributer is. Along with this is a non-digetic sound of western music, with instruments such as cowbells slowly ringing alongside a non-digetic piano soundtrack. The use of the soundtrack creates a eerie/frightful mood and its played as we see the first shot of the sequence. This sets the scene and tells the audience that it could be set in the west.                  

   The soundtrack is played through to the next shot with a cross dissolve to focus us into the next. The next shot is an extreme close up of the boys eyes. He has his hands over/covering his mouth which suggests that he's done something or seen something shocking. By using the extreme close up, it shows the audience how the character feels in great detail and also builds up the mood. As an audience we automatically wonder what it is he's looking at, and because it's an extreme close up you can't see what's happened.  This also makes the audience judge him without knowing the whole story.  
  A long shot is used for the next setting, to show the audience where the guy was placed in the last shot and hat he is looking at. The fact that he is sitting quite far from the girls body suggests either he is too distraught to approach her to find out who she is or he's killed her herself. The setting is quite abandoned and looks as though no one would go down there, this adds to the mood and gives it a shocking atmosphere.                                                                          After seeing the body and the setting, we see various shot reverse shots of the the dead body and the guy overlooking her. They gradually zoom in on the guys face and this creates tension and puts the audience on edge. The shots used of the girl are of her different body parts. For example her head and arm. The girls face is covered by her hair and this makes the audience ask questions about her identity.                                                                                      This close up shows the girls hand in the dirty sewage water. She had bracelets on which also makes the audience ask questions like: who gave her those? Did the guy give them to her as a present? Are they friendship bracelets etc.                              

 The non-digetic sounds have stopped at this next shot and school bells fill it in. This shots is a graphic match of the previous shot shown of her hand in the river/sewers. It shows the same bracelets and hand just in different environments. It is obvious to the audience that its gone back in time to when the girl was alive because she is posting a letter through a locker door.   The final shot is the title 'BRICK.' Its a bold white serif font placed on a black background, it was used in this way to make it stand out and draw the audiences attention. 

Feedback

This is the feedback we got from our media teachers to improve our work and to be able to get our target grade. 

Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The general age group we targeted our media product to was 17-25. We feel as a group that it was aimed at males, because we thought that they would enjoy the drama and could relate to them in some way. The sort of person i have in mind is a male student that is interested in media but also likes a good party. They would be from the UK and in university, which means they have good facilities for education and are motivated to achieve the best. In their spare time they would be the type of person to watch films and TV programmes that are crime based such as CSI, Bones, Sixth sense, and se7en. This person would have hobbies such as going out with friends going to the pub and just generally socialising. However, students are the known stereotypically  for budgeting their money so this person’s hobbies would be dependent on how much they earn. They would visit site sucha as twitter, facebook, and instagram to keep in touch with his friends annd keep up to date with everything thats going on around him. Also visiting their blogs to stay in tune with their film and media news/information. They would read a book on the odd occasion but they would be more into magazines about films, gossip, music and fashion. They would listen to Indie/Rock type of music. They would also wear quite dark and simple clothing which would have been bought from clothing shops such as 'Urban outfitters' and 'Size?.' Because of the way they look they would be put in the category of an 'indie' culture. All of this adds up to my demographic target audience.

Draft 2

Question 3 Supervisual

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

We decided as a group that we should have Miramax Films to be our distributor. We felt it matched the genre and also the mood we created in our opening sequence. Our target audience are aged between 16 and 30.Miramax was founded by two brothers; Bob and Harvey Weinstein and they were known for distributing independant films that are low budget or foreign films. Miramax have distributed flms such as Bridget jones's diary, Dirty pretty things and The switch. These films have turnt out very well and have/are successful.

This film company is very unique because they distribute films that have been rejected from larger companies such as paramount. These films would have a lower budget and this makes distributing them that much easier and cheaper. I wouldn't say that Miramax was well-known but I also would'nt say that they were. This company is very different from others and that was one of the reasons we chose that company; because its different. They tend to go for certain target audiences whereas companies such as paramount are mainly family movies.

The advertisements used by Miramax would be pretty similar to other companies trying to promote their product. It would include advertisements on tv and billboards, magazines radio etc. But depending on the budget, it would decide how far and wide these advertisements wll go. The bigger the budget the further the advertisements can go and more viewings on their film so that means more income for the workers at Miramax.

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We have shown a few characters throughout our opening sequence involving a teenager who is the suspect and the protagonist who kills the girl. We represented the females to be more vulnerable and the male characters to be strong willed and brave. In our opening sequence we made out as if the two characters were friends so there wasn't really a stronger or weaker character. We didn't use a range of ages in the characters because we felt that we would connect to a younger target audience. The characters were dressing in casual clothing so that everything seemed normal. The protagonist wore a black jumper with black jeans and the victim was wearing purple jeans with  coat, just everyday clothing. But the fact that the protagonist wasn't wearing a coat on a cold day was a bit dodgy. When they were walking through the park everything was like a normal day so there was no suspicions, as to what may happen.    

Question 1.

 z1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

When making an opening sequence there  are nine conventions to follow which would make your sequence a high standard. These are distribution/production logo's, clue for the audience, promps for them to ask questions, an establishing shot, titles, an equilibrium or disequilibrium, establishing the theme/mood, soundtrack, and extreme close ups. We used typical conventions that are used in everyday real media products and portrayed them in a way that suited our opening sequence.

All the conventions we used were to enable the audience to understand the genre, the storyline and the characters views on what was going on, without giving too much away and making the storyline obvious. For example in bridget jones' diary, the  producer/director used quite sad and dreary music to give the audience and idea that something bad has happened, to her or someone close to her. you can tel this by her body laguage, she is dressed in her pjamas watching a tv drama, drinking wine, and singing into a hair brush. this shows us ,as the audience, that she if feeling under the weather/upset. You also see many close ups to show that she is the main character, and to show how she is feeling. The titles look like they are handwriten to bring the atention to the fact that its bridget jones' "diary." Our opening sequence.

We have used a disequilibrium because the audience do not know anything about the man as of yet, but they will assume that he is the antagonistic character because of the way he acts around the young girl and he has a more powerful look to him.

Titles

Analysis of Wallander

This is the Wallander clip i will be analyising:


Mise en scene: From watching the opening sequence it gave away clues and information as to what happened through the use of the mise-en-scene. When you first see the blood on the girls, in the car and on the victim you automatically assume that something bad has happened and some one has been hurt or injured. They are in a large open area and doesn't look like anyone could help because no one lives close enough to hear any screams for help. This location I feel was used specifically for this shot, because it makes the audience ask questions like: Where are they? Why are they in the middle of nowhere?

Cinematography: The main shots that are mid and two shots of the girls. These are used to show both characters and to show the audience what sort of style they have. From the side shot of the girls shows the audience that there is a more dominant girl out of the two and we later find out that the girl with the red streaks in her hair holds the knife and has done the damage. This was shown through a close up of the knife in her hand.

Editing: Simple cut aways are used throughout the whole opening sequence this makes it simple but effective. The cuts gradually get fast in pace when the two girls get involved with the shots this causes tension between the girls and the victim, this also automatically makes the audience assume it was them that killed the guy.

Sound: The sounds that are used in the opening sequence are mainly non diegetic. The sound track helps to build tension and the track that was in Wallander displayed this very well. Every now and then a diegetic sound of the girls heavy breathing takes over the soundtrack as they move further away from the scene. This could indicate that they want to get away from the scene as quick as possible or that they are scared what will happen. But from looking at the way they are dressed and the image they portray I don't feel that they would be scared.

Analysis of Spiderwick Chronicles

opening of memento

In the first opening shot is a close up of a polaroid photograph. This close up is the longest shot throughout the opening. You can clearly see the title of the film because its blue in colour and is done that way to make it stand out. During the opening of Memento the shot at the start gave you a good insight as to what the outcome of the film would be like. It started as a dis-equilibrium so you found out what happened before it all built up to the murder. You can also hear is a non diegetic sound being played throughout it and it then allowed the audience what type of film they're watching. The music is very powerful and has a meaning behind it.




This next shot is a close up of the characters hand which pans up to the polaroid camera taking the photo, then up to his face where he doesn't show no emotion in what he's just done. His facial expressions make the audience ask questions about his past or preset life, and about the victim about if he knew the victim, did he deserve to die etc. Also the tense music stops as the audience see his face and plays a neutral score. A shot reverse shot is used, and it shows his face then it moves to him taking/putting away the camera, this shows the audience that even before and after the photo of the scene was taken he didn't show any emotion when doing so. An extreme close up is used on the bullet to give the audience a clue as to what killed him, and the connection to the murder. To show the bloody  impact the bullet had to the victim. By showing all the blood in the scene it was meant to shock the audience and ask questions. At the end of the scene, all the clips are merged together and gradually speeds up in pace to show how quick a murder can be, and also ties the clues together.

Shot ideas

This is the only close we are going to use, because our story line is set in open settings. But however we chose to do a close up because we know as a group that its conventional for a thriller to have close ups.

This birds eye view shot of the main character playing the piano at the begining of our opening sequence is simple but effective. Even though we can see the character we cant see his face which adds to the suspense of meeting this character.

This high angled shot is also used so that we don't see the characters face, we want the shots throughout half of the opening sequence to not show his face because we want the audience to be drawn in by this man and to reveal too much in the opening sequence. Also this shot is a medium shot so that we get a sense of the surroundings around him.

Shooting Schedule

This is our Shooting Schedule. A Shooting Schedule is a breakdown of the filming that is needed and that is put into a schedule so that we are all organised and that we dont waste any time later on trying to figure out when everyones free, and so that we use the time we do have effectively. So even if we do fall behind we have the chance to catch up and get everything back on track. I think it is important to have a schedule because it puts everything in order and we have an idea on what days we think we would get the most effective filming done because we know when our group is there filming or not. 

Character Description

 Age: 16

Gender: Female

Occupation: Student 

Looks: Blonde hair and blue eyes. Stereotypical young girl.

Personality: Not outspoken nor shy. Enjoys shopping, spending time with friends and family and a dedicated student. She is the innocent character (protagonist) who was what we believe to be murdered by the Main Character.  Also known as the victim.

 Age: 24

Gender: Male 

Occupation: International Sales Executive

Looks: Average height, brown hair. Very stereotypical male of his age, however, we do not yet know about his past that haunts him. 

Personality: Dropped out of university and now works in Sales. He seems very quiet and shy however as i said before we do not yet know about his past actions that have chosen his future. We know that he has a mental illness however we do not actually see this develop in the opening sequence. Also known as the Main Character.

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Occupation: Student

Looks: Brown hair, green eyes. Very sporty and friendly and fashionable.

Personality: Outspoken and popular. Also a dedicated student but is very focused on spending time with friends and going to parties, etc. She looks at the main character when walking down the street and is the one that causes him to be paranoid. Also known as the schoolgirl.

Casting

Main Character:
We decided to use Jacob as our main character because we feel that it would be better if this character was male. We made this decision because in most thriller films stereotypically, the male characters are the antagonists'. We also thought about what the female characters were stereotyped as and in most of the thriller films we have seen they play the 'victim' and are seen as defenseless and at risk. I think that jacob playing the main character in the opening sequence would add a bit of competition because some opening sequences follow the victim.


The victim:
We decided that either me or libby should play the victim, because its typical of a thriller that the culprit is female. We also had to think about what way the character was going to be dressed, and the mise en scene in the background to enhance our grade, and we feel by having our opening sequence this way it would get our grades up. 

Story boards

This is a short animation that we created in iMovie. By doing this we could see what our opening sequence would look like, creating this gave us good ideas on framing, timing and shot types. 

Brief

For our main task we have to create the opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All the video and audio material must be original, produced by candidates with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright free zone.





This is an example of a fictional film.

Audio research

Although all these audio ideas are copywrite and I cant use them, they help me to decide what type of music I would prefer for my thriller opening sequence. All of the music ideas I have found are all slow paced, simple and could have a meaning behind them if used in the right way. Some of them sound old fashioned, this could symbolise the protagonists personality or the way he kills his victims.

Props and Costume

Costume

I think the costumes we should use are:

The protagonist: The killer will be wearing a stereotypical suit  for everyday use, going to and from work Eg blazer, smart trousers, smart shoes and brief case. But when on the job he would wear all black clothes or dark coloured, with a hat/mask/bandanna to cover his face so no one could identify who he is, also the dark colours help to hide his identity too because if he wore ordinary day to day clothes people may recognise what he was wearing the night of the murder and realise it was him all along. With where we film outside i feel it would be easier to him to sneak up on his victim in the dark rather than in broad daylight. 

Props 

The props i think would look most effective and useful are:

The murder weapon such as a knife, gun, rope etc. These sort of props are most important in a film and/or an opening sequence so that the audience see how they were killed and with what. Another prop i feel should be used is a house phone. I think that when he's getting ready in the morning to leave and having all these flashbacks of all the killings he's done, the house phone should ring and get a close up of it and his face to build tension. He would get paranoid and scared as to who it may be and let it ring out till it goes to answer phone. I also feel there should be something that belongs to the killer and falls out when hes murdering his victim as this makes the audience ask questions like: Will the police find it? Does he know hes dropped it? How did it fall out etc. 

I feel these props should be used as they are average everyday 
props that everyone uses and we don't want anything too fake, as if 
we were trying too hard to make it work. 

• A mobile phone would be needed because the main character is rummaging around for it in the beggining. 
• A set of keys to lock his house. 
• And a mug for day to day things to make things look natural and as if theres nothing wrong with the character. 

Location Research

I feel this location would be a very unique way to show a characters history, this apartment could have some significance to either the audience or the protagonist in the opening sequence. This image of a door number to a house could lead to many other ideas, or maybe something to come back to every now and then just to remind us what happened in that area. 

This photograph was taken of an alley way late at night, as I felt it would look more effective with a low key light. This location may be used for a character in deep thought about what s/he has just done, whether its good or bad. This image gives you the impression that you are trapped and there is no way to get out. The shadows created in the image creates a spooky atmosphere and puts the audience on edge. 

This pathway could be used as a chase scene either coming towards or away from the camera, which I think would both look effective. They would either be running into the darkness or running away from it. This location and the way I edited the photograph gives it an eerie look and makes the audience ask questions about what's going to happen and why this place is so significant. 

I feel this photograph could be used effectively when the protagonist has been injured/hurt or when he's just killed his victim and maybe about to pass out. Because the vision is blurred I think it would look most effective when used in that way. 

This location is at the top of a hill, overlooking the surroundings. I feel this location would be used effectively when the protagonist is in deep thought or is feeling suicidal. To the left of this is a image there is a pathway that is either sides full of trees and bushes and i think a tracking shot would be good for this scenery. 

Plot Synopsis

For our opening sequence, we are going to be following the main steps of a thriller film. This is an uncomplicated review as to what pour story line will be. 

Our main idea was to start the sequence as a disequilibrium. To confuse the viewer and ask more questions,  because we as an audience have already seen what's happened. so we wanted to start with a man in his early/mid twenties, either in his house or a family members, and is in a rush to get ready and out the door. Although we don't know why he's rushing we watch more to find out why. Whilst he's rushing about in his very un organised house, we catch a glimpse of the flashbacks he begins to have. All of his flashbacks that relate to his everyday routine. For example when he's shaving, he has a flashback to when he slit someone's throat. and also another example would be when hes getting ready in the morning and he splashes water over his face reminds him of when he drowned someone, which makes the audience watching ask questions and immediately assume that he is responsible for their deaths. When the man leaves his house, you see in the background what sort of area he lives in. We were thinking of a rough run down estate, to show that he could have been brought up around violence. But when he leaves his house he is very paranoid about what he's done in his past and what everyone thinks about him. as he's walking you can see everyone walking normally paying no attention to him at all and treating him like an average adult, but when you see it through his eyes everyone is giving him dirty looks. its as if his thoughts are controlling his body and making things worse for him. Later on in the film we find out that all these events are all in his head or maybe it is some sort of a mental illness? From watching thus scene we get a sense of guilt from what he's done. When he arrives as to where he was going, we see that its eery, doesn't have a nice atmosphere and isolated. This then gets the audience flowing with questions such as; Why is he there? What is he going to do? Why this area? Is there a reason for this destination? And all these questions will be answered when you finally watch the whole film, and it will all make sense. 

Final Pie Charts

Final Pie Charts


From looking at our results we found that the most popular answer from our audience, would be to see a damsel in distress and the least popular would be a young girl in the film. We found out that most people would hear eerie/creepy music as audio because it sets the scene for a thriller and least favourite would be fast paced music because it doesn't really fit the genre of film. Also from doing a survey we found out that most people that watch thrillers would expect to see the main character in the opening sequence to introduce him/her to the audience, and the other and least popular options were the setting, someone in danger, and a gripping story line. I feel that they are all very important when making/watching an opening sequence, and I don't think a film would be complete without them.

Analysis of our questionaire through vox pops

These are the vox pops that our group (toni, jake, libby) produced in order to give us a concept of what they would expect to see in a thriller film. This audience research helps us as a group see what people prefer in thriller movies. This is a good and quick way to find out what people like and why. 

Audience Research Explanation

The first pie chart that we see, shows the age of the people answered our questionnaire, as we found out from the sources we collected, everyone we chose was aged between 16 and 24. This could also be seen as a disadvantage because they were all of a certain age group and could be biased. However this age group was proven to watch Thriller films so their data wasn't all bad.

The next pie chart that we done tells us whether the interviewee was male or female. It is important tht we get a mixture of genders so that we get fair results. We automatically stereotype males as being the 'tough guys' and are more likely to watch Thriller films, but the answers we received questioned this.

The next pie chart we see answers the question 'What types of characters are expected in a Thriller film?'. We received a variety of results from our audience and found that the most popular answer that was collected was seeing a damsel in distress. The answer is very stereotypical for the age group we targeted. It was seen that males are the more dominant and powerful sex and females are seen to be the weaker and innocent ones. Another popular answer that was accumulated was seeing a character to be a scary male an someone in danger.

What we found in our next pie chart was that most people assumed there would be eery/weird music in the background of thriller films to make the scenes tense and to build tension. This stereotype was automatically made because it is typical of thrillers to have frightful and scary audio. When watching a thriller and you hear this type of music you think something bad is going to happen, but as a group we wanted to shock the audience and steer away from the typical thriller story line.

Finally, our last pie chart shows us the general overview of what the target audience assumed would happen in a typical thriller film. Our main answers that we collected was the 'introduction of the main characters' this lets the audience know who is the protagonist and the antagonist. As a group we thought about creating a special/unique way of introducing the main characters, we want to try many different techniques and see what one suits our genre and our target audience. 

Initial Ideas for a Thriller

Conventions of a thriller

Mise en scene examples: Only a few locations should be used when making a film or opening sequence because i feel that if you have to many locations your viewer may get confused.  

Cinematography examples:many different shot types and angles should be used when making a film and an opening sequence to show power over someone using a high angled shot or close ups to refine detail.