Tuesday 27 April 2010
Thriller Opening
Below is my final opening of a thriller:
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Preliminary task
Below is a video of my preliminary task:
Monday 19 April 2010
Pearl and Dean Research
During my research I used the Pearl and Dean marketing site which enabled me to establish my target audience for the opening of my thriller in terms of age, gender and social class.
age gender 4-6 0% male 62% 7-11 0% female 38% 12-14 0% class 15-24 32% AB 20% 25-34 31% C1 46% 35-44 11% C2 17% 45+ 25% DE 17% source: CAVIAR
age gender 4-6 0% male 60% 7-11 0% female 40% 12-14 0% class 15-24 42% AB 26% 25-34 39% C1 29% 35-44 10% C2 31% 45+ 9% DE 13% source: CAVIAR
age gender 4-6 0% male 78% 7-11 0% female 22% 12-14 3% class 15-24 29% AB 31% 25-34 38% C1 22% 35-44 22% C2 23% 45+ 8% DE 24% source: CAVIAR
From this research I was able to notice that the target audience for people watching thrillers were males aged 15-34 within the working/middle class.
Sunday 18 April 2010
Evaluation Questions
For my thriller I decided to develop the conventions found in real media products for instance the music I used was that of the typical thriller genre also the scenes I developed where scenes that would normally be established within a film of the same genre. In order to develop conventions of real media products I took ideas from existing media products of the same genre and constructed scenes of similarity, the two films that gave me my final idea was “Psycho” and “Se7en” from these I created my shower scene and the idea of my character suffering from a mental illness. I thought that by doing this, I would create a much more interesting and applicable storyline if the film where to be furthered as the opening ends on a cliff hanger which would not only intrigue the audience but also raise all sorts of questions in their minds. During my research for my media product I was able to discover the different genres in which people enjoyed and decided to explore different ways in which I could create this. I was able to expand on the idea of my sub-thriller genre found out from my target audience which was the psychological thriller. I found from research that in most real media products males are normally portrayed as the antagonist. Staging a murder for my opening, I was also able to inter-link my second sub-thriller genre sought from my target audience which was the action thriller.
I feel that my thriller with a few adaptations may be distributed by major success institutions such as New Line Cinema, Universal pictures and Paramount pictures who have produced other thrillers similar to mine such as Se7en and Psycho. I feel that major successes may choose to distribute my thriller as the storyline is similar to other popular thrillers which have had huge success. My thriller deals with issues not completely touched upon within the film industry the issue being dealing with the mentally ill. My thriller gives an audience an insight to life through a completely different perspective. If my film received good feedback then it could go on to be distributed on digital t.v. such as sky or virgin media.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
I decided that my thriller would appeal to those in late adolescence to those in late adulthood. With an age range of 15-24, the majority being male. I used the pearl and dean website to establish this conclusion. I felt that by using a male as the murdered, I would attract male viewers as from my research I found that when it came to which gender tended to watch thrillers more, the majority were male.
5. How did you attract/ address your audience?
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Storyboard and working script for pre-liminary task
Int scene
1.In this shot a young woman called Bianca is walking down a corridor, towards a door.
2.Bianca walks through the door where she approachs a table and 2 chairs with a male character called Steve sitting on one side of the table.She sits down.
- Steve and Bianca engage in serious conversation.
Bianca:
Steve?
What have you done Steve?
Steve:
I didn’t mean to.
Bianca:
Do what Steve?
What did you do?
Monday 29 March 2010
Opening to thriller planning
A Gun, Leather Gloves, Newspaper articles, books and a highlighter.
Monday 22 March 2010
Storyboard and working script for Opening of thriller.
INT. Scene:
SHOT 1. In this shot the camera will pan over a series of murder articles.
SHOT 2. Side view of books open.
SHOT 3. Close up on character highlighting book.
SHOT 4. Close up and zoom on murder articles again.
SHOT 5.Introduction to Jack we cannot see him but he has his back to us. His phone rings and he answers.
Jack:
I’m ready.
SHOT 6. He puts on leather gloves and picks up a gun, he puts the gun into a bag.
SHOT 7. Jack walks out of the room and outside.
ENT. SCENE:
SHOT 8. He drives off to his destination.
INT. SCENE:
SHOT 9. Introduction to Evie however we do not see her, only her feet, she is walking into the bathroom.
SHOT 10. We see jack breaking into a house and walking up the stairs, this is the same house we have just seen Evie in,going into the bathroom.
Shot 11. Jack is walking up the stairs he is getting out his gun.
Shot 12. Evie is in the shower, she is unaware anybody is in her house.
SHOT 13. Jack walks into the bathroom the door closes.
SHOT 14. We hear a gunshot and a scream.