Micro Elements

Editing

Mise-en-scene

the location of our production helps to generate the genre of the film, set from the very beginning in a dark and desolate area, with strange and unusual lighting which makes the audience feel uneasy from the very first few moments. in this sequence you do not see the characters, but what you do see can help to establish the character types, you see the boy running through the forest, all you see is his shoes which establish that he is an ordinary person, fairly young as he is wearing white trainers, which could help the audience to decide whose side they think they ma be on for this film. they may feel sympathy as in this shot he is clearly in danger, which is shown by the way this character is running and panting.



Camera work
When filming our product we made sure that we did not use a tripod, we wanted a point of view, hand held camera to be used. To make a better effect, so the audience would be in the characters point of view. We got the idea from parts of 'Momento' and mainly the 'Blaire witch project' which is a little more horror then thriller however we wanted to see the effect it had on the audience, it would make them feel in the position of the suspect, running away from the antagonist, and also being in the antagonists point of view when in the dark rooms. There was not much camera work involved apart from the handi cam, because we didn't have to ensure any particular shots etc.

Sound
when we filmed our sequence we got some unwanted sound - wind, voices, background noises etc.. so when we were editing we removed some of these sounds, as they make our production sound unproffessional. We did, however, use some of the sounds we had such as the sound of the running, the dialogue etc, which helped to put across meaning in our opening, and gains the reality of the situation the characters are in. We also added in some sounds upon editing, such as the white noise inbetween clips, this heps to make the white noise very frightening, as the unnatural sudden lack of picture combined with the sound can startle the audience.

Digital Moodboard

 




 

 



By Michael

ROUGH CUT

Our Thriller Project 



 Rough cut of thriller project.

Target Audience

Target audience













The target audience for our thriller project is both male and females ages 15-30. Our target audience can be divided into two categories 15-20 and 20-30, because they will have different interests. Teenagers enjoy things like going out with their friends to cinema's which the older category may also enjoy, so our project would appeal to them both. However teenagers or 15-20 year olds like going out clubbing, shopping with friends, sports activities etc.



Our thriller project conforms to the 15 classification meaning that no-one under the age of 15 can view it, because it may be found inappropriate. We feel that our target audience 15-30 allows teenagers to enjoy our film but also allows the older generation as-well, although if anyone above 30 feels they want to watch it there are no restrictions that they can not, we just feel that 20-30 year olds would enjoy it, as university students etc as-well as teens enjoy watching 'scary films'. Majority of 20-30 year olds are employed and have children perhaps so they feel a need to go out once and a while and see films at cinemas.
Our product would be enjoyed by our target audience mainly because of its genre being a psychological thrillers, we tried making it similar to other professional psychological thrillers like 'Catch me if you can', and 'Momento' which have been popular with 15-35 year olds. This is why we have tried to get our project similar to others to ensure our target audience will enjoy it.

Font Examples

FONT EXAMPLES
I searched on google for thriller fonts and this is what i found out, they are all very similar, usually capitals or the first and last letters are bigger then those in the middle, this is clearly a convention of the font of thrillers. Looking at various other examples of thrillers title sequences, I can see that the colours are generally dark, ie black, blue, red, usually a connotation of the theme or genre. However white is usually used with black, for example black background with white text or vise versa. Examples of this would be 'Inception' 'Catch me if you can' and 'Phone booth'.

I researched different kinds of thriller fonts online and found a bunch of them, i put them all together on one image to look at them as a whole and compare, and looking at them its clear why they are used, they are mostly bigger on the first and last letters, also capitals are used alot of the time, aswell as the ends of the letters being exaggerated. Some of the fonts have an almost scratched look about them, making it look scary, also some fonts have things like blood dripping from the bottom of the letters.

Font and colour scheme of title sequence.

INCEPTION

This shot of the title sequence from inception shows the colour scheme being simple, black and white, black background with white bold and in capitals writing so that it stands out and the audience is immediately drawn to it, because it is the production company name. The font looks simple and sophistocated perhaps trying to suggest the genre.

What we have learnt from Amar

Script writing

• Write all ideas
• Write it simple like so that everyone knows what the story does entail.

Writing your script

• Each scene should have a new paragraph
• Label with interior and exterior
• End with day or night to show what time it is.

Walkthrough

• Acting it out will help to identify problems
• Don't make it too complicated.

Location Recce

• When you find a suitable location, take lots of photographs to know where everything is.
• Source info, e.g location of toilets, car park, food etc.
• Think about filming location without background noise for dialougue.

Digital storyboard

• Take a variety of shots so background etc. is visible.
• How things look

Shotlist

• Always have shotlist, annotate script
• Tell story in the simplest way

 Sam, Michael, Saffron and Lindsay