The result to my questionnaire

These images show what the 15 members of the public said when they answered the questions given to them.

Questionnaire

Today I went round town and asked people to fill out my questionnaire, with some people to busy it was harder than I thought to get 15 people to answer but eventually I got my results and waiting to analyse with my team mates to get the final result of 60 people's revises.

Research

 

Thriller films have been around since the first television was ever created. A thriller film consists of a range of different types of genres; a thriller film is meant to make the audience ask questions through their thoughts for example who killed when? Why did she make such a dramatic exit? What they trying to hide? Thriller films use a range of didn’t methods to make the audience think about this; it gives it a sense of mystery. You know when a thriller film is a thriller film because it changes the audiences mood throughout the main one usually is uncertainty this is when the questions come into place, if the audience don’t ask themselves these questions then the programme didn’t achieve its purpose. In a thriller there are a lot of main elements which usually contains suspense, tension and uncertainty it’s these key elements that create the scene and make it intense.

Thriller films usually are fast-paced so that the audiences are always on edge; this usually allows plot-twist moments that make the audience go ‘who is it then?’ One of the things that make the audience really think is ‘Cliff-hangers’ as they do not know the answer and have to really think out through the whole film and never get the answer overall. All these things make up a thriller film, it gives it a certain edge that makes the audience wanting to watch more.

 

 

Questionnaire

Today in my group of Lisa Crofts; Aimie Fisher and Sam Wildes we put together a questionnaire this will give us a range of ideas of what people are looking for in a thriller film and what age group thriller films are mainly watched by. In this questionnaire we have made up ten questions one of them being 'what sort of themes would you like to see in a Thriller film ?' This question has a range of answers for example 'murder, abduction etc. This questionnaire is one of many ways our group will be contacting the audience, this hopefully will give us a strong idea of what the age group on our film should be and what we are aiming to achieve in creating this film. As a group we have to get a wide range of people's opinions so each individual has to ask at least 15 people in this process to give us the knowledge of what the audience are looking for.

Initial Ideas

Our storyline is based on a young girl with a huge misunderstanding of life and death. The girls depression and misleading tails, direct her only to a safe and secure environment of the mental home.

The opening of our film is set in a graveyard, set with eerie music and a dark atmosphere. Flashbacks cut into the scene, of two twin sisters happily playing and laughing. The scene of the graveyard jumps back and forth, with the non-diegetic music, increasing as the camera approaches. At first the audience only see a grave stuck in the ground among the leaves until the camera slowly pans and angles around to show the characters face, which only then the audience will notice that the character is one of the two girls in the flashbacks. When the young girl turns to walk away, she stumbles across a familiar face, which disappears into a bundle of shadowy trees. The young miss stalks the mystery ghostly like figure and staggers across to find an old cabin with the open door swinging back and front. As the spooked girl walks into the cabin and examining its unknown contents, she catches her reflection in the mirror with an obscure character stood directly behind her.

The young girl quickly gasps and the scene blacks out. She later wakes up in a white bed, with strange plugs and a heart monitor strapped around her finger.

Conventions of a Thriller Film

In thriller films there is multiple ways of setting the scene and different story lines that make the film become a 'thriller'. Here are such ways;
- Myster  - Love affairs - which could lead to heart break and then anger.
- Danger.
- Murder. - Expectation - stereotypes/ red herring / documents.
- Battle.
- Panic.
- Enigmas.
- Stalker. -Mood change - hide outs / love hero / illness.
- Tension - music / suspense.
- Cliff hangers - Criminal Characters which would lead to crime.

Script for preliminary task

This short script was used and remembered to successfully allow the characters to act in this film. This meant that the Aimie and Scott were not looking at a piece of paper throughout the short clip but to each other which created tension in this scene.

My Preliminary Task

A Commentary of my Preliminary Task

In my Preliminary Task that was taken in October 2012, we was given a task to see what our basic knowledge is on  different camerawork skills and how we can put our ideas into a short clip. As a group we had to demonstrate different types of shots one of them being 180 degree rule, another is match-on-action.

In my group I was working with Aimie Fisher (Actress) and Scott Warner (Actor) we created a basic idea of money borrowing and how some situations don’t always work out the way we want them to. In this short clip we were able to perform the shots that was necessary (180 degree rule, match-on-action, long short, over the shoulder, close up)The short clip went well as Aimie and Scott showed their emotions on this clip which gives the audience an understanding that Aimie does not have any money to give back to Scott and is not leaving without a fight, on the other hand Scott shows that he won’t be taken as a fool and is consistent with asking that one question ' Where's my money ?'.

The short clip worked however there are something’s I would change if given the opportunity again one of them being the long shot of Scott walking down the corridor due to the shot not being straight and seems that Scott is falling off the edge. Another thing I would change is the speed of the short film everything happens extremely fast and everything is over in a short couple of seconds.

Analysis of Thrillers

To get an understanding of the Task we will have to preform, as a class we had to watch 4 different introductions of 4 different films The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three; Strangers on a Train; Psycho and The Shawshank Redemption. Each story is completely different in the way that its either shot or introduction of sound but in each one of these films there is a man who is in charge this shows that the women are clearly the weaker sex and are most likely going to be a 'damsel in distress'.

The first film we watched was The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three, the beginning of the film had bold and capital titles which make them stand out even more, the music in the background was intense, fast, aggressive, tough and didn’t seem to go anywhere it sounded like a never ending sound this immediately sets the scene for when the old man comes out of the Cab and arrives at the Subway. This shot is a long shot so you can see that the old man is in New York, you could also notice this by the yellow cabs, to make sure the audience knows the actor that they have to watch they do a close-up of the old man. One thing that the audience would notice straight away is why is the old man getting out of a cab to go to the Subway, why not just continue taking the cab? This leads the audience to believe that something will happen right at the beginning of the film.

The camera follows the old man into the train station and has a shot of Train 6, once the old man arrives on this train he constantly looks at his watch and he sneezes, when he sneezes his moustache falls of this is when the audience realises he is in disguise. The old man looks at the two children at the front of the train and you almost see that he wishes they weren’t there as something is most likely going to happen to those people on the train. The camera then goes inside the train drivers cabin and the audience can see that it’s a first day at work for one of the train drivers and he is left on his own, the saying something always goes wrong on your first day. After the camera moves away from the children it goes to the attention of the train drivers door the old man does not stop starring at it until the second man who looks exactly the same as the old man walks onto the train.

The second guy was indeed a ladies man and one who was not good at hiding his identity this was shown when he was waiting for the number 6 train and he was walking around without his glasses on this allows the cameras and other people to see his face and maybe recognize it later on. Once the second guy walks on the train he goes to the door to show to the old man that he’s there once he has down this he looks a women up and down and starts playing with his lips with his tongue, whilst he is doing this he is looking into her eyes and her face; the women is doing the same back to the second man but with disgust (another way someone can pick out his real identity).
The last guy who you can clearly notice is the main guy 'Top Dog' as when he walks everything goes silent all you can here is his footsteps walking along the platform. When he arrives at the front of the train you can tell that he is calm and in control; when the train driver speeds to him asking him what he is doing he has a confident sound in his voice and says ' I am taking your Train ‘of what he is going to do at that point we hear non-diegetic music once the gun comes out of his pocket.


    The second film we watched was Strangers on a Train is different as the director was extremely cleaver with the way he shot the two men walking out of their individual cabs with their luggage showing that their going somewhere, one guy was walking left to right and the other right to left. Both men look highly important and look quiet rich due to people carrying their luggage for them. Straight away you notice that the man with the black and white shows (the man who walks right to left) is the man who is the trouble maker the one who is not 100% right and the other man who is wearing plain black shoes (walking left to right) is the one who is control he is alright with his life and is a good character, we later find out the one in the white and black shoes is only rich because of his family and is just waiting for them to die so he can get the money he wants, the other man who is wearing black shoes is a tennis player and is famous and rich by his own well-being.
When both men are going about to take their sets on the train the black and white shoes guy sits down first and a moment later so does the black shoes guy, the black shoes guy stretches his legs and hits the white and black man’s shoes opposite this leads the black shoes guy to say 'Oh, excuse me' this leads the men talking and end up leaving the train one thinking they have made a plan on killing each other’s waste of time wife or mother and the other man thinking that was some random guy on the train. The music throughout this clip puts the audience on the edge of their sets as its an odd beginning of a sequence but the music carries it through and sets the scene for when the two men arrive at the station and arrive on the train.

     The third film we watched was Psycho this was the shortest sequence of the 4 film as it jumps straight into the film.  We see a man walking into a house and slowly walking up some stairs as the man is half way up the stairs the camera goes to the mother’s room door this door slightly opens, carefully and quietly trying to make as little sound as possible. As the man continues to walk up the stairs he arrives at the landing and is about to turn left as he is doing so the mothers room opens fully and the mother comes out with a blade in her raised arm and slashes him with the knife, this cuts him across the cheek and neck the man immediately falls down the stairs. The music in the introduction is extremely jumpy as is like someone stabbing someone constantly and goes from a light sound to a hard intense sound and all the music is consistent and does not have a break at all it is continues throughout.

      The final film we watched was Shawshank Redemption we watched a sequence in the film when Andy is in the office of the prison and he has found some records he could play so he locks the door and turns on the speakers and starts to play the Italian music. The prisoner all stand quietly and listen to those voices and they get a sense of freedom and that their not in prison anymore this once song make some people in the prison cry due to its heart full tone. The old guy Red said that ‘ that the song they was singing about was to beautiful to describe with words’ this shows how much a bit of the outside world means to them and that each and everyone of them needed that little something to keep them going as prison life is no life at all. Red described their voices as beautiful and is like birds flapping into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve way – every last man at Shawshank felt free. This makes the audience feel some sort of happiness, even though they are in prison for something they have done in the past no man should be treated like that and then the music goes straight to their hearts and seems like heaven to each and everyone of them.