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.