Media Studies: Opening Sequence of a Thriller Film
The brief:
Our brief was to create the opening sequence of a new thriller film, or the opening sequence of a new children’s TV programme of any genre, or a series of three advertisements for a local or regional event. My group wrote down an idea each for all three briefs and we decided to continue with the thriller film brief. The opening sequence should include titles and should be approximately two minutes long. Individually I wanted to develop the skills that I had learnt from the practice coursework and gain more experience of filming along with confidence when editing.
As a group we aimed to produce a film that was stimulating and looked refined and professional given the limitations of the equipment that was available to us.
The resources available to us were digital video cameras, various tripods, lighting equipment and software programmes to edit like iMovie HD and GarageBand.
Research:
We all did some individual research on thriller movies and it’s conventions using the World Wide Web, and we were able to compile some information as seen on page . After going through our research, we decided to make the antagonist wear black as it connotes and air of mystery along with the feeling of unhappiness and despair.
Next we put together a short questionnaire (see page ). As we analysed our questionnaire results, it became apparent that our target audience is females between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. As the majority of people who answered our questionnaire are students, we decided to base our film on the life of a college/university student. Nine people out of the total fifteen answered that the favourite thriller sub-genre is psychological thrillers, so we decided to make our film a psychological thriller. Eight people out fifteen answered that the scene in which their most memorable part of their favourite thriller movie was set in a house, so we chose on locating our film in a house. The protagonist in our film is going to be a female because
Our brief was to create the opening sequence of a new thriller film, or the opening sequence of a new children’s TV programme of any genre, or a series of three advertisements for a local or regional event. My group wrote down an idea each for all three briefs and we decided to continue with the thriller film brief. The opening sequence should include titles and should be approximately two minutes long. Individually I wanted to develop the skills that I had learnt from the practice coursework and gain more experience of filming along with confidence when editing.
As a group we aimed to produce a film that was stimulating and looked refined and professional given the limitations of the equipment that was available to us.
The resources available to us were digital video cameras, various tripods, lighting equipment and software programmes to edit like iMovie HD and GarageBand.
Research:
We all did some individual research on thriller movies and it’s conventions using the World Wide Web, and we were able to compile some information as seen on page . After going through our research, we decided to make the antagonist wear black as it connotes and air of mystery along with the feeling of unhappiness and despair.
Next we put together a short questionnaire (see page ). As we analysed our questionnaire results, it became apparent that our target audience is females between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. As the majority of people who answered our questionnaire are students, we decided to base our film on the life of a college/university student. Nine people out of the total fifteen answered that the favourite thriller sub-genre is psychological thrillers, so we decided to make our film a psychological thriller. Eight people out fifteen answered that the scene in which their most memorable part of their favourite thriller movie was set in a house, so we chose on locating our film in a house. The protagonist in our film is going to be a female because