Progress...

Tuesday night we went to Great Barton to begin filming of the final section of our thriller opening. In total we shot around 40 minutes of footage and have only used around a second and a half of it. This is rather worrying seen as we have a lot more footage to shoot and we don't know how much of it we will use in the end. This may have been that we were not 100% prepared for filming on tuesday night.
Gemma and I plan to do the other majority of our filming some time next week and we hope that we will be prepared to get more footage that we will actually use for our final project.
When we uploaded our footage, we decided that we were going to use final cut for our editing. At first it seemed like a very confusing program compared to the simple Imovie and struggled at first with the software, but after Miss Hill's help, it has become much easier and simpler to use.
Overall our first go at filming and editing of our final thriller project has been a bit of a catastrophe, but we have learnt from it and will be more prepared when filming next time and now know how to use final cut, hopefully only going up from here on.

Progress report

Last night Charlie and I done some of our filming! we managed to get majority of the footage for the last part of our opening, now all we need to get is the start. We somehow managed to get 19 minutes worth of footage and only used 2 seconds of it.. This is not good!

We only needed this much footage but it seemed like such a waste of filming time! We are now a bit worried about getting the rest of the footage.. Seriously, how much footage are we going to go through before getting our final piece all done and together?!

Looking through the footage we realised the lighting wasn't how we wanted it to be, trying to edit it using final cut really confused us but we have finally got the shot looking how we want it to!

The Prestige

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Our final thriller plan.

Up until this point we were still not 100% sure of what we wanted in our thriller. We finally agreed on the narrative and other components of our thriller and decided to do a video blog on what our final idea now is. It was difficult to decide on what we want but now we've got it pegged we can begin filming without worrying about what is going to happen as well as all the aspects of Mise-en-scene.

Past thriller openings.

The prestige

Director Research - Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino is a famous American born director and producer. Some of his most famous work includes classics such as Pulp fiction and Reservoir dogs which are widely renowned. His work is both incredible as well as controversial, as in the case of his most recent release Django unchained which covers the controversial topic of slavery in America. He is considered as one of the greatest and most influential directors of his generation.

His most credited piece, Pulp fiction, is a neo-noir crime thriller film set in Los Angeles. With its non linear storyline it covers the storylines of mobsters, fringe players, small time criminals and the one mysterious briefcase. Although not seen by many as a total thriller film, it contains many conventions and aspects of that of a thriller. Narrative retardation features heavily with the non chronological sequence of the film. For example the opening of the film before the opening credits we see the ending scene of the film, but if put the film into chronological order we see that this scene must be earlier on in the sequence due to a main character being in this scene after being killed. This leaves the audience confused and works effectively.
The Mysterious briefcase is a large part of the film because one of the four storylines follows its delivery. We never find out what is in the briefcase but the way in which it is presented makes it very desirable. We know that what is in the briefcase is valuable because Jules and Vince put their lives on the line to protect it as we see in the last scene. Because we never find out what is in the briefcase it keeps its mystery adding to the thriller conventions.

What characters do you find scary?

We asked 30 people about which age and gender they felt had the best impact on a thriller film. We asked them which character they would find 'scarier'/ creepy, when watching a thriller film.

The Third Man- still shots.

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg- Director study.

Stephen Spielberg is a well known American film director. Born December 18th 1946, his career has crossed 4 decades! Not only is Spielberg a well known director he's also a screen writer, producer and studio entrepreneur.

He is known for many thriller films such as:

• Falling skies
• Eagle eye
• Jaws. 

Here are a few links to opening scenes and trailers he has done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7acI5z9vyok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuyEfUDSUXg

Target audience

The comfortable full nesters- conformative people that have a daily routine, that live ‘normally’.

18-30 year olds.

Twitter, bloggers, intagram- social networkers. Watch late night tv. Youtube

Media knowledge- high.

To show them not everything is what it seems- take them out of their comfort zone.  It will make them question their lives, as it will show them that the comfort that they know and feel, may not always be what they think. 

We decided to aim our thriller at people in this age group, preferably female as most people within this age category could relate to a child going missing. Whether they have a child or younger siblings. Female normally have a motherly instinct meaning the audience can connect with the characters. 

Generally, most of the people in our target audience use a broad range of media, such as social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, etc) T.v, Youtube, Mobiles and the Radio. They also read newspaper articles just not regularly. 
We are going to have an old person as our main 'bad' guy. This is because we done a survey and most people said that they thought older people were slightly more creepy then other characters. 

Se7en

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