Friday 12 February 2010

12th February 2010 - Thriller Planning

In this lesson we analysed the questionnaire results that we gathered from students in our college during the week. We asked 20 students so that we could reach our target audience of teenagers. To analyse the results, we split the questions in half, so we each took 5 each, and then produced pie charts visually displaying out results.We split them in half so it would save us valuable time and we chose pie charts as they can be easily read and can see what is the most popular answer.

This is our analysed results:

This shows that the majority of people would prefer the location to based in a woodlands area.












Most people asked want the thriller to be set in the afternoon.











Most people believe that there should be 2 characters in the opening of our thriller.















The majority of people would like a stalker storyline in a thriller.









Most people would suspense music and ambient sounds to be used in our thriller.











The vast majority of students asked would prefer the thriller to be shot in naturalistic lighting.










The vast majority would like the actors in the film to be male.












Props and costumes that people wanted to be include were dark clothing, mysterious objects and contrasting costumes.









The majority of people would prefer there not to be speech in the opening of a thriller.












85% of people would prefer the colour used to be dark and mysterious than bright.









Using these results it gives us a clear view of what people in our target audience would like in a thriller. These include naturalistic lighting, dark mysterious colours and clothing, male characters, no speech and a stalker storyline.

The next thing we did was worked on the storyboard for our thriller. We decided on what would be in each shot, what camera angles would be used and what editing will be used together, where as Adam drew up the storyboard and wrote the text so it looked more continuous than each of us drawing different sections of it. Also by having one person drawing we could really focus on what we wanted in out shots and how out thriller would look.




This is the animatic of our storyboard that Adam produced so we could visualise what our thriller would look like and could then alter the storyboard if need be. In the clip we used a song that was off a free use music website, to avoid any copyright infringement.

Whilst Adam was finishing off the storyboard by adding colour so that we could turn to the storyboard into an animatic, i wrote up a risk assessment for our shooting.

Risk Assessment

Falling over (Injuring slef or breaking equiptment) - To prevent this be careful witht he quiptment and try to film in safe flatter areas
Other People - Try and film in an area that is not too busy
Weather - If raining avoid filming due to electrical products and danger to students
Multi-Level Location - Danger of people falling, so try and work in flat areas
Poor Lighting - use lights if dark so people can see and dont runt he risk of falling over or getting lost
Equiptment being stolen - Never leave equiptment unattended

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