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Friday, 6 January 2017

Questionnaire - Audience Research


 For our audience research, we conducted a short questionnaire which will help to determine our target audience. The questionnaire allows for us to see what our audience will be interested in seeing. 
The age question helps us to see whether our audience is peers or older/younger. This will help us to distinguish the features in which we will use. 
Finding out about how often our audience watches thrillers, will help us understand how many people would be watching our thriller opening. Knowing when the last time a person watched a thriller film will help us gage the amount of viewers that we'd get.
Asking for the opinion on the film allows the audience to express how they feel about the thriller film that they watched, helping us get a better insight as to how the audience feels about the films that they've watched.  
Asking the audience what the three most important tropes towards a thriller aims to get them to define what makes a good thriller for us. Then helping us know what to include. 
Asking what gender the audience would prefer the protagonist to be helps us to get a better idea of what a typical audience would like to see.
Questioning whether or not a crescendo should be used in the opening to a thriller helps us to know whether a dramatic build up is necessary or not. 
The more specific question about location pulls on the audience's ability to judge whether we should film in a therapy room, living room or classroom. 
Asking the audience about what the title of our thriller opening will be, allows the audience to have a large input into the final decision. 





Friday, 21 October 2016

Conventions of form - an opening sequence

  • Titles 


    • of the movie
      • so that the audience know what they are watching
    • of the director
      • so fans of the director are aware of their work
    • of the editors/producers etc.
    • of the actors and actresses
      • so that the audience is aware of who's in the movie.
  •  Plot isn't revealed
    • this ensures that the audience doesn't discover the entire plot of the film within the first couple of minutes
  •  Suggests/foreshadows what is yet to happen
    • e.g Seven's opening sequence displays the first murder and the title sequence suggests more about the film without revealing too much of the plot
  •  Music
    • usually slow and intense to create the typical atmosphere of a thriller
  • Introduces audience to characters without revealing a plot
    • this helps to sustain the mystery of a thriller without giving away too much

Conventions of a Thriller

  • Fight sequences
  • Suspense
    • Music
      • low tones
      • edgy
      • Can help to reflect the moods of the antagonist and the protagonist
  • Mission
  • Mystery
  • Low lighting
    • urban
    • moody

  • Mise-En-Scene
    • agents
    • suits
    • dark, low level lighting
    • scars
  • Heroic Protagonists
    • Innocent
    • Wrong man's shoes
    • Ex Military
    • Agents/Spies
      • e.g Bond, Jason Bourne
    • Role reversal (hunter becomes hunted)
  • Villainous Antagonist
    • Psycho
    • Anti-government
    • Scars
    • Political/religious beliefs and causes
  • Espionage
  • Editing
    • shot-reverse-shot
    • fast pace cuts to represent intensity of scenes
    • Match on action
    • Action match
    • Graphic match
  • Camera
    • close ups to show characters emotions
    • medium-long shots
    • establishing shots