Final Idea expanded:

As we discussed as a group that we would merge together two ideas to make our final idea, after taking the feedback we got from our focus group, we found that there were good and bad points about idea two and idea three, but put together it made a great storyline. Idea two being the hostage situation, and idea three being the religious control freak dad, that kills his daughter as he cannot controll her. However, we would slightly change both our ideas to make the final idea more unique. Our final idea would be that there would still be a religious controll freak however, it wouldn't be his daughter that was his victim, but a girl he fantisised over, and as he couldn't have her, no-one else could.

Characters:
Victim- girl. Hannah will play this role.
The girl who the attacker falls for and becomes infatuated with. Victim is completely unware of attacker stalking her, constanly watching her, and his plot to kidnap her. Helpless and vunerbale as to the situation she finds herself in.

Attacker- Male. Henry will play this role.
He is a religious controll freak, that starts an obession with a teenage girl many years younger than him. He follows her, and watches her, spends all his time thinking about her and plotting plans on how he can capture her one day, so he can convince her to be with him. The character has someone how got his hands on a picture of the girl and constantly keeps it with him, close to his heart.

Drug Dealer- Girls boyfreind. Kingston will play this role.
His is boyfriend to the victim in this storyline. He has contact with the religious man, as he supplies his drugs however, he is un-aware of the mans obsession with his girlfriend. He think his girlfriend is un-aware of what he gets up to however, she knows and so does the religious man know. Which is one of the reasons he captures her as he is so in love with her, he dosent want anyone to cause her any harm, so he wants to take her away from the situation she is in with her boyfreind.

Costumes for Characters:

Victim- Hannah.

Casual everyday clothing. This represents just your average teenage girl, just living in a normal everyday way, doing what she would do on a normal every day, with what she would normally wear. The differences in clothing e.g. colours/logo's/types of clothing show variations in characters from one to another. Freedom of what to wear show the victim as this precise moment thinks she is free to do what she wants without being controlled. Which is what the attacker hates, he wants to be the one to controll her.

Henry- attacker.

Smart posh clothing. This shows power and authority, also shows that the owner of this clothing has some form of money to afford such luxerious clothing. This could also be connected his religious side, as he wants to look smart and well presented in the presance of god. This kind of clothing suggests he goes walking into the forrests on shooting ventures, which can we deduce as an audience that he has shot/does shoot animals. Which would make the reader think he is quite able to shoot something bigger than an animal or does have acess to a weapon to do so, which makes us as an audience fear for the victim.

Kingston- drug dealer.

A hoody is a sterotypical 'bad boy' peice of clothing, that would be worn by a gang member or a rebel. In a typical everyday situation thugs wouldn't be assoicated in criminial activity such as stealing, pocession of illegal substances or objects, vandalism, or general upset to society. A hoody hides the identity of a person and stops there face from being fully shown. Within our thriller opening we are sticking to this sterotypical theme as it creates a tense atmosphere.

Props/Objects:

Bible

Used at the beggining for credits. Also shown throughout, close up of certain wording or lines of verses that links into our theme/moral of our opening of our film.

Syringe

Used to inject the victim sending them un-concious for a period of time, while the attacker gets them to where they want to keep them captive. You will see the attacker filling his syringe with a substance before he reaches the girl.

Map

This is used as part of a plan to capture his victim, used as a distraction while he injects her.

Pills

Used in the drug scene between the religious man and the girls boyfreind. This will show to the audience they are both bad news.

Rosemary beads

Religion aspect that the attacker keeps with them at all times, to feel the presance of god with them at all times, in hope that god will forgive him for the actions he has taken.


Location for filming:
Kirby Underwood
Wikipedia Deffinition: 'Kirkby Underwood is a village of 80 households located around four miles north of Bourne in southern Lincolnshire, in the district of South Kesteven.'

    


Religious aspects of our thriller:

Title of our film:      'The Disciple'

Google definition: A disciple is a follower and student of a mentor, teacher, or other wise figure'

 Christianity Background:
As a group, we all chose a main focus that we would stick to on the christian belief, we choose the ten commandments. As a christan it is imperative that you follow all of these. One of these particular relate to our idea of our thriller being commandment number six.

1. Have no other gods.

 2. Have no idols.

 3. Honor God's name

. 4. Honor the Sabbath day.

 5. Honor your parents.

 6. Do not murder.

 7. Do not commit adultery.

 8. Do not steal.

9. Do not perjure yourself

. 10. Do not covet.

As a group, we also focussed on good vs evil.

How god and his 12 disciples teach the good in life and, and everything that should be done.

Whereas, lucifer who is the devil, is the temptation there that misleads you from good to evil.

       
                         

Production Criteria:

'Outcast productions'

Credits/Titles:

It is essential that as a group we include our full names, candidate numbers and the title for our film in our two minuite opening. We really wanted to do them to a good standard as sometimes it can look poor and un-proffesional due to not good editing techniques.

We decided on keeping the titles black and white, as we were placing them inside the bible, we wanted to portray the effect that they are actually part of the bible. The black and white text also connote good and evil, which links back to the christanity image of good being God and evil being Satan. Two complete different personalities that believed in something so much they were willing to die for it.

Font/Lettering:

As we our including our titles into our bible to make it look like they are meant to be there, as if it is part of the book we need to make them up to an acceptable standard, to give of this image. On our first attempt at doing so, we handwrote them in a red felt tip, to symbolise blood and pain. However, this didn't fit in with the image we were looking for, and we were not 100% happy with the material we had. Which is when we came up with the idea of using text on the computer, as this made it look the closest to a bible effect as possible. This method made it look alot more proffesional, and up to a better standard, which is what we were aiming for.

Audience Research: Conventions of a thriller genre:

Editing:
The editing used within a thriller film all depends on what concept you are trying to potray. Different types of shots you want to create, can be made by using different techniques such as, if you wanted to show that time was passing on you would use dissolve, which is where one shot fades into another. If you wanted to show a fight scene taking place or give of a 'montage effect', which could suggest a chaotic scene taking place, you could use a faded out to black screen or a fade from black to white. This technique is very useful as you could cut the scene at one point, and start the scene again but futher on than the storyline should be, this therefore, speads up time and gives that little sense of mystery to the reader as to what was happening in that cut scene. Another effect you could use would be a jump cut, which is an abrupt cut between two shots, this is effective as it could suggest drama beggining. Another example is a cross-cutting effect which is used for action shots as it contracts between two storylines or settings. This effect is used in the film Quantum of Solace, which is an action thriller. By using a fast arrangment of camera shots and editing skills the tension increases and the drama really starts to unfold, leaving the audience to ponder on the ending. There can also be non-digetic sound that can be added to the film when it is being edited to create an atmosphere for the film, if the music is a happy vibe it sets a positive sense to the film. However, if the music is eerie and mysterious it sets of a endeering vibe and creates tension for the reader. This is the technique my group wants to potray when making our thriller opening.


Camera:
Different type of camera shots are used within a thriller however, some are more important than others to potray a certain image.
A low angle shot is taken from below the subject, looking up at it. This gives the subject a sense of power and authority and puts the viewer in a vunerable and inferior postition.
A high angled shot is taken from above the subject, looking down at it. This gives the subject a lack of power and puts the veiwer in a position of power and authority.
Another commonly used shot is point of view shot. This shot is used to show either the victim or the attackers point of view, it is usually shown in a way that it is obvious to the viewe,r who's point of view it is from. When it is used from the attackers point of view, it usually shows the victim and him watching her from a distance.
Alot of close up shots are used. The shots are mainly of the subjects face, for showing precise or specific detail. It is also used to show characters emotions, feelings or pesonal space.
The 180 degree rule is essential.



This stops confussion to the reader, and keeps characters on either the right or left without switching over. If the rule was broken the characters would constantly be switching sides, confusing the reader as to why it looked as if there constantly swapping places, and who was the person speaking.

The rule of thirds should also be considered when filming as to give a more intersting shot. This is because if you put the the character right in the middle of a shot, all of the screen space would be taken up. However, if the character was placed to one side more than the other, being left or right, it allows the veiwer to see the whole picture, the surroundings of the character, and enables the audience to set a scene.


Mise-en-scene:
The mise-en-scene of a film basically means everything that is put into the shot or frame of the scene. The mise-en-scene location is where exactly the film is set. This is important as the setting tells the time of the scene being past/present/future. The location is also important as if your scene is placed somewhere completely out of the ordinary to the theme of your thriller, this will cause great confussion to the reader. The mise-en-scene costume is vital also as costume and make-up can suggest a role of the character in the film, age of the character, personal status and time period the film was meant to be set. Mise-en-scene props are also essential as they can be objects that relate to the story or action taking place e.g. if a fight scene was taking place a gun could be an essential object to show the character needs protection from the situation he finds himself in. Props can also show the time or setting of a film, and may give the reader extra cruical information about a character or period of time. Mise-en-scene lighting can create a certain atmosphere and highlight certain objects or actions that show great importance to the story that is taking place. However, lighting can create lots of problems sometimes when filming.

Narrative:
In the beginning of a thriller opening is the where you would normally hear a narrative. The narrative could be played above sound, or on its own. It can sometimes be a third party telling the audience what is occuring within the story, or it could be the characters voice over telling the story from there point of view, or even it could be the audience hearing the characters thoughts and feelings. If more than one character is in the first scene and neither has spoke before the voice over begins, it could confuse the reader as to which characters voice you can hear, this needs to be considered when filming certain scenes.
In our thriller opening, we will be having a voice over of the attackers thoughts about his victim. We will not need to worry about confussion to the reader as the only characters in our thriller opening will be the attacker being a man, and the victim being a women.

Audience Resarch of Thriller Genre storylines:

Definition of thriller Thrillers may be defined by the primary mood that they elicit: fearful excitement. In short, if it "thrills", it is a thriller. As the introduction to a major anthology explains,

 

“	...Thrillers provide such a rich literary feast. There are all kinds. The legal thriller, spy thriller, action-adventure thriller, medical thriller, police thriller, romantic thriller, historical thriller, political thriller, religious thriller, high-tech thriller, military thriller. The list goes on and on, with new variations constantly being invented. In fact, this openness to expansion is one of the genre's most enduring characteristics. But what gives the variety of thrillers a common ground is the intensity of emotions they create, particularly those of apprehension and exhilaration, of excitement and breathlessness, all designed to generate that all-important thrill. By definition, if a thriller doesn't thrill, it's not doing its job.	”
—James Patterson, June 2006, "Introduction," Thrille

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...Thrillers provide such a rich literary feast. There are all kinds. The legal thriller, spy thriller, action-adventure thriller, medical thriller, police thriller, romantic thriller, historical thriller, political thriller, religious thriller, high-tech thriller, military thriller. The list goes on and on, with new variations constantly being invented. In fact, this openness to expansion is one of the genre's most enduring characteristics. But what gives the variety of thrillers a common ground is the intensity of emotions they create, particularly those of apprehension and exhilaration, of excitement and breathlessness, all designed to generate that all-important thrill. By definition, if a thriller doesn't thrill, it's not doing its job.

From looking at a mixture of different thriller trailers, a regular occurance that is commonly used is this postive every day setting of events that would be expected to take place, which makes the drama and action that takes place shortly after this image is created so powerful and has such a big impact. An example of this theory is a film called 'Obsessed'.

The story is set around an employer who hires a temporary assistant, who ends up having a chrush on her boss, it starts of as an 'office flirtation'. However, when the boss turns down his assistants offer of herself to him, she starts this infactuation with him that she has to have him. She falls that in love with him, that she trys to take her life as she cannot have him, and as this method fails to get his attention she turns phsycopathic, and takes it upon herself to enter his home, and come face to face with the woman who she envys the most, his wife.

This story has so much realism to it, as the ecconomy we find ourselves in as a population, employers fall in love with the employees have affairs and are unfaithful to their partners and the consequences of two peoples actions affect not themselves but everyone around them which is almost Karma for the pain they have caused others. That or a persons lust and infactuation for someone and the pain they get from not having what they want could lead to them taking there lives or someone elses.

Un-justified actions and crimes that take place including breaking the law, and harming innocent people are also a regular occurance within thriller films. This is also linked to gang wars and gang members, thugs or miscreants. A typical mise-en-scene for this type of thriller is a run down block of appartments with a sterotypical bad up-bringing which allows the character to have a violant and disturbed mindset which is the cause or reason of there actions that take place. The main reason the crimes take place is all money related, the money that fulls the ambition for big cars, blingy jewlerey, and security. The reason the characters act the way they do could be down to alot of things, such as to show there authority, how 'big' and 'hard' they are, and its up to the audience to decide how vunerable they really are, if they actually want this lifestyle and how bad they want to get out of the situation they find themseleves in. For some characters its like a vicious circle that they can not get out of, to be in the game, you can never leave the game. This could cause the audience to feel compassion and sorrow for the character as they could try to picture themeselves in the characters situation they find themselves in, which would make them think about how they would deal with the situation, which could maybe get the audience to think the character is only doing what they are doing for there families sake, or because they have no other option.

In some cirumstances the character will commit a crime, be on the run for a period of time but always get caught out in the end. They will more than likely go to prision, and then after being released try to turn there life around get of the wrong path they were on before. However, it is never easier said than done, obstacles they tackle on there road to freedom could include temptation to the life they had before. However, it always comes down to 'everyone has a choice to make'. The audience are left to antisipate if the character will do the right or wrong thing and the consequences of there actions.

Another commonly used story line is of paranormal religious mind set, connected to the outside forces of this world being non-human spirits or forces. The church is commonly used in this story line or religious aspects, symbols or signifiers. Exorcisms and spirit rituals are performed in the presance of god. The possecion of one's soul is shown through break taking editing skills that will leave you on the edge of your seat. There is a real sense of hope and fear expressed to the audience, and it may edge them onto find out the ending of the film, as they are that captivated by the situation, they need to know what the mental health of the character is after everything that has happened.

Another commonly used story line is of un-explainable acts of cannibalism from one human to other, this including an act or practise of human beings eating the flesh of other humans. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. This could also include the killing of a person, tearing there flesh apart and making use of it somehow. This concept of thriller is a very distrubing but hypnotising way of playing on the minds of the audience. The audience will be asking themseleves over a hundred different questions to do with the characters. Such as what has made them do this, why are they doing what they are doing, what has possesed them to do such a thing. Getting inside the darkest of all minds to conjure a reason to what is going on in the mindset of the character, what could have happened in the past, or are they just mentally ill, there just getting treated as a criminal when really what they are doing is a cry for help. The way the attacker is normally protrayed in this type of film is as a phsycopathic beast, which could allow the viewer to feel compassion for him as maybe he dosent want to be the way he is, but he cannot stop what he is doing.

Another storyline is of pure evil and disturbance beyond any immagination this being through the actions of pure geniuses who use there brilliant minds to tortue and persue the most vicious crimes out there. The audience get a sense that these characters who potray these images have no conscience, no mercy and they get the impression that there is not hope for the victims of these attacks. An example of this storyline is a thriller film called 'The Human Centipede'. This storyline is about a crazy delusional doctor who has a fantasy of turning humans into animals through deforming human beings to create his 'masterpeice'. The audience are left to ponder in disgust as to if the characters will escape and hope and pray that they can somehow get free from this madness.

Another few typical storylines that link together is of abduction, taking someone hostage, or missing person. All three storylines are all connected to a reason for the event happening. The attacker is always a male in these cirumstances, its a sterotypical prediction we have produced as a generation. The audience are always left to imagine there own theory of what is the reason for this capture of a victim, what is the reason they are out to get them and is it family/money/history related. If it is a struggle of guessing who the attacker is, the audience themesleves will try to work out who it is before they get to the point in the film which it is revealed.

Images from shooting day:

This is an image of our attacker locking victim inside storage place he keeps her hostage. In our opening to a thriller, one of the shots if from the point of view of the victim, of the attacker shutting and locking the door on her. There is a flash of black which represents what we want to potray that the victim can see, being darkness. The audience are then left to ponder and condure up a conclussion in their minds of what will eventually happen to the victim.

Victim tied up unconcious after being captured by attacker. In our original idea we were to film the victim being tied up, unconcious and film her tied up in the chair hopeless to the situation she finds herself in. However, after a group discussion after looking at the filming from the day we found the tie-ing up of and focusing in on victim un-concious looked too un-realistic. This is due to the fact if you were to capture someone, the setting is full of items that would just be found in an everyday setting. Therefore, if the victim was clever enough they could work out exactly when they were captured and think of a way to escape. Before filming we should of thought of this problem as a group.

This is the building we filmed our opening of a thriller. For the last shot of our thriller, there is medium shot of Henry locking the door, and an effect is potrayed of a conjure of two effects merged together.

Stalker based image of attacker watching from a distance his prey being the girl, the victim he is obsessed with her and takes her captive. This image really emphasises on the concept of what we are trying to show with this character, he will just go to any lengths to get what he desires the most, being the victim.

Victim and boyfriend who attacker is so jealous of, as he wants to be with her, he dosent want anyone else to have her. This is why he has the motive to kidnap her, so he can protect her and get her out of the situation she finds herself in, as he is not only doing it for himself but for god.

This is a shot of the victims boyfriend before the drug deal that takes place between the attacker and him. Kingstons character within the opening to our thriller is only shown vaguely, when the drug deal is taking place however, he's involvement in the opening potrays a different type of social class compared to the attacker. The social class represented is of your sterotypical 'thug' or 'chav'. The reason for this being the clothing he wears, such as a hoodie, which would normally be worn by a gang member, and creates a sense of authority for him to everyone around him. In the scene, you cannot actually see his face, emotions or actions very clearly, as it is a long shot. However, you can assume the situation taking place being the drug deal, and his body language walking towards the attacker, and after the drug deal has taken place, him walking away from the situation.

Image of dead deer found at henrys abbattoir. This is used within our opening of a thriller, which includes us vooming in and out creating a close up shot of its eyes. This effect shows depth and emptiness as the deer is no longer living. The deer head also looks un-hygenic as the dead corspe is rotting and surrouned by germs and diseases. This could play a big impact on the reader as it could creating a disturbing image in their minds which could link back to our relgious freak attacker, and portray his disturbance in his mind.

The place we filmed our media was a little village called Kirkby Underwood, we filmed some scenes in Boulby Barns and the outskirts, near the bridge out of Kirkby Underwood. The weekend before we were due to film, we visited the area and all our potential places we could use to film our opening, we did a brief run-through of some of the scenes, and ideas we had in mind to see if they would fit the location we were at. We also all had to discuss and plan what objects we needed, and which member of the group could get hold of these objects. We then had the task of planning a shooting script for what we were going to do, so on the day of filming we had everything ready and we knew exactly what needed to be done, in the time that we had. We then set times/places of where we would meet on the day, and what form of transport and how we would get to our filiming destination.

Shooting script for Thriller:

• ~The happening inspired theme track starts~
• Close up, focused on the holy bible.
• Zoom in and Close up of the bible, photo and rosemary beads.
• Focusing in on the rosemary beads and cross.
• Title & Credits. Zoom in on our group name 'Outcast Productions'
• Pan: Mid shot of drug dealer walking round corner.
• Long shot of drug deal taking place. 
• Mid shot of atacker & his drugs purchase zooming in on the drug substance.
• Mid shot of dead corpse.
• Credits: All our names and canditate numbers.
• Zoom in on victims photo attacker has of her.
• Mid shot of attacker preparing his weapon.
• Long shot of attackers meeting with his victim walking towards her, when he 'ask's her for directions'
• Zoom in on bible focusing on the ten commandment line 'thou shall not kill'
• Mid shot on attacker and victims faces, showing their emotions and feelings.
• Mid shot of attacker taking out his plan to capture his victim.
• Close up of victims facial expression when being tied up.
• Zoom in on bible and precise line 'thou shall not kill'
• Mid shot of attacker lifting victim of car bonnet and placing her in his vehicle.
• Mid shot of attacker looking around the car, to check he is not being watched.
• Long shot of car vehicle turning into the the drive of where is keeping his victim.
• Close up of victims face.
• Mid shot of attacker getting victim out of the car.
• Close up of religious symbol, being the cross.
• Pan: long shot of attacker carrying his victim from the door of the building to the room he keeps her captive in.
• Zoom in on the 'Holy Bible'
• Point of view: victim waking up and looking around to see where she is.
• Long shot of attacker shutting the door on his victim from point of view angle, slighty at a low angle looking upwards.
• BLACK OUT to represent what victim can see, as the door shuts on  her.
• Pan: attacker walking to outside of the building he keeps his victim captive in.
• Merged together image: of attacker and victims face blended together.
• ~ Garage band sound we created a group plays to define the sound from the current sound track, to represent a new vibe to the atmopshere. .

Questionnaire Results and Analysis:

When we started designing our questionnaire, we all decided as a group we would question an equal amount of gender; being ten females and ten males. This because we wanted a blanced view.

Before we started questionning the public, we decided that we would aim our thriller opening at a target market of 15-18 year olds, as we found from secondary research that they were the population that mostly watched thriller types of films. Therefore, when deciding on who questionned, we aimed for a bigger percentage of the people we would ask that would be between that age group. However, we would also question a few people outside that age group to compare there opinions to our target market.

From the results shown it is clear to see that comedy thrillers are the main favourite of the people we questionned. However, as our thriller needs to have a disturbing essence to it, and create a tense atmosphere for the viewer, we worked towards the joint second most popular option being crime. The crime protrayed in our opening thriller will be of a capture and murder situation. Also one factor we missed of our question is religion. This will also play a big aspect in our opening of a thriller.

From the results shown it is clear to see that out of all the options on offer to choose in our questionnaire, there isn't much between the options. Its a fairly open and equal pick of which the people we questionned prefer, this could be due to personality and character choices. Including what scares and plays on the minds of certain individuals, what interests them, and what they want to see.

From this question, it is clear to see that the vast majority of people questionned think that eerie music is a typical thriller sound track, and should be played to create tension. It is closely followed by the second most popular choice being mysterious. Both options are very similar and create the same atmosphere. Therefore, for our thiller opening we need to create this image. For our opening, we took inspiration from the film 'The happening'. Our music for our thriller is a mixture of two different sound tracks coming together to create one overall sound, it also has two noise recordings of sharp beats that come at important points in our thriller opening.

The option chosen most frequently, by the people questionned was an abandoned house. Closely followed by an the woods. We choose to do our opening to a thriller in an abandoned barn, as we found the option of filming in an abandoned house was to clishe and we would has difficulties of it looking too staged and not realistic enough. We also found that lighting of where we would shoot our thriller would be a big problem, as certain shadowns and reflections could make our thriller look un-proffesional. Therefore, where we decided to shoot our thriller was in a room blocked of from sunlight which worked well for the image we were
trying to potray.

The two main options that were chosen by our people questionned were of special effects and sound effects. We already knew as a group, after filming we would do a vast amount of editing to our footage and add more than one type of sound to overall, improve the quality and standard of our thriller film. We edited our opening so that the orignal footage filmed, was made to look like it was in either CCTV style or a faded colour to represent time passing by, and to create this gloomy atmopsheric effect. We added three different types/forms of sound to create different representations of mood, and situations
                                                                                     changing within our storyline.

From the results of this question, its clear to see the most frequently picked option is a female victim. This is a sterotypical idea, that us as a genetation have conjured up, that in every thriller storyline the female is a victim and the attacker is a male. The two next joint, most frequently picked answer were a teenager or old person. This therefore, shows the clear understanding that the people questionned, have in mind the type of victim being a vunerable and naive person. As a group, we have chosen to stick to the storyline of a female victim and a male attacker.

It is clear to see the people questionned are not particually every day watchers of thriller. However, the most picked options are of people watching a thriller every week, or two or possibly even every month. However if we were to question how many watched other sub genres such as comedy, chic-flick, rom-com etc we might well have a different type of feedback. Therefore, this makes it essential that we produce a proffesional and intriging opening to our thriller to keep up with our current competition.

Everyone we questionned has had post sixteen education which therefore, shows the type of social class we are dealing with when creating out thriller opening. Therefore, we can connote that due to there further education they are able to make consiencious decisions, and form opinions on the information presented infront of them.

The three options chosen were Internet, Telly and Magazine. This therefore, shows that people get there source of media from these three places, and would get advertisements for up-coming movies etc. Which means, when thinking about how we could advertise our thriller opening, we should consider these methods and how broadsheet and redtop magazines were not a way our target market and people questionned got there media source from. This shows that technology today being internet and telly have taken over traditional methods such as magazines that used to be so common in olden days when these forms of media were not avaliable.

From these results its clear to see that its 50/50 whether our people questionned would or wouldn't buy a thriller film. As a group we came to a conclusion that maybe our people questionned wouldn't buy a film however,  if it was on the telly or interent they might possible watch it. Therefore, meaning they still somehow could have access to a thriller film and might even possible watch one.

The answers to this questions varies between all options. However, internet telly and cinema are the most popular options for the people we questionned. This therefore, gives us as a group an idea into where we need to advertise our thriller opening for it to be discovered and research by intended target market being 15-18 year olds.

Propossal for final Idea:

Our final idea is a combination of two ideas, being idea two and idea three...

We liked the concept from idea two of the hostage situation, and the idea of it being set at an abottior to get the disturbing sense for our thriller opening.
However, we also liked the concept of idea three with the strong connotations to the religious aspect of controll, obidence and defiance. And the idea that the man is a controll freak and that as he cannot controll his daughters every move, he has to kill her.

As it is sociologically proven, one in every four women will be domestically abused at some point in there lives and it is a boyfriend, partner of family member that the offence is committed by, this really hits on a sensitive subject but situation that is occuring in every day situations.

As we are mixing the two ideas together, we came to a final decision of keeping with the hostage situation of girl/women being attacked and kept away. However, in the third idea the controll freak is the dad of his daughter.

Our final idea, is there is a religious controll freak that has fallen for a young girl. The young girl has a boyfreind who she constantly argues with and the controll freak is so jealous that he cannot have her yet somebody else can who doesnt treat her half as good as he reckons he can.  He keeps a photo of her, and constantly fantasies about her until one day he sets a plan to follow her and keep her captive.

Audiences feedback to three media ideas and pitches:

Overall, the feedback we got given as a group was that, although the majority of our class liked our first idea, and thought it was unique and something different from one of your typical thriller story lines. It came to our attention from being pointed out by our class, just how hard and how many different types of effects we would have to use to create our intended 'ghost' illusion. As our idea one was a WW2 theme based haunting idea, of a man dying at an air field which then went on to his wife visiting this air field on a regular basis to 'feel his presance' and to feel close to her husband again. As we would be setting this idea at folkingham airfield the problems that may occur is if we have acess to use this land along with film or use the equipment on the airfiled.

The feedback we got for idea two was also that it was a unique idea as it would be set at an abattoir. The shots and footage, we would be able to get of dead animals would be very disturbing and fitted to the thriller genre we were supposed to present. Our class thought this idea would be very effective. However, as a 'hostage situation' is very typical thriller, we would need to add a little something to keep it away from the stereotypical hostage situation. The props we would need to get hold of such as knife, rop, gun etc would need to be handled carefully, also getting hold of these items could be quite hard to do so. Also, one big problem that we could find ourselves in is that, as this idea would be set an an aboittoir, all the blood from the animals and dead corpes could come across an 'horror' instead of thriller.

The feedback we got for idea three was that it was also fairly unique as it was connected to religion. The concept of the idea being the man killing his daughter as she is not the 'perfect child' and rebels against everything he says. This idea hits a sensative subject in the real world as one in every four women are a victim of domestic abuse and normally the abuse is mentall, physicall, phsycological or emotional that is performed by a boyfriend or family memeber. As we would also set some of our footage for this idea at a cemmetry, we might find ourseleves in difficulty due to restrictions on filming on certain religious and precious grounds such as the cemmetry. This idea would need great planning and permission to film, along with the sensitivety of the issue would need to be treated in a very careful way.

Questionnaire:

Questionnaire for expectations of thriller genre:

1) Which gender are you?
Male?
Female?

2) What age group are you?
15-18?
19-30?
31+?

3) What type of sub genre of the thriller genre do you prefer?
Drama?
Sci-fi?
Crime?
Action?
Comedy?
Mystery?

4) Which is your favourite film out of the following..?
Psycho?
Donnie Darko?
The Happening?
Paranormal activity?
Saw?
Other _____________

5) What type of music do you think should be played in a thriller film?
Eerie?
Mysterious?
Up-beat?
Calm?
Classical?

6)Which location would best suit a thriller?
Woods?
Abandoned house?
Every day setting?
Shopping centre?
Other? ________

7) What factors do you think build up the atmosphere of a thriller film?
Special effects?
Sound effects?
Acting?
Realistic based plot?
Mise-en-scene?
Props?


8) Who would you watch a thriller film with?
Girlfriend/Boyfriend?
Family?
Friends?
Alone?


9) Who you expect to be the victim within a thriller?
Female?
Old person?
Hero/Heroine
Teenager?
Parent/Career?
Child?


10) How often on a regular basis would you watch a thriller?
Once a day?
Once a week?
Once every two weeks?
Once every month?
Once a year?
Never?

11) Have you had further post sixteen education?
Yes?
No?

12) How would you find out about media?

Magazine?

Telly?
Broadsheet?

Redtop?

Internet?

13) Do you enjoy reading books?

Yes?

No?

14) Do you have any hobbies? If so please specify

Yes? ________________

No?

15) If you had money going spare, would you consider buying a thriller film?

Yes?

No?

16) How would you find out about a new thriller film?

Radio?

Internet?

TV?

Cinema?

Newspaper?

The audience research and results from our questionnaire will help us a group to realise and see what exactly our intented audience want to see or hear. Also who they want the victim to be, what they think represents a thriller and what we consider to make our two minuite thriller as effective and to the best standard as possible.

pitches for media ideas: IDEA3

IDEA3:

Picthes for media ideas: IDEA2

IDEA2: