Average Audience Member

We decided that for our average audience member will be male aged between 15 and 26. This will be because of the action part of the film and stereotypically, young males like action. 

Our audience member's interests could include action films, video games and socialising with his friends. The audience member may also like mystery and crime dramas so this film was also appeal to him. 

This age group has a lot of disposable income therefore they will be more likely to go to the cinema, especially with their friends. 

We are aiming this more at young adults because it won't be a stereotypical family film so they will be more likely to go and see it with their friends:

Practice Intertitles for our film

These are our practice inter titles for our film, we have used red and white because they will be visible over the action and also, red ties in with out thriller genre, connoting to blood. 

We will change the actors names when we know what actors we want for our film and we will use titles similar to these in our animatic and real 2 minute opening. 

The text is in the bottom corner because we it over the action, so we don't want to distract the audience away from the action.

Animatic Storyboard with Intertitles

 We made this animatic storyboard to help us to see what our film was going to be set out like. We drew pictures on whiteboards of our shots and then edited them together using iMovie, whilst editing we decided to add our inter titles on top as well as some sound effects and music. I think this will help us when we actually go to film our opening 2 minutes because we know exactly what we want it to look like.

Intertitles Order

I have been looking into the order of intertitles for films and I tried to use this for my intertitles video task, so that we can replicate a opening two minutes of a film accurately. I searched what the order is and I also looked at some example G321 Media coursework from other years and saw how they used intertitles in their work. This could help us when we are editing our film so we can be as close to a real film opening as possible.

Sample Order of Opening Credits in a Feature Film from Peter Bohush on Vimeo.

I found this video about the sample order of opening credits in a film and I will use this whilst editing to get the order correct.

Script

We have decided that we aren't going to have any dialogue in our opening 2 minutes of our film and this is because we don't want to reveal too much to the audience and leave the audience wonder what they think is happening or what they think will happen next. This film will have an element of mystery and crime solving to it and so we don't want the audience to know too much just in the first two minutes, an ambiguous beginning will be good.

Instead of a script we will have diegetic sound of heavy breathing, crying and screaming from the main character and maybe a chuckle from the side character of the 'villain' in the flashback scene. We will also have diegetic sounds of running and maybe birds tweeting in the forest. We will decide what sounds the characters will make when we are filming, as we will be in the moment and it will make it more real and not forced.

18 marks out of 20 blog

http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/

This student got 18/20 on their blog this is because they used a lots of media and done a variety of different posts for research and planning.

• They looked at opening credits of films and broke it down into a table that they presented using Scribd, They also included screenshots of films and YouTube videos to help explain their points.

• They researched and analysed different films that were like their genre and that could help them to help build tension.

• They uploaded their preliminary task on YouTube and they also evaluated their preliminary task with screenshots of their script, shotlists and storyboard.
• They put their initial ideas on Prezi. 

• They also looked at production and distributing as well as age ratings and audiences and included screenshots from different films.

I can now take into account how other people layout their research and planning and use that to help me with my blog.

Shot lists

This is our shot list for our opening 2 minutes we are going to have around 30 shots however we may shoot more when we are filming as extra shots or maybe in between different shots that we have planned. We added a flashback, so that we have more techniques and we can expand the plot more. 

We are going to take the shot list with us when we are filming so that we know exactly what we need to film and we also need to remember to shoot more than we need as it may not be enough when it comes to editing. Also, we need to remember to do lots of different shots of the same scene so we can decide which one we prefer and which one is better.