Planning: production schedule/risk assessment/ location recce/ client release/ location release

                                        pre production

Pre- prdouction is the process of planning before filming process of a film starts it is where the producer and director and other crew members choose the locations, actors, the pre- production schedule.

location recce is a summary of the location that allows us to decide what type of location we will use and how we will get there.This document should be given to everyone in the filming team. This is so they are able to know everything they need to know about the filming location.































Risk assessment it allows us to analyse our location  and identify what risks night arise and how we will plan to overcome them , this  document should be given to everyone in the filming team so that everyone will be aware of the risk by knowing the location  and risks this helps us to see if there's going to be any dangers while filming our thriller.

This is our client release form is a legal document that discuss the terms and agreements for any actors in our thriller to allow them to understand the terms and condition in order for the actors to take in our thriller film.
 

location release form  is the a legal document that discus the terms and agreement from the company council people that they are allowed to film in their location this location should be given to the company  to show them the prove that we was given permission to shot our film in their location.

Production schedule- used to show where certains scenes will be filmed and what cast members will be needed, the equipment needed and the time the filming will take place, the production schedule is handed to out to everyone in the filming team and the casts members so that they have got all the information needed. 

planning cinematograpghy

                                                     Cinematography

Cinematography is crucial in films because it makes it interesting and it gives  a clear representations of characters.I believe that it is important to think about cinematography, especially in thriller  films because it includes the camera angles and shots ,camera movements  and the lighting within the frame shot. In our thriller we hope to create tension towards the audience when it comes to a dramatic in our scene.without  cinematography films would not have the same impact  on the audience or we won't be able to have impact on the film.

 

An example of some conventional use of cinematography will be when the audience are shown  close up  in order to build a relationship between the characters and the audience  for example  the audience see a close up a someone is crying, this will immediately make the audience feel sympathy for that particular character that's been shown on the screen.

 

 

1- A pan medium shot will be used  to introduce all the characters, this will give the audience an understanding of the characters as the characters will be introduce so that they will know type of character is represented as within the opening scene.

 

2-We will use over shoulder to show the mystery character want to know who it is,  this will create suspense for the audience as they don't know who this character is yet  because he is giving his back to the audience this will  make the audience what to know this character.

 

3-  We will use a point of view shot  to show the mystery character approaching the group of friends, this will create tension and it will make the audience feel more involved as they  would want to know whats happening to them.

 

4-  We will use pan shot  to show movement of the characters and their surrounding,  this will give the audience of what the area that their are in.

 

 

5- We will use hand held  to show the nerds falling over  this will show the emotions of the character  through the shaking of the falling of the nerd. this will make the audience feel  focus on the movement of the character.

 

 

6-  we will use reaction shot  when  the couple find the nerds body in the forest, this will show the audience how the characters feels if they were in their situation.

 

7- We will use high angle to the mystery character tied on a chair. This will show the audience that the mystery character is inferior and not an antagonist as the audience most of thought the mystery character  was the antagonist.

 

 

Conclusion:  due to planning cinematography  I am able to understand what my thriller will be like while going back to my book to decide on what type of camera shot i will use into my thriller. The planning has  made it easier for me and the rest of my group, this has made me feel more confident learning how to use cinematography.

 

 

 

   

planning editing

                                                      Editing

Editing in film is very important as it  can effect the look and feel of film dramatically. It is important to think about editing, especially when in thrillers so that the viewers are able to understand what is actually happening. for example if the editor wishes to make the audience feel  certain emotions  such as scared, confused  they would need to edit the film in certain way so that the audience can feel the emotions. Some of the technique that's  are used in thrillers are usually fast pace  and slow paced editing to can be used to create suspense  and it can capture actions.

 

 

 1- Slow pace- we will use slow pace to introduce the characters and focus on  the characters on what they will be doing during the moment their will be doing this will also show the characters facial expressions. I have chosen to use this because this is conventional  to thriller genre because it allows the audience to see what type of editing is used in thriller.

2- Straight cut- we chose use straight cut to move into the next scene to show all the characters on the frame and also to make the audience feel confuse as their would want to know whats happening on the scene the reason why i chose to use this is because this is conventional to thriller genre as it shows  the next scene. 

3-We will use straight cut when putting the clips together so that the audience can follow  the narrative without them getting confuse for example  when the antagonist will walking towards  the group of friends this then allows us to see the straight cut of  the  mysterious characters walking towards them this can create suspense  for the audience.

 

4- We are planing to use fade to black which will create suspense and tension  towards the audience, this will be used at the end off our scene where we see the  victim tied on a chair and we see the actual antagonist.  

 

5- We are also planning to use camera recording effect this will capture  someone in black running  away from the camera this will allow us to show the characters movements while their are moving with the camera.

 

 

 

 

 

 

planning sound

                                                   Sound

Sound is important elements within the creation of films. This is because it set the whole mood of the film.I believe it is important to plan sounds we will use because sound causes the audience to connect with the sound by knowing what their watching is making them feel in certain way. For example if the audience  see a gun being fired then you hear an alien zapper sound the audience will be disconnected from the film making question where the gunshot can develop their relationship between the characters thinking the situation is real.

 

1-Non- Diegetic  sound of heavy breathing will be used when the one the character found blood on the floor this will help to build tension has the characters reactions sound this is conventional to thriller genre as it will it builds relationship with the audience it gets them to position them self in the characters shoes.


2-We will use diegetic sounds when the character is stepping on the twigs as this will make our thriller more realistic for the audience to watch this is conventional to thriller as most thrillers can be realistic for the audience feel the impact and not just think  by watching whats on the screen that can make them believe the characters.


3-On screen sound will be used the audience are mumbling something to each other, we chose to use on screen sound so that the audience can understand the characters personalities from the way the way they appear on the screen this is conventional to thriller as  it make the thriller more realistic.

4-We will use off screen sound when the nerds gets attacked by the another characters as he will be running for his life we chose to use this as it helps to build up tension  this is conventional to thriller because the audience starts to guess is going to happen next as the tension builds up.



5-We will use parallel sound we chose this at the end of the scene where the antagonist is revealed this will create sense of reality within the film it can create atomsphere this is conventional to thriller genre as the relationship will be built with the audience and the characters in the screen.
 

Planning Mise en scene

                                                                 Mise en scene

Location- we chose to do our production in a forest because forest are  isolated places of land where hardly  no one goes there and bad things are a bound to happen in the forest. Another location that we will use is going to be a garage because it will be secluded due to the reduced risk of anyone going into the garage.

 

Lighting- The main type of lighting we will use is low key lighting this is because it will fit in well with our location as our location will be in  forest it's a dark place and dull. Also we will use high key lighting at the garage  because all  the lights  will be surrounding the character  which it will become  a daze to the victim which it will make him vulnerable.

 

 

Iconography- One of our iconography will be a camera which will capture things beyond the characters belief  as they do realise that severity of the situation that they in, will also use to confuse the audience .Another iconography we will use is ropes  to tie the victim at the end scene, also we will use blood  will represent  the danger of the forest concealed by the trees and dirt that will be untouchable  for a long time.

 

Body language&facial expression- At the start of our production the characters will appear relax and confident  as they enter the forest  knowing that they will be filming their  thriller they will be all over the moon as their nearly come close to finishing of  their task that's been given to them.They then become scared when of the mystery character appear from the bush and discovers the other characters  everything changes as they this character appears. How they was laughing  and then they got scared.  The characters body language will be calm and relax at the beginning of our production  as they are about to shot their media work and when one of  a mysterious character appear towards  the people within the group will feel uncomfortable and frightened as their find  friend dead  their facial expression will be confused and lost as they will not know whats happening to them. The mysterious character will have a strong body bod langauge to show that his confident and unfeated character, his facial  expressin will be unclear at the start of the scene the it will appear evil at the end.

 

Costumes- we decided to the charcater will be wearing a causal wear, for example the nerd will  be wearing a glasses and unfited trouser with a shirt to show that his a nerd, the female character will be wearing a wolly cream jumper to show that she's  a female victim her hair will be tied back, she's not going to have a lot of make up on because we  wanted to she her natural look for the audience to see that she's an attractive character. The mysterious chararcter will  have a dark colours, he will; also wearing a hoodie black so that he won't reveal his identity to the audience and the characters in the forest. 

 

 

 

    

planning character representation

                                  Character representation

Character representation is important within the film simply because it allows the audience to get a clear idea of  the narrative of the film better it also shows a clear relationships between the audience and the characters can build. It can be conventional for films its important to have a lot of characters so that its meets the audiences expectation of the characters personalities that should be within the film.

The main characters within our thriller

.The nerd timothy -16 years old






Jason  bully- 16 years old






The couple  ( Cindy white and Brandon -16 years old)



















Timothy is 16 years old is very smart he get bullies by people in his class because he is very smart boy, he enjoys learning and experimenting stuff his very determined, the nerd does media his assessment was to shoot a thriller film he thought that he can choose his own group but the teacher put him in a group of the people that always used to make him feel uncomfortable, they always used to laugh at him everything he did it was all a joke to them he had no choice but to work them people that made his life hell. Mainly his role in the thriller is to show this character as useless to make the audience feel sympathy for this character has he can come across as  unwanted character, this character will be wearing a casual outfit such as jeans with baggy top and glasses as this will clearly shows the audience what type of the character he is. his body language will be quit uncomfortable clenched back to show that his a powerless character.

Jason is the bully he is 16 years old , he has been bullied before that's why he feels better bullying others because of what happen to him in the past , he is the most popular boy the school, his sly clever but he choose not to show people that his smart he likes to act tough but he can be a soft character the past hunts him that's why he behaviors in certain way, as he was told to create a thriller film he thought this time he can pick his own team but it didn't go in plans with his expectations, when he find out that the nerd will be on his team he really got furious has he really hated the nerd. Jason will be a Hench tall character  has he is a  character that tries to get all the tension the character will be wearing jeans and white top to show that he is a strong character his body language will show the audience that his tall body built to show the audience that he has the authority and his facial expressions will change dramatically.

Cindy white is 16 years old she is a female character she very girly she loves relaxing with  her boyfriend she's  can come across as attitude shes a follower everything her boyfriend does she wants to do it as well she can be annoying sometimes deep down shes a sweet girl but she's mean to timothy,she will be wearing a creamy top and light pink skirt to show that she's innocent character , her will be curly she will not have a lot of make up on  as this character has to be attractive for the male audience to drawn into the this attractive character this will make them feel sorry for the character as her innocence she can be a vulnerable character as she is unaware of whats about going to happen to her as she is not powerful character.  

Brandon is Cindy's girlfriend he really cares about his girl, he is observed character he doesn't really say much but he can across as an aggressive character, he once had a fight with timothy for staring at his girlfriend from that time he didn't like timothy when he was told to partner up with timothy to make the thriller film he really got angry when they got to the forest to shot their thriller film, he will be wearing a casual clothes and blue top to show up his muscles to show that he is a strong character.








   

Planning storyboard

A storyboard is a graphical representation of a narrative that has been created, within the storyboard it shows each movement of the character scene by scene. Storyboard look likes square boxes on a piece of paper they are used by every film maker in order to make filming actual less stressful and it also means that the actors, directors, camera operator know what to do and when to do it without having to stop and talk about how they will plan out the next scene.

Storyboards needs to contain information about cinematography , iconography , lighting, actors. sound, narrative , location, duration and number of shots. Including all of these in storyboard will make the producing the scene a lot more easier as the producer and the director can work with and around the information they have on the storyboard. Storyboard  also ensure that you don't forget any shots / scenes  by accident they make it easy to know where you need to edit the film for example fade , straight cut.

In our lesson we were working within our group to create a storyboard that represented the narrative my group chose to use, to do this we had to think about how we wanted our thriller to look like , how long each scene would be like , the location , dialogue, sounds, lighting and the actors/people needed to film that shot. we wanted to see if the narrative fitted well with  the storyboard this made it much easier for us to get on with our filming.

Our storyboard.

 

The top picture is the our  group storyboard it includes images and the micro elements that we will use on our thriller,it is organised well  this will help us when it comes to filming or thriller  as we can easily understand it and  we knew  this makes it  easier for us to make know whose going to be needed on our thriller the narrative helps to be sure of the narrative as we  can gather an idea of how it will look like.

Research Questionaire /graphs

The importance of primary research is that to help us to create  our thriller films it allows to find what the audience like their thriller to be like so we create a questionnaire in order to gather some information  and research on what our target audience  wanted to see. This helps us  when it comes  to actually creating a  our own thriller film, so that  we are able to make effective for our audience  and conventional to thriller genre.   

 

 The picture at the top, is the questions I asked the audience. when counting up the results, we found out that the majority of group liked action thriller and psychological thriller more than sci-fi  other genres. This was a great result  because it gives us  an idea  of what  we could focus on the  thriller genres  conventional instead of placing a mixture of other  conventions inside our thriller film in order to make it more  effective on the audience.

 

 What sub-genre are you most drawn to?

 

This questions was asked so that it can help us plan and  to get a clear idea for creating our thriller film as we can relate back to out target audiences answers. The questionnaire would actually help us when it comes to creating a certain impacting effect on the audience ; furthermore , when we added  to our research  of other thrillers, it may able us to make our thriller conventional to the thriller genre.

                                         

 

In this graph there's more people who prefer watching they thriller because of the main charcters such as antagonist and protagonist  they found the characters interesting.  This helped us make the character more conventional as the target audience said that they liked  watching thriller because of the characters within the film. therefore this can help us develop our characters in our thriller they going to have to be evil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion:  The creation of questionnaire actually has helped me of creating of thriller film because we are able to make the film relate to the public's response, also this will help us thriller film more conventional to the thriller genre  as we  are able to use the questionnaire as a base line to create our thriller around ; for example the theme of  tortured ; due to this we have based it on tortured  as it at the end it will be traumatizing when looking at the response  from the questionnaire, it was clear to my group , that our target audience was 15-20 year old people of mixed genre who all wish to see thriller film containing suspense, tension  and surprise. This information is essential to our group as we now know who our target audience is  and what they want to see within our thriller.    

 

 

 

Opening scene narration

                                                        Opening scene narration

The scene begins with a tilt shot starting off in the sky with trees and branches in the frame. As the camera slowly tilts, it will show a group of teenagers.And the title will appear across the screen 'The Unknown massacre ' just before it reveals the characters a soundtrack  will be cued.Medium shot will then be used  to show the characters 's body language and costumes however they will only take up two thirds of the frame because the opening credits will be shown  next to them to show who they are starring as. tracking movement at a fast pace will  be used to go  from one  character  to the next, also  it will be at a similar pace to the soundtrack.  A tilt shot from the floor to the tree with the red ribbons will be introduced and an extreme close up will be bought up in  to show one of the red ribbons will be a representation of iconography an establishing shot will then  be used to show the group  and the tree together, to establish scene setting. One of the character will  whisper something about the tree and the boy who died there, there will a point view shot to  from  Timothy  to show he's  the only character that is interested about the tree story  as the rest of the group will be laughing, messing about not paying attention about what  he's on about  then the rest hurry up to record their thriller task that they was given. They then begins to joke about and  get annoyed at each others and Timothy gets angry the shot of this will be zoomed in to show his facial expression that his angry.  Throughout this scene there will be a hand held shot to show their banter and how they're out of control.They then split up to find a better location  to film their thriller, during this particular it will be a panning movements and long shots  will be used to show they're going  in separate directions.

 As the scene develops the characters that decided to separate into different direction, they hear a noise all of the sudden one of the member disappears thought this scene it will be a point of view shot to show the characters what they are thinking about show they emotions, then the characters starts to suspect one another as the  a lot of people within the group  are disappearing  no one knows whose doing this during this moment they will be a black out and also there will be a lot of heavy breathing sounds of screaming and shouting.This will the audience feel uncomfortable as they will want to know what's happening in this particular moment and also during this moment the audience will try to ask them selves  questions  about whose actually doing this for the group of the teenager vanishing   ever seconds  at this moment the audience will be confused. Towards the end of the opening, There will be a point of shot  which will be focus on the character  that has been tied on the chair during this moment the shot will be long shot to also show the location of the place  which will be a dark room  with candle lights around him, the victim's face will  look pale and exhausted  this then will  make the audience even more confuse  as they thought the  victim on the on the chair was actually was the one making everyone else vanishing the audiences expectation will be completely different as they thought that particular character was guilty but actually he is the innocent one at the end the antagonist will be reveal will be done through out dissolved   as the antagonist will come close to reveal his identity during this moment the shout will be a close up so that audience can get a  close look of this character who actually has been  doing all this, the audience will be puzzle because they wasn't expecting the character to be the one who was a long at this moment it will be a straight to show his costumes and his facial expression he will have a knife and the red ribbon that was in the forest to reminds the audience of the story of the boy who died in forest next to the tree.

final ideas

                                               Final idea

In my group we decided to combine the two idea together to create our final idea of our thriller film openning we thought that the both ideas  ideas  are smiliar therefore we decided to combine the two idea  has the ideas are similar we came to conclusion that our  the final will be about a group teenagers going to the forest to film their  thriller.

Title: The unkown massacre

Narrative: A group of teenagers go on a location to film their thriller film  for media when theycome across  a tree with a red ribbon tied to it. The nerd  of the group start sharing his knowledge of  the tree with  his accomplices finding out the past of the red ribbon tried on the tree to scare  his fellows friends making them scared.They begun to joke around to scare each other then timothy get angry  and walks away in another direction. The whole group decide to split up one by one  they start to disappear. At the end there will a twist  so that the audience will be confused.

 Sub-genre - Crime


 Characters- Timothy ( Nerd)
                       Jason (bully)
                       Rex  (leader)
                       little boy/girl
                        Girl 1
                        Girl 2
                        Girl 3



 Sub-genre : It will be crime

Narrative structure: Todorov

Mes:The characters costumes will be  typical has its a thriller there will be  light colours for the victims has that's more clear for the audience to understand whose is actually the victims, white for the victims and black for the antagonist this associate with him being the dark character. The location will be in a forest that's another typical place  to do a thriller film because that's the place where hardly no one goes there  at the end  there will be a change of location it will be set at dark room where  there will be lots of candles and bloods dripping down to show the audience  that its a typical its  usually happens in thriller.

 

 Iconography - Blood, red ribbon, candles, camera.

Film influenced by  Saw has the theme is tortured the same thing happen in saw

and characters wise we got influenced by saw as well the characterisation in the film influenced a lot.

The advantages: It' will be a quit easy to find the location  has  there's lots of forest to do our thriller opening it won't be difficult at all and another one  it will be easy to find the characters to take part into my thriller has most them will be the same age has us.

 

The disadvantages: The weather will be a let down if it rains we won't be able to film because we won't be see what we are doing because the rain can ruin our production the time of day in the forest also another disadvantage it will be getting a little child to  act in  our thriller has we will need  a permission from their parents guidance.

  

The opening of our thriller is conventional to thriller because it starts with the isolated location has that's conventional for thriller opening there's antagonist at the end  that's usually happen  in thriller  or sometimes the antagonist doesn't reveal their identity.

Themes that our thriller represent is tortured and revenge.

The response that we will want our audience to have confusion and lost has they thriller opening start with the group of  teenagers are set to record a thriller they then start to disappear which this confuses the audience to start actually questions themselves whose the cause of the people disappearing.

Preliminary task

 Prelminary task is designed to familiarise you with the camera and it  helped our group to understand how to operate the camera by trying to use a range of cinematograghy, for example in my group everyone had a go of filming we then nominated one person to film our 30 seconds screnario.

In my group we decide to create a small sequence to get a clear idea of how to use the camera, the scenrio that we created was  that sezer will be sitting down he will be doing something then when he see's me he then  tells me to come upstairs  after that we have a small conversation about what subject we like finally we then walked different direction.

Also in my group  everyone had their own roles for example my role was to  take care of  sounds, costumes, hair and make up for our actual thriller opening scene. jade's role  she will be taking care of the final storyboard and she will be taking of the lighting during our filming of our thriller. khaled will be the director  and editor, finally sezer will  the camera operator, he will also be the producer and the location manager as we all have got roles in our group which makes it much more easier for each one of us in the group so that we won't rely on one person  it helps us all have a role so everyone within the group are taking part doing something aswell.


It was difficult filming our small sceniro because we didn't really knew how to use the camera properly, the person that was filming he didn't know how to stop the camera when he was trying to director the people that was acting in  our scenrio, it was also hard for me to understand  when i was trying to record a i had a shakey hand because i wasn't really used to recording at all,  and also each one of us in our group we tried recording so that  everyone else will have any experience of recording  as well.It was quit hard  filming in school because there was people in the walking in out when we was trying to film there was quit a lot of noises which disturpted our filming.

Another difficult thing that i found while editing it was when trying to edit  our scenrio i didnt know how to cut out particular scene that i didn't  it to be in the scene and it was also hard tying to cut down the seconds that we was given to edit, our group we went over the limits up to 33 seconds because we  was trying to make the scenrio make sense.

What i have learned about pleminary task is that it helped me get a clear understanding of how each cinematography is conversitional for thriller making it brings all the elements together it also used to get you familarise with the camera.

Conlusion: This task was benetical for me because it allowed me to understand how to use the camera and how  different angels helps create a great scenrio and also task helped my group to understand how to edit our thriller film and  this task helped me get a clear a idea of our thriller will be like it gave  me an idea  that everyone  in the group have to be organised so that our thriller will  be good.












 

planning production roles

                                                       Productions roles

In our group we will be assigned production roles to make creating our thriller easier, we will assign the roles according to skills and interest of each members of the people in my group. Doing this will make sure that the production will run smoothly.


Production roles:
Camera operator-  is camera man / camerawoman is a professional operator of  a film or video  camera in film making, the leading camera operator.

Producer-  prepares and supervise the making of a film before presenting the product to financing.
Director- is a person who directs the making of a film  they also control a film 's  artistic  and dramatic aspects.

Lighting-  chose  the lighting and positions its location.
Location manager -picks  out the location  for  the thriller film.
costume- hair and make up dresses up the actors to make them look like their characters.


The role that i decided to take was  to take care of the sound in our thriller , costumes what the  characters was going  to wear in the thriller movie and make up what type of character
 will be wearing make up and how their hair will be like for my thriller.


Jade's role - she will be taking care of  the final storyboard  and the lighting for our thriller she will make sure the lighting and storyboard is complete.

Khalid's  role - he will be the director and editor  which means he will be directing the actors to stand in particular way and he will be taking care of the film.

Sezer' s role- he will be in charge of the camera operator, producer  and he will also be  the location manager which he will be taking care of the place that we will be filming.

Re search :Age certificate

                                                         Age Certificate 

The are many age certificates which gives the audiences a strong indication of what film they should watch and also it gives parents the sense of guidance to what they kids should watch age certificates are important are important to film industry  because the age certificate is what makes a film successful for example with different age certificate the directors and producers knows exactly what content should be in their films and what content is appealing to  the audience.

It is impossible to predict what might upset any particular child  a film should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over, films should be set  within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat to horror.

 

General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children.

Unaccompanied children of any may watch  a film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. How ever parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

 

 

At 18 the BBFC's guideline concerns will not normally override the principle that adults should be free to choose their own entertainment. Materials may touch on criminal activates or criminal law and display criminal offense. Also there may be violent or dangerous acts such as illegal drug use may shown but should cause harm to the public health or morals. This may include portrayals of sexual or sexualised violence which might , for example eroticise or endorse sexual assault  explicit images of sexual activity can be shown and bad language can be used.

   These categories are awarded where the material is suitable , in general, only for those aged and over  this work is classified at categories may be upsetting children under  and it can contain material which parents will find unsuitable for them. The category exists only for video works, no younger than may rent or buy a rated video work.

 The category exists only for cinemas films, no one younger than may see a film in a cinemas unless accompanied by an adult, and films classified are not recommended for a child below an adult may take a younger child if, in their judgement of the film is suitable for that particular child. In such circumstances ,responsibility for allowing a child under to view lies with accompanying adult.

 

 

12 A is  fairly a new age rating that came as a result of spider man -12  used  to be PG  it got changed in (2002). Views argued that Spiderman was too violence for children, and had a controversial narrative, so should not be given a PG ratings.

 

 

Therefore, The BBFC gave it a 12 ratings other viewer  argued that Spiderman was a childhood comic hero, so it was only fair that children were allowed to watch it.  Then  there was another  change this time it got given 12A rating which meant that those under 12 could only watch  the film if they are  accompanied by an adult. 

 

 

 

Thriller age  ratings varies from 12A  upwards depending on its use of display on things such as drugs, illegal acts , portrayals of sex or violence, most thriller films are rated 15 as they usually  contains violence and which may harm kids younger than 15 however there have been expectation within the industry, such as the Spiderman film which was labelled 12A even though it shows  fighting's scene  that may harm 12 years old children and see if the film is suitable for them.



Finally,  I am able to say that I have learned  the differences age certificates and how they affect parents and their children, I am able to have an clear understanding on what my thriller film ratings may be  and how adjust it so it can be suitable for certain audiences. In my opinion I think that age certificate is good  and effective  because  the films children watch it has a massive impact  on their future lives, for example  a young child usually play fights with  their friends  and may find extreme  violence good and 'cool'  this is a turn point why  we must have age certificates on many films  so that  the young children are not exposed effected or influenced completely, this information  has helped me know exactly what my thriller rating may be which is a 15 also it as given  me the necessary  to help me keep my thriller age rating with the 15border, rather than  raising it to an 18 i have to be restricted.

Research :opening credits

                                                             Opening credit


opening credit are written information usually at the beginning of the film. Opening credits  gives the audiences information on who the important figures is  in the film, opening credits is a way of  easing the audience into the film.



The purpose of opening credits is to advertise, giving credits to those who took part in the production  and it also outlines the major actors and crew members.

Opening credits tells the audience  who the major actors  or crew members are for example the soundtrack creator, director, producers that were involved in the making of the film, opening credits may be to honour the people that may have died during the production of the film. 

 

 

How does opening credits makes the audience feel : opening credits are effective in films  as the production are usually followed by soundtrack which automatically  helps to build tensions towards the audience, images on the screens are often used in opening credits to make the audience questions  if the its relevance in the actual film.

 

 

In the opening credits the audience are expected to see the names of the important actors within the production  this is done  as  to influence the audience to watch the film, for example Brad Pitt would be attracted  to the female audience they would want to watch the film because his starring on the film. 

 

 

 

Se7en analysis  

 

 

 

 

 

lighting used in the opening are:

Low key lighting

Flashing lights

Montages.

 

Appearances:

Actors

Victims(pictures)

Organised crime  

Successful ( can tell by the victims presented on the screen)

Changes from extreme to less extreme (Needles through finger-Needle through paper)

Soundtrack

close up

Montage

Sound effects.

 

The opening credits of 'Se7en ' the names of the famous actors that starred in the film appearance on the screen this helps the audience to know who starred in the film  as well as they become familiar with the mood of the film due to the actors that are in the film. The keyword used on the opening of se7en  are such as 'Rape' transsexual ' and 'God' seen in the opening credits  are  there to  confuse the audience, in  some cases it is also there  to relate to the narrative of the film.

 

 

 

The use of close up throughout the opening credits allows the audience to see the keywords on the newspaper like before as well as seeing the horrific disturbing images for example the audience see dirty finger nails and splatters  of blood using these in the opening scene makes the audience  feel  slightly disturbed over the these images appearing in the screen, a pair of tweezers and a needle are used  to get the audience to  ask questions such as  are they weapons? or are they used for evidence? this is conventional in a thriller film because the audience are expected to see this.

 

 

Low -key lighting and dark colours are used throughout the opening credits. The low key lighting makes the opening appear mysterious and disturbing when it is mixed  with the dark colours  and images  shown constantly. The colour red is used frequently throughout the credits which may represent danger, death, these elements within the credits  are conventional to a thriller  film  because  a sense of suspense and tension is created  throughout the audience.

 

Finally the slow disturbing soundtrack soundtracks added to the opening credits creates suspense among the audience  and it makes them feel disturbed when they hear a metal scratching together or the turning of a  radio. This is also conventional to a thriller genre  as it gives the audience  an insight on the mood of the rest of the film.

 

opening credits confuses the audience by catching their attention  and making them ask question through their minds  about what they are seeing on screen and how does it relate to film. The opening credits  scene has helped me to come up with  a conventional and an effective idea  as now I have got a clear idea  on what elements  I will use in order to build up tension and suspense to confuse the audience.

 

 

Research :Typoraphy

 

 

                                                          Typography

Typography is a way of arranging and presenting text through the size, design and colour to the audience. The typography give the audience an idea indication of what the film is about. It is essential information that connect with the audience so they know more about the production.

This is a picture of the typography of the opening scene of the film 'Scream'. At the start of the film the writing is white and simple until it starts flicking red and it finally turns red. The colour red connote danger, blood and anger this turns the sets mood of the film - the atmosphere  be calming for the audience until there is a disturbance which makes it completely change.  

 

 



 For the film 'Black Swan' the title of the film is shown in white with a black background, this makes the title over take the black background  against the dark images around the title, the title is shown written like the swan, this allows the audience to understand straight that this is a psychological thriller as the title plays with the audience sights. the colour white  has  connotation of 'purity' however it could also been used purposely to confuse the audience  and change their expectations of the film so that they can be shocked  and surprise while watching the actual film. 

 

 

On the opening of 'Scream' the audience sees the title in white  this makes the audience feel calm as the colour white connate purity and pure this allows the audience to feel in certain way that their wont  be no danger, the title is written in plain white, then on the background the audience sees the red flicking out over taking the white colour , the colour red connate danger, anger, blood. As soon as the title appears red the audience gets confuse as in the start the colour was white this creates different meaning for the audience. The size of the font is the same this is highlighting the actual title is written' Scream' its nice and loud for the audience to understand.

 

 

In my own thriller opening screen I will use plain fonts to make the audience feel relax and calm and after that title will have a flashing effect to confuse them when watching the opening, the reason why I will use that is to create suspense and tension for the audience.

 

 

Overall what I learnt about typography is that title of films is essential to connect with the audience when wanting to see a film, it allowed me to understand why particular title used in different genres and how the style of thriller is different to action fonts. how typography is conventional in thriller genre. 

 

Planning Intial ideas

                                                   planning intial idea

 In my group we had a lot of ideas about what we wanted to develop on our thriller narrative.

Idea1:

Narrative: Female victim is home alone in the middle of isolated place, someone knocks at the door, she’s opens the door no one is outside, then the second time she opens the door there’s a child at her door step crying staring helplessly at the female victim directly for help, she feels sorry for the child she takes the child inside her house not knowing that behind there someone lurking inside when she sees the antagonist though the mirror she tries to run she gets attacked by the antagonist  to death.

Title: knock, knock

 Subgenre: psychological thriller its focus on the female character as it messes up with the female’s          victims head.  

 

The character: one female victim, a child and antagonist.

 

Mes: location house in isolated place, the female victim will be wearing cream top and plain trouser, the child will be wearing a   white and dark trouser to show that a child is supposed to be innocent character; the antagonist will be wearing dark clothing such as black hoodie and a mask to hide his identity.

Lighting: will be low key lighting to focus on the characters.

 Iconography: toy, knife blood and mirror.

 

Narrative structure:  Aristotle structure.

 

The advantages are a realistic setting.

The disadvantages it’s going to be difficult to find a child to play the character.

 

Idea 2:

 Jade’s idea

 Narrative: A male and three females are on their way from the airport after their recent   holidays. They become lost and exit the car towards a forest to find help for directions, the sun sets quickly and the fear sets in as the victims become aware of the darkness. They come across a man who looks as though he may help however he turns to be the antagonist. He holds the victims hostage in the abandoned forest. The hostages break free and make the big escape into the world of unknown.

 

Title: The escape

 Sub-genre: crime thriller as it focuses on the antagonist and his victims rather than the protagonists/ heroes.

 

Characters:  one male victim and three female victims. One male antagonist.   

Narrative structure: Todorov

Mes: Costume- typical light clothes for the victims and dark colours for the antagonist.

Lighting-  Natural lighting in the forest, top lighting when on the main road for the lamp post.

Iconography: Blood, Rope and knives

 Advantages: in a realistic setting, small amount of actors.

Disadvantages: if the weather is bad it may effect filming, the time of the day in a forest.

 

Khalid’s idea

Narrative: A group of teenagers go out for a night out  as they, find a large tree with red ribbons tried to it, Timothy explain to the fools about the red ribbon on the tree until he forced to no longer speak about it. Then Timothy gets really angry and walks off in another direction. The whole group get lost and decide to split up by look by trying to look for help, they all end up missing and the ending it is completely unexpected.

 

 Title: The known massacre

 Sub-genre – crime

 Characters: timothy (nerd)

                        Jason (bully)

                         Rex (leader)

                        Little boy/girl

                          Girl 1

                        Girl 2

                        Girl 3

 

Narrative structure: Todorov

 Mes: Casual bright clothes,

 Location -forest and dark room.

Advantage: location forest finding characters.

 Disadvantages- weather raining that can cause problems for filming, and it will be hard to find a child to act.

 

 Sezer’s idea

 Narrative:  A group of people; some close, some annoying. They are off to record a thriller in the foggy woods. People   are trying to messing around by screaming and scarring each other however, they start to go missing / dying. The group starts to get smaller and everyone starts to wonder who it is and therefore they start to not trust each other. At the end everyone apart from one person dies so the audience thinks it’s them. A blackout occurs and the person they thought it was is tied to a chair with blood and torture equipment’s around him.

 Title: wanted/ lost

 Sub-genre: crime

 Characters: nerd, couple, annoying bunch of friends, a suspicious quite person/ all to themselves / independent.

 Advantages: weather, setting

Disadvantages: the weather can be a problem for filming if it’s too foggy  it  will be hard to film.