INTENDED TARGET AUDIENCE

•  For my group and myselfs thriller we intend the target audience to be women aged at 22. This is because we feel women would get more from the film then men would as they may be able to relate to how the women in the film are feeling. 

• I feel our target audience age is women of  22 as they are young adults who have matured and experienced a fair bit of life, however they are also young which means they will be able to see the younger generations point of view as well as seeing the older generations point of view.

• I feel our target audience would be a women that  enjoys most genres of films; which is why she would particularly like our sub-genre film. I also feel like our target audience would be someone that enjoys watching films with her friends which are exciting and something they could relate too.

•  Our thriller is definitely a film that women will be able to relate to as most women have arguments with there partners. However they may not go to the extreme revenge that our characters do in the film.

• In our opening sequence we intend to attract the audience to carry on watching the film by not giving them too much detail so they wont be able to guess what happens. However we have to get this balance right because if we do not give them enough detail they may not want to watch the entire film but if we give them too much information it will not excite them. So we intend to create tension and suspense giving the audience a few clues but not letting any information out.  

This is an example of our intended target audience

                                                                                             

STORIES TO HELP INSTIGATE OUR IDEA

Below are a few of the stories that helped instigate my group and myself create ideas for our thriller sequence. Once we found these stories we were then able to brainstorm to get a final idea which will hopefully be exciting for the audience.

CREATING A NEW IDEA

After the meeting my group and myself had with the media department yesterday we researched female killers and the stories behind what they do to see if it would instigate any ideas for us.

From doing this it really helped us as we then came up with the idea we will be using; women hiring other women to kill their husbands - which is what our thriller will now be based on.

MEETING WITH THE MEDIA DEPARTMENT

Today we had a meeting with the head of media department; about our opening thriller sequence. My group and myself explained the idea we had to them and they gave us feedback.

Matt, Paul and Luke all agreed that the intimacy between the characters in the sequence we had come up with, was most likely to be unachievable because of the age of the teenage actors and the relationship they were going to be having with the adult actors i.e our teachers. Matt, Paul and Luke also said that the idea we had come up with wasn't strong enough to create a good thriller and it wouldn't be exciting for the audience to watch.

Story-Board

                         

                                  

MOOD-BOARD

To help improve our idea of the opening sequence we created a Mood-board with things that we wanted to see in the sequence; for example we kept our original ideas of the three girls, the knives, the alley way and the man but we added more things which gave us more ideas to improve the sequence.

REVIEW OF TEST SHOOT

For our first test shoot we filmed our original idea of our opening sequence to see if it worked and created enough tension to be a Thriller. When filming our test shoot we used substitutions instead of the actual props as we just wanted to get a rough idea of what it would looke like visually; for example we used pens instead of knives and we changed the location to a basement instead of a alley way as we were not allowed to leave the college premises.

Throughout the test shoot we tried many different ways of filming the sequence; using different camera angles and movements to create different effects. For example we used a high angled shot when filming the man on the floor to make him look weak and an establishing shot at the beginning of the sequence to set the scene and the atmosphere.

As a group we all found from doing the test shoot it was very useful to us as it gave us all a clear idea of what the sequence will actually look like once it is properly filmed and edited. From doing the test shoot we found that the idea worked and the the use of camera angle shots we used worked to portray what we wanted the audience to see.

However from doing the test shoot we found the sequence needed to be a lot longer and a lot more interesting for the audience; to really grab their attention.

Now we have done the test shoot and wrote down our ideas to improve it we are going to create a different storyboard and film another test shoot with the improvements made.

To improve our opening sequence we have the following ideas; add more tension, make it more interesting to both females and males and make it a lot longer.

TEST SHOOTING OF OPENING SEQUENCE