Storyboard

This is our storyboard of our thriller opening. We initially thought we were not going to do a storyboard, due to our plan of making a montage-style opening. We had done a moodboard, but eventually found that this wasn't enough to help us plan out the production of our thriller opening. The storyboard helped us plan what days we were going to film and where.

Thriller Survey Interview

This is an interview we did asking two people our age about thrillers and preferences for their thrillers.

Here is another interview we did with someone our age asking them similar questions about thriller films.

This is a paper questionnare we did again asking about thrillers and opinions. This questionnare was rather limited as it didn't ask many or very specific questions.

Audience Research

This information is from the website MOJO.

• All of the top grossing films of all time worldwide are rated PG-13 or U, showing that the most common age group of cinema-goers is those who would go see these ratings of movies, like children, teenagers and families.
• All of these films are also a similar genre, they are mainly action films and are all fictional. There are a couple of animated films, too.
• The highest grossing thriller film is The Dark Knight Rises.

Risk Assessment

This is our risk assessment for the filming of our thriller opening.

Shot List

We are going to do lots of close-up shots to create a montage of creepy and uncomfortable scenes. We plan to make these shots cramped and edit them together quickly to move the audiences focus around the screen and create a disorientating feel.

• Close-up of shaking hands drawing crosses and religious symbols - filmed under a desktop lamp on a table in an office in Wem Town Hall
• Wide shot looking down on a young girl standing on the stairs - filmed in the staircase in Wem Town Hall
• Shot looking up at a church on a dutch angle - Church in Wem
• Shots of creepy, old doors - In streets in Wem
• Shots the Bible - On a table in a room in Wem Town Hall
• No shots of anyones face, add enigma
• Camera will be held free hand to make it seem more homemade and realistic
• Photos of recognizable place religious/non religious, make the film seem more human and gives the audience a point of recognition. also because they are just photos it adds enigma as to why they are there.

One-Shot Opening Experiment

We had a go at filming a similar opening sequence to the one in the film Delicatessen. To do this, we used old fashion antique props on a spinning table. We also placed pieces of tea-stained torn paper with credits written on in a hand-written-look font. We filmed using a SLR 60D Canon Camera and a Steady Cam-recorder. The different between the two was that the SLR's film was much better quality but would go in and out of focus whereas the Cam-recorder was much steadier and stayed in focus the whole time but the quality of the film was not as good as the SLR's.

These pictures show us at work while discussing, planning and carrying out our one-shot experiment. 

And this is a behind the scenes video of our creative process while filming the experiment.