Target Audience Expectations

The target audience for our thriller opening would be aged from 15 and above. I think our film would also be rated a 15. This is due to the plot of  the theme of a stalker, there may also be some violence in the film, and strong language, which wouldn't be suitable for people of a younger age. People younger than 15 also may not understand the idea/plot of our thriller. Our target audience can be either male or female, there isn't a paticular feature that we have included to make the film lean towards one gender. I think that we have broken quite a typical convention that is usually included in films involing some kind of stalker/serial killer etc, the person is usually a male. We have decided to use a female as the stalker, as this was slightly different to most thrillers that use a similar story line.

Analysis of Cache/ Hidden

Cache/Hidden is a 2005 production from Michael Haneke. The opening sequence begins with a long shot of a suburban flat/house in France. For a few minutes nothing happens, playing on the way that Michael Haneke likes to playwith the audience's patience, and then there is speaking over the film.

How does the opening sequence of this film use Thriller conventions?
There are many questions left unanswered in the opening sequence, as nothing really happens visually in the opening, there is just a voiceover talking about things that the audience wants to know about. This happens because the audience is waiting for something to happen. Also, because it is like the characters' house is being watched, it makes the audience ask who is watching them.
What questions does it pose?
Who/What are they waiting for?
How does it make the audience feel?
Confused, Unsure.

Unknown poster analysis



This is the poster for the new warner bros film, Unknown (2011). The film is about a Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) who wakes up from a coma to find that someone has stolen his identity, and no one beleives that he is actually the real Martin Harris and not the other man, not even his wife.In the poster, the tag line of "TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE" tells the audience about what the film is mostly going to be about, Liam Neeson's character trying to get his identity back. The strip picture through the middle of the poster is of 2 women and strange words and numbers randomly on the background. This introduces some more of the characters and makes the audience ask questions about these women. Also, the numbers in the background could make the audience look out for them in the film. However, these numbers and letters also make the film seem as though it's going to be a confusing film with lots of things and clues to look out for.

03/02/11

Focusing on the montages...

We went straight to the dark room, as we had an idea of what we were going to film today and how we would film it. We went in and took small video clips of the room, which could be used with in a montage throughout our opening sequence.
Although this was successful, we soon came across a problem which caused us to rearrange what filming we could do. This problem was that we were not able to process the photos, which are a very important part with in our film, and so did not head to the sport hall changing rooms, where we would of used the photos on the wall, but instead carried on working on our other ideas revolving around the montage. This included shots of the photo film and the red lights within the dark room.
On top of this, we came up with the idea of showing lips within the sequence and so filmed this in order to use our time productively regardless of the problems we had faced.

Examples of pictures edited for the thriller

We thought this picture linked in well with our theme as it poses questions in the audiences mind whether there will be a murder in our film.

This picture helped us to come up with the idea of our title, 'Green Eyed Monster'. The word monster is good because when you think of monster you don't usually relate it to a human. So by using this, we are almost dehumanising the 'stalker' to a 'monster'.

This picture we took in negative as it gives a scary, distorted look

This picture is similar to the 'murdered', as the words 'tragic lesson' suggest something bad could happen to someone in the film 

These two pictures link into our thriller, because the idea of 'red lips' show/suggest that a woman could be the stalker

Film name ideas..

 We found it hard to agree on what the name of the film could be called because we had many ideas. From the title incorporating a question, too a short one worded name. We mainly revolved our ideas on the photography side of our opening sequence, due to it revolving around photographs and the developing of them and this is when we came up with initial ideas such as;

Montage

Photogenic

Captured
These though, didnt really stand out to us as we felt they would do the film justice because they are quite plain and were not very unique. This is when we came up with a 'question being incorporated in our title, due to it being a main thriller convention and come up with;

Is she watching you?
Do you know whos watching?
After discussing though, we decided to focus it around the fact that this is a wall of images and its being exhibited and therefore our final and the one we chose was
The Exhibit

02/03/11 lesson review.

In today's lesson we focused on doing testshots for our final filming. We spent most of the lesson in the college changing rooms which will be a major part of our opening, we investigated into different shots from different angles, places and from different point of views.  We also filmed the red lips, this is when Ellen applies red lipstick in the mirror without her face being seen to add a mysterious effect. Experimenting with different shots enabled us to figure out the best way to film, and we now have many strong idea's for tomorrow's lesson.