Sound

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I choose this sound track because i thought that it added that extra effect to our location for our thriller opening sequence, also it gives that sense of something being not right and a bit weird were this links to main characters emotions and actions in the thriller opening sequence.

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I choose this sound track because it gives the sense that's somethings odd and not normal,also it makes the audience feel on edge because the track is creating that dark and tense effect.

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I choose this sound track because the pace is slow and the pitch is low, this creates a dark and mysterious effect for the audience because it's representing the location of the thriller opening sequence and also the personality of the main character in the opening sequence.  

Soundtracks that have been chosen
The first soundtrack is one of the piece's of sound which has been chosen for our opening sequence, this sound builds the tension and gives the hint to the audience that something might happen? This music could also be used whilst the protagonist is being introduced in the thriller this could show to the audience that this character could be quite creepy and not normal. The second soundtrack has been chosen by the group because it suggests that this character is weird and creepy also it shows and could represent what the main character hears through out the thriller opening sequence because of his condition, also it allows the audience to make a judgment on this character because of the sound which represents his illness. The third soundtrack has been chosen by the group because it's very fast pace and high pitch this shows to the audience what the character is feeling and what it's like for him also could represent his thoughts and feelings in the opening sequence.

shot list key shots

This shot is a close up of a note which has a picture of a person who has walked past the main characters house, the text is talking about what the people were wearing, i think this shot will be a good shot to add because it allows the audience to see how the main character is around people outside of his house.

This shot is a low angle close up of the arm of the main characters dead mother, i think that this shot should be included because it allows the audience to witness what he was like before he came a schizophrenic, also to show the main reason how he became a schizophrenic.

This shot is a extreme long shot and also a master shot, which is of a person walking past the main characters house and also of the main character looking outside his window whilst he writes about this person, i think this shot should be included because it allows the audience to see how he is a round others and also what he does when people walk past his house.

This shot is a high angle shot also an over the shoulder shot of the main character, writing in his book, i think that this shot is key for our thriller opening sequence, this is because this shots allows the audience to see what the main character does when he see's a person walk past also this shot shows the prop of the book were he keeps all his memories and also notes on the people that walk past our make contact with this character.

This is my first image of my two, this first image is of a note on a board, this is a extreme close up of the note showing the audience how the main character of the opening sequence writes about everything that happens outside his house this allows the audience to understand what the main character is like and what he does in his home. I wanted to have this shot because i thought that it allows the audience to see how this characters acts in the opening sequence and how they would judge him as a character.

This is my second image of the same board but the shot has been zoomed out so you can see the whole board filled with notes. I wanted this shot because it allows the audience to realize what the character is like and how over time he has filled up this board with all these notes which are filled with people's actions outside his house. I also choose this shot because the board filled with notes symbolizes how the main characters illness has built up other time like the board.

Plot Synopsis

Research Audience Vox Pops

At looking at my vox pops, for the first question, all the people that we asked said that their should be a murder weapon included, so this gives us the initial idea in that we should include a murder weapon in our opening sequence, this is because if we look at what the audience expects to see their would be no point going against that because the audience don't expect it.

For the second question, the people that were asked said that the pace should be slow to create tension then slowly build up for that extra effect. So for our opening sequence were going to have the pace be slow to start this allows the audience to see the location of the opening sequence and also to get that extra knowledge of the main character.

When asking people the third question, people said that the main antagonist should be a male, this is because their more superior to females also their shown as more smart and intelligent than, so by looking at the results this allows us to see that our antagonist for our thriller opening sequence should be a male because our audience suggests that their are stereotypically more stronger than females.

For the fourth question, we asked people how they should be feeling at the end of the sequence, most of the people that we asked said that they would be expecting to want to ask questions about the rest of the film and also they wanted to be left to wanting to know more about the film. Whilst looking at the feedback we discussed as a group to make our piece make the audience ask questions and making them wanting to know more.

The fifth question was that should an opening sequence contain action, most of the people that we asked said that in a thriller opening sequence, their shouldn't be a lot of action the opening sequence should unfold the plot for the rest of the film, but their should be some action to excite the audience. So for our thriller opening sequence were going to try and unravel the story for the audience, also try to include some action to excite the audience.     

Brain storm on ideas for a thriller

Audience Reseach 1

In This blog im going to be writing about my research for my opening sequence for a thriller.

This is my questionnaire which i will be giving 10 people to write and give back to me, I've choose these questions because i want a high range of answers also i want to know what my target audience wants so i can get more knowledge in how to make my opening sequence for the thriller genre better.  

 When I've collected the results i will put it into an excel document were i will put all my information together then present it into graphs like pie charts, bar charts and line graphs.

Audeince Research 2

This is my Excel document were i added all my feedback from my questionnaires. i used this feedback to create charts for the results to be stored in.

This pie chart represents the answers for the first question in the questionnaire. What is your gender? as you can see their was more boys than girls who we asked for this first question.

This is a bar chart which is representing the answers for the second question.What is your age? as you can see all the people we asked were in the age brackets of 16 to 24, this is because this is the target audience for my film?

This is a line graph which shows the third question of our questionnaire. What do you enjoy about thriller films? As you can see about the results most of the people we asked said that the thing that they enjoyed about thriller films is the build up, this gives us a more understanding in how we should base our thriller film?

This pie chart represents the answers for the fourth question. How often do you watch thriller films a month? By looking at these results we can see that the people we asked watch thriller films once to two times a month.

This is a bar chart of the results for the fifth question. What do you expect to see in an opening sequence for a thriller? By looking at the results we can see most of the people which we asked said that they expect to see low key lighting in a thriller film, so by looking at these results this helps us to understand what to include in a thriller opening sequence.

This line graph represents the results for the sixth question in the questionnaire. What location do you expect to see in a thriller? The results that we received show that the people that we asked choose the location to be a creepy building, this gives us the understanding in where it would be best to film our thriller opening sequence.

This bar chart shows the responses of the people who answered the question of, Who do you expect the main protagonist to be? The highest answer we received was white male this gives us the knowledge of who should be our main protagonist for our thriller opening.

This bar chart shows the feed back which received back from our eighth question  from our questionnaire. What do you think should be in a opening sequence for a thriller? by looking at the results we can see that all the results were equal this means that we could either ask more people our come together as a group and discuss what would be best for our sequence.

This chart shows the answers from question ninth question in the questionnaire. How do you expect the main protagonist to be behaving? if we look at the results we can see that people voted that they wanted the main protagonist to be serious this gives us the indication that our main protagonist should be serious.

This pie chart shows the feedback from the tenth question which is do you think an opening sequence is important? as you can see by the results most of the people answered yes this means that this gives us an idea in that most of the people that watch thrillers find the opening sequence important.

This is my first questionnaire were i had a person fill it out, if you look at the questionnaire the person who i asked thought hard about this because they gave me a good range of answers which i can use for my thriller opening.

This questionnaire shows a different range of answers from the first questionnaire for example in the first questionnaire for question 9 the first person they wrote the answer of normal and in the second questionnaire they wrote the answer of serious, this allows me to get a bigger range of answers to improve my opening sequence.

images of locations

In this image, it is a long shot of the back of the harvester on the A217, i took this picture because i thought it would be a good location for a thriller, this is because the location is concealed and closed of, only thing i have to criticize is that it's open so you cannot get low key lighting which gets a better effect in a opening sequence for a thriller. 

In this shot, it is also a long shot of a bench outside the harvester, i took this picture because i thought it would be a good location for a romantic comedy this is because it is outside a restaurant and this is where normally people socializing.   

This shot is an extreme long shot of the bridge, i took this picture because i thought it would be a good location for a thriller film this is because the location is concealed and dangerous because it is high up and below are driving cars, however this is a bright area so their would be high key lighting which isn't a convention of a thriller.

This is a extreme long shot of an alley, i took this image because it is an concealed location for a thriller, this is because the lighting would be quite low at later at night also this is a good location for a crime our something were this danger could take place.

This is an long shot of an alley surrounded by trees, i took this shot because i thought it would be the perfect location for a romantic film this is because the location is bright and romantic for a couple to walk down.

This is a long shot of a roundabout this is a good location for a thriller this is because if the character was on the roundabout they would be vulnerable to a threat, this is why i took the image because i thought the location is good for the opening sequence for a thriller film.

Conventions of your chosen genre( Thriller)

In a opening sequence of a thriller, there are many conventions that make an effective piece, in this blog im going to be writing examples of some conventions then giving some examples of why these conventions make an effective opening sequence for a thriller.

Low Key Lighting
In this clip we can see that there is low key lighting this is a convention of a opening sequence because it creates a more darker atmosphere which will leave the audience feeling tense because if you look at the connotations of the color black it's mostly negative.














In this clip low key lighting is used in a similar way to the sixth sense, this is because the low key lighting is foreshadowing whats going to happen this is because we can see the blood and the bullet and also it shows us the dead body and if we look at the connotations of the color black, we could use the example of death to link in with the low key lighting.








Close ups

In this video we can see four close ups, this is an effective convention of a thriller opening sequence this is because it's only giving hints of information to the audience this creates an effect on the audience making them feel tense and not normal.










This is another example of close ups used in the same clip of se7en, these close ups of the man cutting the skin of his fingers creates an effect on the audience because it's not showing the audience more information about this person it's only allowing the audience to see his hands, this leaves the audience asking questions, who is he? why is he doing that to his hands?








Dis-equilibrium

In this video dis-equilibrium is used in the opening sequence of brick, this is a convention of a thriller genre because it gives the audience a hint of that something bad has happened, this keeps the audience entertained because they want to know how the problem is resolved.

In the opening sequence of Memento, the convention of dis-equilibrium is used to make the audience understand that something bad has happened i this scene also it makes the audience ask questions for example, What has happened to this man? is this man key in the story?










Props

In this video we can see the props from the thriller memento, these props are a convention of a thriller because it makes the audience ask questions for example, who owns the glasses? was the bullet used?












In this video we can see some more props which are used in the thriller memento this shows that these props are conventional and not a one off this is because more than one set of props have been shown to create an effect.

Sin City(USA, 2005, Miller, Rodriques)

Se7en (Fincher, 22 September 1995, US)

In the opening sequence of Se7en it uses the 4 elements to create an effect on the viewer, in this blog im going to be discussing all four of these elements and how they create an effect on the audience.

Mise en scene:


In this video we can see a shot of a pair of hands this creates an effect because the hands look disfigured and unnatural this makes the audeince feel tense because this could be foreshadowing the film.

 

This is a shot of a drawing of a child who has had his eyes drawn out, this creates an effect on the audience because it's making them ask questions about the film, who is this child? was he a victim?

Cinematography:

In the extreme close up we can two pictures of people that have also had their eyes been drawn out, also it has a piece of paper with what looks like to be hair this creates an effect that it's making the audience ask question in that who are these people? and does this hair belong to one of these people?

This is a extreme close up of a man cutting of the skin on his fingers, this creates an effect on the audience, because it makes them feel strange and tense because this man's actions are not normal, this could lead to the audience asking questions about this man, who is he? why is he doing that?

Editing:

If you look at this video it is a piece of montage editing, this creates meaning for the audience because it shows that this person who is in the intro has been doing this for a long time, this makes the audeince feel nervous and tense because it shows that this person in the intro isn't in the right state of mind. 







 


If you watch this video we can see some fast paced editing, this creates an effect on the audience because it shows that there's a threat to the protagonists and that the person in the clip is dangerous.





















Sound:

If you watch the video listen to the soundtrack which is getting played, this creates an effect on the audience because the sound track is not normal and sinister this makes the audience feel tense and disorientated because the soundtrack isn't normal.











If you listen to the soundtrack in this clip, you can hear a searching noise, this creates an effect on the audience in that it makes them feel disorientated because it sounds a bit like a scream this could lead them to ask questions about could this be a victim?