Weather check: Group Blog

We will be filming Monday the 19th of December and Wednesday the 21st of December.
We will be filming at two different locations, in Connie's Nan's bathroom and in public toilets in Dartford, here is the weather check for both days.

There is a chance of raining and even a thunderstorm on Wednesday, however we will be inside for most of the day at Connie's nan's house, so it would be as much of a problem, however we will be in Dartford, outside for most of the day on the Wednesday, therefore we need to be careful as we will have expensive equipment and we need to ensure our shots are in continuity.

Call Sheet

Here is the call sheet I have composed in order to have the phone numbers of the cast and crew.

Vox Pops: Audience Expectations

Here is my finished video of Vox Pops, the questions in which were asked were the following:
1) How old are you? I chose to ask 15 to 25 year olds as from researching thriller audiences in class, I found out the majority of people who watch thrillers fit this age range.

2) What are you expectations of a thriller film?
3) What is your favourite thriller film?

From my findings I found that most of the people I asked expected a thriller to have mystery, suspense and an enticing storyline. Plus, the majority preferred newer thriller films, which I believe is down to the updated, modern storylines and effects on the films.

Vox Pop: Planning

Tomorrow I plan to interview people between the ages of 15 to 25 as that is the target audience of my group's thriller. I shall be filming my interviews tomorrow between 12.15 until 2.15 in order to get a varied sample of answers. I am aiming to interview at least 5 people of varied ages for this.

Group Work - Reservoir Dogs

Here is a commentary I have done about how I edited Reservoir Dogs

Mood Board: Planning: For a Suspense Productions Thriller

Here is the mood board myself and Frankie have composed in order to see the aspects that will be incorporated in our film. In this storyboard the presence of female characters is very prominent therefore our film will appeal to a female audience. Also, the females in our film will be in their mid 20s therefore the film will appeal to young adults and teenagers as the plot includes problems teenagers and older people may face, our target audience is 15 - 25 year olds primarily. We have incorporated genre conventions in our film, such as guns, murder, blood and hostage, we believe that this will make our thriller as convincing as it can be. Also, we have included the gun and drugs in our mood board due to the fact, this is a key convention of the thriller genre.  From this mood board you can gain the idea that our thriller will fit into the sub-genre of ' psychological' as one of the key characters is mentally disturbed and another is a transgender girl, plus the plot is very complicated and due to it being psychological, the audience will need to be engaged. 

Brainstorm: Redundancy

As a group we were given these scenarios to choose from individually, so that we could each produce a brainstorm for a thriller of our own. In total our group should have 4 brainstorms, one for each member.

Here is my brainstorm, I chose to take homage to Taxi Driver and Se7en, as my thriller is a psychological thriller called 'Redundancy'. 

The reasons I chose Taxi Driver as I felt it has a very enticing storyline and the whole concept of being trusted when you are a taxi driver by your customer, made me think that this would be an ideal character for my thriller. Plus, the audience would expect the taxi driver to be trustworthy at first and would be surprised when he turns out to be the murderer of the film. I also chose Se7en as the murders in Se7en are very different to each other and yet they all have something in common, for instance, like John Doe, Luke Corseno is mentally unstable and even though they both give off the impression that they are sane, it is a front.

From this task, I found it easier to understand why the directors of thriller films included certain characters, props and the idea for their film a lot more clearer, as when thinking about the different aspects I wanted to incorporate in my film, I wanted to ensure that the plot would be enticing to the audience, that the story would conclude well and that it was understood. In all, this task has helped me a lot to think about the many different types of thrillers, the genre conventions and why they are used.