Everyday character, murderer ideas (made with mindmeister)

Chart to show Thriller viewers age ranges

From this information we decided that an audience of 14-17 age range along with possibly also an audience broaching into 18-24 would provide a fairly niche audience which would be a good basis to aim for as my thriller will be a fairly low budget production with a specific target audience.

The powerpoint that was used to help with our presentation to our media class

 

Real life version of storyboards

Props & costume

Tomorrow I will be going to the drama department at our school to ask about borrowing a prop gun from them for when we actually begin production on our main task. Other props like the pick axe, chainsaw and axe are things I already own, however things like the torch and fake blood will need to be acquired. The torch will need to be fairly powerful as the camera will need to be able to pick up all the video in a wood with little light. This is something i discovered yesterday when trying to take a picture of the wood location that we were going to be using for our project, as the camera would not pick up anything even with a fairly good torch. Our timing will need to be really good to account for the change in daylight on the day of filming. A red source of lighting will also need to be obtained for in the kitchen scene, something that will help connote a sinister feeling in the kitchen of the murderers house. Finally old clothing will need to be acquired for the actor, something that can be torn up and covered in fake blood to symbolize his injury after the kitchen scene.

Conventions and sub genres of Thriller Films

Storyboards (transitions couldn't be changed so pausing the window is advisable for prolonged viewing of each slide)

Our company idea

       

Creation of animatic from storyboards

Yesterday we spent a lunch time up in a wood near our school taking pictures of the frames of our storyboards to later either turn into an animatic or presentation where we can greater develop what happens in each different shot. We have also chose our actor for the role of the victim and we were going to carry on creating the animatic on Wednesday, however our actor Declan Berry cannot make it as he has to go to a dentist appointment. It would have been nice to have him in all the frames of our animatic, but continuity isn't imperative as this is only a ruff idea of our final piece. We have also decided our locations and I will be taking pictures of them on Wednesday at the appropriate time of day for each. I will try to obtain the appropriate red lighting for the kitchen scene by then but this may not be possible. We will be scanning in our paper based storyboards shortly.