2. Audience Questionnaire for our Thriller Opening sequence of BLIND CORNER What was your reaction after watching our opening sequence? Do you feel that the actors we used were appropriate for our type of thriller? Was the setting that we used appropriate for a thriller? Give a reason why. What stereotypes do you feel that we portrayed in our opening sequence? Do you feel that this film is targeted at the correct target audience? (15+) What scenes in particular do you feel worked well? Do you feel that we built up tension and anticipation well during the opening sequence? Did you like the soundtrack and how do you think it contributed to our opening sequence? Did you like being left on a cliff-hanger, and did you feel that you needed to know what was going to happen next? Overall do think that opening sequence worked well, and would you want to watch the whole film after seeing the opening sequence? As you can see the questions that we asked are both open and closed . This was so that we could get a very clear understanding of what there thoughts were, and also it gave our audience a chance to write what they thought. We gave this out to our target audience and they filled it out for us whilst watching our opening sequence.
3. Audience Questionnaire Results We asked many people to come to our showing of our opening sequence and we managed to get 15 people to fill out our questionnaire. Here are the results of what they said.. Question 5: Question 1: ‘Creeped’ out, would be a good film, wanted to know what happened, scared, they didn’t want to go to the woods again!, fitted well with the conventions of a thriller, and thrilling. These results showed us what worked well within our opening sequence and what didn't. We also got an overview of how well we may have of fulfilled the task. It also gave us an idea of what an audience thought of the opening sequence. Question 6: Man in bushes, final scene with man in bushes, man standing at windows and man holding picture. Question 2: Question 7: All said yes. Question 3: Creepy, unpredictable, could have of been darker, sinister and shadowy, it was realistic, gave a feeling of no escape! Question 8: Built up tension, matched the characters and setting and dramatic. Question 9 and 10: All said yes. Question 4: See slide 5.
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5. This shot shows the start of the flashback scene which is a key concept in the thriller genre.
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7. Age : The age group represented in our thriller is late teens and early 20’s. This is represented by the slightly older man and the two girls.
8. Class : is represented in our thriller by using middle class girls and man, and you can tell this by the clothes they are wearing, and speech etc.
11. Teenagers This was a good result as they are the stereotypes that we had aimed to portray.
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14. It is similar to other thrillers that have involved a sense of confusion and action in the opening sequence e.g. the Usual Suspects and Psycho and they have done very well. Therefore again this is why I feel that it should be produced and distributed by a major Hollywood agency. The mise en scene/ visual style of our thriller is very animated and we would use quite a lot of CGI in it. Therefore we would also need a big Hollywood agency to help produce our film. 20th century fox would also therefore be a good choice and this is because they have strong links to CGI studios. But they are more for animated children’s films. Therefore we should need to use an agency that has produced thriller films and still has good links with CGI studios, such as Miramax Films, who helped produce The Usual Suspects.
23. It was not too big and heavy, therefore we could use it easily.
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25. The next day that we tried to film the camera broke. This was a big problem as it also broke our tape that had most of our footage on it. Therefore we had to send it to a technician to fix and we then had to wait for another camera to be available. We overcame this by getting another tape and waiting for another camera, then we rescheduled to another day. Equipment and Techniques: We managed to use tracking shots and others due to having the use of a tripod. But for the first half of our opening sequence you can see that we are not holding our camera steady and this is because there was not enough tripod for us to use on. But when we did use it, it enhanced our thriller as it made it look professional and it helped us achieve the conventions of a thriller well. Sourcing music from the internet: We knew that we had to find copyright free music and this was very hard to do. We had to use copyright free music as we did not have the rights to use music that was not copyright free. Eventually we found a website that we could use music from, and the music fitted amazingly well with our opening sequence. We were very pleased.
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27. Researching many other thriller films gave us a good idea of what we needed to include in our opening sequence.
28. It also helped us realise what shots we needed to capture to fit the thriller conventions.
30. The shooting schedule helped us lots as we knew what we were filming etc, this helped us as we managed to film our scenes smoothly. My confidence using the equipment definitely improved after the preliminary task as I knew how to use the camera and I could confidently use the camera and tripod to film scenes in our opening sequence. I also knew how to do many editing techniques when editing my main task . Overall I feel that our product has fulfilled the task. This is because we have made a believable opening, that looks professional and most importantly fits the conventions of a thriller . We have worked well together to meet all the needs of our opening sequence and therefore have made an opening sequence that people like, and want to carry on watching.
