A new ride 'Thirteen' has just opened at Alton Towers this March. The advert has really appealed to us as it is creepy and jumpy. We had a good idea to use the same background music. It is a slow, droning, and eerie. The fact that the voice is one of a girls makes it more effective and almost scary. The lyrics are from the children's rhyme 'Teddybears Picnic'. The original rhyme is about going down to the woods for a picnic, but it is twisted for a terrifying effect. This would work especially as our location is in the woods.
Below is the clip of the advert.
By Roberta Leary
Sunday 28 March 2010
Choosing a name for our film
We looked into other films from the same genre, their titles are very quick and captivating. Titles such as 'The Strangers' and 'The Ring'. 'Saw' is another very good example. The title does not mean anything until you watch the film. We needed a title that would draw in our particular audience.
Here are some of our ideas:
Slit
Left
The Woods
Alone
By Roberta Leary
Here are some of our ideas:
Slit
Left
The Woods
Alone
By Roberta Leary
Diary of both days filming
When filming on the first day we did not plan effectively and had to make a small change to some of the costume we had decided on before. This was a small blip that we adapted to instantly.
The next time we filmed went smoothly and we managed to get most of it done quickly. Part of our filming had to be filmed from across the road. The road was not a main road, and mainly quiet but when filming various times cars passed and blocked our view. This made it almost impossible to get the perfect shot, but we found it in the end after countless tries.
We had to use a weapon as a prop as our film is about a murder. We thought about using a fake gun or a baseball bat, but in the end we all decided on the stabbing of our victim and we had to use a knife. Our location was very quiet and we believed that no one would walk too far into the woods. A lady and her dog passed as we were filming and we hid the knife immediately and reassured the lady of what we were doing. After this we made sure we kept a look out for any other ‘passers by’ as this could of caused false panic if people were not aware of what we was doing and jumped to the wrong conclusion.
By Georgia Day
The next time we filmed went smoothly and we managed to get most of it done quickly. Part of our filming had to be filmed from across the road. The road was not a main road, and mainly quiet but when filming various times cars passed and blocked our view. This made it almost impossible to get the perfect shot, but we found it in the end after countless tries.
We had to use a weapon as a prop as our film is about a murder. We thought about using a fake gun or a baseball bat, but in the end we all decided on the stabbing of our victim and we had to use a knife. Our location was very quiet and we believed that no one would walk too far into the woods. A lady and her dog passed as we were filming and we hid the knife immediately and reassured the lady of what we were doing. After this we made sure we kept a look out for any other ‘passers by’ as this could of caused false panic if people were not aware of what we was doing and jumped to the wrong conclusion.
By Georgia Day
Shooting Schedule
DATE: 23/03/10
LOCATION: Public footpath entering the woods, running along Oliver Road.
TIME: We decided to film from 12.20pm right the way through lunchtime and continued through our two hour Media Studies lesson in periods four and five and finished filming around 3.45pm.
SCENE FILMED: The victim being followed by the stalker
SHOTS: ‘Over the shoulder’, we filmed from behind trees and jolted the camera. For this effect we did not use the tripod and instead handheld the camera. The point of this was to create the effect that someone was watching the girl as she walked on her way to school. We featured one scene when the girl was on her telephone talking to her mother; this helped us give added information without telling the story.
ACTOR: Georgia Day (as the victim)
CAMERA WORK: Maria Rostkowska and Roberta Leary
PROPS NEEDED: Smart dress and costume
DATE: 26/03/10
LOCATION: In the woods
TIME: From 9.00am until 11.30am
SCENE FILMED: The stalker continues to follow its victim, creeps up to her and stabs her. We also filmed the opening scene of the girl, dead on the woods floor.
SHOTS: Quick cuts, over the shoulder
ACTORS: Georgia Day and Roberta Leary
CAMERA WORK: Maria Rostkowska
PROPS: Make-up, paint (blood effect), black hoodie, knife, bin liners, costume
Other shots left to film:
The continuity editing- the girl is getting ready for school and her stalker is preparing to murder her. This will be filmed inside a house. We need to produce pictures of Georgia in different places and with her doing all different things. This will be an effort to make it look like the stalker has been taking these pictures and has put them all over the wall. We established this idea from the SAW films. All these films feature stalking material, and we based our ideas on this.
By Roberta Leary
LOCATION: Public footpath entering the woods, running along Oliver Road.
TIME: We decided to film from 12.20pm right the way through lunchtime and continued through our two hour Media Studies lesson in periods four and five and finished filming around 3.45pm.
SCENE FILMED: The victim being followed by the stalker
SHOTS: ‘Over the shoulder’, we filmed from behind trees and jolted the camera. For this effect we did not use the tripod and instead handheld the camera. The point of this was to create the effect that someone was watching the girl as she walked on her way to school. We featured one scene when the girl was on her telephone talking to her mother; this helped us give added information without telling the story.
ACTOR: Georgia Day (as the victim)
CAMERA WORK: Maria Rostkowska and Roberta Leary
PROPS NEEDED: Smart dress and costume
DATE: 26/03/10
LOCATION: In the woods
TIME: From 9.00am until 11.30am
SCENE FILMED: The stalker continues to follow its victim, creeps up to her and stabs her. We also filmed the opening scene of the girl, dead on the woods floor.
SHOTS: Quick cuts, over the shoulder
ACTORS: Georgia Day and Roberta Leary
CAMERA WORK: Maria Rostkowska
PROPS: Make-up, paint (blood effect), black hoodie, knife, bin liners, costume
Other shots left to film:
The continuity editing- the girl is getting ready for school and her stalker is preparing to murder her. This will be filmed inside a house. We need to produce pictures of Georgia in different places and with her doing all different things. This will be an effort to make it look like the stalker has been taking these pictures and has put them all over the wall. We established this idea from the SAW films. All these films feature stalking material, and we based our ideas on this.
By Roberta Leary
Thursday 25 March 2010
Research questionnaire
1. What genre of film do you usually watch or enjoy?
• Thriller
• Comedy
• Romance
• Horror
2. If a new exciting thriller was just released, would you take the time to see it in the cinema or would you wait until the DVD release?
• Cinema
• DVD
3. Which of the following sub-genres or hybrids would you enjoy watching?
• Psychological thriller
• Horror thriller
• Action thriller
• Crime thriller
• Drama thriller
4. What aspects do you expect when watching a thriller film?
• Jumpy scenes
• Car chases
• Murders
• Fast paced action
• Gore
5. When watching a thriller film, how does it make you feel?
• Anxious
• Jumpy
• Scared
• Excited
• ‘On the edge of your seat’
• Heart racing
6. When it comes to the end of the film, which ending do you prefer?
• Cliff-hanger
• Happy ending
• It was all a dream
• The main character dies
7. What conventions do you expect from a typical thriller movie?
• Eerie dark scenes
• Creepy music
• Scary plots
• Police chases
• Loud jumpy diegetic sounds
8. Which particular settings do you expect a thriller to take place?
• A city
• The countryside
• Suburbs
• Warehouses
• Woods
• Deserted houses
9. Characters in a thriller include…
• Detectives
• Police
• The murderer
• The murdered
• Criminals
• Stalkers
10. What is your favourite thriller film?
We will distribute the questionnaire to classmates, friends and family members. This will give us a vast age range, therefore a different range of answers.
By Roberta Leary
• Thriller
• Comedy
• Romance
• Horror
2. If a new exciting thriller was just released, would you take the time to see it in the cinema or would you wait until the DVD release?
• Cinema
• DVD
3. Which of the following sub-genres or hybrids would you enjoy watching?
• Psychological thriller
• Horror thriller
• Action thriller
• Crime thriller
• Drama thriller
4. What aspects do you expect when watching a thriller film?
• Jumpy scenes
• Car chases
• Murders
• Fast paced action
• Gore
5. When watching a thriller film, how does it make you feel?
• Anxious
• Jumpy
• Scared
• Excited
• ‘On the edge of your seat’
• Heart racing
6. When it comes to the end of the film, which ending do you prefer?
• Cliff-hanger
• Happy ending
• It was all a dream
• The main character dies
7. What conventions do you expect from a typical thriller movie?
• Eerie dark scenes
• Creepy music
• Scary plots
• Police chases
• Loud jumpy diegetic sounds
8. Which particular settings do you expect a thriller to take place?
• A city
• The countryside
• Suburbs
• Warehouses
• Woods
• Deserted houses
9. Characters in a thriller include…
• Detectives
• Police
• The murderer
• The murdered
• Criminals
• Stalkers
10. What is your favourite thriller film?
We will distribute the questionnaire to classmates, friends and family members. This will give us a vast age range, therefore a different range of answers.
By Roberta Leary
Friday 19 March 2010
Thursday 18 March 2010
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Target Audience
Demographics & Psychographics
When planning the opening to our thriller we had to think about the demographics that would affect the scenes. We had to think particularly about what kind of person we would aim the film at.
The age group would be the 16 to 24 year olds. Teenagers and young adults usually visit the cinemas and are interested in films of the thriller genre. Thrillers are often exciting and make you jump with a real adrenalin rush, this appeals to a younger audience of 16 to 24 year olds. Films of this genre are particularly popular in cinemas as the viewers want the full experience, but are just as popular or maybe even more so to be bought and viewed as a DVD to watch in the conformability of their own homes.
In terms of socio-economic classification our target would be mainly B and C1. This covers middle and lower middle class bands. The majority of cinema goers fall into these categories.
In terms of psychographics, we would expect our main audience to be either strivers or traditionalists. However this is not excluding groups of people from different categories.
Our film would mainly be aimed towards a female audience, they could relate back to the footage of feeling vulnerable and alone. The film would also be viewed by a vast male audience as figures show that more males watch and purchase thriller films.
The cinema release of our film will be rated as a fifteen. We would have to take out some of the more gory scenes and some violence and swearing. The DVD release of the film would be rated as an 18 and will include all of the filming. This way a broader age range of people can watch the film before it is released on DVD.
We had to study the psychographic variables and we came up with the idea that people from a working class background would go to see our film in the cinema or purchase it. People from a higher class background would be older and our film is aimed at a younger target audience group from a working class background or middle class.
By Roberta Leary & Maria Rostkowska
When planning the opening to our thriller we had to think about the demographics that would affect the scenes. We had to think particularly about what kind of person we would aim the film at.
The age group would be the 16 to 24 year olds. Teenagers and young adults usually visit the cinemas and are interested in films of the thriller genre. Thrillers are often exciting and make you jump with a real adrenalin rush, this appeals to a younger audience of 16 to 24 year olds. Films of this genre are particularly popular in cinemas as the viewers want the full experience, but are just as popular or maybe even more so to be bought and viewed as a DVD to watch in the conformability of their own homes.
In terms of socio-economic classification our target would be mainly B and C1. This covers middle and lower middle class bands. The majority of cinema goers fall into these categories.
In terms of psychographics, we would expect our main audience to be either strivers or traditionalists. However this is not excluding groups of people from different categories.
Our film would mainly be aimed towards a female audience, they could relate back to the footage of feeling vulnerable and alone. The film would also be viewed by a vast male audience as figures show that more males watch and purchase thriller films.
The cinema release of our film will be rated as a fifteen. We would have to take out some of the more gory scenes and some violence and swearing. The DVD release of the film would be rated as an 18 and will include all of the filming. This way a broader age range of people can watch the film before it is released on DVD.
We had to study the psychographic variables and we came up with the idea that people from a working class background would go to see our film in the cinema or purchase it. People from a higher class background would be older and our film is aimed at a younger target audience group from a working class background or middle class.
By Roberta Leary & Maria Rostkowska
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