audience research

To help with the opening of our thriller our group went to the streets, our friends and our families to gain information from the general public to help us find out what people like about thriller films/ We made sure the results where fair and asked 20 females with 10 being over 20 and the other 10 being under 20, we did the same for the males and these are the results.


1) What is your favourite thriller?


It was hard to get an answer for this one as most people didn't really know the full meaning of the term thriller. However films such as Reservoir dogs, Kill Bill and Snakes on a plane scored highly for the males showing they prefer the more gritty action thrillers however the females also went for Kill Bill, Bourne identity and Seven, this shows the variety of audience a thriller has and therefore when making our thriller it needs to be able to appeal to males and females.





2) What do you enjoy most about thriller films?















Using this information gathered we thought an action film would be most popular with our audience. we added voilence to our thriller film with a fighting scene and added suspence by raising questions and keeping mystery about the characters.



3) Do you prefer a male lead role or Female?















although the public wanted a male main role we decided to break stereotypes but with every other actor on screen a male apart our femme fatel we still included thier opinions

4) Do you look for Ambiguity in a thriller film or a more give-away plot line?













we decided to use this information in making our film full of ambiguity so as not to spoil the storyline as it was strongly popular within the male and female audience.




5) Do you prefer Modern day thrillers or the more classic thrillers?












with our thriller aimed at men we decided to go with a modern day themed classic in order to gain as wider audience and this also allowed us to have more fun using modern locations and costumes.




6) Do you like thrillers to be in colour or black and white?
















with these results we shot our film all in colour.



7) Where do you prefer to watch thriller films?

















8) What is your preferred length of a thriller film?

Planning

we needed a suspence buliding introduction of a scene that goes well with the setting of our scene.

The music we think sounds best for this is Portishead Wandering Star.
The album Dummy in which this song was taken from also included the single "Glory box", which has been used in films such as The Craft. It has also been used in television dramas and such as Skins.

we are hoping to extend the beginning beats to prolong the tension for our scene and feel this also sounds like a heart beating which is relevent for our film

Story board!

Shot
1:Lighting: Noir, ambient coming from slit from outside
Shot: Close up
Sound: Non-diagetic: Portishead wandering star Diagetic: His breathing to let audience know there's someone in there.

2:Lighting; Ambient from outside
Shot: Extreme close up of heels
Sound: Non-diagetic: opening of Potrishead Wandering Star to go with her footsteps creating a pulse

3:Lighting: Noir, Ambient through gap from outside as shadow blocks the original light so we know there is someone outside through seeing the siloutte
Shot: Extra long shot, his perspective in the crate
Sound: Diagetic; his breathing increases and sounds of the woman outside opening the crate.

4:Lighting: Ambient
Shot; Extreme close up of her mouth smoking
Sound: Diagetic, emphasis on the sounds of her smoking

5:Lighting: Noir, Ambient as the light shows onto his face
Shot: close up of his face, his eyes adjusting to the light
Sound: Diagetic of his mumblings as we see his panic increase

6:Lighting: Ambient from outside as the sun shines on her ,highlighting her as a main character.
Shot: Long shot, first time shown in full profile.
Sound: Diagetic as she says the only piece of dialogue, which needs to be ironic to a thriller film.

7:Lighting: AmbientShot: Longshot showing two of Monika's men appearing beside her
Shot: medium shot
Sound: Non- Diagtic music begins as before to set up the pulse and fear.

8:Lighting: Ambient shot from outside
Shot: Medium Close up, Femme fatale looking away
Sound: Non-diagetic sounds of the man being beaten up Diagetic of Portishead Wandering Star.

9:Lighting: Ambient
Shot: Medium shot her returning with an object found in the crate.
Sound: Non- diagetic: sound of the man groaning on the ground and the men still beating him Diagetic: Portishead wandering star.

10:Lighting: Ambient
Shot: Medium Close up of her standing over the body walking away, while dropping her cigarette into his blood
Sound: Non-diagetic: her sighing and walking away, diagetic: Portishead Wandering starShot

11:Lighting; Ambient
Shot: Longshot looking in on her as she gets into the car
Sound: Non-diagetic: sounds of her walking and opening the car door. diagetic: Portishead Wandering star

12:Lighting: Ambient
Shot: Close up of back of her head as we see whats going on in the mirror of the action behind her.
Sound: Non-diagetic: car engine diagetic: Portishead Wandering star

PICTURES!

PHOTOGRAPHS!

These are our location images.
Our location is based outside Hewett grounds and is a gloomy unglamorous site perfect for filming our thriller in.
We like the idea of the puddle being used as a reflection so we did not have to directly look at the violence going on in the film; we also thought blood filling this puddle would look good for our thriller.
Our group is going to use the storage crates as a place where one of our characters is held hostage. We will use both the inside and outside of the crates as well as around them. We chose this location as it was accessible and unglamorous.
The crate gave us an idea for the beginning of our thriller and seemed like the perfect place to start shooting.

Characters, summarys and brief back stories

Monika Quiero- Our femme fatal, a skinny brunette, around 5.8" , 28 years old. Born and raised in Turkey for 8 years, bought up in England after that, seeks revenge for murdered father and seeks safety for her mother. Training herself over the years in combat and fitness she was always ready to come face to face with the reasons for her father’s death.

Costume and prop ideas

Michael and paul
Monkia's right hand men- Michael and Paul once working on a building site met Monika as a child, and watched her grow up practising swinging from the scaffolding and dented walls with punches, they protected her from danger they grew close. Monika accepted her new brotherly figures with open arms. They assist in Monika’s deeds when she doesn’t want to get her hands dirty. Passionate but intimidated by Monika they stick by her through all the dirty work, Especially after she promises to share her good fortune and protection with them.
Costume and prop ideas

Un-named caught drug mule- roughy looknig and scruffily dressesd this guy is caught my Monika and her men and is soon killed with little dignity.

costume and prop ideas

our thriller summary!

SUMMARY OF PLOT;
Monika seeks revenge on an old family friend who is after her money. He sends his men one by one to kill her, all failing until eventually he has to do the job himself. In our opening we see one of his first men sent in to kill Monika fail at his job creating the beginning of our thriller adventure.


BACKGROUND STORY
Our story is about Monika Quiero, a 28 year old lady from Turkey. Monika was bought up by her mother and father (Norman and Penelope Quiero) in turkey, When Monika was a child her father was big named drug business partners with Mr Suri who also had a son Monika’s age, Ali. One day Mr Quiero is mysteriously killed. Mr Suri has always been a suspect but no proof was ever recovered. Fleeing in fear from Turkey and their home town Penelope take Monika to England to start again. Penelope also takes however 70% of the business money from Mr Suri believing that this money is compensation of this dreadful deed of her husbands death and in revenge as she is also amongst the suspicious of Mr Suri part in her husbands murder.

18 years later Mr Suri is found dead. Ali is trying to resurrect his father's name by carrying on his bankrupting drugs business. he however struggling decides its time to take revenge on the Quiero's. Leaving turkey this youthful gangster starts his chase to kill his childhood friend and retrieve what he believes was always rightfully his. Starting in England along with his hench-men and drug mules he searches the country far and wide for prize.

But Ali is missing something, he has not seen Monika for 18 years, Monika however has been following Ali in these 18 yrs and has been preparing herself for his 'surprise' visit in all of this time developing into a strong female determined to protect what is rightfully her mothers and her own.

Monika is prepared for what ever Ali throws her way and slowly kills off Ali's drug mules and hench men using sex, drugs and manipulation until it's time for her to come face to face with Ali, starting with his most feeble of his hench-men found in a crate....

QUESTIONNAIRE

In our group we wrote out a questionnaire and went and asked 40 members of the public to fill them out, (we aimed for 10 over and 10 under 20 yr old males and 10 over and 10 under 20 yr old females.)

feel free to copy and paste and fill it out as a comment! your audience review would be greatly appreciated!

Media studies thriller Questionnaire!


1) What is your age?
15-19
20-25
26-30
30+

2)Are you male or female?
Female
Male

3) Which thriller film do you enjoy the most?…………………………………

4) What do you enjoy most about thriller films?
- Gangsta
- Violence
- Storyline
- Action
- Suspense

5) Do you prefer to watch a male lead role or female lead role in a film?
Male lead
Female lead
Dont Mind

6) Do you enjoy ambiguity or a give away plot line? E.g psycho where you don’t find out until the end who the killer is or Kill Bill bit more giveaway.…………………………………

7) Do you prefer classic or modern day thrillers if so why?Modern day Classic Dont MindWhy? …………………………………

8) Do you like films in colour or films in black and white?
Colour
Black and White
Dont Mind

9) Where do You most like to watch thriller films?…………………………………

10) What’s your preferred length of a film?
60-90min
90-120min
120+