Part 1 and 2

Part 1-The brief

We were asked to make an opening of a thriller. It had a time limit of two minutes long and had to include typical thriller conventions. We came up with the title Open Verdict. We first researched in the titles and what sort of titles we thought would fit in well with our narrative.

The title open verdict fits in very well with the story and the all the shots being set in just the one bedroom like a crime scene.Open verdict gives and indication of the narrative.Our thriller is based on a Romeo and Juliet love story.Both characters were madly in love and happy together at one point in there life however everything changed which left them in a state of death.The character Mark who rings the phone has a big part in why they are left like this.

The narrative has a twist at the end as the female character is thought to be dead throughout however wakes up at the end This creates suspense and tension of the audience as well as unexpectedness. We didn’t want a title to be obvious about a relationship e.g sometimes referring to love or an end. Our opening thriller we came up with ideas of what the narrative would be about e.g what kind of story a stalker, romance, horror and what kind of sub genre would fit well and if anyone was doing the same. both we choice to go with our final idea. http://sgsasmediacw.blogspot.com/2010/02/glogster-ideas-for-opening.html,.oNCE

After we decided with our narrative we wrote it up as a treatment..http://sgsasmediacw.blogspot.com/2010/02/treatment-guide.html The sub genre we choose was romance/ psychological thriller. We wanted to incorporate romance and psychological together as we thought it would work well in showing a contrast.The voice over made it clear how the characters relationships changed and blending the two together showing a different kind of thriller.We

Part 2 –Audience for product

We researched who we wanted for our target audience by doing a questionnaire on survey monkey to find out about thrillers what sort of thrillers people liked,sub genres, there lifestyle and Hobbies.After we gathered the results we reed them through thoroughly and from this decided who our target audience would be and what kind of ages and people we would be focusing on.

The target audience we were aiming at were of the ages between 18-35 as the themes are for a more mature audience.We picked the age group of 13-35 as the themes would appeal more to a older audience and watching changes in a couples relationship.An older audience is more likely to pick up the psychological themes of the characters and asking questions into how they got to that stage. We wanted to aim it at both men and women as they can both relate to he narrative.We also wanted to aim it at both middle and working class people as well as people who are interested in such hobbies as drama,film clubs and enjoy the thriller genre.The questionnaires that we used for research helped us a lot in finding out what kind of people were interested in the thriller genre of films and the kind of thrillers they have seen as it was vital for us to know what kind of thriller we would focus e.g the sub genre.

The idea of Film Noir came from the way we decided to shoot it e.g in one room.This has been similar camera techniques to film Noir style and we thought it would be original and different from the other groups.We thought the audience would find this different and appealing as it doesn't fit with typical interpretations of thrillers e.g blood,violence,fast paced camera work and editing.

From the survey we did we most of our target audience were students.In our film we used students so that the audience can relate to the characters.We found that most of our target audience had seen the dark night .There is a love story embedded within this which we used as part of our plot. From the questions e asked we found that our target audience liked the mystery creative within the narrative of the thriller.Therefore in my filming we used mystery by using dark lighting, extreme closeup ups and still shots. Overall the survey helped us to focus on a particular plot and took into account what our target audience liked and disliked about thriller and how we could created a thriller which appeal to our target audience.