Hi Mattie,

Please get in contact to let me know what is happening with your Thriller Evaluation. If you are having trouble converting and uploading to the blog please send me the Powerpoint file via email to hknott@brit.croydon.sch.uk. This will at least let me know that you have done the work.

Thanks,

Hannah

finished film

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Storyboard

production schedual

For our opening sequence we will need to film in four separate locations. The locations are a police interview room, Starbucks, the female characters alley to her house and the top of a hill in Croydon.

We will film the police interview room shots during school time as we can stay within the school site and find a basic room to convert into a police interview area. This is our best believable attempt of making a police interview room, because we do not know of any other buildings we can gain access too that contain suitable rooms or gain entry to a real police station. Therefore we will film these shots during our media lesson on Wednesday 2nd December. Luckily lighting in this scene is not an issue, because if there is a lack of sunlight in the room we can effortlessly turn a light switch on. Consequently we filmed as the sun was setting from about 2-4pm.

For the Starbucks shots we shall film these the same day we will film the scene of the boy on the hill. This will be beneficial to us because the whether conditions needed are roughly the same for both scenes so we do not need to make two trips. These conditions will need to preferably be not too wet. There also needs to be a fair amount of sunlight available as the scenes are to be shot during the day in the afternoon-ish late morning time. Subsequently we will film these shots on Friday 4th December, between 1-4pm.

For the last shot, of the boy and the girl walking down the alley way outside the girl's house, we need the conditions to be sun setting/dark so it gives the effect that the characters are going to the girl's house after a day out. For this location we shall use my own Nan's house. This is because this property is the house that most looks like the home for students or young persons to be living at that our group knows of. We shall film this Tuesday 7th December after school time between 3-6pm.

main target audience

Our thriller film is going to be a psychological thriller, following the story of a mentally ill young man. Our opening sequence is therefore aimed at mainly young women, late teenagers and especially young men. This film will also aim at older adults, but mainly younger people due to the main characters being involved are of the rough same age.

Men will be targeted more than women because the film will feature some violence throughout and this appeals more to men generally than it does to women. Also most of the characters included in this film will be male, therefore the film becomes quite a manly film.

prop list

the props we will be using are very basic and easy to come by.

interview room

in the interview room we will need and table and two to three chairs. this is to show that people we in here recently. We will also need a tape player to play the tape that will be hear over the top of our entire film, and we will also need a cup of water spilt over and a few papers, this is to show an interview has taken place.

the lookout point

at the lookout point the main prop we will need will be the box of matches. this is because the matches play a key role throughout the film, as the boys tick is lighting matches over and over again when he is nervous. also we will have him smoking as this gives the impression that he doesn't care about his health and he is not a good guy in the film.

the coffee shop

in the coffee shop we won't be using any shots, as we don't want to divert concentration from the main action of the two meeting and getting on with one another.

taking the girl home

again we won't use any props in this shot as we want to show the bond between the two of them growing and becoming stronger as she invites him into her house.