My Thriller Opening

Progression; Preliminary task > Fully finished production

From making our preliminary task and our fully finished production I feel I have made a massive progression. After completing my preliminary task, I felt confident with the equipment and ready to produce the final project.
Overall I thought we improved, from using the equipment to our technical ability to producing a short opening with a variety of shots.
Now looking back on my project I am very happy with the end result. It looks like how I could see it in my head while planning. I know it could be better with more professional equipment. My opening fits conventions of a thriller. We took a different look on a thriller, instead of action or tension or scary moments, we created questions and a plot that could be taken further. We took a realistic plot and with different shots were able to create confusion and give our audience an end result.

Target Audience

Our target audience is of both genders from the ages of 15 to early 30’s.
We chose this particular audience as it is one we can relate to well. These ages probably hold the biggest audience for those who actually watch thrillers in general.
Our production represents the same social groups and age range as our target audience. We hope that our audience will be able to reflect and relate to the issues we show.
Our thriller shows the story of four young girls going missing. We aim to scare and raise issues among the target audience that highlight real life threats.

Our thriller would have a 15 certificate. The 15 certificate allows the following ;

• Frequent use of strong language
• Sexual activity and nudity may be portrayed but without strong detail
• Violence may be strong
• Drug taking may be shown
  

However the certificate finds it unacceptable to show detailed causing of pain or injury. The film must not either encourage or promote drug use. This age certificate and its terms allows you to produce a thriller films with out having to consider the issues that may disturb a younger age

Scripting

Here are the scripts for our three voice overs;

1. Female voice over recorded by Ellie Dawson;

- Have you found her yet?
- Where is she?
- Is she ok?

2. CID Officer voice over recorded by Mr Johnson;

- Good morning, this is a statment from hertfordshire police on the 23rd january 2010, from myself cheif investigator Mr Johnson. Firstly i would like to thank the family of Megan Baker and my fellow police officers in this on going investigation. Megan Baker went missing on the 17th January 2010. Police have been continuously investigating the dissapearence, We are aware of the 3 other girls that have gone missing and at this moment in time we do think they are connected. Megan Baker was a 17 year old girl studying at Hitchin Girls School. Megan was 5'5 with mid length straight hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing jeans and a black coat walkinf down Nightingale road. So far we have found Megan's phone in the search and know that on the morning of her dissapearence she was on here way to meet, who we assume to be a boyfriend, with the name Rob. We urge any members of the public with information relating to Megan's whereabouts to contact a member of my team at the earliest opportunity.

3. Male voice over recorded by Sam Bysouth;

- Meg, where are you?
- I thought we were going through with this
- Have you backed out?
(sigh)
- Just ring me, im worried.

Title

For our thriller we decided on '17/MISSING' as a title. We loved this as it mixed two aspects of our thriller, the fact our main character along with three others went missing and also the fact they all went missing on the 17th of consecutive months.


For title ideas we had :



Final Title idea;


We decided on this title as we thought it presented the two meanings of our title well. The other two ideas were more likely to convey that there was 17 people missing. We chose white and red to clearly stand out on a blacked out screen. We chose a transition that split the title in two with the colour split. This title appears at the end of our two opening minutes, therefore the audience are able to clearly relate it to the plot of the film.

Final Story Board

Changes to Shooting Schedule

Click on the image below to see the changes made to our shooting schedule;