6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

As we got more practise I got better with the JVC my shots were much more accurate.

5. How did you address your audience?

Aspects of opening which appealed to audience :

Location - Opening was shot in a well known area which is quite recognisable to the aimed audience

Storyline - This happens in reality with people from the target age group so they'll be able to relate 

social networking sites used to promote our opening 

We occasionally posted images of our work and received likes from other Instagram and Twitter users of the target age

Summary of Comments Given for Rough Cut:

- "It's funny but long !" 

- " Cut down some shots"

- " Is this really psychological ?! "

Summary of Comments Given for Final: 

-  " The opening was overall good and really funny,  titles could have been a better font which fits in with the film alot more!" 

-  "I really enjoyed the opening some bits were really funny I couldn't stop laughing when Alan paused at the stairs it was really effective made me slightly curious and intrigued so yeah I think that worked really well!"

- '"OMG that was really funny I really liked the opening, you should have made titles bigger but other than that I really enjoyed it! And I would love to see the rest of the film. This was hilarious OMG it made me laugh so much !"

Question 1

Question 2

Representation is the act of representing or the state of being represented. The main social group that we have represented in our Thriller is young people, of ages 16 onwards and also, male and females.At the beginning of our thriller the characters aren't seen in a negative light but as it progresses and by the end we see the intentions of the male character the non diagetic sound changes and we see that he may be a bad character and at the end we are assured he is the 'bad guy' in this thriller.

Young people are stereotypically represented as troublesome, in gangs, ignorant, wild, unintelligent etc and the main characters in thrillers are usually older as they have experienced more in life and will be able to figure out some of the complex ideas in the film. Girls are usually presented as sweet, naive, innocent, fun whereas Boys are sporty and tough, bully's, always playing video games.

In our thriller the main character is a young adult male student  had a troubled past and as a result he has developed mental issues which he isnt aware of as he feels he's normal. In our thriller opening, there are no signs that the characters are good or bad, at the beginning. They are just two young normal people who are meeting to go out on a date. Although, when Joyce starts asking questions you get kinda suspicious of Alan, you begin to see that Alan might be the bad guy. Joyce fits the stereotype of young girls as she was naive enough to meet someone she met online alone at their house, without asking more questions. There have been many news stories and documentary's about online stalkers, people who have manipulated people online, and. Alan doesn't really fit the usual stereotype of teenage boys, he is a lot more mature, wearing a suit and isn't doing the usual stuff that teenage boys do, in this opening, as he is a bit weirder. In this thriller girls are presented in a much more positive light than. Alan the male character is presented in the stereotypical way but more dangerous, so thus presented in a negative way.

Question 3

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Question 4

Thrillers

Statistics show that the most popular age bracket for thrillers is 16-24 which would be appropriate as they usually involve complicated plots which may not be understandable or appealing to a younger audience as they'll find it harder to work out what is going on and issues being addressed in the film they may not have had much experience in so it'll seem alien to them. This is also why I think that the age rating for majority of thrillers is 15 or above. The thriller genre has many sub-genres and this can dictate their target audience for example 'Black Swan' would attract more women because its dance aspect but the Bourne. movies will be more appealing to men as most action thrillers are.

Psychological Thriller

This is our chosen thriller sub genre and the reason we chose it was because we found that

the thrillers we enjoyed the most, as a group, were psychological thrillers. I suspect the audience for psychological thrillers will be an older audience as they force you to conceptualise, to deduce, to get confused, all the while taking you to a place not only frightening, but close to real life and as said before younger audience will find it harder to grasp than older audiences. Although, our target audience is younger the usual psychological thriller age profile.

Box Plot

Our Target Audience was ages 16-25 and we chose these age group as we thought our plot would be more relatable. In our thriller we explore the negative side to social networking as the characters in our thriller met on a social networking site, and the main character uses social networking sites to lure girls in, to kill them. Also, research showed the age profile using social networking sites is our target audience group more, specifically from ages 15-30. Below and on the right, are graphs about the age profile of social network use and also the average time spent. It shows that our target audience us it the most and spend the most time on it.

Question 1

Conventions of a film opening is what is what is supposed to be in a opening a a film. 

Here is a list of the conventions of a thriller opening: 

• Film opening to give insight to the characters, location and narrative
• Provide teaser to the story
• Special/sound effects
• The sound is scary, atmospheric, eerie, builds tension 
• The opening should have titles (title sequence) 
• There can sometimes be dialogue which could also provide teasers. 
• Producers identification (production company/producer)
• Sense of mood 

Conventions of a title sequence is listing of the actors, production company, distribution companies, the title and many more. Here is a list of how the titles should go: 

• IDENT
• Production companies 
• Distribution companies 
• Well known actors 
• Movie title
• More actors 
• Music composer 
• Casting company 
• Costume designers
• Film editor 
• Production designers 
• D.O.P
• Executive producers 
• Other names added depending on the movie genre 
• Director