James Stone Nathan Mckerlie Adam Howland

Thriller Mood Board

Treatment
Shot by shot:

Shot of serial killers room. This is faded out as the sound of news reports all speaking over the top of each other. Shot from outside the police station. Girl killed in alley way. Traffic with police lights. Police at the murder scene looking at the body. One policeman works out where the killer is hiding and phones his colleague. 3 policeman turn up to the location of the killer. Policeman enter the house looking for the Killer. They enter the room but window is open and killer is running away in the distance.

Soundtrack and Titles:

Music has a slow build up until they enter the house and it crescendo's at the shot of the killer running in to the distance. The titles will be written in by smoke coming across the screen and lead into the words themselves, they will be positioned at the top and bottom of the screen alternating after every one.

Story board

Methodology

The purpose of our questionnaire is that it will allow us to gain feedback from a sample of people in order to give us various ideas and suggestions that we can then incorporate within our production. Also it allows us to test our concept and gain insight into how our film opening idea can be improved upon. We created our questionnaire by devising a serious of both open and closed questions. Open questions will allow us to gain in depth feedback, as a form of qualitative data, therefore giving us a personal response in which the respondent can write a much broader response to the question imposed. Our closed questions however, will give us a specific response where the respondent chooses from a set of answers. This way we will be able to collect quantitative data, which will be useful to us due to the fact that we can sort it into numerical data (E.g. by graphs as well as charts). Overall the questionnaire consists of questions that are related to the genre of our film: both giving us feedback on either elements to put into our film, or elements to develop/test our concept. The blog is being sent out by various methods such as: email, Facebook, twitter, as well as some copies being printed. The use of web 2.0 therefore allows us to extend our sample size and hopefully gain a good response rate, as well as reaching a much more mass audience. Also it allows us to reach out to all different demographics, rather than just students within our school who are of the same gender and similar age groups.

Audience Research - Quantitative

50.00%
45.00% 40.00% 35.00% Female Male 30.00% 25.00% 20.00% 15.00% 10.00% 5.00% 0.00%

Shot by a gun Stabbed with a knife 80.00% 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Suffocated

Drowned

Audience Research Qualitative

Secondary Research

Openings of films (textual analysis): Casino Royale (Campbell, 2006) Inception (Nolan, 2010) Scott Pilgrim Vs the world (Wright 2010)

Horror/thriller research: This helped us to consider the content of our film by the use of iconographic aspects of a thriller such as expressive lighting and typical locations such as abandoned houses. Furthermore it helped us understand typical conventions such as low key lighting, use of shadows, incidental music, characters such as criminals killers, stalkers etc.

Sound
Dialogue between detectives and chief policeman (Digetic Sound ) Laughter from the serial killer (Digetic Sound ) Soundtrack When there is a pan of the serial killers room, as well as sound bridges to link various clips together (non Digetic Sound ) Sound layers for news report

Location ideas and Recces

Police Station Office. Derelict or abandoned house. Field. Outside of Police Station Alleyway. Busy Road.

Characters and CastKiller Adam Howland Serial

Chief Policeman Henry Detectives Nathan Mckerlie, James Stone Murdered Girl Fai Watson Dead Girls - Amy Mckerlie, Alice Deacon, Martha Mckerlie, Emily Hudson, Niamh Kennedy, Polly Davies. Filmers- Adam Howland, James Stone, Nathan Mckerlie

Mise en scene
Costume: Serial Killer White lab coat, make up, murder tools Detectives Long coats, coffee, notepad and pen, detective equipment. Chief Policeman Smart suit Murdered girls Casual Clothes, Make up

Mise en scene
Make up Use of prosthetics in order to recreate blood and loss of eye effects.

Lighting Low key lighting when focus is on the serial killer- helps to connote evil Use of shadows- conventional to thriller genre

Shot ideas
Over shoulder shot of the serial killer looking down at the detective from his house. Shot reverse shot of detectives and policeman when there is dialogue. Tracking shot when girl gets murdered. Panning shot to establish environmental contextual information.

Titles
Main title to appear from smoke Other titles to appear alongside the shots Titles which will appear: Distributor Producer Main Cast Director Film Title

Difficulties
There are several possible issues we may face during our production including: Continuity editing- location, weather, costume, time of day, lighting etc Finding location to replicate police station Making a young person look older