Thriller evaluation

Audience feedback

Thriller opening

Film title

 

 

 

Above is the title of our thriller 'Behind the mask'. We decided to make our title as plain as possible so that the audiences attention was drawn to the meaning of the title straight away. Because the title is after the beginning of the film it allows the audience to question themselves who is behind the mask?. This leaves a form of cliff hanger for our wide audience which should have the effect of them wanting to see what happens next.

Production logo

The logo above is what me and my group created for our thriller. We came up with the idea of the logo which is the first letter of each member of our group. The font that we used was Eccentric Std we used this certain font as we thought it would be appropriate and fit the genre of a thriller, we decided to use the colours grey and white with a black outline as it creates a shadowed effect which links with our thriller as it is based on a stalker, reflecting the shadow effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

filming shots

During the time that me and my group were filming I took some pictures to show which parts we filmed on this particular day. On this day we filmed our shots which consisted outside such as running through the woods which is the middle part of our thriller movie. Because it appeared to be windy on the day we had decided to film, we didn't manage to pick up the natural sound that we had originally planned. Therefore when we came to edit our movie we decided to put a sound track over the film to cover up the any sound that we didn't want to include within our film.

Target audience

After looking at the content that different films include me and my group came to a decision that our target audience is going to be aimed at people who are at the age of 15 and above, we chose to aim our film at people of this age as we feel that the plot would appeal more to a teenage audience and they would find our film more interesting as the people who included within our film are around the same age as our target audience. one of the main reasons for rating our film at an age of 15 is because the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)  states that films that are aimed at people of this age include things such as discriminative language or behaviour, strong violence and portrayals any sexual activity. therefore I feel this is appropriate to base our film at this age as our film includes a stalker which slightly links with portrayals of sexual activity as our film is based around a stalker, therefore we are going to aim our film at this specific age group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Film institutions

The production company that I have chosen to research about for inspiration for our thriller movie is 'NEW LINE CINEMA' 

The reason that I have chosen to reflect from this company is because it is a highly successful film company that has created thriller films such as Seven and the Final destination series. After watching these two films I have identified that they are two on going successful films and therefore I feel as though this production company is very inspirational when planning and filming our thriller.
The film Seven is a very well produced thriller, I have chosen to use this film as an inspiration as it uses camera shots effectively to make it more enjoyable and interesting for the audience and to make sure that they're engaged within the film.

Characters

 Below are the actors that we have decided to use in our thriller. The actress is called Vicky and is the main character in our film and the actor is called Harry and is the character in our film that plays the stalker.                                                               

Vicky is a stereotypical teenage girl for example, she has long blonde hair and wears make up which shows she is quite girly. We thought she would be a good part for our thriller as she matches the part perfectly. This will show the audience that she is innocent and will have an effect on the audience when watching our thriller. With Vicky being a stereotypical teenage girl it will add emphasis to our film and will create a sense of realism and suspense throughout.

                                                                                  



Harry plays the part of a stalker in our thriller. He is a member of our group and the way that we decided for him to play this role was by dividing up the roles of the group. For example, we shared the roles and one role that we didn't to take part in was one member needed to be an actor, after dividing the roles up we decided that having Harry as a actor was a good idea. This made it easier for us to film as he was always present when filming, whereas if we had got an alternative actor they made not have been consistent. For example they may not have been able to make the times that we had planned to film which would have meant that it would have been a long process and more time consuming. 

Weather

We planned to film the Thriller on Monday 27th of January. Before we made a definite decision to film on the date we checked the weather forecast as our film consists of working outside for parts of the thriller. The weather forecast shown that we was going to have some rainy spells however we still decided to start our filming as the beginning of our thriller starts indoors.

Thriller story board

Below is the story board of our thriller and shows various shots that we plan to film. This will allow us to reflect on our story board when filming and will allow us to be organised. by having a story board to follow it gives us something to follow and we can adapt it if needed.

Film survey

Me and George created a survey to find out what genre of film was most popular and to see the interests of different people. the results of the survey that we conducted shows that 42.86% of the people that we asked prefer thrillers, 28.57% enjoy the genre comedy the most and 14.29% like to watch horror and adventure. The audience that I asked were picked at random with an age range from 15-30 due to the fact that me and my group wanted to rate our film at the age rating of 15. After we got the results back we decided that aiming our film at people aged 15 and above is a good idea as it will mean we will have a wide audience. 

Thriller plot

Thriller plot

Our film includes two actors, we have one main character who is called Victoria Wilkinson and she is the main part of our thriller. The second character is called Harry Box and is playing a small part within our film which is the figure that will be mysteriously following the main character. Harry is a member of our group however we chose for him to be a actor within our thriller as our roles as a group have been shared out, for example the editing and directing has been shared throughout the group. The main plot for our thriller film is our main character (Victoria Wilkinson)goes out for a run during the process of her exercising she receives a picture message from an unknown number of her running. This causes the girl to go into panic mode and fear strikes her as she looks around to try and identify who could be watching her. She ignores this as she thinks that she is imagining things, she carries on jogging which leads her to visualise a figure. She sprints away and as she is running she looks behind her to see if anything was following her, there was nothing in sight but as she turns around the figure is in front of her which results in her having a blackout. The girl wakes up in shock, it appears that it was just a dream however, this is questioned as when she gets out of bed to look out the window she notices that the figure is stood outside her house.

 

Planning of the thriller

Here is the beginning of our plan for our thriller film that we are preparing which is going to be aimed at 15 year olds and above.

This photo was taken in the process of planning our thriller movie which we planned out during the lesson.