2. RESEARCH AND PLANNING
Researching into a potential target audience.
Questionnaire for target audience.
1) what do you expect to see in thriller title sequence?
2) what music do you expect to hear in a thriller title sequence?
3) what color schemes do you expect to see.
4) what kind of shots do you expect to see?
5)what kind of font do you expect to see?
I asked this questionnaire to 3 different people to try and understand what to add in
my opening title sequence. I've done this as its important to include additional
information I may have forgot about also to get a better judgment of opinion by
using 3 different people.
3. FINDINGS FROM PLANNING
First person
1) I expect to see a mysterious setting, low key lighting and dark colors.
2) Music which builds up as the sequence plays.
3) A dark color pallet or a cold color scheme
4) Quite a range of shots, use of a lot of close ups.
5) Fonts that look disorientated.
Second Person
1)I expect to see low key lighting and names in a jagged font.
2)eerie music using string instruments
3)black, red and dark colors
4) long establishing shots and extreme close ups
5)jagged flashing posh.
Third person
1)dark areas empty places. Strange people.
2) thought provoking and intense
3) really dark
4)close ups
5) fancy and white in color
4. I already new some of the necessary key points of creating a thriller
production but form my questionnaire I was able to add certain points and
ideas such as including may long hosts and how to make it fit in the part of
thriller. Such as specific music types and even the color of my production.
HOW DID IT AFFECT MY IDES.
6. The following questions were asked about my product to be answered to gain
qualitative feedback:
1)What Draws your attention to the product?
2) What genre is it and how can you tell?
3)What kind of audience would be attracted?
4) Would you watch the rest of the film?
5) What did you like/dislike about the product?
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK.
7. 1)What Draws your attention to the product?
It looks interesting.
2) What genre is it and how can you tell?
Thriller. Music
3)What kind of audience would be attracted?
Anyone of either gender above the age of 12
4) Would you watch the rest of the film?
Yes
5) What did you like/dislike about the product?
It was well made and gave the right effect for the genre.
AUDIENCE ANSWER EXAMPLE
8. PRODUCTION CHOICES
Did you choose your models / actors wisely? Did you plan their costume,
body language etc.? Did you choose specific colour schemes?
Did you follow specific codes and conventions, or did you challenge them?
Did you choose specific fonts?
What stylistic decisions you made in light of your initial primary audience
research
Genre conventions, use of music, similarities / differences etc.
How i made changes to my rough cut in light of audience and teacher
feedback
When creating my production there were a number of factors that
needed to be taken into consideration below is a list:
9. When creating my product I had to take many things in consideration such as
my actors that were being included and I thought about this and made sure
they were suited to my production and sorted specific clothing to suit the
filming I was doing. Also I decided to follow the traditional conventions of
the horror theme such as the music and the imagery used. To create the
effects of thriller and included lots of darkness and mystery. He reasoning is
to gain my audience that I was created for as well as acting upon research and
feedback that I was given.
PRODUCTION CHOICES
