The document discusses various elements of planning and production for a student thriller film. It addresses the use of original audio recordings for sounds, filming at an off-campus apartment location for realism, and inclusion of symbolic iconography like a blood-stained note and pumpkin to convey meaning and themes. Consideration is also given to lighting styles, appropriate target audiences, and drawing from conventions of the thriller genre.

3. Research/Planning Preliminary Task Filming

4. Sound
Within our production, we have
audio files that we initially planned
on using, rather than the other
sounds that are available through
Final Cut as we thought creating our
own sounds would be more creative
and easier to capture. We done this
by smashing a glass and recording
the audio only. We also used this for
the door knocks for when the victim
is watching TV.
Location/Setting
In terms of setting and location, we
have filmed this in an apartment
which was not too far from our
school. We chose this settings as this
was conventional and is more
realistic as the victims privacy has
been ruined and exploited by the
antagonist.
Iconography
There were various different types of
iconography displayed within our
thriller, such as the mask and letter
at the doorstep which was set up by
the antagonist, this creates meaning
and danger due to the fact the note
had blood smuggled across it. This is
also conventional to the genre as this
would build the tension to the
audience and create suspense.

5. The Unseen, Antagonist
Scream, Antagonist Sixth Sense, Victim
The Unseen, Victim
In the Sixth Sense, the
victim is a young male
who’s in his own
comfort and in his
pajama’s. This already
connotes that he is
comfortable and
undisturbed. This is
conventional to its
genre as he plays the
victim
In regards to my thriller,
the victim wears white
to connote that he is
pure and nonviolent. He
is also a young aged
teenager who is
troubled in his own
home. His

11. Iconography connotes information to the audience. This varies upon what the object may be, they could
also represent themes and foreshadow upcoming events that possibly may occur in the later stages of
the film.
In my thriller, there is a pumpkin that is placed on the stairs, this would portray that the theme would
be Halloween due to the fact is also carved in. This is conventional as the Halloween theme is a common
theme that is used in thriller movies. I confirmed with my group that I wanted to use typical and
obvious iconography as this would suit the thriller convention well.
The iconography used in my final product portrayed items that connotes meaning such as themes,
antagonist, and violence. We decided to also film these each objects specifically and carefully, we used
close ups, extreme close up angles for these objects so that it will noticeable to the eye and the audience
will be able to understand that the iconography used have meaning and can foreshadow danger, death,
violence and mystery.

12. This image is from a famous
thriller named Physco, the use of
lighting shows that the light is
coming from the top of her head
therefore this is top lighting.
Furthermore the lighting may
also convey the most important
scenes that they may find
appealing.

14. The target audience is something we had to think through as this is one of the most important aspects that
could makes our film viewable and legal. Furthermore this also had to be set to a suitable and liable age as
this would not be fair if our thriller product had a age rating of 12, but contained a wide range of multiple
violent scenes such as torture, explicit murdering etc. Therefore this would be problematic for our
viewership and affect its overall
After I have done my research I have seen other thriller films online and there age rating was mostly
15/18 age ratings, this varied on the content it contained. We as a group, have come to the conclusion that
a 15 age rating group would be the most suitable to choose as this did not contain major violence and
scenes that may effect the ages over 15.