The document provides information on conducting vox pop interviews for a student film project. It discusses advantages of vox pops such as allowing viewers to see facial expressions and environments. Sample vox pop questions are provided on film preferences and what makes a good thriller. Guidance is given on using diegetic and non-diegetic sounds to set mood and build suspense. Potential film locations around Russell Square in London are described. Finally, there is background on the BBFC classification system and process for consulting public views.

1. Final Planning and
research

2. Organisation
Feed Back
‘Lone’
17-30
girl/women
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boys/men
Draft

4. Vox Pop Advantages
A way of our ‘meeting’ our customers and seeing them express
their own views. It brings them to life by allowing you to see the
facial expressions and appearance that go with people’s words and
views.
Attractive to Potential Respondents
• Can provide direct answers (people tend to be honest and open)
• It is entertaining to watch.
• It allows you to see the respondent (appearance, expression etc...)
• Responses are first hand rather than taken from notes or charts
and graphs. It brings them to live.
• You can meet people in their own environment and use video to
show this environment.
• Technology allows you to disseminate this information quickly and
to a wide audience through e-mail and the internet.
• It is interesting and memorable – it is likely to have a good initial
• and long term impact on those who see it.
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5. VOX POP

6. Questions
• .. We are Media students at St. Marylebone 6th
form, would you mind answering a couple of
quick questions about your views on a couple
of films?’’
• What is your favourite film?
• Why do you enjoy thriller films?
• Do you prefer sudden suspense or a build to
climax?
• What makes a great psychological thriller?
• Under the subgenre of Drama films, what do
you expect in a thriller film?

7. Soundtrack
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Diegetic:
Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is
implied to be present by the action of the film:
voices of characters
sounds made by objects in the story
music represented as coming from instruments in the story space
Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source
within the film's world
Non-diegetic:
Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been
implied to be present in the action:
narrator's commentary
sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
mood music
Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source
outside story space.

8. Sounds
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hnxtl4g9M
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPCrDmRAJE
• Throughout the years most psychological
thrillers such as ‘Se7en’, ‘The machinist’, ‘The
Silence of the Lambs’,’Jacobs ladder’ up to
modern Psychological thrillers such as ‘The
black Swan ‘ mostly use a balance of both
diegetic sounds diegetic sounds but more non
diegetic. I noticed more films start with nondiegetic sound with the use of sinister music in
the background
Creating
mood/atmospher
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Suspense/climax
Creating reality

9. Location shot
-the mid-1960s, based on studies
by Leslie Martin.[5] It was initially
planned as a private
development at a time when
private, mixed-use development
in the UK was rare. Building
started in 1967 and was
completed in 1972, though the
building fell some way short of its
intended size.
- Russell square: contrast
-It was designed by Patrick
Hodgkinson
The centre is regularly used as a
location for films, TV, photography
and music videos including Alexei
Sayle's Stuff, The Comic Strip, Crime
Traveller, Gangster No. 1, the BBC’s
skateboarders trailer and Egg
Card’s guineapig advert.

10. • Second floor view of the
interior concrete
structure
• Collaborate with Patrick
H- pool design
• http://susannaheron.com/lan
dscape/
• How does it work with
Franks personality?
• Closed off
• Secluded
• Quite
• Spacious +Cramped=
reality to fantasy

11. Collective Research: Ideas
• Millennium Bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku
VhWafDY_g
To improve the view, the bridge's
suspension design had the supporting
cables below the deck level, giving a
very shallow profile- Feeling of being
above everything
In the 2009 movie Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, the bridge was used
to represent the Brockdale Bridge that
collapses following a dramatic attach
by the Death eaters
The pedestrians synchronised their step
with the bridge vibration, thereby
enhancing the vibration
considerably" (Bachmann, 1992, p. 636).
The problem is said to have been
solved by the installation of horizontal
tuned vibration absorbers.
Foreshadow of death?- Audience
question
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12. Rooms:
- Dark
-Empty
-Minimal props
- Space
- Little imagination
contrast to Franks
imagination
-binary opposition of
reality & surreal/fantasy

13. BBFC GUILDLINES
BBFC’s classification standards are in line with what
the public expects and that its decisions take
account of what the public finds acceptable at
each age category.
Therefore every 4-5 years, the BBFC carries out a
major public consultation exercise to find out what
the public thinks about the age rating of films and
videos before they are released and whether the
BBFC’s classification standards meet public
concerns.
The BBFC adjusts its standards and criteria in
response to any changes in public attitudes.

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