The document provides planning and research materials for an upcoming film project titled "Inside Her Diary". It includes a shot list, storyboard draft, key questions, moodboard for the trailer, discussion of target audience as young adults aged 15-25, inspiration from films like Dream House, Ghost, and Shutter Island, proposed actors, locations, costumes, props, and inspiration for trailers from films such as American Beauty, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and the diary scene from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The document outlines the thriller/romance genre and considerations for the trailer to draw in the target audience.

1. Planning and Research- Part 1

2. Blurb

3. Synopsis Draft 1

6. Shot List

10. Storyboard Draft 1

17. Key Questions

18. Moodboard for Trailer

20. “Inside Her Diary” Target Audience

21. About our how our Target Audience
effect the genre of the film
Thriller movies are usually aimed at young
adults at the ages of 18-25, this target
audience is drawn to the intense storylines
and the mysterious atmosphere of thriller
movies.

22. Dream House
• We used Dream House as an inspiration for our target
audience as this movie also has the horror element of the
‘Man’ walking past the house and looking inside. This builds up
the tension of the thriller which creates the mysterious genre.
In thriller films such as Dream House the target audience
expect to be thrilled and left on the edge of their seats, this is
seen in Dream House as it leaves the audience on the edge of
their seats when there is a scene taken place in the house
where there is a fight between the main character and the
mysterious man. The audience of thriller films are left
watching the film to see if the character that is the main
position overcomes the ‘Villain’ or the ‘Rival’ who is against
them. For our film it’s Dan overcoming Kate to get out of her
imaginary world in the diary. However Dream has a younger
certificate to our film because they are using American age
ratings, they choose a pg13, however their age may be a
younger target audience but they have still insisted that a
parent has to be with the teenager to watch the film because
the horror element may be to scary for them.

23. Ghost
• Ghost also has a rating of PG13,
however this film works into our film
as it has the same elements of
romance and thriller. When Dan is in
the diary can not interact with Mia,
however she can feel his presents.
This happens in Ghost when he hugs
her she can feel him, this shows the
target audience would be similar to
our film as the genres are very similar
and the romance attracts the younger
audience as young girls and women
are interested in the typical love story.
Therefore a PG13 rating for this film is
appropriate because the romance will
attract the ages that the film wants for
its audience.

24. Shutter Island
• Shutter Islands age certificate is the
same a ‘Inside her Diary’ this shows
that genre would be very similar to
ours. As the film is about them
finding the 67th patient, it is very
much similar to Dan trying to find out
why he is the diary and how he is
going to get out. The film is about a
hospital with mentally ill people,
which also creates the prefect sitting
on the edge of your sit thriller genre
for the target audience.

25. Our Target Audience
For the film of ‘Inside her Diary’ we decided make the
target audience a young age from looking at the
inspiration of the other films. We decided that the
certificate would be a 12A in the cinema, however
the range in ages are 15 – 25 but anyone above 25
would be allegeable to watch it. We picked such a
young target audience as children younger than
12 may be a little frighten because of the genre
being romance, thriller and mystery and suspense.
However “Inside her Diary" embraces the
elements of horror movies from it’s mysterious
atmosphere of Pete keep walking past the window
and troubled villain Kate. The teenagers will be
attracted to this film by the romance as younger
teenage girls are into romantic movies, however
the middle aged adults men and women, will be
more attracted to the thriller side of the film as
they would prefer something more interesting to
be engulfed into and sitting on the edge of their
sit.

26. Genre Conventions

32. Actors, Locations and Props

33. Actors:
•
Dan: Stefan
•
Mia: Avigail
•
Pete: Adam
•
Kate: Katie
•
Neighbours: Rebecca, Ella and Chantal
Location:
•
Ruislip (Becca’s House)
•
The left side is Dan’s house and the right side is
Mia’s house. This is where they first meet. Dan
will be washing windows when he sees Mia
walking in. Using the garden and rooms in the
house during scenes.
•
Also for other outside scenes we would like to
use a cafe

34. Costume
• Dan: baggy jeans, tight T-shirt to show muscles
• Mia: 3 outfits –
When she arrives jeans, cute little white top with and little heel boots.
Leggings and baggy top – casual clothing for in the house
Skirt and boots with a little jacket
• Kate: Black Dress
• Pete: All dark clothes with a hoodie – basically all black
• Neighbours: Causal clothing e.g. jeans and top
Props
• Diary
• Living room – Sofa, TV, Table, Lamp
• Mobile Phone
• Dining Room- Table and Chairs
• Cup

35. Inspiration for Trailers

36. American Beauty
• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=3ycmmJ6rxA8
• In the beginning of
“American Beauty”, there
are medium shots of Kevin
Spacey, watching his wife
from inside the window. We
would like to use this for
our beginning shots, to
show Dan’s interest in Mia.
But, also it makes the
atmosphere quite
mysterious and
chilling, which is what we
want our audience to feel.

37. We need to talk about Kevin
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ZLRgAe2jLaw
• Throughout the trailer, Kevin
speaks a monologue, that doesn’t
really relate to the clips being
shown, as they are significant
slips in the film that are merged
together, just to give a sense of
what the film is about. Whilst
Kevin’s monologue makes the
audience curious. This is a good
technique that my group would
like to use because, it draws the
audience in, as they wouldn’t be
able to understand what the plot
is, but still get a sense of the
thriller aspects of the film.

38. Harry Potter and the chamber of
secrets- Diary scene
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=-CkY8zQU-Mw
• This is where Harry is sucked into
the diary to experience the past,
which is similar to our film. The
editors use a special effect where
the light spreads in the centre of
the diary, then the camera is in
front of it in a medium shot, and
a huge beam of light appears.
• Due to us not being able to all of
the effects the editor did with the
diary, we will use aspects of it,
and use a trick with the
cinematography to show that Dan
has been engulfed into it.

39. Ghost
• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=fxdK5Q60opQ
• In the beginning the music
is very calming to create a
romantic atmosphere, and
the shot pace is normal.
However, a quarter into the
film, disequilibrium occurs
and the shot pace become
faster to show all the action
parts of the film, to suite
their target audience. This is
exactly what we need for
our trailer.

40. Trailer Analysis

42. Harry Potter Diary Scene