Ideas for thriller title

From research we came up with five titles for our thriller that would represent it in the intended way. The group wanted the thriller name to bring up a sence of enigma and suspicion. The suggestions were taken into a poll to see which would be the most popular name:

1. Criminal conversation
2. The Resentment
3. Infiltrator
4. Acquaintance
5. Affinity

The votes varied however the majority of the vote were between titles two and five. 'Criminal conversation' is another word for adultery. 'Infliltrator' is defined as an intruder with hostile intent. 'Acquaintance' is defined as personal knowledge or information about someone or something. Affinity is defined as a natural attraction or feeling of kinship. 'Resentment' is defined as a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will; which would connotate our ideas of the thriller film in a very good way.

On review of our thriller title we were adviced to change the name from 'The resentment' to simply 'Resentment' as it is more gramaticaly correct.

Story board and planning for preliminary task

The story board and planning for the preliminary task had to include shot/reverse shot, match on action and the 180 degree rule. During editing we were able to complete a finished piece of recording and get to know the software by fitting in transitions and effects.

Shot No. 1

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: Camera pans from left to right slowly. Establishing shot. Fade to next shot

Timing (seconds) 4

Shot No. 2

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: Camera zoom towards door. Long shot. Fade to next shot.

Timing (seconds) 3

Shot No. 3

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: Digetic sound and action of door knob turn. Big close up. Fade to next shot.

Timing (seconds) 1

Shot No. 4

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, and transition: Door begins to open. Digetic sound of door opening. Long shot.

Timing (seconds) 2

Shot No. 5

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: Door opens fully and character walks through. Mid long shot.

Timing (seconds) 2

Shot No. 6

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, and transition: Character walks towards chair. Digetic sound of walking. Tracking shot. Straight cut.

Timing (seconds) 3

Shot No. 7

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: High angle shot.

Timing (seconds) 1

Shot No. 8

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: over the shoulder shot. “I have the package”. Straight cut.

Timing (seconds) 2

Shot No. 9

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: Over the shoulder shot “good are the planes ready?” Straight cut.

Timing (seconds) 2

Shot No. 10

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: over the shoulder shot. “Yes there ready to go”. Straight cut.

Timing (seconds) 2

Shot No. 11

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: Sounds of door opening. Character opens door and goes through. Mid long shot. Straight cut.

Timing (seconds) 2

Shot No. 12

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: Mid long shot. Character exits room and shuts door. Panning shot. Straight cut.

Timing (seconds) 2

Shot No. 13

Dialogue, sound, camera movement, special effects, action, transition: Wide shot. Tracking shot of character walking downstairs. Digetic sounds of character walking downstairs. Slow motion effect.

Timing (seconds) 4

Target Audience and Sub-Genres

Not all films appeal to all people. Even in the thriller genre the appeal ranges between audiences; this is because of sub-genres. Films such as 'The Sixth Sense' , 'Signs' and 'The Village', borderline on horror films, which horror films are targeted more towards teenage girls, so these horror thrillers would attract the teenage female audience. Crime thrillers and legal thriller's such as 'Se7en' and 'Runaway Jury' (Gary Fleder) target a more mature audience andd often focus on criminals dealing with a successful or failed crime and the suspenseful results. Disaster thriller's like, Deep Impact (1998) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004), are films that deal with some type of disaster, either natural or man-made; concentrating on the chaotic events in and around the disaster and seeing how the characters cope.Specifying the type of thriller film being created will help create a target audience. Defining a target audience includes breaking the audience primarily down to gender and age range. however additional factors may include: socioeconomic status, rural or urban environments, race, family status and interests (from political learning's, human rights and religion to simple past times.)

When the target audience is selected, the plan has to include why this has been done e.g. what makes the film unique to appeal the target audience. Endorsing marketable elements such as the sub-genre, concept, tone, subject matter, specialist interests, source material, attractiveness and additional elements will further attract the target audience.

Applying the knowledge of selecting a target audience and endorsing the marketable elements will help me better with my opening sequence. I would want to attract a wide range of audiences, but in the age group of 18- 25 in particular as this age group spend the most money on DVDs and in the cinema. The sub-genre of thriller i want to make is a drama horror, so primarily teenage girls would be more targeted. We could break down the scenes in our play even more to show a characters background and environment, implying the urban environment, race and socieconomic status. We could show this by doing such things as including shots of alleyways and digetic sound of a city; we could also show the safe environment the characters shown to be in with the impression of the location being clean and neat. We want to show the main character as an attractive girl despite her situation, the use of this will attempt to appeal to our target audience of 18 - 25 year old females.