Updated Questionnaire

In order to properly ascertain our target market and give ourselves something to work for while editing Morris has revised our questionare in order to pin down out target market and will be putting up the results soon.

 

1. What is your favourite movie genre?

·         Thriller

·         Horror

·         Drama

·         Comedy

·         Crime

2. What do you see in the opening of a movie that you enjoy?
3.  If you had to choose a Thriller sub-genre what would it be? Crime-Thriller, Psychological-Thriller

4. If you had to choose, what would be your favourite Thriller movie?
5. What do you like about that movie? I.e. the tension it creates.
6. What setting do you think is best for a high tension thriller?
7. Have you ever stopped watching a movie after 5 minutes? If ‘Yes’ why?
8. What in the opening to a Thriller would keep you asking questions?

9. Give your age?

10. Your status (lower class/middle class/upper class)?

11. Do you like intelligent well thought out films?

13. Do you like foreign films?

14. What is your favourite type of music?

15. What was the last film you watched?

16. What was the last thriller film you watched?

17. What did you like about it?

18. What did you not like about it?

19. Do you like films with lots of effects?

20. What type of effect do you prefer?

After the two days shooting (Evaluation)

Zander and I started to film on Friday 2nd December 2011, we had a productive day of about 6 hours of setting up and filming our production, we got plenty of shots which we will use in our final production. These were scenes such as the dragging back scene, the courtyard mystery shoots and the interrogation/Narration shots. Which I wasn't too happy with, so we will re-shoot them at school with Morris in my place instead. I star as Belakov, who is a the main 'bad guy' and Zander stared as the main character (Camera man) because all the shots in the production are Point Of View shots.

On Saturday 3rd December 2011, we were joined by Morris to get the finishing shots, we came up with a brand new idea which involved an external actor from outside of the group James Franklin. The scene involved all four of us to play a part, Me as Belakov, Zander as the main character (POV shots), Morris as Captain Lionel ,and James as McNeal. The new scene required me to shoot James, and then come back out of nowhere and knock Zander to the floor and beat Morris up as Zander ran away. The shot was a success, we shot it at dusk, allowing for a sense of mystery because me being able to disappear and reappear from nowhere.

At the end of the two days filming we got some good shots of most of the opening. The only problem i have is both Morris and I am concerned with the ammount of shots that are POV shots which is every single shot. I have expressed this concern to Zander but he is confident that they are fine and that they should not be a problem, I however am not so sure.

Ident Ideas for our thriller opening.

The images on the left and on the right are our image ideas for our first ident which was named 'Crusader Entertainment'. Idea one for the name was for this picture to burn  into the foreground with the name underneath of it.

Idea two for 'Crusader Entertainment'  was for the image to be seen in a chalk type finish with the Text underneath again, the black lines of the boxes will not always be there.

 Another named idea for an Ident is 'Black Cat Studios', with a non moving image we had the idea for it to fade in from black and for the text to fade in at the same time. I did not feel  that the text in this ident was suited correctly. This lead to idea number two. The only difference was that the text changed colour and font.

 Our third idea was 'White chapel studios'. The idea for this was to have a view of a street and for the text to overlay on that street. The idea on the left was created using a graphics system on the computer but it felt that this idea in general was lacking. The bottom right image is idea number two which i felt looked a bit more professional, this was because the image was focused not only on a street but also on the people in the image, to have the text in a chalk style made it blend in more with the image.