CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF THE THRILLER GENRE

For our background research we had to analyse the codes and conventions of the thriller genre, from this it gave us an idea of what we had to include in our film opening the "Black Rose". This was successful in the sense that it gave us more ideas of what we have to include in the film opening and what we needed to do to achive higher marks. This backgorund information furthermore strengthened our ideas.
http://prezi.com/hfybc2hec-wp/conventions-of-the-thriller-genre/

TARGET AUDIENCE

I started making outline notes about what my target audience for The Black Rose would be like:

Age group: 15-50

Gender: Both genders will be able to enjoy due to the fact that the film is a psychological thriller opposed to a gory one, and the main character is a woman, so they can relate

Television: Sherlock, Mad dogs, The killing, Dead set, Fringe, Dexter, True blood, Lost, Bones & Black mirror

Film: Inception, Limitless, Source code, Sherlock Holmes, The strangers, Paranormal activity, The shining, In time, Moon

Restaurants: Nandos, Wagamamas, Pizza express, Café Rouge, Gourmet burger kitchen, Slug & Lettuce & Giraffe

Clothes: Topman, River Island, Natterjacks & H & M

Media: iPhone, Imac, Imax, Blackberry, 3-D TV’s, Macbooks, Xbox & PS3

Books: The searches of the dead, The clinic, On dangerous ground, Angles and Demons, Black wind & The wind

SKY MEDIA- TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Today, we analysed and researched  what "Sky Media" thought a thriller film should be and what conventions it should hold. For instance Sky dedicated a channel to "Crime and Thriller" and in a nutshell it consists of films that include "gritty noirs and gangster sagas, this channel is all about edge-of- the-seat plot twists and gripping tales of the underworld. Full of mystery, murder and tension, it's always worth investigating."  

CASTING

Before filming we decided to give people roles and diffrent positions to make the whole filming process a whole lot eaisier. For example:  

 

Actors:

 

Natalie Harland- Charlie Lewin

Little girl- Elizabeth Lewin

Narrator- Jonny Fitzgerald

Guard- Henry McPherson

Psychologist- Will Wright

 

Camera work and editing:

Editing- Henry McPherson, Will Wright

Casting Director- Jonny Fitzgerald

Producer- Jonny Fitzgerald, Will Wright, Henry McPherson

Writer- Jonny Fitzgerald

Director- Will Wright

Taking the photos and beggining to start the editing proccess  

Editing of the animatic

The Uploading of the animatic 

This is our animatic, we choose to show our story board in this way to show off new technologies so that is would be both eye catching and effective for the viewer. The animatic consists of a photo of each  slate, which shows the different camera angles and the rough outline of the opening to the "Black Rose". 

BLACK ROSE TREATMENT

This is our groups treatment. We decided to use new technologies to make our treatment eye catching and effective, hence forth we used the web cam in the Mac Book Pro and used it to our full advanatge. We took turns to tell the viewer the rough outline of each slate we would be filming and what it would show and symbolise. For instance how a certain camera shot would show the rise in tension and suspense for the audience.

Preliminary video

 This is our preliminary video. We made this because we had to make sure that we knew the techniques of both filming and editing when we come to our final piece. I feel are group and I benefited from this greatly seeing as it has given us a whole range of different camera angles that we could use. For example I felt as if the panning shots were very effective at the beginning of the video and that the over shoulder shots were also very effective in carrying on the flow of the conversation between teacher to student.

This is my storyboard that I created, we intend to show this in a more dramatic nature in our film opening