Me and Olivia created this document to help us plan our thrillers narrative. We did this by bringing our ideas together and creating a story with what we will fill within the narrative. This will help us have the best outcome for our thriller.

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We have now been given partners to create our thriller opening. Me and Olivia have to build a collage of photos to develop our ideas for what we think we should bring to each other to make the best opening possible.

My collage ideas

I’m thinking that there should be a psycho like patient who dresses up like a doctor. I’m then thinking that this doctor should knock out and kidnap a victim. The victim would wake up tied to chair and then doctor strange would brutally murder him while recording it on a camera and then he would watch it back and reveal his sinister smile.

Olivia’s collage ideas

Olivia’s idea for the thriller film is based upon a psychotic doctor that enjoys torturing his ‘patients’. In an underground car park, the doctor chosen his victim and brutally beats him, resulting in his death. The doctor feels accomplished with his work and ends the scene, pulling down his mask and smiling into the camera.

I learnt about what narrative codes are and why they are so important to make a good thriller film. I looked at 3 previous students thriller openings and analysed what narrative codes they used to make it work and create tension.

Below are the full videos

We set up a survey and sent it out to find out what kind of audience our thriller would bring in and the psycho graphics and demographics we expect to see in our target audience.

Below is our survey results to find out our target audience.

The results prove to show that we meet our target audience of 16-24 year olds. This is helpful because our target audience was originally 16-24 year olds.

About 70% of people expected a typical villain to be a psychotic serial killer, this is a good piece of information because our villain is going to seem like a psychotic serial killer.

The survey shows that over 65% of people expect to see elements of mystery and murder. This is a great bit of information because our thriller is going to follow the baseline of mystery and have elements murder.

We are planning to have our thriller set in an abandoned building, this links perfectly to the survey because the most expect it to be placed in an abandoned place.

We made a Facebook profile representing a single person who would fit into our target audience of 16-24.

The page includes that he enjoys watching thrillers, he also says that his favourite films are thrillers such as Gone Girl and the Purge. He also likes Conjuring which is a horror. Our thriller is going to be a thriller which includes areas of horror, this shows us that our Facebook profile person would enjoy our thriller.

For this objective we learnt about what goes into a sequence to make it a montage and what techniques you would use to make a montage. We were aligated groups in which we had to make our own montage, we decided to base our montage on ‘buying something from a vending machine’ we accomplished this by using one camera and following a story board we designed before hand. We had to include these to complete our assessment criteria;

• Holding a shot steady
• Framing a shot
• Shooting a variety of shot distances

Below is the story board we used to help create our montage:

Please click on each image to enlarge them.

This is our final montage piece.

Strengths of our montage:

• We followed the success criteria well. We did this by using a variety of shots which were all steady.
• The shot transitions worked well and made the montage interesting.
• The music gave the montage a exciting feel.

Weaknesses of our montage:

• At 0.24 seconds into the montage we created a jump in music which brings down the montage and brings attention onto the clip.
• We couldn’t follow the story board successfully because of circumstances that meant we had to change it, such as the bottle becoming jammed in the machine which lead to me shaking it and making it come free.
• We should have planned the story board better to make the shooting easier.

I have now learnt the importance of a good story board and also the right editing techniques to use when creating and planning my Thriller.