Filming Main Task - Introduction

To begin with we needed to collaborate our ideas together and decide where, when, and how we were going to film our thriller. My group started our initial filming on the 19th of March. However not all went as planned and one group member forgot to bring the storyboard which led to us not knowing what to do with our film. We needed a newspaper to be used for our props so we could use to cut out specific words that would be appropriate to our story plot. We arranged our set and placed our props to our needs and to improve our mise-en-scene.

Settings:

• Disturbing looking shed
• Disorganised/organised room
• Strange markings on walls
• Almost looks abandoned
• Graveyard setting

Props we want to use:

• Stanley Blade
• Newspaper cut outs
• Cloths
• Paint
• Flick knife
• Screwdriver
• Photos
• Pieces of paper with writing

By attempting to remember the storyboard we drifted away from our initial ideas and ended up coming up with new and improved ideas for different shots and scenes. After a lot of hard work we decided to call it a day without doing much filming. However I think this worked in our favour. This is because this led to us thinking about our film in detail and discussing it even further. We drew a plan of our location and studied areas of filming and possible issues that may crop up during our production.

Target Audience

We discussed that our target audience would be ranged from our own age, who are young adults mostly males. We wanted this target audience because we felt that this would make it easier for us to film something that would reach out to us and our target audience. Being young adults ourselves it gives us an advantage of what our target audience would want in a thriller and what we are expected to deliver. We chose males as our dominant gender in our target audience because this thriller may have gore and violence and this generally appeals more towards males than females. However we felt that we didn't want to just narrow ourselves down into that age group specifically and we felt that our thriller also appeals to slightly older adults. People in their early 20's would be hooked by our thriller and would want to come and see a terrifying, scary and suspenseful thriller.