Response to the client brief

Explanation of demographics 

What information do you have about your audience?

The information that i have on the audience is that the target audience is of the age range 16-24. 

What might you include in your thriller to ensure it appeals to them?

In my thriller i might include a crime thriller. The reason I would include a crime thriller is because in the age range of 16-24 they are most likely to watch this sub genre within thrillers. 

What advantages are there to making your thriller for this audience?

The advantages of making this thriller for this audience is that they are gone stay engage throughout the thriller. Another advantage for making this thriller for this type of audience is that the age range watch more thriller than any other genre as well as them having a stronger interest in thriller. 

What challenges do you foresee in making your thriller for this audience?

The challenges im going to face when making this thriller for the audience is including what appeals to them and making it good and interesting. 

Conventions

What are the thriller conventions you will have to include in your work?

1) The thriller conventions I have to include in my work would be scenes including killing/deaths as this entertains the target audience of this client audience. I will have to include conventions that appeals to the target audience for example dark humour, drugs, romance/relationships, gangs etc, to make/keep them interested/intrigued  when watching this thriller.

How might you include each convention?

2) I might add these conventions to the thriller is by having a close up of a knifes when a killing is going to be taken place this will interest the target audience as this is what they’d be interested in. Having a close up of details that will appeal to the target audience is good as it will keep them hooked on to watching the thriller. Drugs and gangs will appeal to the target audience as they associate with it now a days. Dark humour 16-24 year olds tend to laugh at very dark stuff regardless if its a serious situation or not. 

Industry requirements

What institution is your thriller being produced for?

My institution for my thriller is being produced for Warner Brothers.

What information can you find out about this institution? 

Warner brothers produce film for mostly all genres. Warner Brothers recent Sci-fi thriller that has just been released called “gravity” recently brought in a $55.6 million turn over from 3 575 theatres. 

What are the advantages and disadvantages of working with this institution? 

Advantage about working with this institution is that they have many good resources and have good experience within the industry, and the employees speak well and good for their company. Disadvantages of working with this institution would be the company is very resistant to change and their decisions are often made by the committee which requires long time periods of consensus building. 

Considering your target audience, what regulatory issues must you consider in the UK? 

The regulatory issues i would consider in the uk is the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) 

What institutional information must you text include? 

The institutional information of Warner Brothers would be the credits, the information and so on. 

Medium

What medium are you working in?

The medium im working in would be a film.

What type of text are you producing within that medium?

The type of text im producing within that medium is a trailer. 

What sub-genre will your type of text fit into best?

The sub genre that will fit my type of text best is crime thriller. 

Thriller movies - Opening sequences

 Thriller movies

Trainspotting intro:

1) Why did he stop running when he came in front of the car?

2) Why did they steal?

3) Why is he smoking so much?

What is the point of a film opening sequence? 

The point of a opening sequence is so it can start the film off and introduce what the movie is about. 

Conventions of an opening sequence:

it is used for introducing characters and giving a simple insight into the film. For example,  credits, title of a film, hint to genre, foreshadowing, mise-en-scene and location. 

Reservoir Dogs: 

The opening sequence starts with a group of guys sitting down and they get given names by the man standing, one of them complain about their name being "Mr pink" and someone else says who cares what the name is. The men are discussing different things about planning their heist.  This foreshadows the films narrative as they were discussing their plans of their heist there were clues that foreshadow the rest of the film for example, Mr. pink doesn't believe in tipping and later on refuses to tip the waitress which shows that he looks out for himself which what he does when the heist goes wrong. Reservoir doesn't create enigma. 

Se7en:

In the this trailer the open sequence establishes scenes/shots of the characters trying to find out/investigate what happened and some scenes/shots of action. The trailer foreshadows the films narrative as detective William Somerset mentions the 7 deadly sins to the others and says "your gonna expect 5 more of these", and the films narrative is the two detectives on the hunt for a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins. Se7en does create enigma as there is a mystery as to who the serial killer could be as detective William says there's no fingerprints or witnesses of any kind and the other detective agrees saying no. 

Thrillers themes

Hereditary  

3 key themes:

• Mystery
• Suspense
• Discovery

Mystery:

The denotation of the theme mystery in the trailer is when the funeral occurs. the audience would question how her mother died at 0:25-0:30, 

also when the girls mum mentions her mum at a focus group session and a lady recognises her from the session at 0:48-0:50 

 and the mother keeps saying she can feel her mums presence within the house as if she's actually there with her at 0:51-0:54 

and how her mum would feed her as a child at 0:38-0:41 

 she wouldn't let her own mother feed her child and the child's the grandmother's favourite out of the 2 kids. The connotations of the theme mystery would make the audience would question why does the grandma love her so much why doesn't she let her mum feed her as a baby it's like she's being possessive of her grandchild. It's like she was trying to hide something from the mum it's kind of like she had a weird obsession with her grandchild as she was the favourite. It makes the audience wonder why she was the favourite. I would use mystery in my thriller movie by having investigations for a missing person that hasn't been seen in a long time and everyone thinks that person is dead, but they are actually alive. 

Suspense:

The denotation of suspense in this trailer is when the mother goes to the focus group and speaks about her life and her mother who passed away recently, the reason why it is suspense is because she has mental health problems. The mothers kids also have issues for example the girl gets possessed at 1:50

  in a way by her grandmother and the daughter also asks strange questions such as whose going to look after her when her mum dies you can tell the mother is concerned that her daughter said that and slightly weirded out at 1:17-1:21

and the son has hallucinations at 1:28-1:50.    

The connotations of this thriller is the audience questioning what caused the mother's mental health to be this bad and also why was the grandmother going after her granddaughter so much when she was the favourite one out of her daughters kids. Who was haunting the boy in the trailer and what was he hallucination perhaps it was the tragic death of his sister after she died she may have haunted him like their grandmother haunted her. I would use the suspense theme in my thriller by building up an intense situation and moving from scene to scene to create that suspense for the audience for them to be intrigued and wonder what's going to happen next. 

Discovery: 

The denotation of discovery in this thriller is when we realize the grandmother wanted a grandson instead although she had one already it needed to be the girl who she wanted to be a boy instead which explains somewhat of her being the favourite grandchild and why she always fed her as a baby too as well as why they were always so close. It also semi explains why after the grandma died she haunts the house and comes for the girl and leads her to places and especially the tree house in their garden and in the end how she leads her to the treehouse and it looks like some kind of ritual. The connotation of this would be was the mothers daughter really the grandmas favourite or was she using her for her ritual business she had going on. Also what if the boys hallucination was a way of him grieving his sisters unforgettable death. I would explore the theme discovery in my thriller by having investigations taken place or have the characters find out by the news or letters/notes to make it mysterious and shocking. 

Thriller mood board

In Bruges:                                                                                       

•  Mise-en-scene:

Lighting - In the trailer the first few seconds the protagonist is having a conversation with the priest and shoots him and the screen flashes black and white portraying flashes to cut out that the priest is dead and to create tension. The lighting in this trailer is mostly flashes as a transition to different areas/scenes.

Location - The location of this film is in Bruges which is a city in Belgium.  

Costumes - The characters in the trailer are wearing suits in different scenes or formal button up shirts this implies they're on a mission of some kind.

Era - The era of this film is in the early 2000s (2008)

Performance - The performance in this trailer is good. Its realistic and it involves action as well as comedy within the thriller. 

Props - The props in this trailer would be guns, books, phones and the plates and other items that were on the tables. 

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  Camera:                                                                          

Shot types - The shot types in the trailer are mid shot, close range/extreme close ups and long shots 

Camera angles - the camera angles in the trailer are mainly at face level or high angles where you can see a clear shot from above.

Camera movement - The camera movement in the trailer is mainly moving/skipping from one persons face to another each time someone speaks. When they show the tower with the spiral stairs the camera movement moves from a low angle and moves fast towards the top.

• Editing:                                                   

Place -  The place the film took place in is a city called Bruges in Berlin.

Techniques - When a shooting occurs they edit in black and white flashing.

Transitions - In the trailer they jump from scene to scene or they usually use a flash to move between the scenes. 

• Sound:

Sound affects - The sound affects when a character shoots someone they use a banging sound to signify the trigger has been pulled 

Music - The music in the end of the trailer is very fast and slightly up beat to create suspension. In the middle of the trailer the music is guitars its playing very fast to move from scene to scene and is upbeat which is the comedy part of thriller.                                                            

                                                                                                                                    

Dialogue - The dialogue is the characters talking to each other. 

Voice overs - There is no voice overs in the trailer.

Thriller Sub Genre sheet