Storyboard

These are images of our third and last storyboard which was used to create our final piece:

The images below are images of our initial storyboard. We drew this story board of our movie opening using the summary of our movie opening which we put together prior to the storyboard. The storyboard includes rough drawn images, camera shots, camera movements, dialogue, sound and also the number of each individual shot. The total number of shots that we will be using for our movie opening will be eight.

When filming our animatic, we realised that we had to split the storyboard up further so that we can have single, straight forward shots as oppose to a shot including numerous shots. Therefore, we created a new storyboard with added shots. Below are images of our new and improved storyboards:

When adding up the estimated time of each shot, we noticed that it is only 01 minute and 19 seconds long. This had us worried as the target for this movie opening is two minutes. Therefore, we planned for changes to two shots to be made. This would increase the time to 01:29. These changes are shown below:

Even though the timing still doesn't reach the two minutes, we decided not to make anymore changes because after we filmed shots 1, 2 and 3 we realised that we had estimated unachievable timings. This is because, we had estimated a total time of 16 seconds for the three shot. However, when the filming of these three shots was comple, it added up to 42 seconds. 

Mood Board

Mood board

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This is our second mood board; to create this collage, we gathered images that relate to our thriller movie opening and collated them together.
Initially, we planned for weapons to be used in the toilet scene with the main character and the nurse. This is why we included images of knives. However, later on we changed this idea. There are images of ECG monitor screens as we planned for the credits to show through a similar way.

 

The following document contains the annotations of our Mood Board:

Mood board annotations

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Interviews about thriller movies

Below are some interviews which our group carried out to gain a more detailed and more personal view of the audience.

Interview of Mr.Riley


Interview of Mary-Grace


Interview of Hilary:


Interview of Beatriz:


Interview of Me:


Conclusion:

Question one: All the people interviewed, chose either an eight or nine for how much they liked thriller movies. This highlights that everyone interviewed enjoy watching thriller movies and this is important because it helps them answer the questions asked as oppose to someone who doesn't enjoy watching thriller movies and they may not answer the questions effectively.

Question two: The modal answer for this question was the fact that thriller movies keep the audience on the edge of their seats. Some other factors involved the build up to the ending and the fact that it continually requires the audience to think about what's happening - expecting the unexpected and the suspense built as a result of this.

Question three: To analyse question three, we used the reasons why rather than which movie were their favourite as we believed that this would be most useful. We finalised that most people interviewed like the fear factor, the tension and 'edge of the seat' effect it had on them in contrast with horror movies where all the blood and insight is shown.


Question four: For the last question, we received mixed feedback; some related to the build up of suspense, tension and expecting the unexpected. The sound effects were also said to have a big impact on the audience as it helps to set the mood. Camera shots were said to be significant along with fast editing and lighting. These factors will be considered when planning our movie opening. 

Company name, Logo, Movie Plan,

This is an image of our brainstorm of Company names. We came up with many different ideas which all related to our names. We then, as a group, chose the name we all agreed on which was PVA; PVA stands for 'Perera', 'Vicente' and 'Arredondo' which are the surnames of the members of our group.

After deciding on our Company name (PVA), we designed a logo. The logo was chosen to include the colours Red, Black and White; we agreed that these colours all relate to thriller movies. The background was said to be black to symbolise darkness and creepiness, the letters were designed to be Red to represent blood and danger. Finally, we decided that the letters 'PVA' should have a white outline to contrast with the black background and also to relate to the actual meaning of PVA glue. We also believed that it would be effective for all the letters to touch each other to give the impression that they're stuck together by PVA glue.

The image above is our logo, which we created using Adobe Fireworks CS5.

 

Next, we planned our movie, thinking about props, themes, settings and characters of psychological thrillers. We also included ideas of how we would show our credits as we were starting to get a rough idea of what our movie opening would be like.

Lastly, we created our film opening summary. Here, we included what the music would be like, where the scenes would be and a step-by-step summary of our full movie opening which is predicted to be approximately two minutes.

Questionnaire Results

Questionnaire results

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This Document contains the results we received from our Questionnaires which were given to our thriller movie audience. It also includes an analysis of each question's result underneath the graph or chart.

Example of Questionnaire

Media questionnaire

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This is an example of the Questionnaire we used to survey our thriller movie audience. It also underlines the changes we made to the Questionnaire underneath as we discovered that it could be improved by our audience's reaction

Research about thriller movies

Copy of Types of thriller movies on Prezi

This prezi includes my research about 3 different types of thrillers movies - psychological thrillers, crime thrillers and political thrillers.

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task - Roshani Beatriz Mary-Grace from Alan Riley on Vimeo.

This is the final version of our preliminary task. To start with, we had many re-takes of certain areas of our pre-liminary task. As a group, we decided on which ones were of best quality and included them in our final piece. Once we had put all our clips together and exported them, we noticed that there was a long black pause at the end of our task. We had to change this by cutting it using the razor tool on Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. As we watched our preliminary task again, we realised that the match-on-action wasn't to the best that it could be. Therefore, we edited our video once again until we believed that it was done correctly.

Introduction

My name is Roshani Perera and I am studying AS Media Studies at St.Anne's Catholic High School for girls. My coursework will be a 2 minute thriller movie.