Audition script.

We chose to write up a draft script for auditions of our characters fighting. This is due to how vital it is to establish the on screen chemistry and flow of our actors as it is the only part of our opening where we see both our characters interacting with each other - so these auditions gave us an idea of how the real thing could/should look.

Music choices and analysis.

Daughter 

We have chosen to use 'run' by the band Daughter (the first 34 seconds). As we feel the tone and pace appropriately captures the atmospheric mood to our thriller. we feel it sets the scene as the use of guitar comes across as mellow yet hauntingly eerie. it also matches the theme of normality to our opening as the segment we plan to use has been created by a basic acoustic guitar and nothing electronic or artificial. This reflects on the normality of our setting and location but creates a tense contrast because of the characters' situation. Then, half way through the opening we will use the first 13 seconds of the song 'love' (by Daughter). This song creates a really eerie and uncomfortable ringing noise that fades into a violent silence and fits perfectly with the scene where the dead girls hand appears. Nearing the end of our thriller opening we will insert the song 'landfill' (also by Daughter) as the drum beats really create tension and an aspect of the unknown. 

Asking Alexandria 

We have decided that Emily will do a piano medley cover to re-create the piano bridge from the song 'not the american average' by the band Asking Alexandria. We feel this piece suits our thriller opening when we show the couple fighting (but the dialogue will be cut out by the piano medley) as the chime of the piano keys hover in an echoey hollow-like silence.

Thriller auditions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyUU6GCZ0jM

Audition mug shots.

 Name: Sophie Trievnor
Age: 16














Name: Heather Lawton
Age: 16

 Name: Ben Watkins
Age: 16

 Name: Rob Eaton
Age: 16

Name: Emily Ross
Age: 16

Name: Jack Ward
Age: 16














Name: Oscar Crabb
Age: 16

 Name: Faye Lee-Brown
Age: 16














Name: Ryan Dones
Age: 17

Storyboard three.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNVeWDRjMBE

Storyboard two analysis video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-u_eHRm0Q

Questionnaire evaluation voice recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozWobEl_LA

Storyboard one.

Script ideas.

Questionnaire links.

In order to see what our target audience expect from a thriller opening my partner and I created a questionnaire and had our friends and family fill it out. Underneath you will see the links to the two part questionnaire.


Thriller Questionnaire Part 1 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?PREVIEW_MODE=DO_NOT_USE_THIS_LINK_FOR_COLLECTION&sm=qDlzg764fYf9qb2bCnuHktM5neHLf%2fhQSp0v64AyFYw%3d


Thriller Questionnaire Part 2 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?PREVIEW_MODE=DO_NOT_USE_THIS_LINK_FOR_COLLECTION&sm=nIe4cXeAAxBSfV6FY5vAbgQdadYBBDw%2fbSkatGBUf60%3d

Sound analysis presentation.

Questionnaire analysis part two

Out of the three titles we made up, most preferred the name ‘slender psychosis’. The final outcome does not have to have this title, however it lets us know the word/vocabulary type our audience is most pleased by.

The results show our audience prefer cyclical – this is useful as it will help influence us on making the final footage; using a cyclical timeline creates confusion and tension which are key in any thriller.

It can be seen that our audience prefer flashing scenes in the opening of a thriller films – this is an edit in footage that we can use.

    Our audience prefers a build up. This gives us something to think about when filming. 

    This answer shows that the audience prefer a mysterious opening with no apparent plot. 

   The results from our question on colours gave feedback that showed our audience preferred a dull colour scheme for a thriller. (a stereotypical colour pallet for this genre.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

We asked what style of font was best appropriate/well suited to the credits of a thriller. As predicted, a lot suggested a bold font, easy to read however slightly distorted to reflect on the thriller mood.

Over all, this questionnaire was of great use as it gives us an idea of the type of thriller out audience expects. Its content will help guide our decision making from colour schemes, to locations, to camera editing and lighting.

Questionnaire analysis part one

http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/28011433

Thriller Ideas

One: 

• At the start everything seems normal, film starts showing the main character.
• Slight character introduction, the character could have moved to a new school in a new place because of parents job. When in new school makes new friends and we find out about the characters (main) background.
• As film goes on the friend that the main character made is represented as being odd (something seems off about them) and the main character also grows closer to a crush.
• Character is invited around crush's house and friend warns not to go, main character takes it as jealousy and goes anyway.
• Crush turns out to be a psychopath (everything the freaky friend who we believed to be the psycho said is true) represetation changed.
• Friend saves/helps main character and psychopath ends up in jail.

Two: 

• Family move into a house in an isolated small town.
• Teenager of the family hears weird noises in house late at night (screaming etc) 
• Teenager finds out that house has had bad history of murder and suicide 
• When teenager tells parents they don't believe them think it is just an excuse to get them to move back to their old house.
• Odd things start happening to the family. 
• Found out it is a spirit in the house. Parents finally believe teenager.
• Family try to leave, but cant get out.
• Only teenager survives and they end up in a hospital for the mentally insane because no one believes them.

Three:

• Girlfriend and boyfriend are really happy together when the girl starts to go slightly insane (or so the boy thought). She claims an urban legend (something close to slender man) is after her.
• Boy doesn't believe her. 
• Girl commits suicide. Boy is devastated and  doesn't believe she would do that and then thinks that everything she was saying was true. 
• He then researches into this urban legend using his own research and the girls
• in the end the legend (or monster type thing) comes after the by and he will either escape or die and everyone just thinks he killed himself because of the depression of loosing his girlfriend to suicide and know one ever knows the truth.