reflecting on AS production work: the reasearch and planning processes

Research:

The 9 frame analysis research really helped; especially when it came to us adding in our credits to our final product. It enabled us to find out the effects used, the positioning and the timing that they entered the screen which we then incorporated into our own thriller opening.

The production logo research gave us an insight into what professional production logos looked like; this helped when it came to making our own production logo (shadow productions) in terms of the colourings as we found that blue and gold were used a lot.

Our interviews and audience research really helped as it gave us an insight into what out audience liked and disliked in relation to thrillers. When it came to us thinking of our thriller plots and the conventions we intended on using this piece of reaserch enabled us to reflect back on what our target audience expected.

Marauders (Miller, 2016) 

Synopsis: When a bank is hit by a brutal heist, all evidence points to the owner and his high-powered clients. But as a group of FBI agents dig deeper into the case - and the deadly heists continue - it becomes clear that a larger conspiracy is at play.

PLIT (Night Shyamalan, 2017)

Synopsis :Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities, and must try and escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.

Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)

Synopsis: Shutter Island" is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island's fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

This Research allowed me to identify typical plots for various different types of thriller films and I can take this research into consideration when planning my thriller opening with my group.

Planning:

This piece of planning allowed us to finalise our ideas as to our class and answer any queries that our class had on plot. This was useful as out target audience age range was the age of our class mates so we were able to get their opinion on the plot.

Both our storyboard and our animatic enabled us to put our ideas down on paper and visualise what our thriller would look like. The audience feedback also allowed us to work on and improve it before the production and filming stage started.