My Q 7

Looking back at your prelimnary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it,to the full product?


My prelim task and my thriller are very different. The thriller Snatched was a lot more complex and time taking than the prelim.


In my pre-lim we filmed it in 1 lesson and edited our footage so it was only a 20 second sequence.It is set in our school, where a male character and femail are discussing why the male was so late in bringing her a coffee and there is an odd relationship between the characters. In contrast our thriller Snatched is almost 3 mins long and it seems a lot more like a thriller.


I have learnt a lot in the progression from my pre-lim to my Thriller. We filmed my pre-lim in january and Snatched in March. We had a lot of time to plan ideas for snatched and think through what believed would work/not work.


When we originally planned this we had a vey different script in mind which we had already started planning. This sequence focused on the discovery of the kidnap,where we would film a woman(the nanny) doing her daily routine and at the end of the sequence to look at the bed where the little girl should be using a eyelinematch and then look at her clock and give a delayed reaction and suddenly dropping a glass and calling security as Sophia was missing,i thought this would add mystery as it could make the nanny look bad or good. This involved many different shot types and i had many ideas for this.I quite liked how there was not much dialoge as it was only an opening sequence i felt it was not nessasary to give away too much information. It would also be easy to make it look like a thriller by the use of soundtrack and varied shot types to make it look scary. 2 of our members decided they didnt want to do this idea anymore and wrote an actual script which was based on the storyline and plot which i came up with. I was more than happy to listen to their ideas because it is important that we work as a group and that everyone is happy with what we are doing. After discussing and debating what would be best to do we went with the rest of the groups idea on changing what we film to have more dialogue and film something entirely different based on the same storyline.


I am happy that we went with this new idea although i think the other one is good i think it would have been too short.



Snatched was much more interesting and enjoyable to shoot although it was very hard work it eventually paid off.our planning for the day of the shoot was organised and we had scripts for our actors,it was a lot more planned out and we had a shot list but we didnt really stick to our storyboards as in Snatched we found it so much easier to just plan it on the day because we were in the setting and it was a lot easier to get creative rather than sitting at a desk at school trying to imagine what shots to use.

Sound

The sound in the prelim was very easy and simple to shoot unlike our final product. There was only a little bit of  simple dialogue and not as many mistakes and footage that we had to go through at the end,so it didnt take too long. We didnt add in a sountrack or any sound effects, it was extremely basic. 

To contrast in Snatched , I spent a long time editing and doing the sound. The only sound effect we used was the sound of the phone ringing and it was diagetic because it was implied to be there and seem if it was. I also used adobe audition to warp the sound of the Kidnapper on the phone adding tension , from our audience feedback people seemed to love this effect. I also enhanced some of the actual and ambient sounds by increasing/decreasing certain sounds e.g. the car and the door slamming shut. 

For snatched we really had to think about why were adding in sounds etc and they all had a purpose and a job to try make our thriller seem more thillerish and wanted it to have certain affects on the audience 

I also added in non diagetic sound copyright free which i found on the internet and downloaded for a small fee so this wasnt an issue. The  music created tension and informed the audience when they should start to worry.Audience feedback tells us they loved this effect and that it worked well. 

Editing  and camera

Editing the prelim was very easy now looking back at it. It only took around 1 lesson to put all  the shots together as there wasn’t a lot of footage. It was only a case of putting the right shots together at the correct time and it was useful to practise editing and learn about it as i hadnt done anything like it before.

Editing Snatched was not so easy, we all did a bit of editing however some did slightly more editing than other,some did more sound than others  (i did the most editing sound) etc and it all worked out so we contributed overall quite equally. It was important and interesting in trying out diffrernt roles e.g. to try out filming. 

We edited this on a  system called  Adobe ProCC, this is a very easy and great system to use with a linear timeline into which shots can be placed in any type of order and an audio track underneath into which sound effects can be placed to match the footage to the correct time.

It was very interesting to learn how to make a prelim with a little bit of help from our teacher on how to edit. I made notes and tried to remember everything ready to edit  our thriller.
Editing the pre lim was easy.We had only a few different shots
which we needed to produce:

1.Close-up
2. -medium shot /long shot
3. medium shot
4. Over the shoulder- shot
5. Low angle-shot
6. High angle-shot 

E.g. high angle 

The problem with the pre-lim was that we didnt think to say the exact same dialogue every time we shot it so there was a slight problem when editing but it wasnt too noticible and we now know for next time to stick to the script and to make sure our actors do and say similar things every time we shoot.

Our final thriller was a lot more complex with many more different types of shots.

Mise en scene

On the day of filiming our real thriller it was very exciting.For our pre-lim the mise-en-scene was not good at all because it just looked like a classroom. For our thriller snatched we planned the location to be at Essams house because it suited our characters as the mise -en-scene had to portray wealth and luckily his house does especially after we re-decorated the living room so it was exactly how we imagined and so it suited the Russins wealthy charatcer. E.g.

Here we placed the desk in the centre and moved away the sofa which was originally there and carpet and tv. We placed the mirror so it was in view of the camera and the bar in the background which emphasiesed Brodski`s wealth.

Whereas in the pre-lim we just shot it in a classroom,the only problem with this is that we got a few interuptions from other pupils when filming like people coming in and out of classrooms. We didnt think about a script or the mise-en-scene really at all.

You can clearly see that this is a classroom and it seems a bit fake.

However in our final thriller , Snatched the mise-en-scene in every shot was appropriate and suited the wealthy middle/class social group which we aimed to represent.

E.G.

Here is a photo which i took on the day of shooting ,that was the camera which we used:

The actors in our pre-lim were me and Ed from my group, im not an actress and not very good at it and Ed rarely acts:

To contrast in Snatched,our final thriller we were lucky enough to use our friends at LAMDA,one of the top Drama schools in the Uk based in London. Our 3 friends bought along their teacher/friend from LAMDA and he played the older character because we wanted an older character to give us more credibility and make it more realistic. They were also all keen for experience , so they were perfect to use! We also chose the actors according to who suited our characters the most.

Dimitri and Ilya Brodski`s Russian accents considering they are quite unexperienced were very realistic. 

Overall i think I have learnt a lot, especially from doing the thriller ,Snatched. It was very hard work but extremely rewarding and I preffered it to the pre-lim because i liked shooting on a set,with proper cast,scripts and everyone who knew their roles well. We worked well as a team and I am looking forward to hopefully doing A2 next year and using my knowledge and skills which i have learnt next year. 


I learned a lot from the prelim ready to for the thriller because I learned how i would  use and set up a camera on set. Where would be the correct  places to put the camera for certain shots and angles, this was to get the best footage and I definitely couldnt with no experience (it was a very  challenging task but rewarding). The prelim set up and filming really made me think about how much time and effort I would have to put in for the thriller. It got me prepared for the thriller Snatched and was yet to come. I really enjoyed it and it was very useful. 

During shooting the pre-lim we all tried a bit of everything so when it came to shooting snatched we all stuck with mainly one role so it was faster to shoot as the actors didnt have all day. On the actual day of shooting Snatched i did the sound and had to place and work with the camera girl, Nathalie in order to know where i could place the profesional microphone sound recorder pro. I wanted to do more filming but we had to work as a group and try get it done without taking too long so i understood it would be best if Nathalie shot most of it.

We used natural daylight and  we were fortunate to not have to bring in artificial studio lights. So the quality of the footage was good in terms of lighting although there was actually one piece of footage, where the camera focus`s over Brodski`s shoulder at him opening the letter and the audience reading what it said but it was out of focus so could not be used, it was our mistake to not take advantage at this point of the digital camera and play back the footage and notice  but overall we were lucky with the quality of our footage and sound. 

Group Q6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this porduct?

We found that several technologies converged in the making of a film.

·      Blog, this a bit like a directors note book, where research imagery, dialogue, notes and personal thoughts as well as early drafts of the scripts, script outline, shooting script and edit notes can be posted in one place.  This allows ease of access for everyone involved in the production, for cross referencing ideas and comparing notes, it also allows for immediate feedback and does away with the need for print outs which can so easily get lost.

·      Youtube, this is an essential tool and is so useful for quickly accessing movie trailers, excerpts from TV episodes, opening sequences for films and commentaries on films. Other useful internet tools are video on demand such as Netflix, where high quality films can be streamed in an instant giving immediate access to a whole range of ideas and inspiration.

·      IMDb, this is a great tool for looking at user ratings, and demographic breakdowns according to age and gender it also gives useful information on the film such as Production Company, director and year of release.

·      Digital cameras, there are so many devices that now capture high quality footage, that is it difficult to choose a format at the lower budget end. We used a good quality DSLR with separate sound, this was very useful as the handling a lightweight camera makes shooting very easy and because it records directly to a memory card there is no loss when capturing the footage into a hard drive, unlike previous generation DV tapes.  It also has instant play back functions which allow you to review captured footage immediately, so discard or keep.

·        Editing software, we used a digital editing software interface. This software is a linear editing interface, which makes it easy to swiftly put together a timeline of sound effects and footage. Typically there is a bin of shots to choose from, from which the editor selects the footage he wants drops it into the timeline and trims to adjust. This footage can then be further treated using contrast, exposure, and colour controls to achieve the desired stylistic effects. Most edit suits have further appearance tweaking controls to further stylise the look footage. In the audio timeline which is directly synced below the movie timeline, one can further add sound effects and the exact points in the timeline that the editor suggests. Once the rough edit is completed, transitions, special effects and titles are added for the final cut. This makes editing so easy in comparison to the cumbersome manual editing of only 20 years ago

Also My questionaire maker which i used online from  http://freeonlinesurveys.com/ helped collect research and feedback and find out our target audience and what they liked about thrillers.This was extremely useful.

My Q5

How did you attract and address your audience?

Our primary target audience is teenagers. I think we would rate the film a 15 and aim it at teenagers but I think we have also been successful in targeting slightly older people in their 20`s to 30`s,the father Ilya for example is middle aged/mature and I think this helps in attracting slightly older people as well as teenagers because they are able to relate to the older generation easily.

Teenagers have the most disposable income and from our research and questionaires we found out that teenagers favourite genre was infact Thrillers and that teenagers watched them the most (specifically from our survey we made 72%-57 surveyed) age 15-21 , liked thrillers the most and we were able to attract and target our audience by finding out why they liked thrillers and using this in our movie,e.g. teenagers were the age group that enjoyed thrillers the most so we could easily find out why they liked thrillers and target them by using similar conventions in our own thriller.


Teenagers also enjoy the excitement and thrill you get from watching a thriller, we also found out from some teenagers who answered a questionaire on film that they expected from thrillers mystery and the feeling of "what is going to happen?" and how many endings in thrillers are unexpected but most of all ,before watching a thriller people expect tension and they obviously love it because so many teenagers favourite genre is Thriller.



Our themes are both eternal and universal such as loyalty, betrayal, revenge, sex, and power. We have the theme of the younger brother seeking revenge on his older brother (This is found in Biblical and Koranic tales such as Cain and Abel, a variation is also found in Shakespeare’s Hamlet). The theme of betrayal and loyalty is represented by the trusted mother figure who betrays both the girl and her master, out of desire of the younger brother. Finally we have the theme of power, in the mafia Godfather figure of Ilya Brodsky but what is power if he cannot save his own daughter.


One of the contemporary issues we explore in this film is how thanks to the global community and the erosion of national borders, no-one is safe anywhere especially the super rich, who live in super secure environments in particular the Russian expat community in London, has a reputation of protecting themselves with armed guards. Whether this is true or not, the perception remains that the super rich are wary of potential crime against them, and in particular the perception of many in the Russian expat community is that they have perhaps acquired their vast wealthy, through not entirely ethical means and therefore perhaps expect reprisals against them. This film attempts to explore these issues by playing on the stereo-types and leading us to unfamiliar world.
The title of our film for example is “snatched” it is quite an exciting and thrilling title and it suits the thriller genre well, it makes us want to know what/who gets “snatched”. We thought about all the conventions of a thriller genre and conformed to many of these conventions. I think our opening sequence to a thriller successfully attracts our target audience and from our audience feedback ,we found that many teenagers "wanted to know what was going to happen next" and .

I found the film questionaire that i made very useful. I asked 

 "What would you say, attracts you the most to watching a Thriller ? " 

A few examples of what some people said :

Twists and the plot coming together at the end.Tension in thrillers..!

Solving the mystery

I love trying to solve the mystery and the excitement of thrillers.Theya are fun to watch and I like how they are normally quite realistic therefore more scary.

I love the way thrillers are never obvious and i find it fun finding out the mystery. I love the excitement and tension they create and enjoy watching with friends!

I like how the excitement thrillers give you and how they keep you on the edge of your seat. I love the mystery and the unexpected endings.

Then after we made the thriller i asked questions about what they thought and many said :

If you enjoyed watching it, what did you mostly like about it?	Yes, I want to know what happens now. I like the characters & I like the suspense; the music sets the scene perfectly too
If you enjoyed watching it, what did you mostly like about it?	it looked professional....tension in the atmosphere
If you enjoyed watching it, what did you mostly like about it?	I absolutely LOVED this thriller! The music made it really suspense and the dialogue was really exciting! I particularly liked the 'warped' voice of the kidnapper - it made the kidnapper seem really frightening and put me on the edge of my seat!! I could tell it was a thriller right from the beginning because of the suspense of the music.

After the first questionaire we tried to use what people liked and use it in our own thriller.I think we were very successful in attracting and addressing our audience and we spent a lot of time thinking about the conventions of thrillers and creating "tension" .I am extremely happy from my audience feedback and i think we were on the whole very successful and succeeded in what we wanted to achieve and worked well as a group.

Groups Q4

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?If the ratings of IMDB are accurate then the market for this type of thriller is mainly under 18s, and fairly equally distributed over gender, closely followed by the 18 -29 demographic. We conclude this by examining the ratings for Taken and Shutter Island on IMDB
Young people under 18 have the most disposable income and the most time and inclination to see films. This is why all big movies are targeted at this demographic.

Since we are a young crew that fits into this demographic it is not surprising that we decided to make a movie that would appeal to our age group.

Also it must be remembered that this is a story about the kidnap of a young girl and so this film is going to have relevance to this demographic who will relate to and understand the terror and determination of a similarly aged human being. Therefore the question is not where the IMDB demographics deliberately influenced our choice of film genre but rather that the IMDB demographic breakdown reflects the interests of our age group.

Therefore it is clearly understood from this that our audience is ourselves and those like us, which is confirmed by the above research. In our questionnaire and analyses responses it was also clear that there is a slight percentage increase in the number of males who would be interested in our film due to the action, mystery and potential violence. In our analysis it appears that more females are scared by this type of genre although that is also a reason they like to view it. So both genders have an interest in this type of genre although from different perspectives. This may be somewhat stereotyped but holds nevertheless.


Although the traditional way of classifying an audience is to break it down into male, female, class, education, race and status our primary concern is to attract as wide a market as possible and not fit the film so completely into a niche market that only those who subscribe to that genre and sub genre will be interested.

It is worth noting that according to the IMDB ratings database, although the primary demographic was the under 18 market clesly followed buy the 18 -29 market – ther was till a huge amount of people right up to the 45 + bracket watching the film and this is what we would like to aspire to.


The questionaire which I made was extremely useful. I asked people what age they were and 72% of the 82 people in which answered it were age 15-21.We also found out that most of them liked thrillers and it was there favourite genre the second most popular was comdey.Both often genres which are targeted at teens. This was a good result and one of the main reasons why we also decided to target overall 15-21 year olds.

I then asked what people most expected before watching a thriller:

Many 15-21 year olds expect tension and secondly mystery which they try to solve.

Group Q3

Q 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

"We have created a mainstream, high production value product, that addresses contemporary issues dealing with corruption and terrorist threats in the Russian diaspora. Due to our high level of professionalism and high end production values this film is a main stream media product. To get interest from production companies we would use a tiered approach: We would post High definition edit on Youtube We would create a website devoted to the film With deleted initial scene, script outline to create a “buzz” about the product. With quotes from well know people in the industry supporting our product. This will be linked to the Youtube page to expand potential audience. Using the Website (www.snatchedfilm.com) and Youtube we would approach commissioning editors at Chanel 4 BBC. With this material we would also approach, UK based production houses such as SOHO based Tiger Aspect productions Also submitting this to as many Film festivals and competitions as possible. Including Virgin Media Shorts, London Short Film Festival, The BFI film fund and researching UK and European film festivals, and American festivals such as Rain-dance Also giving the nature of the Russian film connection we would target selected Russian individuals with money to see if they would be interested in financing out film, with a view to targeting Russian film festivals such as Moscow film festival. To create a ‘Buzz’ for this film using the LAMDA actors from Snatched, we would create a fake kidnapping of the young girl, possibly on the streets of Knightsbridge outside Harrods, to get into the papers and local and international news, giving us a platform to advertise our movie. If questioned by the police we would explain that this was a piece of performance art to highlight safety concerns around children of wealthy Russians expats in London. We would ofcourse make sure this was filmed by ‘a member of the public’ on the Iphone, and posted on Youtube to get people talking."

Groups Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?




Our thriller opening sequence represents different social groups, we planned to represent these social groups quite stereotypically, this way we thought it would be easy for the audience to relate to our thriller. We represented the Russian Father, Ilya Brodski`s and his family (brother Dimitri and family background) as a wealthy, corrupt, and a serious Russian family. This is a stereotype of many wealthy families in Russia, that the family is large and that those wealthy families our quite corrupt,many mafia gangs etc. It represents the middle class negatively, that they are rich, flashy and corrupt.


We also represented the little girl in two ways,first of all, as a stereotypical teenager who is demanding to “go outside “ on her own but then the father shows his authority and makes her seem vulnerable, who stereotypically needs a man or a nanny to protect her.


The nanny typically acts as Sophia`s carer (because the Father is wealthy/corrupt businessman and doesn’t have that much time to act as a full time guardian) . Our group thought that this combination of the father being in charge of the nanny,he works and the nanny acts as the mothers role,this would help to represent the Fathers serious character quite well and make him seems as a stereotypical bredwinner who carries out an instrumental role. I think we portrayed this successfully.


Lastly the nanny seems to get away with being in on the kidnapping with Dimitri so this is also representing her in a stereotypical way because it is a stereotype that girls can get away with more and that we don’t expect the nanny to be “bad”.Although you could also argue that we are challenging the stereotype because she is an evil character who cares about money rather than being the stereotypical and kind female which the audience at first expect.


Our research of these negative representations of various stereotypes helped us to easily portray the thriller genre well because they are very typical representations and are therefore easy to manipulate, for example using russian characters helps the audience relate to the fact that the father has a corrupt background because often Russians are stereotypically associated with dodgey mafia gangs (even though this isnt correct,it happens)

We also use Mise-en-scene to represent all these stereotypes. For instance, the setting of the Father,Ilya`s office,its very modern(the modern phone),bar in a background and it looks expensive which relates to the stereotype of wealthy “flashy” Russians. The father is also wearing a suit and looks like a Russian , serious businessman. The little girl, Sophia is wearing a girly, simple and quite conservative dress, with blonde hair (stereotypically blonde hair is seen as quite idealistic).


Overall, i think we have created a negative representation of Russian middle class families,often and stereotypically the Russian middle class are very wealthy and we have portrayed these characters as corrupt mafia buisnessmen getting involved with the wrong people.I think we are very successful in entertaining the audience because there are various social groups and different characters which makes it very interesting.

My Q1 POWERPOINT

 

More info relating to slide 8/24

• Throughout the film the character Alex Cross gets calls from the kidnapper,below is an insight into how it is done in Along Came A spider(could not find many scenes of Along Came A Spider on youtube so you can see this use of the phonecall voice change on the trailer at 59-1.02 seconds into the trailer and 1min .37 seconds to 1min .45 )

And this relates to slide 4/24
Jezzes character throughout the film is portrayed as good and we arent suspicious of her at all throughout the film we want to use a similar stratedgy in snatched to portray Patricia as not very suspicious.For example at 1 min 04 secs  :

My Audience Feedback

Questions I asked- Audience feedback powerpoint from gabby_wd

Feedback:

Did you enjoy watching our thriller? from gabby_wd

Positive feedback

If you enjoyed watching it, what did you mostly like about it?

I absolutely LOVED this thriller! The music made it really suspense and the dialogue was really exciting! I particularly liked the 'warped' voice of the kidnapper - it made the kidnapper seem really frightening and put me on the edge of my seat!! I could tell it was a thriller right from the beginning because of the suspense of the music.

I am very happy with this persons feedback, they noticed the "warped voice" which I infact edited, so  I was extremely happy.They said it made the kidnapper seem really "frightening and put me on the edge of my seat" This is exactly our intensions and they also said "i could tell it was a thriller from the begining because of the suspense of the music" This is what we hoped we would achieve by adding in that soundtrack so it is great to hear that it helped make Snatched seem even more like a thriller "right from the begining".

• People also said how they wanted to know what was going to happen next , which is of course what we hoped for because it is a thriller and this engima is a common convention in most Thriller films.
• 35/35 100% of the people could luckily tell it was in the thriller genre ,of course this is what we intended.

97% of the 35 people agreed that that the music we added in worked well. 

I am extremely happy the mostly everyone agrees that it worked and helped to create tension. Feedback also tells us that this is valid:"I thought that it seemed very proffesional and i liked the use of sound effects ,especially the sound of the kidnapper on the phone making him seem anonymous ,withoout the sound effects it would not be so tense....music added emphasised tense moments.."





After watching it, what was your most memorable and favourite part?

You can see from most of these responses that on the whole people loved many different parts and i am happy these respnses are varied which means many thingsare positive from snatched.

E.G.These comments below.

• The texting as it is nicely shown on the screen and it is a tool we currently use a lot which represents the contemporaneity of the video. 
• The part in the car, it's sort of a turnover. Awesome. 
• The end as we realise the nanny is behind it 
• I guess it would be the phonecall with the warped sound of the kidnapper 
• My favourite part was when the girl was banging on the window and i like the sound effect of how we can hear her shouting "daddy" it was very dramatic 
• My favourite part was when Ilya gets a phonecall,i loved the warp sound effect!Very clever. 
• "Sit down" (when the dude is on the phone ) 
• The first guy's Russian accent. 
• 
  

This feedback makes me very happy because many of our ideas were remembered and were the audiences favourite parts E.G.The phonecall and the warped voice sound effect. Also the texting which is shown on the screen which as the person says does represent the contemporary side of the video using new technologies. 

People also understood what it was generally about as you can see below  they overall were spot on , without knowing too much info:

Story x from gabby_wd

We asked people if we made it into a movie,would they go and watch it:

Obviously i didnt expect everyone to say yes as perhaps they were not all 15-21 or they may not have liked the genre thriller, even though most of the people i shared it with on facebook are probably our target age.I am very hapy with our results.

We asked 35 people to critisise it and tell us how we could improve it,they had to say a critisism and overall i think what they said was fair however some may just be critisiing for the sake of it so i could have phrased the question better.

Negatives from gabby_wd


Lastly, I asked 
"Our primary target audience was around age 15-21 years old, do you think we successfully met our target audience?"

And 32/35 people agreed that we successfully met our target audience.

I am very happy with our overall feedback as most of it was positive and I think this tells us that we achieved our goals and all our hard work hopefully did pay off!

Here is the link to the questions which i sent to everyone:

http://freeonlinesurveys.com/app/rendersurvey.asp?sid=j3ym1yh6hpap4b4477041&refer=

Final Production

Our Final Production "Snatched"

Sound

In Film and television, there are different types of sound used.There are 4 types of sound:

- Diagetic Sound: is sound whose source is  located somewhere on the screen , sound both the characters and audience can hear.Digetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame. Diegetic sound can include voices of characters to the sounds of objects or even music coming from a radio or an instrument as long as its represented  as coming from instruments in the story.E.G:

• E.g. This speech when Leonardo is talking
•  When the crowd cheers. 
• They all start humming

• Phone call converstaion of Father talking
• voice of girl 

Often a foley is used.Foley effects are sound effects added to the film during post production (after the shooting stops). They include a foley artist recreating any sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, crockery clinking, paper folding, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking, etc. Foley artists recreate the realistic ambient sounds that the film portrays.Foley sounds are diagetic because both the characters here the sounds and so do the audience.

-Non Diagetic sound: is simply  sounds that have been added in, this can  like music, a narrator  and sound effects to add a dramaric effect. Non-diegetic sounds are often used to add drama to moments that would be silent without it.The sound's source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action. There are three main non-diegetic sounds: a score, an original soundtrack, and a voice-over.An original soundtrack (OST)is a soundtrack using pre-recorded , non ochestrial music. Usually used in films aimed at teens, it also triggers emotion.A voiceover/narration can come from a characyer within the film,in which it provides the audience with extra information on visuals,it can also come from a character outside a film,e.g. a narraton which is "Omniscient"(all seeing/knowing).Audiences instinctively trust narrators and pressumer they are reliable.

• At 0.50 seconds of this clip after the title sequence it is a scene of the mother trying to wake up Anna the daughter and the song "happy together is played" which is non-diagetic sound because it is to create atmosphere for the audience ,the characters cant hear that noise.It first plays slowly when Anna is asleep and after the alarm goes off, it plays faster to add to the atmoshphere that Anna should be in a rush and that time is passing quickly in the morning.(The diagetic sound in this clip are the characters voices, the alarm ringing and the horn Harry the little brother blows to wake Anna up). 

Sometimes people crossover both diegetic and non-diegetic to create something called trans-diegetic transition. An example of a trans-diegetic transition is when there is a radio on the screen playing a song in one scene which is diagetic sound and when the video cuts to a different scene the music is still playing in a non-diegetic way.Overall, Non-diegetic and diegetic are both important in a movieor tv, since diegeticsounds is all about what the characters hear and non-diegetic is all about what the audience should feel.

-Synchronous sound: where image and sound are in sync , mostly all the time in sound.Synchronous sounds contribute to the realism of film, and also help to create a particular atmosphere.E.G. someone angrily slamming a door and hearing the door bang.

-Asynchronous sound:  Where image and sound are out of sync,much more rare. Can be very mysterious, simply because we cannot see its source. It produces the tension from the audiences curiosity. Sometimes the audience does not know what the sound is they hear, but the character in the film can hear it, turn his face toward the sound, and see its source before the audience does. This can add a lot of tension and mystery.

Target audience and ways i would advertise my thriller

Although our target audience is teenagers, we still have to think about our secondary target audience.  They will be older and will discover films in different ways to teenagers, even though they may not actually watch the film it is still important we target them so they have the chance to talk about it and decide if they think it looks like a film they would want to watch. The way we would advertise for teenagers would be adverts on movies in a similar genre, therefore people who like similar types of thrillers will like the look of ours. We would also advertise on :

• YouTube adverts 
• social media would be a key way of advertising for teenagers because teenagers are constantly on social media sites like twitter, Facebook etc 
•  Billboards 
• Magazines e.g. empire magazine 
•  Radio interviews with actor’s teenagers may like about a film.
• Social media alternate reality games
• Media and press e.g.radio

For our secondary target audience we would advertise by:

• · Newspaper articles
•  Reviews 
• Tv chat shows (perhaps even shows the older generation often watch like The One Show )
• Magazines
• Billboards 
• Flyers
• National press

New shot list and prop list for Snatched

Shot list for ''Snatched'' from natsamen

New treatment for snatched

This is the updated and final treatment for snatched , adapted from my idea.The group helped to finalise our ideas and alter it slightly and we worked very well together.

New script and idea for our new thriller idea "snatched".

This is now our main updted idea and script for our opening sequence and i think we will definitely go through with it.Now we have a script it is much easier to film , follow  and understand.

Costume Ideas for "Snatched"

Sophia

Perhaps Sophia could wear something like this above ^ I looked on Ebay and found many things which we could order which would be suitable for Sohia to wear. I think if Sohia wears a navy dress it would work well because navy dress`s are very conservative and quite smart. This is how we want to portray Sophia.I think a bow in her hair would also look good as bows often make children look younger and more innocent. I was inspired by the idea of Matilda who always wore a bow in her

Patricia  hair.

We could order one from ebay because it is very cheap and we do not have a huge budget to spend.

This bow would suit our character Sophia extremely well. I think we should order it as its only 99p for 5 bows-great value!

Patricia(nanny)

I think Patricia should look proffesional and neutral. A long black skirt and a blazer would be fine to use and her hair should look tidy and proffesional. We researched many films with nannys in and Mary Poppins ans The sound of Music (Maria ) sprung to mind. Although their outifts would be too old fashioned we were inspired by them. E.g. black neutral colours ,proffesional blazer . 

We told our actress what we were looking for and she said she had the perfect outfit so she will wear  something similar to what we had in mind. Black colours so she doesnt attract to much attention and she will be more mysterious and proffesional.

Dimitri 

We dont think we will have any close up shots to create more mystery about the character of Dimitri in our opening sequence,however it is still important what he would wear and wears. I think a typical bad boy,russina ,mafia style outfit would suit his character perfectly, for example, a leather jacket and dark colours which connote evil ,not happy bright colours. 

Real life example : 

and 

These outfits would be perfect for the russian antagonist Dimitri in our thriller "snatched" 

Ilya Brodski

We want Ilya to look like a buisnessman but at home on his normal day to day life. He isa  middle class,russian and fairly stereotypical wealthy buisnessman and the photo below portrays what sor of thing i have in mind for Ilya to wear. We casted a man who is a similar age because we think older characters make the film more realistic and give it more credibility. 

Reason for change of idea/plan

We decided to change our idea for the opening sequence.Firstly because our main actress,my friend Christy , last minuite could not make it and she pulled out.The other idea also would have been too short to film for an opening sequence and I think it would not be so thrilling and intersting.Our new idea was adapted from our previous one and the story line is quite similar but it is definetely clearer and had improved. 

Animatics for Snatched

These are   our storyboards for our idea of filming the nanny and her dailt routine and then when she walks in the room she is going to have a delayed reaction to the girl being kidnapped so the audience are slightly suspicious of her .The story board was useful in decided why and what shot types to use to have an effct on the viewer and make it continious however i think on the day of shooting our shot ideas will change as we get in the creataive zone and when we are in the enviroment in which we ar actually shooting the film. It is useful however in planning our ideas which our in our heads and sharing them with our group.This is our storyboard animatics:

Description and questions we thought about for our idea for the opening sequence

Why you liked it generally ?

Because it creates suspense through out the opening sequence enabling the viewer to understand who will be involved in the kidnapping without giving to much information.

How it feeds into narrative?

The opening sequence will feed into our narrative as it introduces the nanny and what her daily routine is normally like. Tt does not give away too much information about why or how Sophia got kidnapped but it introduces the significant event by leaving us slightly suspicious of the nanny’s involvment. Her delayed reaction to the girl’s dissapearance will make us wonder what her agenda is, and make us want to carry on with the story.

How it might appeal to your audience, target?

As the story is of the thriller genre, it will appeal to a wider range of people, not just a specific type of person. Suspense entices any sort of person to want to know what will happen, however the story of the movie will appeal to a younger audience as we are enticed by the enigma and excitement of the opening sequence.

How will it hook the audience?

The way in which the audience would be hooked is by the enigma, and all the questions one would start to ask themselves, like “Whats the nanny’s agenda?”, or “what’s gonna happen to the young girl?”. The suspense hooks the audience.

Why it will look like a thriller

The enigma is the main element that will allow the film to be of the thriller genre.

Technical ideas (camera shots, mise en scene, sound, editing),

Mise en Scene:

-We want the setting to look as if it is stereotypically a  wealthy looking house

- smart looking nanny  (mid-length skirt, tight shirt, pulled back hair)

- well light house

- could be a rainy day

 We did not carry on with our ideas because we had a slight problem with the actress.We might come up with a new idea because although this one is good,we think it may be too short to film and not as exciting as out new idea. We will probably keep the background story line similar but shoot something else.

My personal Editing /shot ideas for our Thriller opening sequence

My Editing ideas:

These our some of my editing and technical ideas, I think if i share them with the team and we used them it would work quite well. I attempted to come up with continuity editing which was exciting but flowed well.

• First shot needs to be the house (location shot,pannig shot of a massive house)
• second shot of the nanny tidying away toys/books/gadgets...
• Then its a shot of her in kitchen washing up and drying ( a shot from the side with running water) she hears a big thud
• we film a close up of her reaction-she has to look very worried to trick viewer and create suspense because in the next scene we will be suspicious of her...!
• Then we film a mid/long shot of her walking towards the door from behind -at a low angle ,we film her opening the door and shutting it behind her.Then from the otherside we film her pulling the door shot to make the ediditng seem as if it is contiuity editing.(cut to shot ahead of closing door mid way through action,continuity shot)
• We film her walking up the stairs, do shot from above,infront and behinf-cut to be continious,look at whisper olivias hurtwood trailer for reference.
• Film foot steps
• Film her back mid/long shot and we see in the shot in the distance one of those children door signs on the door saying Sophia.Close up shot of the sign to tell the viewers she is enetering a childs bedroom
• Then go back to a mid long shot of her by the door and her reaching for the door handle and turning it 
• Film a close up of her hand twisting the door handle and cut to that to add continuity
• Cut half way open door camera far corner of the room and films women walking in.
• Film a close up of the women turning obviously to the bed ,film her looking at the bed so it is an eyeline match!
• Now do a Shot of an obviously messy bed like someone has been taking and then a close up shot of her teddy lying on the floor.
• Then film a long shot of the nanny from a low angle looking at her watch and then dropping a glass in an obvious way
• Close up of glass smashing
• Copy along came a spider shot of nanny calling for help " help me help emergency emergency . security at the gates do not allow any visitors in or out...sophia is gone and i think she has been kidnapped "
• Cross cut to Sophia in car boot tied up with tape and then film someone slamming the car shut and cut to black.