Audience Research - (Anna Gajda)

Audience Research:

Certificate for our thriller:
-> Based on this research on certificates and what can and cannot be included i think that for our thriller we should focus on 15 or 18 as our age certificate. These certificate rates allow us to use strong language which could emphasise the situation of our character if for example they are being chased or cut their leg or lost themselves in the middle of nowhere which could signify their anger or pain.
-> Aggression is permitted in 15 and 18 film certificate this allows us to use a fight scene or a fleeing scene where the main character runs away from danger which could be injured by sharp objects or a building collapsing and could be trying to stop the source of danger through punching the evil character or wounding them.
-> Drugs are permitted in both Certificates which can allow us to create a story where a girl uses drugs or has possession of them based on the Certificate and needs money to survive. Or our narrative could be that a girl is linked with drugs and shes forced to travel and get them abroad.

Film Distributors Association:
Thrillers Released:

The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2016)

Box Office

Budget:

 $17,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

 $16,800,868 (USA) (24 June 2016)

Gross:

 $55,121,623 (USA) (23 September 2016)

Rated PG - 13 for bloody images, intense sequences of peril, and brief strong language


Upcoming Thrillers:
Split(,M. Night Shyamalan,2017)

Box Office

Budget:

 $10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

 $40,010,975 (USA) (20 January 2017)

Gross:

 $49,191,185 (USA) (25 January 2017)

Involves sex and Nudity

There is a scene involving teenage girls stripped down to their underwear
One scene heavily implies that the protagonist was sexually molested by her uncle as a child. 

Preliminary task & Evaluation (Anna Gajda)

Preliminary task:

 

With the production of the film we had to  follow guidelines and include:

• Continuity editing,
• Match on action,
• 180 degree rule,
• Shot reverse shot,
• Include a conversation,
• Opening door and going through it. 

Idea and plan:

With this task we haven't had enough time to plan a storyboard but we did brainstorm an idea on what it would be based on. our one minute film was based on a girl being followed and stalked by a boy who is in love with her, we chose to add more humour rather than seriousness as we wanted to experiment with a different genre additionally it would have improved the narrative of the story as the boy was stalking her because he wanted to aske her out and was too scared to talk to her.

Match on action:

We used two shots and edited them together to create the effect of continuity editing this allowed us to increase the effect of match on action.

Person walking through the door included the technique of Match on Action. This technique would have added verisimilitude to the film as it looks as if the event is happening in real time and it would feel like the audience is part of the film.

 

Shot reverse shot:

This technique was used to capture both reactions of the people which makes the narrative more clear as we can witness their emotions and reactions  based on what the previous person had said. it allows us to see both sides of the conversation and makes the audience feel like they are part of the conversation. These shots were filmed twice and merged into one with editing.

 

180 degree rule:

The 180° rule is when the camera cannot pass a invisible line which is from the left to the right of the character (180°) if the cinematographer passes through it, it changes the perspective of the film and makes the film change angle. If it crosses the line it reverses the angle.

 

 

 

Audience Response to preliminary:

• Soundtrack: the editing of the song into the audio line 'she's so lovely' this gives the film narrative as it works with the story line of the boy wanting to ask the girl out.
• The audio of the characters speaking is loud enough and the music fades out on certain parts of the film where the dialogue starts.
• The camera angle and tracking shots are clean giving the effect of match on action as it doesn't have jump cuts. Camera was in focus which gave the effect of a modern film and allows the camera to capture facial expressions.
• Some shots with the camera are shaky which could have been resolved with a tripod to create a smooth shot.
• If we had more time we should have done more shots at different angles so that when we got to editing we would have more shots to chose from to match the previous scenes.
• Our editing of the clips together could have been more smoother as we had some dialogue problems where the dialogue cuts half of the sentence and goes straight to the response of the other character which reduces the continuity editing.

 

Short Film:Three principles of continuity editing

Three principles of continuity editing

In this short clip we had covered the three principles of continuity editing such as 

• Shot reverse shot, 
• 180 degrees shot 
• Match on action