Prezi on research and planning aspects

Two Minute Film Opening. on Prezi

Target Audience Planning

What is the target audience?
The target audience for a film is a specific group of people with the target market of which the film is aimed at. There are all different target audience which can range from age, gender, marital status etc. The production of a film depends largely on the target audience that it chooses.


So we decided that our two minute film opening will be for the ages of 18+. Because of this I have researched into the different age ratings for films. I found that the best website for this would be the British Board Of Film Classification.

Here is some of the conditions that I found on this website for the film:

• where the material is in breach of the criminal law, or has been created through the commission of a criminal offence
• where material or treatment appears to the BBFC to risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour, to society – for example, any detailed portrayal of violent or dangerous acts, or of illegal drug use, which may cause harm to public health or morals. This may include portrayals of sexual or sexualised violence which might, for example, eroticise or endorse sexual assault
• where there are more explicit images of sexual activity which cannot be justified by context. Such images may be appropriate in ‘R18’ works, and in ‘sex works’ (see below) would normally be confined to that category.

For more information go to this link:

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/18-2/

We also did a questionnaire on Thriller films and here are some of the results that we have gained

 This is the original copy of the questionnaire. 

These are the results that we got off people.

Second Story Board Idea

This is the second story board. We are keeping the opening titles in the same places as the original but this is our final idea for our whole opening titles. The main changes that we have made to the story boards is the idea of the male character smelling the clothing and the idea of at the end of the scene having the camera in the same position as the start. We decided that the door would then close on the male character with his back to us. He will be holding a belt and he will snap it twice at the door begins to close then we will hear cries of pain to show to everybody where he got the scars from.

Conventions of Psychological Thriller

Further into my research I have decided to look at the conventions of Psychological Thrillers, I have listed some of them below:

• Elements that are related to the mind or processes of the mind; they are mental rather than physical in nature. Sometimes the suspense comes from within one solitary character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own minds. Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them.   We have tried to use this convention within our opening , as with the ending shot we have tried to create mystery, as the viewer will see cuts on our male charcters back and wonder what happedned to him,we leave the viewer with ' the effort to understand something that has happened to the charcater'.

• Thriller – Generally, thrillers focus on plot over character, and thus emphasise intense, physical action over the character's psyche. Psychological thrillers tend to reverse this formula to a certain degree, emphasizing the characters just as much, if not more so, than the plot.

• Psychological thriller – Characters are no longer reliant on physical strength to overcome their brutish enemies ,but rather are reliant on their mental resources, by battling for equilibrium in their own minds.a

Inspirations for opening from film trailers

Over view of the film:
Funnyman Robin Williams steps out of character in this tense, low-key thriller that marked the feature-film directorial debut of music video veteran Mark Romanek. Semour "Sy" Parrish (Williams) runs the photo processing department at a large discount store; Sy is dedicated to his job, and takes great pride in his work. Sy's favorite customers are Nina and Will Yorkin (Connie Nielsen and Michael Vartan), an attractive and cheerful young couple with a nine-year-old boy, Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy dotes on the Yorkins and their son whenever they drop off film to be processed -- something they've been doing quite often ever since Jake was born -- and Nina and Will are indulgent of Sy's attentions, regarding his as a harmless eccentric. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy is a desperately lonely man with no real life of his own, and he's been obsessively making copies of their photos, for years, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops a roll of film brought in by a new customer that suggests Will has been unfaithful to Nina; the notion that his ideal family may be falling apart is troubling enough for Sy, and when he loses his job, Sy reaches the breaking point. 


We used One Hour Photo as one of our inspirations because alike to "Sy" in the film, we decided that we would use the theme of stalking alike to this film and that our stalker would be male and be interested in photographs of his victims. We have made our character not seem to have much of a life alike to the character in One Hour Photo also. 

Red Road Over View:
A woman paid to watch others begins stalking one of the men she's been trailing in this thriller from Scotland. Jackie (Kate Dickie) is a woman who has buried herself in her work with a security company since the death of her husband and child. Jackie's work involves monitoring a crime-ridden corner of North Glasgow with a bank of closed circuit television cameras; after her shift is over, she either goes home or has an occasional assignation with a friend from work who isn't happy with his wife. While watching the comings and goings in a run down apartment block, Jackie spies Clyde (Tony Curran), a handsome former jailbird who shares a shabby flat with his buddy Stevie (Martin Compston) and April (Natalie Press), Stevie's girlfriend. Jackie becomes fascinated with Clyde, and after carefully following his routines through her cameras she meets him face to face at a local bar, and soon lures him into a relationship. However, in time Clyde discovers neither love nor lust is the motivating factor behind Jackie's actions.


This is the second film that we used as inspiration, we used this because alike to One Hour Photo this film includes the theme of stalking which is what we have based our two minute film opening on. We have used this film because she female character in this film tends to know the man that she is stalking's whole daily schedule, and we are going to use a similar theme of this in our film.

Seven Over View:
Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a homicide specialist just one week from a well-deserved retirement. Every minute of his 32 years on the job is evident in Somerset's worn, exhausted face, and his soul aches with the pain that can only come from having seen and felt far too much. But Somerset's retirement must wait for one last case, for which he is teamed with young hotshot David Mills (Brad Pitt), the fiery detective set to replace him at the end of the week. Mills has talked his reluctant wife, Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), into moving to the big city so that he can tackle important cases, but his first and Somerset's last are more than either man has bargained for. A diabolical serial killer is staging grisly murders, choosing victims representing the seven deadly sins. First, an obese man is forced to eat until his stomach ruptures to represent gluttony, then a wealthy defense lawyer is made to cut off a pound of his own flesh as penance for greed. Somerset initially refuses to take the case, realizing that there will be five more murders, ghastly sermons about lust, sloth, pride, wrath, and envy presented by a madman to a sinful world. Somerset is correct, and something within him cannot let the case go, forcing the weary detective to team with Mills and see the case to its almost unspeakably horrible conclusion.


We used this for our third film inspiration mainly because we got the idea for the opening titles from this film. For example at the beginning of the scene there are various shots of the "murder" forming a book of his victims. This is where we got one of the main ideas for our film opening from. Below is the opening credit for the film where we got the inspiration from.

Story Board for Opening Titles of film opening

This is the first of our story boards.

Planning and research for our 2 minute filming.

We decided to change our idea for our media ideas. We decided this because of the fact that our other idea seemed to have too much going on for it to be an opening. We decided to change our idea to a opening based around a psychotic stalker who has murdered his previous victims.

Opening Titles-

We are going to incorporate our opening titles into filming. Our first shot will be moving the camera towards a door, the door will then open to reveal a man pacing around his room. He then approaches the notice board to pin a picture of our female victim. There will then be a close up of the notice board to show his victims daily schedule. This shot will contain a name for the beginning of the opening titles. He then walks towards the computer screen and then he is seated on the floor. We will then do an over the shoulder shot to reveal the content of his interests on the screen. Here we will see, several folders of which turn out to be his previous victims. There will also be another opening titles on the screen. We will then pan round to show a book that has a name on the cover.

First scene-

Our male character will open the book which reveals disturbing images of his victims. Here we will have a voice over of his stream of thoughts which will connect to each individual picture. Whilst our male character is reading the narrations we will have some non diegetic music playing in the background.

The narrations to each individual picture:

Emily Weston – She was my first embrace, the first time I found myself. She was a difficult one, she was the screamer I soon put an end to that. A tongue on the floor says it all.

Julie Andrews- Second was Sparky. She was a sight for sore eyes as her body lit up with volts.

Mary Anne- The tool. She was a vain one, she knew she could get whoever she wanted, so I soon used a tool on her. A screwdriver to the temple and a hammer to the head took care of her vanity.

Amy Brooks- The sizzler. Burning flesh smells so unique just like her. Petrol   buried her scent, so I buried her beneath the flames.

Charlotte Hale- She will be my fifth lady in red. My Sistine chapel, my current addiction, maybe she will be different, she just might listen.

Second Scene

The male character then shuts the book, he then gets up and exits the room. The next shot will show our male character in the garden, in which he will then climb a fence and look through binoculars, we will edit black circles onto our filming to show that he is just looking at her. To emphasise that she is the most important person to him. We will film from a distance towards a window, which will show Charlotte in her room.

The name for our production company is

JMP PRODUCTIONS

We have also changed the title to HIS LADY IN RED