Audience Research Survey

By using Survey Monkey, I looked into potential target audience of our thriller opening. The results of my research have provided a basis and starting point for our film opening.

Psychological Film Research (Thriller)

Out of the most popular sub-genres in my film research, we chose to produce a psychological thriller. I looked at the main conventions of this sub-genre and how these films meet the requirements of the target audience. 

There are many codes & conventions of psychological thrillers. Mise En Scene features of a psychological thriller includes shadows and low key lighting, this adds tension to a scene, and also shows the inner dark personality of a character. Props such as mirrors are used for effect, for example to show a characters inner self or representing the dark side of a character. Costumes are used for example for villains. The location is an important element in a thriller, they are usually set in urban environments. 

Sound most commonly used in thrillers is eerie and tense, which is used to put the audience on edge. 

Choosing a genre

To decide on a genre for our film opening we ran a survey into three different genres. We asked 30 people at the age of 15 which film type we preferred and this pie chart displays the results of our survey. The results conclude that the most popular genre is Thriller Films, this ensures we are meeting the needs of a target audience of certificate 15 as this is the most popular choice.

Treatment

The storyline of Antidote follows a 15 year old girl called Alex. Alex feels isolated and starts to take an unknown drug which at first relieved her anxiety but the medication soon starts to have strange effects. Alex begins to see and hear a familiar face. The familiar face she sees is actually a dead relative of hers so seeing her dead cousin is all too much for Alex. Unknown to the audience in the opening of the film, these sightings aren't actually hallucinations - they are real, but she only sees her cousin when taking one particular brand of pills.

Alex is already taking Speed and LSD regularly, so both of these combined with her medication isn't good as she develops sleep problems, paranoia and hallucinations. The film opening follows conventions of a psychological thriller such as an unstable character through scenes of emotion and paranoia. The film also uses non diegetic music to emphasize mood and feeling and camera shots such as medium close ups and close ups to capture the emotion of Alex.

The film is a target audience of 15, and we are considering what we are showing. We are showing drug use, but not in a good way so we are not promoting the use of drugs.

Antidote Shooting Schedule - January

Decision List

This is everything we decided to use in our video.

Video files being used:

Path1.avi

Path2.avi

Path3.avi

Bench1.avi

Bench2.avi

Drugscene.avi

Bench3.avi

Treescene.avi

Vision1.avi

Vision2.avi

   Vision3.avi      

Vision4.avi

Vision5.avi

Vision6.avi

Vision7.avi

Vision8.avi

Vision9.avi

Vision10.avi

Swing1.avi

Swing2.avi

Swing3.avi

Audio files being used:

Image files being used:

Organization of actors, locations & costumes/props

Organisation of Actors

Jessica Hall as main character.

Chloe George as vision of dead relative.

Locations

We used a local park as our location, but filmed during a school day when the park was empty apart from the occasional dog walker.

I took pictures of our location to show where all the shots were filmed:

Costumes or Props

Costumes: Costumes used in our video opening was just casual clothing that would match the characters personality.

Props: A prop used in our film opening was sweets, used to represent medication that the main character was taking.