The final shot of our film

The final shot of our opening will be an extreme close up shot of my face. This shot will focus very carefully on my eyes as my character wakes up upon realising there is an intruder in his home, which is right before the screen suddenly fades to black. We had used this type of angle in particularly becuase we were able to make the very quick movement of my eyes widening very quickly match with the our digetic sound.The fast paced soundtrack that was playing over the coarse of the thriller had concluded with a sudden loud non digetic 'boom' which is what we had used to play over the shot of my eyes opening so that both thrilling codes could be in sync with each other.

The use of these two could are effectively used together because, they both help to 'thrill' our audience by immediately surprising them with the sudden loud sound and the quick movement when they are least expecting it. 

In addition this camera shot helps to build suspense as it causes our thriller opening to be left on cliffhanger. This is shown by as when the man wakes up , he is now aware that there is another person in his house which therefore implies that there will be a confronation in-between these two men and that this man is now in danger.

Here is an example of how the same extreme close up shot technique is used to create tension in the 1990 film Sepultado Vido

The sound that we had used in our film

In our film we had used this sound instrumental in order to help convey the feeling of  thrilling excitement to our audience during the action sequence in the film as the agent is preforming his task by leaping over the wall and breaking into the house. We had used the first 50 seconds of this instrumental in our opening because that section was the most exhilarating part of the this soundtrack and if we had used the whole 2 minutes and 31 seconds of this sound it would've just dragged on and  parts of the opening wouldn't match with that sound that was being played which would've made this sound come off as Asynchronous.
We had discovered this soundtrack on Youtube while searching for a type of loud, exciting and fast pasted sound so that we could use it as a digetic synchronous sound that would be used to build excitment as well as suspense in this opening.
We had chosen this type of fast paced sound with an extremely quick rhythm to be played over our thriller because the violin string and the drum instruments that are used in this music help to convey the theme of excitment to the audience during the Spy's action sequence in the opening. This music was also edited by Cameron so that the pace of the music would gradually build up and become faster as the opening progresses in order to represent the intensity of the thriller's atmosphere gradually building and therefore becoming more suspenseful.

Preliminary task pictures

Establishing shot- A man is about to walk through the door.

He then opens the door.

He walks 

He approaches the table in front of him.

He is pulling his chair out.

He is in the process of sitting down on the chair.

He has now sat down on the chair and is about to begin a conversation with the other man sitting across the table.

The other man as he exchanges dialogue with the first man.

 

The first man as he reacts to what the second man has said.

The second man reacts to the first man's actions

Completed Hardcopy storyboards

Thriller film research

 The image above is the Questionnaire that my group had used to survey a group of young people that are aged 15+ to ask them what kind of film genre they like,what kind of Thriller sub genre appeals to them the most and finally what aspects of a Thriller that they enjoy the most. We carried this out so that we would have an idea what our target audience would want from our film so that we would know to include in our thriller and to ensure that it appeals to our target audience.

In our research we had found out that the majority of our target audience would find a Thriller film that uses suspense as its main thriller element to be a significantly good thriller, meaning that for our film to be appealing to our audience it would be wise for us to incorporate suspense into it.

 In our research we had found out that the majority of our target audience would appeal the most to the sub genre of the Spy thriller .We had also discovered that our audience would find the sub genres of a Drama, Psychological and Erotic thriller to be less favourable amongst our target audience.

As a result of this we have chosen to make our film a Spy thriller, since it will be the sub genre that will be the most well received by its audience.

This pie chart shows that our audience would prefer to have both 'Suspenseful' and 'Fast paced' music to be included in a Thriller film. Based on these results we have chosen to included a film score with a very suspense and up beat digetic music track

My Media Group

My Group consists of 4 members

• Cameron Saul-Editor,Camera operator

Cameron has the most productive jobs out of all of us in our group.In the process of constructing this product he has the very important job of filming all of the scenes that me, Tyrell and any other actors(if any) will act in during the process of our film times.Once we had completed our film making he had then  additionally taken on the job of the main film editor. Cameron was chosen to be the main camera man aswell as the main editor because he is very skillfull with the film making and editing seeing as though he is the one with the most camera work and editing skills out of all of us. 

• Marios Diamantides- Organisor, Main script writer

Marios will be the main organiser in our our film's production, making him somewhat of the director. While we were brainstorming the themes and idea's for our story, he was the one that thought of the most ideas and had also volunteered to write the majority of the film's script.He also thought of ways in which different types of Mis-en-scene could be represent through the codes of our thriller.In addition he organized the locations for our filming locations.

• Tyrell Chetty Wilson-Actor, Re searcher

Tyrell will be the primary actor in our film as his role will have significantly more screen time than my character.He is playing the character of the MI6 spy. Tyrell was chosen to play this character because this role would require him to preform stunts such as sprinting and leaping which would be very suitable for Tyrell since he is the most physically active out of the four of us. He is also shown the be a very impressive actor as he has had experience acting before in the past

• Shayne Thomas-Gordon(Me)-Actor,  ,Designor the storyboards

In our film's production I will be assigned with the job's of the secondary actor and the person who drew up the Storyboards. I was chosen to draw up the storyboards since I am considered as the most artistic  in our group, meaning that it would only be ideal that I design the story boards because I am able to draw a creative variety of camera frames to make our film look very interesting. I will also be the secondary actor in our film, since I have also had some acting experience in the past(like Tyrell).

What we could've done to improve our product

Better organization:

• To help reduce the chance of my group not being able to complete our filming on time, we could arranged  additional filming days after we had finished filming the majority of the film . This would have been beneficial to us as it would allow us to go over the finished product once we had looked at all the scenes and see if we had so that we could make sure we didn't miss anything out. In the unfortunate situation that we did miss anything out we would have been able to still film any unfinished footage because we would still have time.  

Having a better Introduction:

• Rather than just beginning the film with a shot of a large wealthy look house, it would have been more suitable for us to begin with an Establishing shot of a London suburban street seeing as though , is the kind of location where my thriller is taking place. In addition this shot would have been more helpful by clearing showing the audience what country and type of environment this film is being set , but it would also aid the film in presenting its Mis-en-scene of British culture, through its locations, buildings, landmarks and citizens living in the environment.

Representations of all the characters:

• The professional social class that is represented by the Mis-en-scene of the Spy agent is clearly identifiable in the film through the use of his all black dress code, stern mannerisms and characteristics but the social class that is beginning represented by the 'Sleeping man' is not identified. This is mainly due to the fact that this character is sleeping, throughout the whole of the film which means that he is not able to express himself in any way,shape, or form. However in order to improve this product we could've still found a way to signify a social group of certain individuals who live in britain through the use of my character's coustume. For example, we could have had my character dressed in a formal buttoned shirt pyjama top in order to represent this person as being very formal and somewhat wealthy as opposed to him just sleeping in a plain white t shirt that does not convey a lot of representation.