Test advertisement poster for our thriller

On Monday Adam had some spare time on his hands so he decided to have a play around with his camera and try out some shots for our thrillers advertisement poster. Featured below is the poster which he designed and also a PowerPoint of how he created it.

Making the poster from adamlievesley

 

Thriller Advertisement poster

After much deliberation, myself and Alex decided that this poster would be the best one to use because we felt as though it fully grasped the concept of the thriller. Alex chose to use a wood because the majority of 'torment' will be filmed in a wood.

Permission to film on school property

Just before Christmas, I sent the following email to our Head teacher Mr Knowles to request permission to film students within the school premises. It was important to get permission because we weren't sure if there were any guidelines regarding the child protection policy.

"Dear Mr Knowles,

Myself, Scott Cartwright, Adam Lievesley and Alexandra Reddish are AS Media students. We are writing to you to enquire whether it would be at all possible to set up a camera in a specified location in/around school on a set date during a change over time between lessons. The object of this to get a piece of time-lapse film which shows the hustle and bustle of school life, one of the ideas of our film is for a psychological/supernatural thriller where the protagonist is a school girl who may be frequently seen as an outcast.

We understand that this is a big ask as we would need permission from lots of different people. However, all faces and the school badge can be anonymised by filming using a shallow depth of field and this means that it would be blurred and out of focus so no faces would be seen and only the outlines and colours of uniforms would be visible etc. Also the footage would be sped up, used as a backdrop and only last for a few seconds.

If you would like us to explain this to you in person for you to get a better idea of what this will entail (especially with regards to Child Protection policy) and hopefully something the school can facilitate. If given permission, we will show you the footage we plan to use so you can give it your final go-ahead or refusal.

Thank you,

Abbey, Scott, Adam and Alexandra.

12AMS1 "

 

A few weeks later we got a reply which said

 

" Hello Abbey,

 

Complete the filming and then shown it to me.

 

Thank you and enjoy the holidays!

 

Mr Knowles

 

Andrew J Knowles

Headteacher "

 

 

 

 

Advertisement posters for our thriller and thriller name

Towards the end of last week, Alex had some free time on her hands so she decided to have a play around with some pictures and she came up with these possible ideas for our advertisement poster. Last Thursday, myself and Alex were thinking about possible names for our thriller and we both agreed that 'Torment' would be very suitable because Rae, the character in our thriller, is going insane through the torment she has faced all of her life.

Our Logo!

We have decided to use this logo for our official production team. As a group we found it difficult to decide which logo we should uses so we asked a variety of people differentiating in age to get their opinions which would be the best one to use. The majority of the people we asked said that they thought that this one would be the best and this somehow shaped our opinion and in the end we decided to use this one. Adam created this logo by filling in an image of a DSLR on Photoshop and he then cut out the middle where the lens is supposed to go. He then played about with the font and its positioning until he ended up with the final product.

Possible Logo's For Our Thriller

 

Adam created a PowerPoint of the different logo's that he designed. He designed 3 possible logo's in which we would later decide which one we would use for our thriller.

Storyboard with shot plans

Over the past two lessons, I created a powerpoint with a step by step plan of what is happening in each scene and what shots we plan to use. This should help when we come to film our thriller because we will know exactly what we need to do.

A change of target audience

Today we sat down as a group and we had a discussion regarding our target audience. Originally, we decided on the age rating of a 15 because there were elements of psychological distress and bullying, but after much deliberation we decided to lower the age rating of our thriller to a 12/12A because this way a wider audience will be able to view it. Also we felt that people from the ages of 12+ should be mature enough to deal with the bullying scenes, so the age 12 rating is fully fitting to our thriller opening. 

VoxPop- Audience Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL6fi6tCk5A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImTwfx9ez5s

Here are two Voxpop's that Alex recorded of her dad and her dog (her mums voice over). This helped us to decide what we needed to include in our thriller because Alex asked questions about what the expectations of a thriller were and what the audience thought needed to be included.

Rae's Character Profile

Alex and I decided that we should do a character profile for Rae. This was mainly because we don't know that much about who she really is. We created a powerpoint with information about Rae's background, what she dresses like and her personality. For her overall image, myself and Alex took some inspiration from Winona Ryder's character from 'Beetlegeuse' who is also an outcast and is a rather reserved teenager. We decided to look further into other characters from movies to get a good idea exactly what the character of Rae needed to be and we felt that Winona's character reflected Rae's in a way because they are both outcasts in society, they both have a similar dress sense and they are both into witchcraft/ghosts. 

The Script and Shot Plans

This is our final script written by Scott Cartwright. Adam has annotated and has drawn diagrams of what the shots will look like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Storyboard for our thriller!

Over the past two lessons, myself and Alex have created this storyboard to get a better idea of exactly what is going on in our thriller.

The income bracket and status of the audience

 

Looking at the income bracket and social status chart, we have agreed that our thriller will be aimed at people on the levels E to C1 because we don't think that people above this level will take an interest in watching it.

Target audience for our thriller

Alex and I decided yesterday that we desperately needed to decide who the target audience for our thriller is. As our thriller opening is going to be quite dark and the genre is a psychological thriller we have decided that our target audience will be the age of 15+ including adults. We chose this age because people who fit in to this particular age bracket are more likely to grasp the concept of the thriller and we feel as though they would appreciate it more. Children under the age of 15 may potentially be disturbed because some scenes include bullying and are upsetting.

Locations

These are the locations that we plan to use for our thriller.

Distributors

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