Generic Conventions of a Thriller

Actors

Jennifer Lawrence performance in the thriller House on the end of the Street was kind of character we would like for our opening sequence, she is a strong female character, that even if she may struggle will fight her way out of danger, she's not a typical damsal in distress she can save herself. Also in the hunger games we see that Jennifer Lawrence is physically fit and this also makes her another dominant female character. But her weaknesses are past memories of what has happened to her beforehand in our opening sequence you will see clues towards this, so already in our first peice we can see both strengths and weaknesses of the character.

In our flashback scene we see an evil character in what looks like a hidden office. Dane Dehaan would be suitable for this role as we see in the Amazing Spider Man 3 that he is a self centred rich boy who only wants the best for himself, we see he has many motives for wrong-doing he commits in that's why he would fit into this character exxtremly well. We would like an actor between late 20's to about 35. We would like a younger generation to feel drawn to the characters.

Unfortunatly we will no be able to get these specific actors, but we would like actors who fit into their roles and cause dramatic effect to engage audience members within the first 2 minutes of the film.

Opening Credits

Although, I'm analysing the opening credits, I would like to point out the fact the language has been translated goes to show the global success of The Silence of the Lambs. But addressing back to the opening credits I think the style of the text and placing of it on the screen, when it says 'Woods near Quantico, Va' really incorporated well with the FBI theme as it looks like a title of a police report. The other font used for the rest of titles really shows the era and how technology probably wasn't as advanced back then but is still affective because it's recognisable and was probably far more successful at the time it was released. I like how it's in the centre of the screen as the camera is being craned across the forest our attention is on the titles which means we could be caught off guard if there were something to jump out. Moreover when Jodie Foster is running the camera is capturing her in a loose frame, the titles are also jolting with the screen, I like how this is edited because we feel like we're on edge.

In relation to our film opening I think we have the ability to use some of these editing skills for our opening credits. Silence of the Lambs creates excellent tension just from the opening credits and now we have ability to use some of these techniques in an even advanced manner, we can create a build up of suspense from similar use of coordination with camera shots and credits appearing on the screen.

Audience Research

http://prezi.com/bpk1je_aves8/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

This is the link to my Pearl and Dean Audience Research.

http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/

This is a very impressive Blog, it is sophisticated, vividly detailed and cleverly uses convergence to produce work. Even the content off other technologies that are used are good quality.

Technology they have used:

• YouTube
• Scribd.
• Pictures
• Videos 

Activities they have done:

• Recreated a film idea
• Formula for opening of a film
• Preliminary Task
• Analysis of opening credits
• Analysis of opening sequences to other films
• Preliminary Evaluation
• Editing Techniques
• Directors Analysis
• Narrative Analysis
• Poster Analysis
• Character and narrative theory
• Genre Analysis
• Conventions of a film opening 
• Gender Representation
• Soundtrack Analysis
• Original film ideas 
• Rating of films
• Target audience research
• Opening film sequence
• Group Planning
• First shoot
• Mise En Scene 

Stockholm Syndrome

Our group have decided our production will be named- Stockholm Syndrome.

Stockholm Syndrome defination- Postive feelings such as empathy and affection felt by hostage towards capturer.

This works really well with our style and genre of our opening sequence. As well as a strong  connection to the plot.

Shot List