Audience Research Questions

Questionaire

1. Gender: Male Female

2. Ethnicity: ______________

3. Social Class: Working Middle Upper

4. What are your interests?

Sports Music Science Reading Films Internet Fashion Celebrity

Other (please state)___________________

5. What is your favourite genre of film?

Comedy Romance Horror Thriller Action

Fantasy Sci-fi Social Realism

Other (please state)____________________

6. Do you have a favourite thriller film?

Please state _________________

7.Why is this your favourite thriller?

Characters Story Setting Soundtrack

Twists Actors Suspense Other:_______________________

8. What do you expect from the opening sequence of a thriller film?

Introduction to characters Creation of mystery

Establishing atmosphere Use of symbolism

9. How often do you watch films?

Everyday Once a week Once a month

2-3 times a month Hardly ever Never

Preliminary task-final cut

This is our final cut of our preliminary task, whilst filming it we came across a number of problems. For example the first two scenes we shot were out of focus, as we did not realise that our camera was on manual focus, although we could not get the same shot so we had to just carry on and didn’t use all the out of focus shots filmed.

After we had filmed we realised that we had not used shot-reverse-shot successfully and therefore hadn’t fulfilled the brief. To overcome this we had to film additional scenes however, we did not have access to the same room but as we did not have any other time to film so we found a room with a similar mise-en-scene and used a close-up in order to cover up the parts in the setting that were not included in the room we originally filmed in.

When we were filming in the corridor we had to re-do the shot a number of times due to people walking down and going in and out of rooms. We also came across similar problems whilst filming in the classroom at break time and end of lessons while students were changing rooms, we had to wait until the noise had stopped which made filming more time-consuming giving us less time to edit.

Post by Holly, Ameena, Anam and Georgina.

Prelim Task Rough Cut

After we had started to edit our first cut of the preliminary we decided we had to re-film because of various problems we found. Firstly, we had only filmed each shot once and when Georgina sits down she is looking at the camera. We had no other alternative shot of her sitting down, so we had no choice but to re-film. Then we realised that rather than just re-filming that one shot we needed to re-do the whole task as the framing of the mid-shots was not right as Ameena had a lot less space in the shot when they were talking and when she was waiting the door and the wall were taking up too much of the frame.