Treatment

Victoria Jones didn't grow up like a usual child. She was mistreated by parents and foster parents, moved from home, to care home, to foster home, to care home and never stayed in one place for more than two months. The only time she was ever happy was when she was reading her old fairytale book. In a world of happy endings and princess’ treated no better than her.

At the age of 16 her hatred and resentment for her abusive parents and carers reaches a peak. She needs revenge. Creating her own vicious happy endings with equally as vicious parents like her own. But are they inhumane murders or just punishments?

Audience Research

We asked what our audiences interests were to try to gain a better understanding of how to target them effectively. This means that when deciding on characters we are able to create a protagonist that the audience will be able to relate to. Overall, our results told us that our audience we interested in music, this means that with an effective use of music we can target them correctly.

We also asked them which genre they prefer to watch; when choosing a film and our results told us comedy and romance were most popular. This means that we be able to target our audience even more effectively by including elements of these genres.

We also asked them to state their favourite thriller film and found that out of all our questionaires the films chosen the most were 'Seven' and 'Saw'. This means that when we come to deciding on our narrative we can use them as influences. Although 'Saw' is a horror rather than a thiller it tells us that our audience are not that sure on the difference between the two genres so we can include elements of horror in our opening.

Audience Research

In order to understand our Target Audiences requirements, we asked twenty 15-21 year old males and females to fill in a questionnaire to learn about their intake on films. We asked questions to see how much they were interested in films and what they expected in films in order to understand how to make our opening thriller scene suitable for our Target Audience. Here are some of the results we collected; this will help us process our film making. Because they watch quite a lot of films, we know they would have high expectations of the Opening Thriller.

When making our Thriller Opening we would need to concentrate on using techniques with

- Camera angle/movement

- Mise-en-scene

- Narrative

- Editing

- Sound

to help us develop a creation of mystery, as this is what is conventional for a thriller film.

Story and Charcters are main elements we would need to consider when making our Opening Thriller as these are the two essentials our Target Audience are interested in.

Our questionnaire has helped us develop more ideas on how to make our Opening Thriller suitable for our Target Audience.

Product research-Dead Ringers ((BY AMEENA))

Mise-en-scene- The red background in the title sequence, has violent yet lustful, and passionate connotations to it. It relates to the narrative, as the medical instruments hint at the violence. 

Font- The white font stands out amongst the red background. It may suggest the purity, or lack of it as there is only a limited amount of the white colour in the title sequence. 

Music- The music in the title sequence, seems quite subtle. The music doesn't seem to suggest anything about the film, as it seems normal. There isn't really anything sinister about it. The music also seems more bass, then stereotypical thriller films, which generally use high pitched violins and staccato notes, to relate to the narrative. 

The use of the images, in the title sequences, such as the one particular image of the two babies inside a womb, is symbolic to the narrative. 

The thing we would like to include in our thriller opening from the Dead Ringers opening, is the symbolic images/use of symbolism, and the colour red, because of the connotations it suggests. 

BY AMEENA : ) 

[sorry i couldnt connect it yet.] 

Product Research-Sin City

Mise-en-scene-All scene is black and white excluding the women's red dress and lips. This is used in order to suggest the themes of the narrative, e.g. love, passion, violence-connotations of the colour red. Her eyes also briefly turn green when he mentions them which suggests the type of character she was and emphasises his dialogue which hints at his character type.

Sound-Voice-over's are used for two character's in the opening and after the credits. By doing this it indicates two possible protagonists and suggests the tone of the film. There is also two different types of music played at different points; the saxophone (before the titles) hints at the tone and setting of the film as it connotes 50s hollywood glamour, the music used after the titles creates tension as it almost seems to be building up to something.

Camera-The man in the scene is shot at a high angle which gives the audience and idea of his importance. The birds-eye view shot of the two characters which pans out into a shot of the city implies that although it was the opening scene it will not be that significant within the rest of the narrative and the setting is of higher importance.

Titles-Colour-red on black which connotes a dark narrative, creates tension as the audience will then expect something 'dark' to happen. Give an idea of the pace and structure of the film as they resemble a graphic novel or comic book due to the images and typography used. (the film is based on graphic novels by Frank Miller).

This is an image of the illustrations of the character's from the novel and used in the titles.

Possible Ideas-The use of a black and white mise-en-scene could be used in our own thriller opening as it is effective in creating atmosphere and suggesting themes without being to difficult. The use of a voice-over is also a possible idea as it effectively introduces the character and combined with the right music could create tension.

(written about first 5 minutes)