Actors Photographed

Our group decided to change from a doll to an actor. This is because we felt it is more realistic and fits the thriller genre better. Also, having an actor instead of a doll means that we are able to do develop our idea because using a doll gave us limitations, which would affect our opening as a whole.

These photos below show the actors we will have in out film opening.



Storyboard - Audience Feedback

I asked ten different people to look at my storyboard and then answer the questions below, regarding what they thought of the storyboard.

Questionnaire

1. Is the storyboard typical of the thriller/horror genre?
    Yes          No

2. Would this film appeal to you?
    Yes          No

3. Do you think a rating of 15+ is suitable?
    Yes          No

4. What do you think the idea of flashbacks would work well with this genre?
    Yes          No

5. Do you think the the storyboard is long enough?
    Yes          No


Results

1. Is the storyboard typical of the thriller/horror genre?
    Yes = 9          No = 1

The results for question 1 indicates that 90% of the people questioned believe the storyboard has suitable shots such as CU's of dead bodies that make up a good opening of a horror film.

2. Would this film appeal to you?
    Yes = 7          No = 3

Again, these results show that most people (70%) would like to watch this type of film opening. Although 30% say they wouldn't watch our film, this is not a problem becuase it is only a minority who may not be fans of thriller/horror movies, which will not affect the grading of our work.

3. Do you think a rating of 15+ is suitable?
    Yes = 5          No = 5

Exactly half of the people we surveyed believe that 15+ is a suitable age rating for this film while the other half did not. This means that as a group, we may have to think more about the age rating we choose so that the correct audience is targeted for our film opening.

4. What do you think the idea of flashbacks would work well with this genre?
    Yes = 7          No = 3

The majority of our audience (70%) believe that the flashbacks would work well in the storyboard. This means that to improve our initial storyboard, we will add extra shots to show flashbacks, possibly of people dying, before the bodies are revealed.

5. Do you think the the storyboard is long enough?
    Yes = 2         No = 8

The results for the last question cleary shows that we need to include more shots in the storyboard to make in long and detailed enough. We found this difficult as a group because are film opening is simple and does not need a great amount of shots. However, to improve are group will have to come up with a developed idea for our opening which will allow us to add more in to the storyboard.

Initial Storyboard

For the opening, my group needed to plan it on a hand drawn storyboard. This would show how the opening pans out and what type of shots and transitions we would need to include in the camera work to make our opening successful.



This is the storyboard that we first completed. Although it includes all the main parts that we need in our opening, it is not long enough. There needs to be more shots to show that we can vary are camera distances and shots well. However, this means in doing it again, we can develop the idea we had for our film further, so that enough is included to create a suitable length storyboard.

Location Shots

For are film opening, we will use a narrow, stairs corridor. A corridor like this will be ideal becuase it is small and secluded, which is a place where horrorific events may unfold, suiting our target genre well. It is shown below heavily lit up, but in the film it will be darker, just lit slightly by a few lamp shades. This will create shadows and give the setting a scary feeling, more realistic of the thriller/horror genre that we are focusing on.