Our Thriller film is called ‘Kindred’, it is about a girl whose dad tries to cover up for a murder which the girl had done. The woman killed was the girl’s mother. The only thing is that she has a split personality so she doesn’t realize that she was the murderer and that her dad is covering it over. She starts to believe that he killed her mother and she decides to find out.
Within our film we had decided that we didn’t want our film to be like other thrillers so we decided that we would break a thriller code and convention, by doing this we thought that it would give a better edge to the film as it was different to the rest. Within our thriller we had the murderer being a young girl as this would also create controversy. We used partial vision as well within our film at the beginning where the father is walking towards the house, this is the part of the intro where the music changes from a mysterious sound to an edgy, sharp piece, and by doing this we believed that it made the audience think that the father is the villain in the intro. We did this as we wanted the audience to think that it the young girl was the hero and the dad was the villain by doing this would mean that later in the film they plot would be revealed and would have a massive impact.
Another convention was that we would have the film involve the audience, so they would play a large role within the film, this would make the film much more enjoyable for them.
In the introduction of our film Kindred we started it of with an establishing shot of the young girl’s house; it first zooms in to the house on to the candle in the window. Then cuts to the second shot where the camera zooms out in to the bedroom of the young girl where she is looking through newspapers and cutting out faces. The music at this point is an inquisitive piece so the audience is trying to piece it together. Then the music cuts to a sharp dramatic piece as the father walks past the camera, this is affective because it makes the audience think that he is the villain and there worried for the girls safety. We then have the camera following the father up to the bedroom where it holds the audience in suspense as they wonder what is going on.
As this film is an British film I believe that an British film production would be best to distribute the films. Such film production like film four,
When we introduced the film to our audience we got some of these comments:
“It was a convincing performance from the actress/ actor.There was no speech in the intro, which made both characters really suspicious and interesting, we were able to come to our own conclusions as to what kind of lives the characters lived.” This was what we were aiming for, we thought that by the actor and actresses talking would ruin the theme we where going for.
“The editing was good and helped to create convincing characters.”
We tried our hardest to cut up the long boring shots so that it would be quick sharp and edgy and keep the audiences attention have want them to watch more.
"when it was flicking from character to character, with the same music, it showed that it was happening at the same time and there was a sound bridge.”
“I liked the way it zoomed into a candle and used that to pass through the window, it was spooky and helped to create an atmosphere.”
“your choice of music was intense and created a scary atmosphere.”
“i wasn’t sure who the dad was an thought he was going to hurt the girl.”by us hearing about the we realized that we had affectively made the father look like a villain which was the intention and part of the plot twists.
“I liked the graphics, with the title in bold and credits in italics, there was a good contrast.”
We aimed the film at the age 15 up wards as we thought it would be more affective and have a bigger audience. As these comments were from the ages 15- 19 we believe we achieved our goal as all the feed back was positive.
as you can see below that we decided through our research that 15+ would be better to make as most people would rather have it as a phychological triller not a gory one, as by doing this it would be aimed at 15 - 18 as there will be no restriction put on to the thriller.
We choose the aged 15 upwards as we wanted a psychological thriller more than a gory thriller.
how old are you ?15 or under0%1660%1720%1820%190%200%Gender?male50%female50%how often do you go to the cinema or watch a film on average?never0%once50%twice30%once a week20%everyday0%most days0%how do u define the thriller genre?smart, scary and action50%pychological, suspenceful and clever plots30%cheesy etc20%do they like thrillers?yes 70%no 30%what do you think makes a good thriller?plot60%make you feel your in the film10%fire10%violence action20%what make a good thriller?gory10%psychological90%in you oppinion what is the difference between a certificate 18 and a certificate 15?more sex violence and gore100%which do you prefer?1560%1840%in conclusion, we have decided from these results that we will be doing a psychological thriller with will have a certificate of 15. we believe that as people watch thriller for the psychological aspect of the film, the film will not have to be an 18
Personally I believe that I have learn several skills from the last time I used all the technology. Firstly I learnt how to get rid of sounds which you didn’t want in the film such as the beginning shot, at the start of it you could hear a faint noise of someone talking, but we were able to edit it so that you couldn’t hear them. Another example is that when filming the candle from outside when the camera zoomed in, because of the distance zoomed the film was still, but to resolve that we stabilized the image so it would shake.
Other programs we used were ones such as after effects which we used to stabilize the film at the start.
We used a website called freeplaymusic.com which was a website for copyright free music, this was where we got our music from. We researched different musical styles before finding one that fitted the thriller convention/ genre.
I believe that by using digital technology helped us allot as there where lots of editing to be done on it such as the digital text over the top and the music didn’t fit in with the sequences on film. We then edited so that each sequence fitted perfectly. Other thing we had helped by using digital technology where the amount of tapes we didn’t have to use. By using traditional filming equipment would have meant we would have had to use lots of film, also by using the old type also meant we would have had to cut the film physically and paste it back together to edit it. This would mean a long a grueling process.
The good point to using the old type of camera was that it gives a better light to the set, but we decided that, that wouldn’t be to great as it would mean we would have to edit it badly because there is no technology to it.
Before we did our intro we did a questionnaire, here are the results:
From this we decided all our final decisions, and have done this to get such good result from our audience. Such as the camera angles, the ones used in the preliminary task were very basic, but in Kindred we used more technical shots. secoundly we used lighting better in kindred as we decided to film in the dark and use a candle to help light up the room, this was to give it a spooky feel to the scene. and finally we added music to it making it have more atmosphere whilst wathing it, and as we got great feedback from our audience, we believe all our improvement were successful.
Finally I believe that our thriller film was very affective as we have hit all our target and have been given good feed back to it.
