Questionnaire

    Gender

Male                                        15
Female                                     10

   How old are you

Under 10's                               4
10-20                                     11
21-31                                      6
32-42                                      3
43+                                         1

   Which is your favourite type of thriller?

Crime                                            9
Psychological                                 6
Action                                           7
Horror                                          3

      Do you prefer more or less dialogue?

More                                            7
Less                                             18

   Do you prefer to see a person killed or have it implied?

Get killed                                     11
Implied                                        14

   Which movie title do you prefer?

paid to kill                                    3
targeted                                       6
The hit list                                   12
convicted                                     4

     Do you prefer fast or gradual build up?

Fast                                             6
Gradual                                       19

   

   
  
    What do you think is the best source of tension?

Music                                           9
Foreshadowing                             4
Lighting                                        2
Camera work                               10

The information gathered from my questionnaire have allowed me to see what particular feature my target audience would prefer to see in my movie thriller. firstly the questionnaire was mostly answered by males and people aged between 15-20, this means that most of result will be from these people so i will make these my target audience. next I found out that the most popular type of thriller is  crime with action not so far behind. I also found that people do not enjoy a lot of dialogue it may due to it being hard to follow or some people may find it to be unnecessary whatever the reason I will aim to use a minimal amount of dialogue. i also wanted to find a suitable title for my thriller, so i asked which title they preferred out of Paid to kill, Targeted, The hit list or Convicted. The hit list was by far the most popular and so this is what i will call my thriller. the last to questions were both linked to tension as this is one of the main conventions for a thriller and i wanted to know which ways were best at providing it.

research

What is a Thriller?

 the thriller genre is a very broad category which contains many sub genres such as crime,psychological,horror and many others. thrillers are films that use suspense to build tension,the usually leave clue to events that take place later in the film his is done by foreshadowing. some of the most common moods and feelings felt by viewers when watching thrillers are anxiety,shock, anticipation.

Conventions of a Thriller

• generally plot twists
• suspense
• high intensity
• cliffhangers
• foreshadowing
• a lot of action involved

Popular thrillers

• Shutter Island
• The Sixth sense
• Batman the dark knight
• Now you see me
• The shining 
• Memento
• The usual suspects 

Trailer

It is essential that when making my opening scene for my thriller I do not make a trailer instead. To make sure this does not happen I will be looking a one thriller movie trailer and will point out the differences between opening scene and trailer. From this I will know what not to include in my opening scene so that I do not end up with a trailer.

The wolf of wall street

There are many different aspects of this trailer which separate it from an opening sequence. In trailers there is no particular order to the sequence of clips these are all selected from random areas in the film and sometimes the clips are not even in the film, in opening sequences the order of clips is normally chronological . Trailers are made to attract the attention of potential viewers by showing most of the action scenes in the film, they often avoid showing important scenes from the film as this can spoil the film and put potential viewers off from watching, a movie opening scene can often be very slow as it has to build up the story and introduce characters to viewers whereas with trailers this does not have to be done.