Questionnaire - Results

We gave our questionnaire to 20 people. The results are shown in the brackets below next to the choices.

1) Gender?

Male (10) Female (10)

2) How old are you?

11-14 15-18 (18) 19-23 24-27 28+ (2)

3) What appeals to you the most in a Thriller

The soundtrack (6) The cast (11) Director Plot (3) Others

Please state..................

4) What is your favourite sub-genre in a Thriller

Horror (12) Psychological (6) Action (2) Crime Sci-fi Others

Please state.......................

5) What was the last Thriller you watched?
The most common result was "Final Destination" with 4 results.

6) What mark would you give it (out of 10)? if the number is high, what exactly appealed to you
if the number is low, would could have been better?
On average, the viewers gave "Final Destination" 8/10. They enjoyed the action and the plot.

7) Who do you focus more on when watching a Thriller

The Protagonist (6) The Antagonist (14)


8) What do you find predictable/irritating when you watch any thriller?

Deaths (17) How the Antagonist is presented (3)

28th April - Editing

Today me and Shelley edited some more of our work after school. Neelam could not join us. We showed our piece to our friend Ernest and he agreed to make us some music. He has made some and has sent them too me so now all we need to do is add it to our piece. We arranged our clips and it look really good! I'm worried about the music not fitting very well but it should and then we will be finished!

I was reading back on my posts and I relised I havnt actually said what shots we have used so I will talk about them now.

When we recorded we done it backwards on accident. We done the shots of the girl in the mirror with the clown made-up face. We liked the side table with lots of little bits and pieces on it because it made it look like such an ordinary house and the little pots were very girly. We used many high angle, mid shots and close ups of these.

Shelley left the room to get a few more props and I done and extreme close up of my eye and also a close up of my face screaming. They became very useful in our piece and are some of the main shots that create the kind of skitafrenia effect. This makes it psycological.

The girl is haveing a nightmare and wakes up and looks in the mirror. Her reflection is holding a doll. It is the same doll she is sleeping with. However when she sits down she is not holding the doll as she has left it in bed. This is how we know she is having some problems. We used midshots and longshots for when she is awake and close ups in her dream. The closeups show the freakiness of her dream and how distraughted it is. The next few shots are closeups of her face. We tried to create a graphic match with these shots having her face natural and then with the makeup on.

24th April - Editing

Neelam did not attend our media lesson today but me and Shelley continued to edit. We continued to crop our clips by splitting at the playhead and it worked again! We completed it and then began arranging the order of clips. It is all coming together! I have been on www.freeplaymusic.com and found 3 sounds that we could maybe use. I have shown Shelley and she agreed that would suit our piece. We are going to continue editing in the week and hopefully the music should fit well enough and we don't experiance any more technical problems!

23rd April - Editing

Yesterday, Shelley, Neelam and myself continued editing. It worked for a while but then we had the same problem. However before experianceing it, we did get alot done. We croped alot of our clips and they look really good. We didnt put them in order as we wanted to crop them all to time first. We did not finish croping them all.

22nd April - Editing

On Tuesday, me and Shelley imported our work. We began to crop it but it wasn't working very well. We asked our teacher and he thought it was because we had imported it in large chunks and suggested we split them at the playhead. We done this and it worked. We also found it alot easier to crop it this way. However, the programme then began to go faulty again and began cutting our scenes we needed. We decided to stop and continue it the next day and hope just hope it works.

19th April

Yesterday Me and Shelley decided we to record some more footage. Neelam was not around so could not do it but as we haven't long left we thought it would be best just to record something. We changed our idea again as we could not find a male to film yesterday and we was in need of some footage.

We chose to go back to our mentally unstable girl and her dolls. However, we filmed at Shelley's house so we had a bedroom setting which made it more understandable. We used a variety of shots and used a mirror which gave really good effects! We have lots of high angle shots, low angle, close ups, extreme close ups. We tried to do a silhoette but I don't think it worked as well as we hoped.

Our idea was about china dolls messing with the little girl's mind. She is suddenly woken up and her lights start to flicker. She walks over to the mirror and her reflection is herself with make-up smeared across her face. The dolls are on her bed and in her reflection. I played the girl.

Me and Shelley both took turns doing the camera shots and worked together to decide where it should be positioned and how to set the scene. I think if we edit it really well it can be an exellent piece. However, we need to show Neelam and see what she thinks of it too.

We want to go back to the idea havin a series of shots like Se7en. Our piece makes sense but doesn't. It has that effect of confusin so the audience wants to carry on watching it to see what the dolls have to do with the little girl and why her reflection is different to her normal self. Hopefully we should not experiance problems with the continuity and it will link and look very psycological.

We have not discussed the music yet as we will need to edit it to see what kind of piece will suit it.

Questionaire

This questionaire was created by Shelley. I have read over it and I think it would be really good to use.



1) Gender?

Male Female

2) How old are you?
11-14 15-18 19-23 24-27 28+3)

3)What appeals to you the most in a Thriller?

The soundtrack The cast Director Plot Others
Please state..................

4) What is your favourite sub-genre in a Thriller?

Horror Psychological Action Crime Sci-fi Others
Please state.......................

5) What was the last Thriller you watched?


6) What mark would you give it (out of 10)? if the number is high, what exactly appealed to youif the number is low, would could have been better?


7) Who do you focus more on when watching a Thriller?

The Protagonist The Antagonist

8) What do you find predictable/irritating when you watch any thriller?