Three Act Structure...

Act One:

It starts off blurred and focuses properly as it zooms into young David’s (Thomas Knight) face whilst he is working on his science project. He is struggling to work as he keeps having thoughts of weird & terrible events in his life, these will be shown as flashbacks. These flashbacks will represent the abuse that David suffered as a child, and will show his parents arguing, fighting, crying and the slamming of doors will give the audience an insight into David’s mind. It will also give the audience a bit of knowledge into what he had been through. He will then leaves the room for some air and time to think- this will be a medium shot.

Act Two:

The second scene will show a series of clips which build up a montage to signify David growing through time. The trailer goes from black and white to colour which will indicate change in time. The next shot is where David is sat on an empty bus, and see's himself walking past, this will be a point of view shot-reverse-shot of David on the bus and himself walking past the bus- the two personalities collide, and come together in a clever transaction. The next shot will be a medium shot of David walking to the park which will follow a shot-reverse-shot of him walking towards isolated bench. The sense of being alone and vulnerability needs to be indicated, so the shot of the park late at night will give of a lonely vibe. A long shot will then show a girl walking a dog in the park which will be followed by a close up shot showing them both talking.

Act Three:

In this section, we will show the effect of what David went through as a child, as his anger and frustration begins to show through his strange behaviour. This act is going to be very upbeat with a fast tempo of shots, aswell as music to set the scene, ensuring suspence fpr the audience. There will be flashing images to show confusion and the mental aspect of the film. The final shot of this act will be a shot of david looking into the mirror, he see's his younger self in the mirror as he turns to leave the reflection stays the same, it fades into a black out, with end credits. We will do this to show David's state of mind and split personality as well as insuring interest from the audience. 

Audience Analysis

Age:

• The age range for our film is 15-25 the reason for this being the characters in the film are of a similar age so therefore it can possibly be relatable the issues show in the film and allow them to grow feelings towards the characters and understand there emotions.
• While trying to decide the age range for our film, we watched a few film trailers on YouTube to see what films were similar to ours, we found Orphan.

Ethnicity:

• Our trailer includes Caucasian cast but it will appeal to to a wide range of ethnic groups as many mainstream productions continue to sideline mainstream talent but dont seem to suffer comercially for this.

Gender:

• The lead role is a male named David. He eventually turns into a killer and is quite violent so he would appeal to males rather than females. Some viewers wouldnt find a female killer as frightening as a male one.

Nationality/Religon:

• Our characters are from the West Midlands, Birmingham, the location isnt a hugely important factor for our film. The fact that the film is produced by english students, may suggest that the
• film would only be popular with a younger english audience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_thriller  This helped me look at target audience and age ratings from films of a similar genre.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22176569/Target-Audience-and-Genre-Research

http://www.slideshare.net/CharlotteEmmaVicki/target-audience-of-thrillers

Treatment Draft

David is 11 he’s never been very popular and likes to keep himself to himself other kids at school would tease him for the simple fact that he is different, they would also tease him about the past of parents he wouldn’t speak to anyone and wouldn’t leave his bedroom except for when he had to go to school. His parents would shout at him and ask him why he couldn’t be normal like the other kids they would often beat him whilst under the heavy influence of alcohol and wouldn’t sometimes leave him on his own to fend for himself. He lived in a world were violence, drinking, abuse, shouting and the slamming of doors was a regular occurrence- he had nobody but himself. Davids parents passed away when he was 13 years old in a traffic accident, it is believed that they were both highly under the influence of drugs and alcohol. David didn’t have any family that he knew of therefore he was sent to an orphanage where his life took a drastic turn.

It started on a cold winter night, David was sitting in his room working on a science project, but how could he concentrate- with everything happening? All he could hear was screaming and shouting coming from downstairs so he decided to go for a walk to clear his head and get some space. As he was walked over to a isolated bench he wondered if anyone would ever befriend him or even take a little time to ask him if he was alright, suddenly he hears footsteps coming towards him, a middle aged man was walking his dog and the dog wondered towards David, conversation struck between the man and David which was regretted shortly after by the man 

This is the mood board that we have created to represent different aspects of our film. The idea of a mood board is to create a visual explanation of what the viewer can expect from the production, before actually watching it. We decided to use certain words and images to create a mood board that we think represents our film as best as we could. Such as the use of different eyes on the same face and the use of mirrors to represent one person with two sides or symbolise different moods within the same character.  An example would be the cross word, which i think represents the mix up in his head and his thoughts being scrambled.

Thes mood boards gave us alot of ideas. Like i like the use of effective words in this mood board, it gives you a sense of what the images are trying to get across. I like how the images are not necessarily related to one an other, which again gives us a sense of confusion or misunderstanding, maybe suggesting that the character cannot control the thoughts or actions that he takes out.

I think these images are alot more related than the other mood boards. I think this one gives of the feel of the unknown and a sense f darkness and confusion. Maybe related to extra terestrial life, or depression based n some of the images that are in the mood board.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=active&biw=1024&bih=571&q=psychological+thriller+mood+board&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&wrapid=tlif132689804984610&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=ZdsWT8SWN_SM4gSutbmNBA - Where i found the mood board examples.

This is the powerepoint that i created on Target Audience in film production. I was asked to give several points and opinions on why i beleive films should target a certain age group or social group. I had to find a case in where the mis-use of age rating for a media production has had a bad effect of a group of people or individual. I decided to use the example of the Jamie Bulger stories which was a prime example of the hypodermic needle effect.

The Official Trailer for the Psycological/ Thriller, 'Shutter Island'

This trailer is very effective and does its job extreamly well. I have already seen this film, so i know what to expect and the trailer makes alot of sense to me, but i think that through the eyes of someone who is yet to see this film, the trailer creates a sense of tention and confusion which would attract them instantly and intise them into watching the film. The genre of the film is obvious within the first few seconds of the trailer. It opens with a boat crossing the water amongst a dark sky and fog, which give a sense of confusion and mystery, as if the boat is entering the unknown or entering foreign ground. The time period is obvious to the viewer also, through the costume of the charatcers, there dressed in authentic police or federal agents outfits, which maybe relates to American Police in the1950's.

2010 - Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/

http://screenrant.com/shutter-island-spoilers-discussion-vic-46052/

http://www.shutterisland.com/#/home - Offical movie website.

Genre Codes and Conventions Research.

Our Genre is  Psychological Thriller,

Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the broad ranged thriller and Horror genres. However, it often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre, in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre.

The conventions of the thriller genre are all too do with sound and editing. eg quick cuts and camera angle changes, music that gives tension and that sets the scene. It can be to do with lighting, especially the use of shadow,mirrors and stairs are also conventions of thriller movies.
Phonebooth in particular, is a thriller that does not play to the conventions, it avoids darkness and shadow etc. The one way to link it to standard conventions is to say that you hear and see the story from the killers point of view, you are made to feel sorry for the male protagonist and that you are told a story with the use of flashback and quick passed editing, otherwise the this film is unlike most thriller movies and avoids the main conventions and may even not be classed as thriller but psychological thriller as it plays with your mind rather than show you like a conventional thriller.

• Reality – The quality of being real. Characters often try to determine what is true and what is not within the narrative, this often results in the films core or the films twist.
• Perception – A person's own interpretation of the world around him through his senses. Often characters misperceive the world around them, or their perceptions are altered by outside factors within the narrative, such as visions, nightmares ect..
• Mind – The human consciousness; the location for personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. The mind is often used as a location for narrative conflict, where characters battle their own minds to reach a new level of understanding or perception.
• Existence/Purpose – The object for which something exists; an aim or a goal humans strive towards to understand their reason for existence. Characters often try to discover what their purpose is in their lives and the narrative's conflict often is a way for the characters to discover this purpose.
• Identity – The definition of one's self. Characters often are confused about or doubt who they are and try to discover their true identity.
• Death – The cessation of life. Characters either fear or have an interest in death and murder.

Filmography

2002 - Red Dragon (Brett Ratner) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289765/

1999 - Fight Club (David Fincher) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/

2010 - Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/

The first draft idea...

We have decided to take up a challenge, by trying out a much tougher genre from what we did the previous year. We have decided to give the Pyschological Thriller genre a go, as we know it will pose much more of a challenge than the comedy genre did in last years project.

The Group ... (That we were forced into)

The Group

.Matthew Cartwright
.Nasema Khanum
.Ryan Knight

The Groups have been decided, and the 2 groups have begun to formulate ideas. The idea is just a draft at the moment, we have a basic story line, but we just need to fill in the gaps inbetween.

AS2 Media.

New blog, new year ...