Poll-What attracts you the most in a film trailer?

In class we all decided to make an individual poll on our blogs as part of our research, the response we are provided with will help us to deterimine what our target audiences expect to see and what will capture their attention. I decided to make a poll based on what attracts our audiences attention during a film trailer. I thought this is of high significance as this is vital information of us to outline and structure the backbone for our trailer.

Brainstorming

Today in lesson we decided to elaborate on what we've come up with so far, therefore this meant starting to write up a script, and diplicting on the camera angles, sounds and any other effect. During this lesson we made many decisions, many debates and many that consequently moved us further in our work. With the information and knowledge we have gained through our research on Thriller trailers and movies we were able to decided on what camera angles and shots to use, different types of transactions and the time duration of certain shots. Alex came up with the script although we all participated out thoughts into it and all decided on certain parts of the dialog used, we all interspersed our own ideas, we had to consider that the dialog shouldnt take over the actuall of the trailer and that less dialog meant more suspense. We all gave our opinions and suggested different idea's, Alex suggested that Mia should say during the phone call 'when i find you i'm going to make you feel so much pain', i put myself in Mia's position and thought that i possibly might have reacted in a similar way but most my group didnt agree that it was realistic, and obviously everyone treats situations differently, so instead we thought it would be more senisible to keep it simple and to keep it in a way that we sympathise with Mia, so Shanyse came up with the idea that to create dramatic suspence and realisim, that Mia should drop the phone after recieving a phone call from her exboyfriend confirming that he is the kiddnapper, we all agreed that this is a good idea due to the fact that it is a normal reaction to a situation such as this, and that many people would be able to sympathize with her. In my opinion this phone conversation between the two main protagonist is an important part of the trailer as it shows the tention and mystery within the actual plot, and portrays the thriller genre, therefore i thought that maybe a more interesting dialog was necessary, however shanyse reminded us that this may only be a teaser trailer which meant that most the information was not included in order to interest the viewer.

Mise En Scene

The trailers that I have analysed for my research has helped me acknowledged that in thriller films the misfortunate events that occur happen unexpectedly usually during their everyday routine, therefore the characters clothing is typically, casual everyday wear, which represents their characteristic and there way of life. However the Villain is always dressed in black, hence the idea that the colour black reflects malevolence and mystery, also they are usually either in a black suit or in some sort of ‘gangster’ clothing which includes clothing such as leather jackets, ‘hoodies’, jeans etc...We have decided for our main female protagonist to wear something casual, due to the fact that she is in search of her fiancé thus making her look distressed and unable to put effort into her clothing.

Meet the Cast

Mia: Stephanie Ashley (Heorin)
We decided to use Stephanie as our main female protagonist, she is a stereotypical female student, with a good character. She is able to express her emotions explicitly, through her body language and the emotion in her hypnotising, effective eyes. We decided to use a female as the heroin as this breaks convention, allowing us to attract a wide audience, therefore becoming our USP.


Brett: Eugene Mcintyre (Damsel in Distress)

I was very impressed by Eugenes acting skills, i had a mock acting session with Eugene and he conveyed himself to take this role very seriously, therefore i had with much passion suggested him as our Damsel in Distress. He is additionally a very stereotypical male student, and is able to convey his role effortless.

Dean: Nicholas Jackman (Villian)

Nick had proven to be an acceptional actor, which is conveyed through past experiences of the preliminay chase scene, as well as the fact that he most definately fits the definitioon of a stereotypical Villian. He has a sharp and sophisticated look, intertwined with one of a gangster appearence, which is a good combination, as he is a character with a sly, mysterious and authoritive personality.

Naomi Osunde (Feme Fatil)

Script

StoryBoard

This is the storyboard that Alex has produced, he has made it combining the different idea's that we had all suggested, this will help guide us with the different shots we can use, and what order they should be in. The amount of shots used have been decided upon according to how long we believe they will take, this is due to the fact that it is conventional for a theatrical trailer to be at least 2 mintues long, which is the time limit we aim to produce at.
Through our research we know that it is typical for a thriller trailer to start with dialogue, for us to be able to some extent gain knowledge of the situation, however as the plot becmes clearer the dialogue will die out and the theme music will dramatically become upbeat, suspensive and change speed, the music has an impact on the viewers impression of what is going on.

Target Audience

If you consider that a thriller movie is exhilarating, mysterious and has a lot of suspension and combine it with some of our research, as well as the fact that I personally enjoy Thriller films we can see that thriller movies are generally aimed at people aged 16-30, although Thrillers are aimed at males, I enjoy watching them as I love the adrenaline with in. Nevertheless our film will be appealing to women as well, hence the fact that it is an epic love story, as well as the fact that our main protagonist is a strong female figure. Thus making our films target audience both males and females aged 15-30. This will evidently mean that our film is only suitable for 15 year olds and over. This means that no one younger than 15 can watch, rent or purchase this film since it is considered unsuitable for them to watch.