Audience Research Survey Findings

Audience Research Survey

The Brief

AS Brief

 For this AS brief, I was asked to carry out two tasks. The first task was the preliminary task, which involved filming and editing a character opening a door, walking across the room and sitting down in a chair in continuity. Following the character’s complete movement to the chair, he/she was then asked to exchange two – three lines of dialogue with another character. This task should incorporate the shot/reverse shot and the 180 – degree rule.

Main Task: The titles and opening of a new fiction film, which will last a maximum of two minutes.

 All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), other than music/ audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both the preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group, with a maximum of four members per group.

Live Type (First Attempt)

This is our first attempt at the ending credits using LiveType. We chose to use this foggy background to enforce some sort of mystery and possibly establish the genre of the film.

Mind Map

This is the Prezi mind map showing our initial ideas for our film and what iconic themes of Criminal Thrillers we had considered to use in our own project.

Impression Rough Cut

Survey

This survey was used to show us something about our audience. We were trying to find what the audience thinks about the thriller film genre. We found this to be quite ineffective as the majority of people that we sent our survey to didn't actually fill it out.

Survey Responses

Impression Animatic

Recce Shots

Recce shots from SmilingJackDrummer

These recce shots show our potential locations for filming. Each of these are not definite locations, we may use some of them, all of them or none of them at all.

Storyboard

This is the storyboard for our film. This illustrates the general flow of shots and what is going to happen in each of them. This is just a guideline, we may re-arrange some shots, or even scenes, when it comes to filming.

Impression Script

Broken Glass Productions

A man searching for his dog on the beach comes across the murder victim (Tyler)

Paul: (shouting) Buster? Buster!? Whistles (walks towards the dead body)

Camera shows a figure on the ground. Paul walks swiftly towards the figure. Camera pans down slowly as Paul gets closer to the figure to reveal it being a dead body.

White out then fade back to the police investigating the scene

Lee: Any details?

Officer 1: Early 20’s, throat has been sliced, no signs of struggle, been dead around 4 – 5 hours. Detectives are being lead over to the body

Eric: You got a name?

Officer 1: The vic’s been ID’d as Maia Fort. I’ve sent some of our officers to talk to the family.

Lee crouches down to inspect the body

Lee: Clean cut to the throat…

Eric: Died in a matter of seconds’ walks off to investigate the scene

Lee: Yeah… and it looks professional. Very clean… He knows what he’s doing. Turns to the officerFound any sort of evidence?

Officer 1: We’ve scoured the place, nothing.

Eric: (off shot) So your boys didn’t find this?

Low angle camera shot showing Eric looking at the newly discovered evidence. Lee and the officer walk into frame.

Officer 1: Uh… no… What is that?

Cut to sticks layed out to spell out “Jack did it”

Lee: Who’s Jack?

Eric: I dunno… We should get this back to the lab for prints.

Officer takes a picture of the evidence and then the scene changes to an office room. The detectives are there, looking at a board with photographs of other murders, looking tired, coffee on the table, ties loosened and hair roughed up.

Lee: It could be possible that they’re connected?

Eric: Yeah sure, they’re all dead, well done. Gold star for Lee.

Lee: No listen, our first victim was Elaine Forrest. She was bound, tortured then strangled in her own home, right?

Eric nods but still looks puzzled

Lee: That kill closely follows the MO of BTK. Our second victim, Jayce Yun, was found in an abandoned building with evidence of mutilation, rape and possible cannibalism.

Eric: Yeah I remember, he had his toes bit off lightly chuckles

Lee: I don’t understand what’s so funny but this kill follows that of Jeffery Dahmer. You starting to see a pattern here?

Eric: Okay so they’re both in their 20’s? We have a part of a profile? No wait there’s the little girl, Laura Maine…

Lee: Disappeared last year then turns up in the woods, raped and been a victim to cannibalism.

Eric: That doesn’t fit…

Lee: In fact, it fits perfectly. He’s recreating kills from infamous serial killers. BTK, Jeffery Dahmer and-

Eric: Albert Fish! Eric looks proud with his input

Lee: And now, Jack the Ripper.

Eric: Maia must’ve been some sort of call girl

Cuts to a re-enactment of the events leading to Maia’s death

Lee: Picked up by a client, that explains why there’s no signs of struggle, it’s routine to go to a secluded area for this kind of thing.

Eric: Ah yes, you being the expert on hookers

Lee: I watch documentaries, sometimes this kind of thing comes up, that hardly makes me an expert on picking up prostitutes… Back to the point, we’ve got a copycat killer.

Mood Board

Shooting Schedule

Impression

Broken Glass Productions, Inc.

Impression – Production #1337

Shooting Schedule

Producer: Lewis Kendall

Director: Alex Hooks

Production Manager: Alex Hooks

1^st Assistant Director: Lewis Kendall

Film Shoots – 2 Days

Saturday, November 16^th 2013 through Tuesday, November 19^th 2013

Date: 1^st day EXT. Saturday 16/11/13

Set/Scenes: Seaton Carew, day. Man looking for his dog

Cast: Tom Curtis, Tyler Rookes

Location: Seaton Beach

Props: Dog lead

Make-Up: Corpse make-up

EXT. Seaton Beach, sand dunes, day

Police arrive to investigate the crime scene

Lewis Kendall, Tom Whieldon, Doug Macaskill, Tyler Rookes, Mat Appleyard

Seaton Sand Dunes

Police Tape, Sticks, Notepads, Cameras

EXT. Seaton Carew, night

Maia is picked up in a mysterious vehicle by an anonymous character

Mark Lancaster, Tyler Rookes

Seaton Carew Lane

Date: Day 3 INT. Tuesday 19^th November 2013

Set/Scenes: Brinkburn College, Classroom. Two detectives discussing the ongoing investigation

Cast: Lewis Kendall, Tom Whieldon

Props: Photographs of victims, assorted stationary, coffee

Wardrobe: Hair is messy, ties loosened

This is our shooting schedule, this is used to tell everyone where they need to be and when they need to be there.

Props and Equipment List

Equipment
Canon 1100D
Tripod
Canon EOS1
Panasonic HC-V100

Props
Police Tape
Pens
Notepads
Sticks
Cups

Wardrobe
Detectives-Button shirt, tie, trousers, any choice of shoes, coats are optional
Police Officers-Button shirt, tie, trousers, smart shoes
Maia Fort-Dressed provocatively (short skirt, high heels etc.)
Jayce Yun-Casual clothes
Paul (Dog Walker)-Casual clothes
Elaine Forrest-Casual clothes
Laura Maine-Casual child clothes

This is the film's props and equipment list. We made this just to keep a checklist of everything we need in the film and so that we could tick off the items that we already had. While this was a good idea, we didn't particularly need much for props and wardrobe as we decided against using the external beach scene.

Risk Assesment

Risk	Shooting Locations	Parties Affected	Responsibility	Explanation
Illness/ Injuries	All	Actors/Alex and Lewis	Alex and Lewis	If one of our actors is ill/injured, we will ensure a replacement is found prior to shooting. If one of us is injured/ill, we shall reschedule shooting.
Weather	Outdoors	Actors/Alex and Lewis	N/A	The weather forecast will be checked in advance to ensure shooting that day is a viable option, however, if the weather is unsuitable for our shots, we shall reschedule. If there is heavy rain or harsh wind, we will reschedule too, as it may damage the equipment.
Actor Inconveniences or Clashes	All	Actors/Alex and Lewis	Alex and Lewis	There are sometimes unforeseen or unpredictable circumstances, which may lead to one of us or an actor being unable to make a shoot, due to event clashes. We will maintain regular face-to-face contact to ensure that this does not happen
Technology	All	Actors/Alex and Lewis	Alex and Lewis	There is every chance that the equipment we use may not work, may not be charged, or may be corrupted. To prevent this, we will ensure that all our equipment is in working order prior to the shoot.