Stacio's Mini Pitch

Dylan's Mini Pitch

Thriller short interview

Group Pitch/Audience Feedback

From our pitch we used the following: we kept the original concept of our film which was the idea but chose to narrow it down to the idea of our protagonist doing something simple such as shaving which is something we had planned to do from the start but only intended to show briefly. We also followed the idea of having hints that he is a lonely man who is looking for a lady throughout our opening. In conclusion we took the audience feedback on board and used some of their ideas in our opening.

GROUP PITCH
Theres a game 100 girls, 100 days to live. In our opening we planned to show that he just killed her and she's lying in the bath dead and you see the blood flowing down the drain and basically takes place in a bathroom with low key lighting and we see him at the sink looking in the mirror just like doing something casual not even paying attention the the girl such as just shaving with blood on his hands so he's just actually committed the crime and he's shaving so its like natural so yeah he has 86 days to live obv cause hes killed 14 girls already so obv he's got 86 more to go but i think the intro is about this girl he just killed in the bathroom. so music wise were gonna have something slow and seductive so its gonna be kinda romantic with a little twist on it so we're gonna make it sound kind of horrorish and that will be playing in the background.

Camera work - Its gonna sort of show a girl on the floor it might be a close up maybe and it might sort of zoom out, its kinda like breaking bad how it will sort of pan around the room and through a window it might reveal things about the man, hes like a psycho so you might see medication maybe stuff like that maybe a picture of a woman and that again might conform to a typical thriller leaving the audience with a lot of questions to ask.

Because it's a monologue he talks about how it's basically about the thoughts going through his head and the last line of it is that his eyes are getting darker after every murder he comits and we will end be zoom into his

We had the idea of perhaps showing a girl in the bath which our protagonist would have just murdered.

Feedback

Likes the idea of 'C' as the title which we later changed to simply 'HUNDRED'

Unless you take the bathroom as the idea of a flashback

Is 100 girls 100 days realistic, we suggested that the character would be a really attractive guy that get women.

Maybe you see him on a website, we

Say its an apartment, you could have maybe the dating website open or a voice message left by a woman on the phone saying "looking forward to seeing you tonight"

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Audience Profile

Typical Audience Member

Male

Age: 28

For food he would typically shop at: Tesco

For clothes he would typically shop at places like: River Island, Topman, and Primark (occasionally)

He likes to keep active by going on a run every week. He goes out for a pint with his mates most weekends and likes watching football.

He likes listening to rock and enjoys a bit of the Top 40

The last film he saw was Shutter Island

He likes spending time with his family. He has a girlfriend and a 5 year old daughter in year 1

He has goes cinema occasionally with his girlfriend and leaves the kid with his parents who love seeing their granddaughter.



Female

Age: 24

For food she would typically shop at: Tesco and M&S

For clothes she would typically shop at places like: Topshop, H&M, Next, River Island and Primark

She enjoys her monday night aerobics. She is currently working as an assistant teacher at a comprehensive as she is interested in teaching.

Her favourite music is Indie and Top 40

The last film she saw was You're Next

She enjoys going shopping with the girls and is close with her little sister who is 21.

Information gathered

-A typical audience member that would want to watch our film would range between 14-48 years old. -This is clearly a broad age range but this shows the attraction of thriller movies to the variety of different people.
-Our audience member would usually shop at Tesco for groceries however when it comes to clothes if male they'd typically shop at SuperDry,Primark or Hollister and if female they would typically shop at Zara, Topshop or River Island.
-If male they would enjoy rock or disco music. If female they would tend to enjoy pop music.
-In their spare time they enjoy sports like rugby, running and football male or female.

Questionnaires

These questionnaires help us in the deciding of the youngest viewer we may have for our thriller. Through questioning a variety of ages, we were able to conclude that younger people did enjoy thrillers, as low as the age of 15. We were also able to decide a oldest age of our viewer, as we also questioned people as old as 50 years old. We had a positive response from the older people also, which told us that people at this age still enjoy the trill and suspense of the thriller genre. Therefore we used this information to decide an age range, which we came to a youngest age of 15, and an older age of 48.

These questionnaires were also useful for the type of personality our viewers may have. From the information we gained through the various people we asked, we were able to decide the male and female attributes of our ideal viewer of our thriller. The male, for example, would be of an age around 15-24, an age where someone may have the most time and money that they'll have, but still enjoy a thriller. They may also shop at big brand stores and enjoy a variety of music such as pop and rock.

This was useful because we were able to target a certain audience which may have watched our thriller, and found our ideal audience. Through this information, we changed things in our opening to make it viewable for the whole audience, for example, the tempo is slowed and suspense is the predominant thriller conventions.

Research and Planning: Narrative

The Sixth Sense

- The film is about a child psychologist, Malcolm Crowe, who on the night of receiving an award for his work is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient.

-After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a boy with the same illness as the ex patient.

-The boy "sees dead people" which turns out to be a vital factor in the notorious twist
at the end of the film (Malcolm turns out to have been dead the whole time).

- He spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole)

- He is Cole's only hope.


Taken

-The film is about ex special forces agent Brian Mills who creates a whole new life for himself just to be closer to his daughter. However for her birthday she takes a trip to Paris with a friend and unfortunately is kidnapped.

-We follow Bryan's journey as he attempts to find his daughter using all his skills and experience.

-He goes through various brothels and finds all kinds of different evidence which gives him the information he needs to find his daughter.

-Eventually he's lead to an illegal sex trafficking auction in which he sees his daughter selling for a lot of money.

-He tails the rich Arab who has bought her and eventually through fights and action finds her, kills basically all her kidnappers and saves the day.


True Romance

In this film we follow the journey of Clarence Worley who on the night of his birthday meets a girl in the cinema called Alabama Whitman. The next day the girl reveals to him that she is a call-girl who was hired to have a one night stand with him but has fallen in love with him. The next morning they get married and Clarence goes to collect some clothes from the club where she worked.

Alabama's pimp Drexl Spivey is unhappy with the situation and beats up Clarence, as he turns away he kills both Drexl and his partner leaving the building with the wrong suitcase. In this suitcase was bags of cocaine, after realising what he had taken Clarence and Alabama decide to go and sell the drug to Clarence's friend Dick, an aspiring actor hooked on drugs, so they can travel to Mexico.

Little do they know the owners of the drug are the Sicilian Mafia and they want to reclaim it.