Practise shots

Here are a few practice shots that i took of Liane and also the locations of which i would like to film my trailer. I filmed these practise shots on a Flip Camera.

Casting and Mise en scene

I felt that for my teaser trailer it was really important to undergo casting to ensure that i had the right actor for my teaser trailer. I want to appeal to a wide range of audiences and I knew that i wanted to use a female actress, to fit with the main conventions of a thriller, where normally women are used as the main charachter because they are assoicated with being weaker and more emotional would be affective. I also wanted to use a female that would be of the simular age to the core audience watching the film, which would be 18, as my film is going to a mature pyschological thriller.For my casting, i selected a group of girls from my sixthform college as then it would be easy to select for filimg,and then i narrowed it to the 3 i have displayed below.




Aimee, I choose her for the final 3 of casting because i feel that she had a really natural look that i could work with and i would be able to create a variety of good looks.



 Liane, I choose her because she has a completley different look and she has a good variety of acting skills as she is a drama student. I overall choose her to be the female protagonist character. 



                           Dom agian has a really natural look and i think that she would look really good on camera to work with.



Mise En Scene

Mis en Scene wise, for my first shot i am going to have a exteme close up of the females eyes, showing her normal and then crying, and the next shot is going to be a close up of newspaper articles.As alot of my filming is outside, i wanto choose a really good location to film. Also because i am going to use a split screen when editing i also need to choose a location where it is going to be easy to film and not much will change, for example in a feild,compared to a busy public place. I would like to film up a country lane, where the lane is straight and just has trees covering it on either side of the road, which i feel i know the perfect location for. I also want to film a little part in a dark location, which i feel i might just use the same lane and film it at a different time during the day to get the lighting effect how i want it. I understand that i need to undergo some practise filming to see if these locations and lighting techniques etc will actually be sucessful and work. I feel that the location i have choose to film fits in really well with the conventions of a thriller film as they are usually located in iscolated and quiet creepy places or busy public places. I feel that the compostion of alot of my shots will be quite simple, and the edditing using split screen for example to put 2 shots together will really show a good result on my finished product.

Initial Ideas

My first ideas are that i want to create a Pyschological thriller involving One main characther, and the whole story line is based around her and a crime that she has commited, although only she knows that she has commited this crime, which my first initial idea would be she had commited Murder. I am going to use the one main character, however i would like to use split screen effects to have the same character shown twice like her concious is following her. As i collect togetether ideas i am going to then Build up my story board. I know i would like the trailer to begin with a close up of the main characters face, and then the ending will consist of quick montage edditing, also the shots will have Inter titles between some of the shots.

Target Audience

The age group of the target audience for a Thriller film is a mature young adult normally in the age of 15-25, and a statistic shows that around 75% of people who watch thriller film are students. For my film, I have chosen to stick to the typical target auiadnce of a thriller film having my core target auidence as teenagers-adults, from the ages of 15-22 apprx, the age of students. Although I am planning that my teaser trailer will only feature a female character, my teaser trailer and film will target both a male and female auidence, and the girl featuring in my film as the main character will be of a teenage ago of 18, providing a pathway for connection from the auidence.

1. Who is your target audience?15-22 years

2. Where is your target audience located? Anywhere

3. What is the age range and median age? 15+

4. Is the group primarily male or female? Both, although the main character is female, breaking the normal sterotype

5. What do they do for a living? Being a student

6. What level of education do they have? Standard level of education

 

7. What kind of lifestyle do they lead? They are very sociable, studying, yet would have a intrest in films, partiucalr horror movies.

 

8. What are their special interests or hobbies? Studying, hanging with friends, watching movies, watching programes such as CSI.

My Chosen Genre

After looking at a variety of different teaser trailers and a variety of films, i decided i would choose a Thriller genre for my teaser trailer. This is because i feel that here i can be really creative with my ideas. There are many different story lines and plots i could use to generate a really effective teaser trailer. There is a variety of different shots, lighting and edditing techniques that i can use effectivey to make a really strong teaser trailer that fit all of the conventions of a thriller teaser trailer.