Note to Moderator

Dear Moderator,

Thank you for marking my AS media blog. My brief was to create the opening of a film in the Thriller genre. I have chosen to create mine in the sub-genre of a psychological thriller. My target audience are middle aged males aged 30-40 and thrill seekers. I have used labels to make it easily navigable in order to find what you are looking for.

Yours sincerely,
Rhianna Henson-Smith
Madeleine Fox
Sara Campeggi.

Doctor 6:19 - Final Product

Evaluation One - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - Rhianna Henson-Smith (Candidate number = 2062)

Evaluation Two - How does your meda product represent particuar social groups? - Rhianna Henson-Smith (Candidate number = 2062)

Evaluation Three - what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? - Rhianna Henson-Smith (Candidate number = 2062)

Evaluation Four - Who would be the audience for your media product? - Rhianna Henson-Smith (Candidate number = 2062)

A typical audience for our film Doctor 6:19 is a middle aged man aged around 35-55.

This is because they have been proven to view psycho-thrillers more than any other category of audience. They are also said to like the tension and fast pace visuals, which are typical of the thriller genre. Of thriller based films as well as depending on the sub-genre are normally thrill seekers that wish to constantly think ahead of the story. People that like to follow the plot and try to guess what will happen are a perfect audience for thrillers as it gives the director new ideas. When this kind of audience are constantly predicting the outcome of the plot it allows the director to go completely against any ideas the audience may have and surprise them in ways they would not have thought of.

Typical characteristics of our audience:

• Males 33-55 years of age
• hobbies include cycling, pub with friends, watching football and fishing.
• Shop in places such as Marks and Spencer, House of Frazer and the Cotsworlds outdoors.
• TV shows include football, Top Gear and Road wars. 

From doing online research I found that the typical age range that thriller films are popular with is 55+ years. I have already evaluated certificate ratings for our film and have decided that it was a 18 rating, this therefore allows only people over 18 to watch our film. As our film features a doctor and is quite a modern and clever spin, I believe our audience would mostly be males aged 30+

Evaluation Five - How did you attract/address your audience? - Rhianna Henson-Smith (Candidate number = 2062)

Our film doctor 6:19 is a psychological thriller. We'd key conventions such as the yellowish lighting, to give an eerie feel to the scene, and gives the sense of the future, acting almost as a police search light. Within this scene we also see Joseph scribbling on a bible, linking to a religious theme, which runs throughout and is typical of the psycho-thriller genre, for example the film Se7en. The use of this scene shows our characters mental state and his religious drive for murders.

The use of music such as the scribbling on the bible and the dark religious music adds to the dramatic feel and tension of a stereotypical psycho-thriller, an example is the famous film American Psycho, which builds up the suspense for the audience, which is exactly what we wanted. Our use of the voices in the head, gives our audience a clue that our film is indeed a psychological thriller, relating to our characters schizophrenia, along with our overlay of a bottle containing his pills for medication.

From my previous target audience research I found that our typical audience would be a middle aged man around 35-55. This is because they have been proven to view psycho-thrillers more than any other film category. They are also said to like the tension and fast pace visuals, which are typical of our genre. We have therefore used fast pace from the start, especially with our overlays. As well as this they are usually thrill seekers that wish to constantly think ahead of the story. We have took this in to consideration and have used flash forwards to attract their attention.

Evaluation Six - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?- Rhianna Henson-Smith (Candidate number = 2062)

Evaluation Seven - Progression from the Preliminary task - Rhianna Henson-Smith (Candidate number = 2062)

Progression from the preliminary task from RhiannaHensonSmith

Rising Suspense Productions

Production Company:
Alike every film company there needs to be a production behind it. It was my idea to have our name as Rising Suspense Productions, as it links to our blog and planning name. Our name also shows what type of genre we are potentially going to base our films on and shows what type of themes and conventions the audience is going to expect to see, for example 'suspense' is associated with thriller films.

Within our Production:
Directors- Rhianna Henson-Smith, Maddy Fox and Sara Campeggi.
We decided to put directors second within our titles as they are one of the most important parts of our filming. They are there to organise scenes and actors, make sure mise-en-scene and location is suitable and have time management.
Music- Mixed by Rhianna Henson-Smith and Maddy Fox.
Allowed us to create and out together different sounds and beats to create various conventions and emotions through the use of music.
Created by- Rhianna Henson-Smith, Maddy Fox and Sara Campeggi.
Showed where ideas within our story originated from which allowed us to create the opening.
Cast- Matthew Forster and Sara Campeggi.
Shows who our actors were within our opening and shows our appreciation.
Edited by- Rhianna Henson-Smith, Maddy Fox and Sara Cameggi.
As this is what creates the effects that Joseph is double-sided or is having flash backs, it is also key in creating conventions and building up audiences emotions.

Rhianna Henson-Smith

Storyline Overview

Doctor 6:19

Beginning:

In the beginning of our film opening it features Joseph Damien sat down at his desk within his office and appears to be scribbling on a bible. I decided that a bible would link with our religious theme and his belief of certain quotes. Yet to show someone to be drawing on to something that is meant to be holy and reflex many teachings and stories that millions worldwide follow would be quite abnormal. No 'normal' person was even think of writing on to the bible, so shows the audience what kind of mind set Joseph has and what sort of character he may turn out to be within the rest of the story. It then shows joseph looking up and with the use of editing, shows him to be disorientated and focused on what he is writing/scribbling. We made sure that we filmed within an office which had a computer in it, this was because we could show our article about a 'Girl Murdered' in which would make the audience think about why he is so interested in it. It also does not give away whether he in fact has committed a murder or is just looking at the latest news. The next part shows Joseph slide over on his chair and open a lockable draw in which he has a case of photographs. These photographs are then placed on to his desk and shows our actor Sara as a murder victim inside a cellar. This then links joseph to his darker side which the viewers can now see clearer and features a flash back of his victim smoking outside.

Middle:

Our middle part of the opening sees a title wrote in a formal typewriter style come on to the screen and say 'Two days earlier', After our doctor is shown to walk out of the hospital and towards his big black car. I used one of my parents cars as it was big and black, so looked like the type a doctor would own and drive, this then saw him look across at his glove box in which the audience could see a knife and some sort of pills/drugs which were originally shown as a overlap in the beginning as being used for Schizophrenia, linking to his mental health. He then was shown driving off after looking mysteriously into the car mirror. Why did he have a knife and what was he going to do?

End:

Towards our ending, after seeing our doctor drive away from the hospital with a knife, we was shown driving through Guildford town centre and park up next to the Casino round the back in a alleyway. He then got out the knife from the glove box and got out of the car. This then features a overlap of Sara our victim running so acts as a flash forward giving the audience a preview of what he is going to do.

Rhianna Henson-Smith

Audience interviews evaluation

Audience evaluation:

Throughout our time filming and producing research towards our opening we made sure we used conventions which the audience would expect within our psycho-thriller genre. We asked different people what they would expect to see within our opening.

Some of their answers were:

- Dark/low lighting

-Crime and murder

- props such as knives and guns

- mysterious and tense music

-suspense

From this audience feedback we made sure these answers we included within our opening. We used dark and low lighting in the scenes which showed Joseph at the hospital walking out and to the car to then drive to the Casino. We did this as night time adds to the tension of a potential murder and disorientates the audiences senses. Crime is shown when Joseph gets out photos of Sara our victim and places them on this desk. This is the first initial stage of showing Joseph's murderous side, which then features a overlapped flash back of Sara running away from him. Murder is a on going theme as after the photos which show death within the film, joseph is then carrying a knife in the middle of town, which first is illegal and secondly links to violence and potential death.  

We made sure we used the right sort of props which would be seen within our genre, we included a knife, rope and bible which commonly feature within a psycho-thriller and add to our ongoing themes. I thought that a knife was a better prop to use instead of a gun, this is because it takes a more physical act to commit a murder with a knife and is more horrific. 

We used garage band to create our music and used different beats and sounds to create mysterious/tense sounds, this then allowed us to fade in and out sounds and change the music at different scenes to also reflex the characters emotions. 

We made sure that we took on the audiences feedback because it needs to appeal to our target audience and we needed advice and tips from those who will potentially be watching it and in the big film industry would make us hits.

Rhianna Henson-Smith

Progress of work

We are coming to the finish line of creating our film Doctor 6:19. So far we have filmed all of our scenes and have edited them so that they run smoothly throughout without mistakes. Our initial plan was to have a scene which featured a nurse walking in to Joseph's office and interrupt him scribbling on the bible and come inside and open the blind window to the office. We decided this as the nurse coming in would alter our characters mood as he throws his scribbles off the table and minimizes the 'girl murdered' article, showing his double sided mind/personality he has as he tries to act 'normal'.
However we decided to cut this scene as we thought the film looked better with just our main character within the opening and no dialogue as we wanted him to stay in this 'mad' personality rather than change.
Me and Maddy worked out how to over lap scenes together to have a scene coming across on top of another one, I felt this was good as it showed Sara (our killers victim) smoking outside before she was murdered and then under the overlay Joseph looking at pictures of his victim dead. This shows the different time difference of both scenes and we changed Sara's clip to black and white to symbolize a flash back.

Rhianna Henson-Smith

Interview with our target audience

Casino Location overview

Casino Location

As mentioned in my previous blog post on location we were thinking of filming next to the casino in Guildford town center. 

On the 30th of November myself and Sara filmed the remaining scenes for our opening which started from Joseph walking from the hospital to his car.

We decided to film him driving to the Casino and park round in an alley way seen in this photo (where the yellow door is). This way we were following our health and safety rules, as we did not get in the way of people, for example parking their cars and were out of site when scenes which involved the knife were used. At night time when we were filming we made sure there was an adult with us and that the camera always was put back into its holder when we were not using it. 

The location was a good choice as it had low lighting, which is a common convention of our genre and was mentioned in our audience interviews to make sure we had. This then would also be a good location to commit a murder, so links with our story. We decided it would be the Casino as it is a popular night club for young adults and is relatively close to our hospital location also.

Rhianna Henson-Smith

Group working

Rhianna, Maddy and Sara

1st day of filming

Rhianna Henson-Smith

Student feedback on our blog

Our group working

Filming and editing schedule