My group consisted of four members (myself, Micheala, Stephanie and Kirsty – All females). Our thriller is called ‘’Corrupt’’ and it is about the government policy but instead of being male dominant we decided that it would make more sense to make it female dominant, seeing as all of us are females.
When thinking about our thriller, we all wanted to make sure that our thriller would challenge and be different to everybody else’s e.g. People usually have something blow up or a killers involved in their thrillers. We decided to stray away from the expected and make ours unique, which led to nothing blowing up and nobody dying. When watching thriller openings we also noticed that the majority of thriller opening usually involve two people that either know each other previously or somehow find themselves acquainted within the film. We decided to base our thriller around one individual through out the film, but also introduce another character without revealing their identity, this was done by a simple anonymous phone call. It was simple but very effective. Going into more detail about our thriller, i'd call it a political thriller.
Our thriller definitely portrays females having the upper hand, which usually isn’t the case. It’s usually middle aged men that are involved with the government and secret identities. This would have proven difficult for us to portray seeing as my group only consisted of female members. We portrayed women as the leaders of the universe. The female in our thriller, was of a Colombian ethnic background, in her mid 20’s, straight and would fall into a middle working class category, due to her smart dress sense. Even the phone call that was made to our main character was the voice of a female.
Our thriller would be described as, unique, unexpected, smart and manipulative which would attract many viewers. It strays away from the expected and becomes unique which is what many people have been trying to get out of film makers/directors. So to release our thriller on the internet alone would undermine our work and give it less that what it’s capable of achieving. So having said that, I’d keep it within its area and release it as a successful U.K Film. This is because, it’s usually children that watch films by surfing the internet, which then means that adults (who this film is mainly aimed at) would miss out on the opportunity to watch it, and also because releasing it as a film would mean that both age groups (children and adults) would get the opportunity to watch it at a price suitable for both.
Looking at our thriller, it would be easy to assume that our thriller would attract female viewers for the simple fact that it only involves female actors, but that is not always the case, because someone can argue the fact that men would be interested to see what female directors and actors are capable of, and also men would watch this because they may be attracted to the female actors involved. So therefore I would not put a restriction on the genders allowed to watch the film, I’d leave it open and say that it’s targeted to both genders. The age limit is tricky, because you get those rare children who are interested in how the country is being run and the government and then you have the ones who simply don’t care. It’s likely to find that young adults and adults are mostly interested in government policy and rulers of the world. So therefore the target audience for this thriller would be young adults within the ages of 19 to adults that would vary between 30 – 50. In terms of ‘’class’’ , it would be wise to say that it’s suited class would be middle class because it’s set in the well established parts of London, which would go on to attract very established Londoners. It would also attract ‘’achievers’’ as oppose to ‘’aspirers’’. This is because in order to become a politician or have any involvement with the government, it would be normal to think that you must have been motivated enough to become that and only people that need motivation and people that can relate to the film will be interested in watching it. So in a nutshell this film will be suitable for people like Sarah-Jane Wilkinson. Sarah-Jane Wilkinson is a 22 year old student, studying law at the London School of Economics and loves watching films that challenge her dreams. She lives in Essex with her father who is a member of the House of Parliament and her mother who also works alongside her husband. She is last born of 4 children and is fighting to achieve more than all her siblings.
When marketing the film, I will ask myself, what it is about other films that attract me. What makes me want to pay money to see a film? I usually watch films that fall into my favourite genre e.g. (Action, Thrillers, Romantic Comedy etc...), then it must have an actor or actress that is very well known and has already previously made a film that has made it into my top 10 films. So in terms of my thriller, I will advertise the actress (Stephanie Brand) as a very well known and established actor who has made films that have made it worldwide. I will then introduce its unique genre (Female Rulers – Government based), that in itself should already attract viewers, because it’s not what you usually hear of. In order to advertise it more, I will release a TV Advertisement (involving the actress, the ranking and the release date). I will then have billboards advertisements. And just to make sure that it really hits the public, I will cut a deal with a very well known product e.g. Pepsi, Coke etc... We enticed the audience by telling them that if you buy a can of Pepsi, you may win free tickets to see the film in cinemas.
The process of filming our thriller was not as difficult as we expected it to be. Even though none of us had experience using a video recorder, it was still easy to use because we were given a tutorial on how to use it, which made us more comfortable when using it. We were very careful with it and made sure that we followed every instruction given to us carefully. After using the video camera we then had to insert our thriller onto a software called ‘’Final Cut Pro’’ where we would have to cut out any un needed bits of our thriller and put the wanted bits together in order to make it look realistic. This is the bit that proved difficult as all the errors made when filming made it hard for us to make it look as realistic as we would have wanted it to. It was also a frustrating experience because not everybody agreed on the same thing. The internet has been very useful and has allowed us to get views and comments of other people. Our video was put on a website called ‘’Vimeo’’ which allowed our video to be viewed by others, and allowed us to view other peoples videos. There is also another website called ‘’YouTube’’. This particular website allows any and everyone to view your thriller and also allows them to write their comments underneath. Our video was not yet put on this site because none of us have a YouTube account, but we all agreed that should any of us activate a YouTube account, then we’d upload our thriller onto it. Watching our thriller in the cinema was an exciting, yet scary experience. It was exciting because we were anxious to hear the opinions of others and it was scary because we weren't sure if it would live up to what others had done. All in all, our feed back from out class mates and friends was postivie, but we were told that we could have used more shots, which we were already aware of.
I have learnt how difficult it actually is to make films, and that there is so much more that meets the eye, in terms of filming. I also learnt that more planning goes into filming than I though e.g. Story boarding. I never knew that you had to create a story board and then film whatever was drawn on it and I never knew about ‘’Final Cut Pro’’. I just thought that how you film it, is how it is going to be released. I also learnt that it is crucial that you stick to your story board other wise it’ll prove difficult in the long run and it’ll mess up your original plans. Planning is also a crucial stage to filming and it is vital that you plan ahead well to make your thriller of a good standard.
BY OYIN BALOGUN
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