My Group Project

Our Thriller Opening Idea

Our group project is a psychological thriller, involving a man getting revenge on his wife's killer. To be able to make a successful thriller opening sequence, me and my group had to do research on similar other products, to get a idea of what types of thriller conventions they used. For our project we researched the 1995 film 'Se7en' and 'The Bourne Ultimatum'. We also had to research the guidelines for certificate ratings. We also created questionnaire's and surveys to ask the audience what types of thrillers they enjoyed and what they thought of our synopsis for our film opening. After collecting results, we went our to do some test shoots. These weren't very successful, therefore we decided to change our idea slightly. We are currently still filming and researching different distributors. We are also trying to create a soundtrack for our opening sequence.

Thoughts and Progress

I feel our idea is good, but in order to make it successful, we need to do thorough research on similar products, and plan out our sequence properly, which I feel we need to improve on. We have done some research on products, but we have not analysed different openings in detail using screen grabs, commenting on what was successful or unsuccessful. However, we have looked at other AS coursework projects, which have helped us expand on our idea.

We also need to start getting our filming completed, so that we can start putting the sequence together and editing it. We are currently working on this.