Questionnaire research for thriller films

These are the questionnaires that we created to find out what sort of age people are, there gender and what they expect form a horror film. This will allow for us to involve aspects people will be expecting and leaving things out that they would least like to see in a horror film.

Using the feedback we got from the questionnaires we have been able to include aspects people are expecting to see in horror films and things that people feel make horrors not so horrific.

These are photos of the location Josh and I intend on filming the last scene at. We feel that this location will provide suitable qualities for the setting of a horror film. The set when filming will be in darkness with street lights providing us hopefully suitable lighting.

These photos are of where we will be filming the fade walking and the scenes of a young teen killing them self. I felt that these locations offered a sense of confusion and that they also had a sense of fear to them if you walked past them at night alone.

This is the location for the scene where the young teen get abused by the other teen over the computer.

Narrative structure for main task

This is the narrative structure for Josh and my thriller video. This was done so that if we were filming an entire film it would have  structure the whole way through.

Storyboard for main task

These are the story boards for our film introduction. These are for me and Josh to follow when we film.

Difference between the opening of Juno and Taxi Driver

One of the main differences between Juno and the Taxi Driver opening credits is that Juno has the introduction to the film as the credits also. However Taxi Driver instead uses a sequence that is filmed for the credits.

Opening credits to a thriller film - Taxi Driver

00:02 - Colombia Pictures Presents
00:09 - Robert DeNiro
00:15 - Music comes in
00:36 - Taxi Driver
00:40 - A Bill/Phillips Production of a Martin Scorsese Film
00:44 - Starring Jodie Foster
00:47 - Albert Brooks as Tom
00:48 - Harvey Keitel
00:50 - Peter Boyle as Wizard
00:55 - And Cybill Shepard as Betsy
01:08 - Music by Bernaro Herrmann
01:14 - Supervising film Editors MArda Lucas
Film Editors Tom Rolface, Melvin Shapiro
01:19 - Special make up Dick Smith
01:23 - Visual consultant David Nichols
Creative consultant Sandra Weintraub
01:26 - Director of photography Michael Chapman
01:30 - Written by Paul Schrader
01:34 - Produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips
01:42 - Directed by Martin Scrorsese

Decision made!!!

Josh and I decided on doing a Horror as our main task on the 4/01/2011. We decided this as we felt that locations for a horror were quiet easy to find. At first we had other intentions of filming a crime film but decided that a horror would be easier to film as we had easier access to props and actors. If we filmed a crime film we would have had to find a lot more actors which would be a struggle.

Definition of a Horror Film

What is a Horror Film?


Horror films are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre.