Research

In the past few weeks, I have been doing market research to identify what elements people would want to see in a thriller. In this market research we have been interviewing a variety of generations and watching previous works from students before. We also learnt how to use a digital video camera in order to prepare to video our thrillers. We then put this video onto youtube so other people could see what we have found. Below is a link to our video so you can make your own assumptions;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrfnzPS4_mw

After analysing and evaluating this video, I have made my own self judgements on the video. Although, admittely quite amateur, the camera is steady and the questions are clearly delivered and well answered which makes the content in the video quite good. On the other hand we have made a few errors in making the video, firstly we forgot to put microphones on two of our interviewers meaning they were not always clearly heard and secondly the camera shots were not always correct as we seemed to stick with a distant long shot all the time which is something we will have to alter for the film.

However, we still acquired some valuable tips while interviewing our audiences as we learnt some techniques that we may want to use in our own thriller. We learnt that audiences enjoy suspense in thrillers and shocks which made us think that we need to include a intelligent thriller with a lot of suspense before a big shock to make the viewer want to read on. We have a few early thoughts for our storyboard but we must consider a range of techniques and appropiateness before finalising any ideas for our thriller.