Survey Monkey (Facebook)

To get as many responses I possible, I posted my survey onto my social networking Facebook page. With 910 friends, I hoped this would help me get a good range of answers in order to give me a good assumption of what people wanted to see in a thriller. Below is a link to this;

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveymonkey.com%2Fs%2FLF83JCM&t=Banter+Survey%21

Survey Monkey

In order to further our research and planning on what we could include, we made a survey which we would ask people of our generation of teenagers to complete and return in order to give us a better idea of the aspects we would need to include in our thriller. Below is a link of my survey and some of the questions I chose to include in order to get a better idea of what our target audience wanted to see.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?PREVIEW_MODE=DO_NOT_USE_THIS_LINK_FOR_COLLECTION&sm=rqMtJqqW4W5pTnUXdQcKL5gygKPZ%2b1MnnOAf5KeeGaE%3d

I then plan to collect the results and learn more about aspects of what I want to put into my own thriller. I will post my results in the next post....

Planning & Research - Sabotage

To give us more insight on what our thriller should include to build up suspense, we decided to watch even more of the master of suspense in Alfred Hitchcock. In the opening extract of this thriller, Hitchcock has a boy who is carrying a bomb but he is not aware of this as his brother in law has given him a package which the boy believes to be harmless. Us as the audience know the bomb is there but he doesn't, Hitchcock builds suspense as he boy gets distracted on his adventure to get the package to it's designated place.

Hitchcock shows dramatic irony in his methods of suspense as on the package, it has the words 'Birds Will Sing at 1:45' which means that the bomb is due to go off at 1:45 which makes us keep looking at the clocks which Hitchock emphasises on to build up the tension. Will the bomb go off before the boy makes it to his destination, you'll have to watch on to find out.

Planning & Research - Seven (Film Titles)

Another element of our thriller that we will have to consider is the film titles and how we can use modern technology to introduce the characters involved in our thriller to make a better look to the whole thriller and set up for a few tense minutes of action.

As part of our planning and research we have watched many film titles at the start to see how modern technology has advanced to make our film look as professional as possible. A great example of how the film Seven used modern technology to make their film titles is shown below;

As you can see above, this is a fine example of how special effects can be used to show the enhancement on technology to make your film look stylish and professional in order to set up for an intense thriller. What we also noticed in this film was how they included a film company to show who made the film, this is another key aspect we may look to add by making our own film company in order to add another sense of professionalism to the film.