4.An account of our target audience

A target audience is the age, gender and social class of the group of people that we are aiming to target with our film depending on advertisement, presentation and the film itself.

Our group has decided that our main target audience should be of both genders between the ages of 25 to 35 years old with a perhaps older secondary audience maybe in the realms of 40 to 50 years old. In terms of social classes we think a middle class educated audience is our main target.

We chose Sam Turton as our ideal audience member, he is a 25 year old male working as a psychology teacher in a private school and enjoys the thrill of the suspense when watching thrillers. He has been to university and has a degree in modern philosophy.
We asked him various more personal questions including what his favourite hobbies are; reading and making music, his favourite movie genre; sci-fi and his favourite film; The Big Labouski to give ourselves a more 3D view of him. Thus realising our ideal audience member who contrasts well with the 64 year old female librarian we interviwed afterwards to show our non-ideal audience member; Alison is not further educated, does not enjoy thrillers and essentially doesnt like being frightened.

Costumes and cast lists

Here are our basic ideas for what we would like our cast to be wearing. Hermione will be getting Storm's white dress and she will be bringing that in on the day of the shoot. The baby cloth will be found by me when i go home to Kenya where i am bound to find some red and brown cloth.

The black outfit for the 'tall' man in the shadow is being looked for by each of us separately but we will first be asking Luke (who will be playing the role) if he has any of the items himself, we chose Luke because he is tall and will most likely be with us on the shoot day and so he was a practical choice as well.

Storm was chosen because of her long dark hair, which we wanted to give a bit of a mysterious and beautiful look to our sequence, also because of her slightly exotic-looking eyes which look good in an extreme close up shot.
We decided to use Doug and Beth Quinn as our father daulghter duo because a) its authentic in that they are father and daughter and b) it was a pragmatic choice because they live in the house we have chosen for a location and both of them are the right sort of ages. :)

Props and Set Lists

Here is a basic draft of what we will need for our set and props, not including the actual bricks and mortar that we will need to build our both pysical and metaphorical wall. :)

Storyboards 1, 2 and 3

Here are the three pages of our storyboard as it is right now. :)

The Process of Storyboarding

A storyboard is a working document that is supposed to make the shoot day easier by being a deatailed, written down version of what the finished product should roughly look like.

It is a number of frames, drawn by the storyboarder and with a written discription next to each one depicting the type of shot, the lighting, sound, location and time period of the shot.

Before creating the storyboards for our group we came together to decide which shots we wanted, when, where and how. This was a slightly more tedious task for our group than perhaps it needed to be mainly because we werent entirely sure of how we wanted to end our sequence in the first place!

However, once all was decided, the storyboarding task itself was reasonably simple although a few touch ups will be done over the holidays.

Research for Our Idea

Research for our Thriller idea consists mainly of pictures of the type of thing we want in our set and in our final peice as well.

We want our thriller to begin quite naturally, just a brick wall being built buy some (preferably female) hands and this is what we want it to look like in the end.

Throughout the building of this wall, there will be a voice over that builds up the tension of the scene, as it grows louder and faster saying; 'Good fences make good neighbours' a quote from a poem by Robert Frost that we feel will help to get out message across to the audience.

Once the voice over is as loud and fast as possible an extreme close up of the girl's eyes will show them flying open, looking terrified as though she had been woken from a terrible dream.

This shot will go into a soft focus and the exposure will increase into a fade out that leads to the next scene which will be an establishing long shot from a low angle of a corridor dimly lit and with many doors on each side of it, like this; minus the low angle.

The next shot will be of the corridor from the girl's P.O.V as she walks down the corridor, where a bright shaft of light is shining from.

Eventually she comes to a door and opens it, the shot is just of her left profile though so that the audience cannot see what she sees, only her reaction. This will happen in a montage of sorts with many different doors being opened and the same thing happening.

Until finally she reaches the last door at the dead end of the corridor, which she opens and there in front of her is the wall that she built with her own hands, whether metaphorically or literally. Throughout the whole sequence, the credits will be rolling and after revealing the last shot of the girl, as she is strapped to an all-white bed in an all-white room, the title will roll up in smoke on the brick wall. Leaving that as the final shot.

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