Thriller Film Audience Research Proposal

What I want to find out:
1. The audience expectations of independent/mainstream film
2. How do people find out about film releases? Where do people view films?
3. What are audiences expectations of sub-genre crime thriller?
4. Where would you expect a crime thriller to be set? - Inner city, Suburbs, Countryside, Isolated, populated, hi-life, low-life.
5. What do you expect of the 'femme fatale' in thrillers?
How I am going to find out:
1. Interviews - with clips - 6 people.
2. Questionnaire for initial research
3. Filmed interviews with a range of age/gender
What I expect to find out:

Location shots

Our setting for our thriller film is located at the Cathedral.
We thought to place our thriller film here becuase of the significance of the religous landmark. The idea of having a crime thriller at the Cathedral with these shifty events happening on the grounds was a sort of oxymoron. It also offered lots of small hidden places where we could film, the main attraction to having our film located at the cathedral was the river which would have acted as a dead end of some what.
As soon as it snowed we filmed our thriller film and we were more than happy to have the bright white snow for our setting. It reminded me of the thriller film "First Snow".




Our Initial Ideas For Locations:

In the beginning, we suggested many different ideas for our locations.
We thought of small, dark alley ways - enclosed spaces to emphasize the feeling of fear or claustrophobia. For instance in the thriller film "The Third Man" which continuously use the effect of enclosed spaces.

We also suggested car parks which is used in films such as "Jackie Brown" and Thelma and Louise" where their defenceless is emphasized and the sense of exposure is present.

We thought of using a block of flats to set our thriller film because it would give the audience a feeling of enclosure and uncomfortableness. Like in the film "The Secret Place" a scene is set at a block of flats in a war-torn area of the East end.

We all agreed on shooting our thriller film at the cathedral because it would create an eerie tone to the film. We also liked the idea of the cathedral being a religous place where people go to praise God. However we used the contrast with placing our crime thriller here to connote the idea of going against the laws of nature and betraying God. The film "In Bruges" also inspired us to shoot our film at the cathedral as it includes similar architecture and a river. We even considered in performing a few of the shots from the film.