Audience Research

What do you expect of the 'femme fatale' in thrillers?

1. Gender: Male

Age: 21

Answer: I expect the femme fatales to be seductive. Most femme fatales get killed during the film to create a twist but i like it when they stay alive. Like in Jackie Brown.

2. Gender: Female

Age: 17

Answer: I expect the femme fatale to be elegant and alluring. To be more flamboyant than the other characters.

3. Gender: Female

Age: 19

Answer: I expect the femme fatale to be independent. I enjoy it when the femme fatale is a golddigger because it adds humour.

Audience Research

Where would you expect a crime thriller to be set? - Inner city, Suburbs, Countryside, Isolated, populated, hi-life, low-life.
The Da Vinci Code - Example of crime thriller

1. Gender: Female

Age: 16

Answer: If i was to watch a thriller that was set in inner city or low-life i would be able to identify it as a crime thriller. When directors try to make their film not like the traditional thriller film it can sometimes seem too fake.

Inner City X

Suburbs

Countryside

Isolated

Hi-life

Low-life X

2. Gender: Female

Age: 20

Answer: I would expect a crime thriller to be set in low-life. Although i do like films which are set in isolated places like the countryside because although it's a big space it can give a feeling of an enclosed place because of the vast isolation.

Inner City

Suburbs

Countryside

Isolated

Hi-life

Low-life X

3. Gender: Male

Age: 29

Answer: Crime thrillers are mostly always set in busy inner cities to show hustle and bustle and distortion. I always enjoy thrillers which have traditional thriller conventions.

Inner City X

Suburbs

Countryside

Isolated

Hi-life

Low-life

Audience Research

What are the audiences expectations of sub-genre crime thriller?
What are you're expectations of the sub genre - crime thriller?

1. Gender: Male
Age: 18
Answer: I would expect guns and violence to be in a crime thriller. I would be disappointed if there was not much action in the film.

2. Gender: Male
Age:15
Answer: Crime thrillers are my favourite type of film so i always expect good things. I have been let down by a few though. I am disappointed if the film doesnt have a suspense to it.

3. Gender: Female
Age: 45
Answer: I dont know much about thrillers. I like thrillers where theres lots to think about and the plot twists and turns. Like in Pulp Fiction. I like independent films mostly, this is where the sense of the film being authentic comes from. I feel like the thriller could be true.

Mock essay

This is the result of my mock essay done on the thriller film "The Sixth Sense"

Our shooting scedule

This is our shooting schedule.
We used a shooting schedule to help us with our organisation while we were in the process of filming.
It helped each person remember their responsibilities and where we all had to be at what time.
This helped us a lot with our planning.

Storyboards

Storyboards:

responsibilities while filming our film

Responsibilities:

Me: Contributing to the filming and directing of the thriller film. Also the editing when we finished filming.
Alice: Contributing to the filming and directing of the thriller film. Also the editing when we finished filmed.
Daniel: Playing the role of "Harry" and "The unknown character" and also the editing when we finished filming.

Costumes

Eve: Eve is dressed in a long coat which covers her body and down to her knees. She is wearing dark ankle - height, lace up boots. She has long dark curly hair which emphasizes her glamorous look. Eve's style is sophisticated which I suppose you can say is a 'typical' femme fatale approach, for example the femme fatale in "Once upon a time in America" has a glamorous approach.
Her beauty and sexual presence helps her lure people into compromising positions and this is done to create power.




Harry: Harry is also dressed as sophisticated. He is wearing dark, smart trousers with a buttoned coat. This is to make Harry look 'normal' and disguse his real reason to why he's there.
His height shows powerfulness and his posture makes him seem important. The black outfit connotes sadness and general negative signifigance which is in contrast of the white snow which shows purity.






Unknown character: The unknown character is dressed in black. This is also to connote a negative view on this character. The unknown character uses his hood to hide his identity and his criminal erinds.

Plot to our thriller film

Our narrative structure:

• Eve (femme fatale) lights a cigarette while she is waiting for a phone call.
• Eve recieves the phone call and dialogue is exchanged. Eve says "I'll be there. Two minutes"
• All shots of Eve are to keep her mysterious character so the shots are only glimpses of her - not showing her face; as an intertextual reference to the introduction of Mia in Pulp fiction.
  
• She puts the cigarette out and begins to walk through an open gate and down towards the planned meeting point.
• She approaches a male character, Harry. Who is standing beside a lampost (which is in reference to the thriller film "The third man" which has a shot of the femme fatale standing next to a similar looking lampost) He hands her an envelope and they share no more contact.
• She walks on and towards the river.
• While she is walking, many point of view shots are established to show that someone is following her.
• Eve is oblivious to this and carries on walking forward.
• As she walks below an arch way it shows a point of view shot of Eve and a gun is raised in the view.
• As Eve walks out of the arch way she is shot (as she went from being in the light to being in the dark and being in the light again, the darkness is suggestive that something irregular was about to happen)
• As the camera shows Eve lying on the snowy floor with blood around her head a character comes into view and slowly takes the envelope Eve is holding in her hand and he walks away.
• The last shot shows Eve's hands twitching and her eye suddenly opening.