The Research and Planning Processes

Research:

Thriller Opening - The Dark Knight

This particular research on actual thriller openings was very useful to our own thriller opening. We were able to pick out different aspects that occurred/conventions within the opening of 'The Dark Knight' and found what gave it that thriller like element. For example, the use of the mask to hide the Jokers identity gave us the idea to also use this with our own protagonist which emphasised the elements of a thriller. Also it helped us with how our opening credits should come into the opening and the idea of jumping straight into the action.

This type of research/audience profile was useful to us as it allowed us to look at someone of our own age and the reasonings for watching films so we could apply this to our own work and make the target audience want to watch this film. This included having lots of action involved within the opening. Also, finding out their favourite thriller film/s helped us to look at these openings to pick out the conventions that gave it a good opening and apply these to our own thriller openings.

Planning:

For the planning, my group decided to do a storyboard and an animatic to present the ideas of our thriller opening and how things were going to pan out. The storyboard was successful as it allowed us to plan out the events within the thriller and highlight where things like the credits would enter, where the action would begin, etc. The animatic allowed us to plan out the timings of the actual thriller opening and helped to plan out what needed to be shortened so that it fit the time gap and overall this was successful as our thriller opening followed this.