Thriller Opening (Planning): The Risk Assessment and Shooting Schedule

Below is the shooting schedule and the risk assessment we filled out before we started shooting for the thriller opening. They aren't too clear due to the camera we were using but you can still read it at least a little bit.

Audience Research: Interview

We asked someone that would watch thriller films to talk about what he likes about thriller films and more so that we could learn more about what the audience thinks.

Thriller Opening (Research): Research into Audience Views on Thriller Films

This is some footage that I had taken and Stef decided to mess around with it edit it, this was us gathering some information on what people like in thriller films and what sort of elements we should include in our own.

Thriller Film Research: Alfred Hitchcock (Director)

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, more commonly known as Alfred Hitchcock (or the 'master of suspense') was born 13th August 1899 and sadly died 20th April 1980. Hitchcock broke new ground when it came to filming making, he created many techniques to create new age types of suspense and psychological thriller films.

After a very triumphant career in British cinema in silent and early talking films, he was recognized as England's best director, therefore he decided to go over to America and move into his new home in Hollywood, and finally became a United States citizen in 1935.

Through a career that spanned over half a century, Hitchcock shaped for himself an individual and memorable directorial style. He took a leap forward in the use of camera angles that made a move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, engaging the viewer in a form of voyeurism. Through his use of framing shots, he has morphed the way that directors today make films and not only thriller films but all films.

The way that Hitchcock worked has inspired many new generations of aspiring and famous directors and will do until the end of the film making industry.

   

Thriller Film Research: Steven Spielberg (Director)

Steven Spielberg

Spielberg was born on 18th December 1946, he is most famous for being a thriller film director, but he is also famous for being a screenwriter, producer and a business magnate.
Spielberg is the director for many very famous thriller films these include, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park and Jaws. Spielberg is always being considered as one of the leading pioneers of the 'New Hollywood' era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and Thriller films are seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking.

To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide.

Spielberg is undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, his first major directorial effort was The Sugarland Express (1974), with Goldie Hawn, a film that marked him as a rising star. It was his next effort, however, that made him an international superstar among directors: Jaws (1975). This classic shark attack tale started the tradition of the summer blockbuster or, at least, he was credited with starting the tradition.
 In 1978, Spielberg produced his first film, the forgettable I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), and followed that effort with Used Cars (1980), a critically acclaimed, but mostly forgotten, Kurt Russell\\Jack Warden comedy about devious used-car dealers. Spielberg hit gold yet one more time with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with Harrison Ford taking the part of Indiana Jones.