Final Storyboards

These are the final storyboards:

This is drawn by Sam (me) and the group cam up with the idea

Media Horror Script Final

The horror thriller starts off in the woods with two school boys walking home; the killer is not far away from them and can be seen in different shots dragging a dead body through the woods into a ditch. After this the killer catches a glimpse of the school boys walking through the woods. The last thing in this short horror opening is the two school boys walking out of the woods, with the central antagonist being quite clearly seen in the background.

Throughout this trailer we will include very quick flashing pictures. The pictures will be up for approximately 0.5 seconds till 1 second. This gives the audience who are watching it a short time to see it, as we are hoping to tell part of the plot through pictures. The pictures will consist of the central antagonist doing various things, e.g. dragging a body away. We are also going to include pictures of his hands and feet that we will filter into black and white.  The actual recorded footage on the other hand will be the two school boys walking through the woods on their way home. This is when the pictures will flash up between some lines that they say. We are hoping to include at least 15 – 30 different pictures.

We are starting with an establishing shot of the woods to set the scene. We then transition from this to a long shot of the two school boys walking towards the camera. We then switch to a tracking shot of the boys walking. We could also use some pictures of the antagonist to use as transitions to various shots of the boys.  Credits will also be appearing on the ground and various trees at the side as the boys are walking down. It is also possible that we could use some dark eerie music to signify that something bad is going to happen. We have also tried to use typical teenage stereotypes as we have included an Xbox in the dialogue. One of the things Nathan says is “Have you seen Sam recently?” this shows that the dead body that can be seen being dragged is Sam’s. 

 

Notes

·         Sam could also be dressed as a school boy

·         The two school boys could be talking about a missing person at their school possibly a friend

·         Could say something like “Why did the school say we should walk home in pairs?”

·         The killer could be targeting school boys

 

Script
Nathan: Hey, good day?
Angus: Yeah not bad, had media last, you?
(The camera follows Aaron who is dragging a body away)
(We see Nathan and Angus talking still)
Nathan: Yeah it was alright. Have you seen Sam recently?
Angus: No, not since Tuesday
(We see Aaron wipe his hands together, when he spots Nathan and Angus.)
(Aaron is seen possibly rolling Sam’s body into a ditch)
Nathan: Weird. So what you doing when you get in?
Angus: Probably go on the Xbox, and do my business homework.
Nathan: Ahhh. When do we have maths tomorrow?
Angus: I think its period 2.

Nathan and Aarons work

Thriller storyboard

 These are the storyboards for our horror thriller:

This is drawn by Sam (me) and the ideas cam from the group

Target group presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/29173884

This is the embed code for our presentation that we presented for our target group to get ideas for our thriller.

Group work

First Draft for the Horror Thriller

                                                                  Script for Horror Thriller

Cast
Aaron – Central Antagonist
Nathan – Central Protagonist
Angus – Helper (Friend)
Sam- Dead body
Sam is also the lead camera man
Nathan is also the director

Horror thriller opening, set in present day, shot in a wooded area (Establishing shot of the woods). The two friends are walking through the woods having a day to day conversation (Long shot switch to tracking shot), when they stumble across a dead body (Point of view shot). The two friends check the pulse of the body, when they first see it (Close-up of dead body). One scans around the area, whilst the other one tries to ring for help (Close-up of phone) (He can get no connection on his phone).  Then a quick jump cut to the sharp object in the hand of the killer, then it cuts back to the two friends. Then we see a point of view shot from the view of the antagonist as he is walking towards the backs of the friends. We then hear a branch snap and the two friends turn around and run away. The killer does not chase them, but is seen in various places as they are running away, but the friends do not spot him. One friend falls to the floor, then as he gets up, is grabbed by the killer. The central protagonist carries on running away and takes cover to breath behind a tree. He then comes head on with the killer, which we can see from a point of view shot in the eyes of the antagonist. The screen then fades to black.

Dialogue

(Two friends walking down a hill in the woods)
(Nathan sees dead body at the bottom of the hill)
Nathan: Angus…Angus do you see that, down there?
Angus: Yeah, what is that!?
Nathan: Yeah, it looks like a dead body
(The two friends then run down the hill, and examine the body)
Angus: Yeah… it looks like you were right…
(Nathan then walks round, examining the area, and looking for a weapon)
(Angus tries to call for help, but can get no signal)
(They then here a branch snap, and turn around to see the killer)
Nathan: Run!
(The two friends run in different directions, Aaron chases Angus)
(Angus then falls over, and is caught by Aaron, and murdered)
(Nathan is then seen running away, and leans up against a tree, breathing heavily)
(As he then comes round the tree, Aaron is the stood on the other side. The two come head to head)

Nathan's work

Target Audience

Target Audience

For our opening 2 minutes of a thriller we as a group need to have a target audience so we can make the thriller for that specific audience.

We have chosen teenagers from the age of 11 to 16 year olds for our target audience. The reason for this chose is that our entire group is 16 years old and so we can specify the opening for what we want to see in terms of the action, characters and colours so we can achieve good levels of interest for our thriller.

Our classification for our thriller film would be a 12 age rating. This is because we would be able to attract more teens to watch our movie as it will have a lower age restriction. With our thriller being a 12 age restriction we include things such as:

·        Some strong language but it must be infrequent

·        Moderate violence but not too detailed as there should be no emphases on the blood or gory.

The way that we will achieve this age restriction is to have low levels of violence and do not show any blood or gore if somebody dies. Also we could have some to little amounts of swearwords and this could include the less offensive like (Pr*ck or Tw*t) to also keep the age rating low.

In our group we did research to find out:

·        What type of thriller do you prefer?

·        What do you expect from the opening first two minutes of a thriller?

·        How many characters would you want in the opening?

·        What time period would you want the thriller to be set in?

·        Do you want there to be a narrative theme?

With this information we could find out what people wanted from a thriller and then cater it to our target audience which is teens. We will do this by getting all this information from the survey questions and then doing the type of thriller which the audience wants.

Angus's work

Marketing and Promotion

Marketing and Promotion

A way of Promoting our thriller film would be by creating a teaser trailer, this would be a very short video that would be broadcasted in the cinema before other films of a similar genre, (as they would be our target audience) and after nine o’clock as we are not aiming our film at children as it is a horror thriller. This trailer would make the audience watching our trailer start to ask questions about it if it is short and sweet, not giving too much information away. The benefits of this would be that people will start talking about the advert and being publicised more. Another place to put our trailer would be online so adverts on YouTube before a video or on Netflix when somebody is about to watch a thriller film as they would be interested in that kind of film to help us build a larger audience.

 

Another way of promotion would be too have a large poster made and put up on a billboard of the main character looking sinister on a billboard; these posters would be put inside the cinema so it will attract the attention of “movie buffs.

For example,

Aaron's work