OPENING SEQUENCE

QUESTION SEVEN

QUESTION SIX

QUESTION FIVE

QUESTION FIVE: HOW DID YOU ATTRACT \ ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?!

By watching thriller films and various different thriller opening sequences prior to the initial planning stages of my own opening sequence; i then had a much clearer idea of what attracts me to watching a thriller film and then ensured i included this when i made my own opening sequence. This overall helped massively with my understanding of what goes into making a thriller opening sequence that was going to be engaging for my audience to watch. I feel although through following typical codes and conventions of the genre; we helped to attract and address the audience's who are already were generally interested in thriller films.

- SUSPENSE \ TENSION:

One way i found was essential to attracting and addressing my audience particularly when creating an opening sequence that fitted into the 'thriller genre' was ensuring that i created and maintained suspense and tension throughout the duration of the opening sequence. By creating suspense an tension i am more likely to capture my audience's full attention, One way we built suspense and tension was through the use of sound; our music is quite dramatic and leaves the audience on edge as it feels although it leading up to something - overall helping in keeping them fully engaged in our opening sequence.Opening sequence's often tend to keep things a secret; this is done by withholding information. We did this by not really making it explicit how our character got out of the situation, how long they had been there for and how they escaped - helping to attract and engage our audience; this is as they'll have unanswered questions; by keeping some parts of the plot a mystery helping this then helps to keep the audience’s full attention and they will be overall more likely to continue to watch the opening sequence.

- THE SUBJECT MATTER: 

we picked a subject which has already proven to attract audience's; TV shows that have huge followings  such as 'Pretty little liars'  follow a similar story line so we knew that as millions of people have already enjoyed this TV show ( which does not belong to the thriller genre) so we knew that people who have \ had an interest in the story line of a 'missing' person may then also have an interest in our thriller opening sequence. 
So when creating our opening sequence we already had a clear view that people would be inclined to watch it - this research was important when deciding our target audience. 

-FURTHER RESEARCH:

i conducted further research, but this time; regarding how many people following my opening sequence would continue to watch my opening sequence and what in particularly stood out to them in terms of attracting and engaging them. Here are the results:

feedback for question five. from Abbiblundell

-OVERALL

Overall, i feel although i both attracted and engaged my audience throughout my opening sequence which helped to contribute to ensuring i appeal to a wide range of audiences - and particularly those who are already a fan of the thriller genre. Through using music which allowed me to build tension and help set the atmosphere i made sure my audience continued to keep there full attention of my opening sequence. 

QUESTION FOUR

QUESTION THREE

Q3 MEDIA from Abbiblundell

QUESTION TWO

QUESTION ONE

TWO MILLION MINUTES - FINAL DRAFT.

Two million minutes - AS media opening sequence. DRAFT ONE

Opening sequence shot list

Evidence of filming..

Audience and genre public research.

Audience research from Abbiblundell

Final planning \ scheduling for the opening sequence.

Myself & Britney got together to discuss important aspects of how we plan to move forward with our opening sequence; we did this by creating a to-do list which stated everything we needed to do during the build up to filming our opening sequence...

here is our to-do list....

Credits planning for opening sequence:

Producer:
Bandoola Productions Presents
In association with Patchwork Productions..0
A film by Abbie Blundell and Britney Butterfield.

Lead actor:                                                              
Abbie Blundell

FILM TITLE:
Two Million Minutes

Supporting actors: 
 Skye Morley
 Gabriel Williams
 Isaac Reed
 Elizabeth Gilbert Howell

Casting director:                                                      
Brett Goldstein

Music producer:                                         
 Benjamin Tissot

Editor:                                                                     
 Jon Gregory

Photography director:    
Britney Butterfield

Executive producer:
Abbie Blundell

Directors:
Abbie Blundell
Britney Butterfield

Location shots \ planning:

Opening sequence planning; prop list.

Props we plan to use... We plan to incorporate a 'Police investigation board' we, therefore, will need to collect the following...
- Pictures taken from newspapers
 - Newspaper clippings
 - String
 - Pins
 - Pinboard
- Photographs of actress (taken from old Facebook for authenticity)
 - Post it notes
 - Map of area
 - Typed up witness statement Missing person poster - use same pictures as investigation board.

Our opening sequence storyboard & synopsis.

OUR STORYBOARD:


Synopsis:
after a number of years held captive, Lucy escapes the house in which she is being kept and runs away. The film will open with the girl escaping the house, and will cut repeatedly to a police investigation board of her own missing persons case. Cutting in this way will reveal narrative clues that would else be lost in the first two minutes, creating intrigue for the audience. If we were to continue and make the whole film, it would follow the present life of the escaped abductee but also the work of the police in their attempts to track down her kidnapper, and eventually flashbacks to her years inside the house as she begins to accept and adjust to life outside. At the very end of the film, the kidnapper would be shown with another abductee, repeating patterns he had with the main character, as the police find him. As is common in thrillers, tension would be high throughout the film, and a conventional happy ending would be too mundane for this type of film, therefore the disturbed kidnapper would suddenly commit suicide before he is caught by police for a plot twist. As we are only filming the first few minutes, we cannot give this much away, but by planting narrative clues and plot trails we hope to captivate an audience. 

Missing poster for our opening sequence:

Why do we have a missing poster?

Within our opening sequence; we are including a part where our character ( who is the person whom the missing poster is for \ about ) actually stamps on it to emphasize and make it clear to the audience this part of the storyline, so they can quickly establish the fact our character is escaping captive.

Here is our missing poster:

Mood board - Opening sequence planning.

Me and Britney have made a mood board which displays a variation of our idea's for props, location, make-up, etc.

Thriller Effects.

I have watched various opening sequences and trailers which all belong to the thriller genre to see the conventional use of mise-en-scene elements as well as the use of editing, locations, sound, etc. This research has then given me some inspiration on how I can incorporate certain aspects into our opening sequence to ensure we portray the genre correctly.
Here is what I found....