Music in Thrillers

This is a power point on how music is used in thrillers and also how we intend to use it in ours to build suspense.

Thriller Focus Groups

Ten Things To Make A Good Thriller

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Editing

Final Plot Story Board

Due to some complications with settings, props and access to areas we had to adapt our original plot slightly. We feel this new plot adds more tension to the scene and is a improved idea on the original.

Made with Storyboard That

Possible Settings

This is some of our possible locations that we may wish to film in. We tried to include a variety so we have more choice and can be flexible when coming to actually filming the opening.

BBFC

cincinNati theater guild by Brad Quinn

Twitter Poll

Questionaire

 








This is our questionnaire to help us create a better thriller based on what people want.

Filming Equipment

Prelim Production Photographs

These are some pictures from the production of our prelim.

They feature Joe Cuthbert (Camera Man), Bradley Quinn (main actor) and Hussain Salam (actor 2).



Interview On Prelim Thoughts

Here is an interview we held with Joe Cuthbert, about questions on the prelim.

Imperial Studios on Social Media

Imperial Studios have opened up their Twitter & Instagram accounts, you can follow them by searching for their username:

Twitter: @lmperial_Studio

Instagram: @lmperial_Studios

With these accounts you can keep up to date with our current progress regarding our Thriller etc. Feel free to follow us as the accounts are open and not private.

Final Prelim

After fixing & re-recording additional shots due to minor errors our Prelim is now fully complete, it can be viewed below:

Final Logo for Imperial Studios

After many sketches and change of ideas we have finally created a logo that everyone has agreed on and actually makes sense.

Here it is:

Saw opening analysis

Saw opening analysis from Gamekingjp

Insidious Opening Scene Analysis

Below is an analysis of the opening of Insidious:

First Prelim Draft

Here's the first draft of our prelim, We noticed there were slight continuity errors as well as rough editing. We created a draft so we were able to analyse and see what required improvement, therefore we re-recorded & re-edited the prelim which will be uploaded shortly. 

Cape Fear Opening Scene Analysis

This is a analysis of the opening to the film "Cape Fear". I analysed the connotations and conventions of the typical thriller opening.This can help us to understand what we should include in our thriller opening.

Cape fear opening analysis from joe Cuthbert

Codes and Conventions of a Thriller

Cape Fear opening analysis

Cape fear opening scene analysis.docx from Gamekingjp

Cape Fear Title Sequence Analysis

Cape Fear Title Sequence Analysis

This is a Title Sequence Analysis of the Thriller "Cape Fear". I analysed the actors,companies and teams that appeared in the 2.15 minute title opening.

The Woman in Black Opening Scene Analysis

Alien Title Sequence

This is a timeline of the "Alien" title sequence. It highlights the people in the credits for who they are, when their name appears and what their role in the film was.

Thriller Mood Board

Thriller Mood Board

This is  a thriller mood board I created to provide some ideas for our opening. It includes some of the connotations of thriller movies.

Imperial Studios Logo Draft

These are some of the drafts of logos we have made over the last couple of days. They are only basic but we will decide on one and adapt it to look better.

*UPDATE*

We have gone with the third option

Plot 1 Story Board

This is a story board I created as a possible plot for our thriller opening. It is one of many ideas we have come up with and is a very possible contester for the final story.

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Year 13 Talk

The talk from the Year 13's

Today on the 5th of January 2017, experienced pupils from year 13 gave us advice and tips on how to create our thriller opening.

Here are the notes I made:



Thriller ideas's Mind Map

This is a initial ideas mind map to provide some ideas for our thriller opening. It includes story lines, costumes, props, camera shots, filming equipment,settings, examples of thriller films and finally types of thrillers.

The Team

                                                                Welcome to our blog!

Welcome to Imperial Studios, Our team members consist of Joe Cuthbert, Bradley Quinn, Hussain Salam and James Power. This blog is going to include the journey of the production of our opening to a thriller film. This will track the progress from beginning ideas to the final clip itself and evaluation. Together our combined interest in producing a film clip is what has allowed us to come up with multiple interesting ideas for our film opening.

(From Left to Right) Joe Cuthbert, Bradley Quinn, Hussain Salam and James Power