Evaluation Task 3

The aim of a production company is to create and sell a film to their target audience who ever they may be. They do this through a number of ways such as advertising, this could be in the form of posters, TV advertisements and signs on billboards. Also seeing as we have made a British film we may be able to get some funds from the film company Working Title Films, because they focus on the selling and the production of British Films, such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Dead Mans Shoes (which may not be  incorporated with Working Title Films).

When I also began to think about a distributor for the film and where it may be shown, I did not think about it being shown in a big cinema such as the Vue cinema, I actually thought more about it being shown in smaller film clubs, where it can be shown specifically to your target audience instead of people who have no interest in thriller films.

In my opinion the film would be similar to the film S3ven (Seven). I say this because of the type of things we include into the film. For example our main idea for the film would be a detective looking for a murderer, the murderer being seen in the opening above. This idea is similar to the film Seven in which the detective is looking for someone who has murdered people based on the seven deadly sins, but our film uses the basic idea of murder, in which there may not be a reason, (this reason being religious in Seven).

When adding the titles to the thriller opening I did not think much about where any of the titles would go. The only ones that I really thought about was the starring title, and the directed by title, because they are usually the most important in films. The others I believed would fit in well anywhere so I decided to put them in any order.

Looking at the video there are some aspects to it that are very common to other films of the thriller genre. For example some of the locations, where the lighting is very low key and some of the clips are slightly high key, which gives it that thriller feel. Another key feature in our opening is the title for the name of the film. This one thing makes our film unique to other thriller openings because the use of rain effects is not very common in thriller films.

Another key feature is our thriller opening is the use of newspapers. We thought about using this because we believed that it would give the opening a very local feel, and make the audience feel as if the killer is well known and not just a random killer going around. The way that the words are also blacked out gives it a mysterious feel, and makes the audience want to know what is being covered up.

For the final part of our opening, in which the door begins to open and the screen fades out just before the door is fully open gives it that mysterious aspect because you do not know if the person being killed is a child, man or woman. From films I've seen, this is only slightly used during the film and sometimes during the opening of the film.