Identified Target Audience

Within our group we made it a priority to make sure that we had an age range. This was so that we could create our final piece to be appropriate for the specific age range. After surveying a range of audiences which contained a variety of age ranges we came to the conclusion that the preferred age range would be from 15-25.
Keeping this factor in mind we will be creating a thriller opening to match the audiences and age ranges needs. This will be evaluated upon later on, after we finish our thriller opening.

Thriller Survey

I have designed a survey on people's thriller preferences for audience research in preparation for making my own short thriller.
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Creating A Protagonist

Kroven Grey Asesinato.
26 Years (-|-) 6'6 Feet Height (-|-) Male (-|-) Werewolf

              

Short Biography
There is one initial rule, and only one that applies to every creature that comes into contact with Kroven. If you mistake his deceitful nature as kindness, you will end up dead.
 A demonic, cunning, muscular machine of pure screwed up intelligence is the core of what Kroven is. Covered in scars, crimson orbs, and maroon hair, this deadly male is definitely not someone to just 'mess' with. With a smirk plastered on his jaws, and blood lust fixated in his eyes, it is almost impossible to read his moods, but one thing is a given. Above everything else, if in any way, you harm someone he has come to love or care for, you shall be the next creature hanging by their hind legs, from a tree, in the darkness as the blood is drained from your body.
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Clothing
Kroven clothing wouldn't be classed as smart but more of casual feel. During scenes he'd be seen wearing a pair of black jeans, black boots, and no shirt, which would then allow the audience to see the multiple wounds over his chest, left arm, and back. These scars would be linked to past trauma, from family problems to fighting for dominance. The limited clothing would play a huge part in the personality of the character, but also his slight hidden sensitive side.

Lighting
There are many different ways in which lighting could convey the character of Kroven which would reflect his personality. To match his personality the lighting whenever Kroven' is present would be dark, or any light would be dimmed, so that the idea that he is a "Bad" character would continue.

Camera
Different camera actions would be used when representing Kroven. As for visual hierarchy Kroven would automatically stand taller than everyone else in shot or in the scene. Due to his size, being 6'6 he would automatically be taller than everyone else in the scene with whatever subject or activity he was doing.

Sound

There would be a specific type of Non-diegetic sound which would be playing in the background whilst Kroven was present or in the scene. The type of music which would be played would be more towards an scary, creepy noise, almost giving the effect that it wasn't a piece of music at all, or even a song. Here is an example of the type of the non-diegetic sound which would play with the presence of Kroven. The volume of this sound would be rather quiet and always in the background of every situation that Kroven was in, or it may be loudened if there was an emphasis on the moment.
  "Click Here For The 1st Example"
"Click Here For The 2nd Example"

There would also be diegetic sound during some parts of Krovens appearance, which could be shown by him singing it, for example this is Krovens theme song but it would also be a piece of music which he could be shown singing. For this the volume would be a lot louder so that the audience could hear and see what was happening.
"Click Here For The 1st Example"

As for Kroven's accent, he has a very prominent accent which has a Spanish tint to it. Kroven's mother was Hispanic, and this is where he had gained his slight Spanish accent.

Location & Setting
The general location where the whole movie / Tv Drama would be based would be in a dense forest either in Scotland or in Canada, therefore the terrain would be a resemblance of where a wolf pack would live. This being linked to the fact that Kroven is a werewolf / human-wolf shifter and so is his pack and rivalled pack.

The actual place where "most" of the action would be happening is a century old abandoned mansion like castle which was found by Kroven and then adopt by himself, and brought back to life, so that it was in fact inhabitable. The set design for this would be set inside the mansion and although it would be placed in every room it would be mostly based inside the top floor bedrooms, grand hall, kitchen, dungeons, forests, village, and the abandoned forgotten parts of the mansion which only Kroven knows about.

This setting would be based deep within the forest of Canada / Scotland and would be done so that the mansion would be on top of a hill, and would over look the village. 

 

 

 

 This setting, props and design of the inside of the mansion would be more-or-less how Krovens mansion would be set out, and the idea that it was abandoned would fit perfectly.

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Making A Title

I'd decided to create a title for a thriller to which I called " Onyx Chain "

Firstly I started by adding a text box to my piece of work, and I did this by clicked an icon at the bottom of an 'A' and from this a drop down menu appeared, to which I clicked Text.

Adding 'Onyx Chain' to this box which I'd selected I changed the font so that instead of the default font which came up to start of with there would be a little bit more variety in my work.

Once I'd done this the text was dragged form the viewing box and onto the timeline.

After I'd done this I selected and imported a film which was titled 'Damaged Film'. I put this layer above my text layer once on the timeline so that it would give a burning texture to my text once the clip was rendered and played. I also decided to  add some effects to my text. I did this by going to Effects, Video Filters, Glow then Bloom. Not only was this added but I added a 'Bad Film' effect and 'Vignette'.

Once this had been done I also added another layer of this, but this time it would be underneath my original 'Onyx Chain' type, and although it did say the same thing (Onyx Chain) I made it so that the opacity of the layer was slightly lower than the one above it, and also that all the letters were placed over each other, in a large blob. This effect actually worked rather well because it ended up looking like a symbol at the bottom of my screen.

After this was done I rendered my clip and then uploaded it to Youtube.

This was my final product.

Storyboarding

This was the classes initial practice of a story board, we thought about the camera shots and the different things that would be happening and all together we came up with this. The general idea was to give up some help with the thought process and how it works to when we individually come to make our own thriller opening title sequence.

The thriller that I'd chosen to storyboard is Goldeneye. I started by drawing six boxes on a drawing programme on my laptop, since I found it easier to draw on my laptop than to draw on paper, this also saved valuable time. I didn't add as much detail due to the fact it was only a storyboard but I did did add enough for myself and anyone else to understand what was happening in each scene.


Below I have written brief descriptions of what happens, sound effects and camera angles. This is so that the reader can have more detail about how the scene is going to be filmed.

1) Plane flying over a damn and forest. The camera tilts upwards for an establishing shot and then a zoom out.
2) Close up of a gate opening and a man running through the gate. Made on a dolly close to the floor.
3) Close up of a grapple hook clipping onto a railing, the rope is pulled tight before moving onto the next shot.
4) Pan upwards shot to man standing on a ledge.
5) Looking down as the man does the camera follows him as he jumps.
6) Extreme long shot, and a tilt downwards as man falls.

The Dolly

In this image the class set up the Dolly and the track so that each individual person could try and replicate a vertigo effect.

Once the track was set up we started to test different ways in which we could accomplish this. After lining a few backing people at the far end of the camera we placed one person ( Steve ) closer towards the camera. I then pushed the camera on the track forwards toward the person placed closer to the camera and then zooming out we get this vertigo effect.

Above is me trying to accomplish this effect.

Click Here For The Video Showing What We Did.