When we started to research for our film opening we started by looking at films such as “Creep”, “psycho” and the “Bourne ultimatum” trilogy because of the chase scenes hoping to pick up a few techniques.
I could not get the chase scenes i wanted on youtube but this is the trailer.
Throughout the all the films i noticed that the music and diogetic sounds had big impacts on the intensity of the film. For example the chase scenes where always fast with quickly paced music to fit the rush of being chased or chasing and also that silence was a good tension builder when something is going to happen.
Here are some other classic horrors that we looked at and concidered as a style, but the main problem was that these were heavily gore based and we did not have the special effects departmet for such props. So the films were "No Country of Old Men" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: in the Beginning
No Country For Old Men
As well as looking at films for our style of filming we also turned to our potential audience and took a short servey which helped us determine what people expected in a thriller film.
We asked 30 people all between the ages of 16-18 years of age. The reason for our age range being so small was due to the fact we used our school for these questionares, but this was fine because it was the age range that we wanted to focus on and appeal to. The questions that we decided on asking were simple one such as:
What do you think is the most important bit of a movie?
a) the chase
b) the action
c) not knowing what is going to happen, ie suspense.
From these questions we determined that to best hold our audiences intrest was to do a chase scene with quick tempo music and to have it very fast moving.
At this stage i think we ruled out and dialoge in the film as that is a whole different level of planning with scripts and boom mics, for quality sound and convincing actor voices.
over all these questionares helped us a lot with planning how and what we wanted to do and to see if we needed to change anything.
