My title sequence is a thriller about a crazy man man who is obsessesed with this girl and it can be aimed at older teenagers or adults. But, mostly females...




What you might find in a typical bag:




  • Keys - essential!


  • Water - keep hydrated at all times!


  • Purse - one of the most important things!


  • Mascara - make those lashes a little longer...!


  • Liquid eye liner - simple but attractive!


  • Ipod - listening to music is a must!


  • Iphone - with the lastest gadget and easy.

  • Glasses case - were else is the glasses going to go?

  • Hair band/clip - for a quick touch up!

  • Magazine - so you won't feel bored on the bus/train!
    Mirror - Check if you look good!

"Paige, age 21, is a fashion designer who is now training to be an actor. She loves going out, she's determined at anything she does, a family person and her hobbies are: Hockey, Baseball, Swimming and Bowling. She is currently engaged to Aussie (actor) throb-heart Alex O'Loughlin.









These are the still shots from the film
Cellular..










These are two still shots of the opening to my thriller movie...


They represented the similarities by using a phone and that it gives the effect that it a threat and the picture with my cousin (Ilknur) looking out and with Jessica looking up when shes on the phone, it gives the impression to me taht it calls 'desperation'.
How the 'baddie' is threatening Jessica and the text message that Ilknur got gives a more scary and edgy feel to it. It makes it different, but a thrilling feel to it!...








































These are the still shots of the film: Cellular. Obviously, this film is in action thriller, but I really liked the idea where they use a mobile throughout the film to give it intensity and and gave impact. It made the viewer on edge all the time. I used that too, because it makes it slightly more freaky using a phone, which makes it more personal. That's why I used a mobile in my one as well, at times. :)


However, even though some of these shots are not from the titles - but during the film that I liked and that I could have used...


























These are nine shots from the opening of the film my group made called The Reading. I think these screen grabs sum up the film very well, as you can see many of our shot types including close ups and the credits. Our production company was called Candi Studios, so our budget was very low and not very well known, so it would be hard to distribute our film.

'Dexter' is a television show usually shown on FX only, it stars Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgn, a serial killer who leads a normal life as a police officer without being caught.

My group and I were not able to use any famous names or faces in our film opening as they would have been too costly, especially on our very low budget. This is one of the reasons we used Candi Studios instead, as the settings etc would have been hard to recreate in London over two weeks filming.

The credits we used are half real, half fake, as we didn't want to use our names twice, so we each chose a role and put ourselves down as that, for example I was the main character, so I was put down as 'starring Lydia Alldritt'.
Our characters challenge the normal, stereotypical film opening as the two main characters; the fortune teller and the victim are very mysterious. The main character dies before the opening credits are finished, and so, instead of getting to know our main character in the opening two minutes, the audience just see a random person. Also, the fortune teller's face is never shown properly, just a close up of her eye and hands, keeping her shrouded in mystery.
Also, the setting we used was unordinary, as we used two different locations and flicked between them. The location in the park was then saturated to make it seem more surreal and supernatural, keeping in line with the film's plot. The locations were made to be very contrasting, with the one in the park very light, and the one in the fortune teller's room very dark and eery for the audience to watch.
The handheld camera was different to most people, as not many other groups used hand held camera shots. As we used it when we were running, it makes it seem really frantic and scary, so the victim looks as if she is running for her life.
The genre for our film is probably very niche, as it is a paranormal thriller more than anything else. Also, it is a little bit gothic, and so would appeal to that market.

Target Audience and What they are likely to have in their bags!
Our title sequence was a trailer about future telling and is mainly aimed at a teenage group that name them selves as ‘Goths’. These are people that have a different life style compared to the ‘Normal’!

They are interested about things like future telling, witch craft, spells and so on.

This is a bag that a girl is most likely to have. The gender doesn’t really matter, but could be females more than males.

A stereotypical person that would come to watch our film would have the things above in their bags.
These are items that a Gothic / Emo person would have. The bag would have a lot of chains and accessories all over.
It would contain:

  • Ipod - because a myth about them is the fact that they cant live without music!
  • BlackBerry phone as they like to keep up to date!
  • Keys
  • Ka soft drink, because it isn't expensive!
  • Cigarettes and lighter as moth goths / Emos' smoke!
  • Purse
  • Book about Tarot cards
  • Dog chain in Gothic / toxic design!

As shown on my picture of whats in the bag, it is clear that the main target audience are females. A lifestyle summary of somebody that would watch this movie would be:

Louise, 18, Employer at Tattoo shop. Favourites of hers is the colour black, supernatural activities such as Ouija Board. She enjoys supernatural thriller and horror movies. Her hobbies are designing tattoos and she likes body piercings!

3.
I researched online for any AS-level Media students trailer movies on youtube and I found a couple interesting ones. The one that grabbed my attention in particular was what a group named ‘Duties of Fidelity’. It was a trailer made by students that also had done AS media. It was a well created title sequence for a thriller opening. They had used the desaturated effect really well which made the title look extremely thrilling!

It is a long trailer, however it has a meaning and is a powerful trailer, therefore doesn’t necessarily get boring, this could be because it has an interesting storyline. The trailer uses hardly any music or even a theme music and uses a lot of dialogue but its a good trailer which doesn’t get boring.



The group members that produced this title sequence definitely had a very good sense of what they had to be doing and produced a good work.
They uploaded their video trailer on youtube and got to about nearly 6 thousand views! This automatically makes it less critical for them to get the video going around with a low budget. Youtube has a big affect on things that are produced on low budgets and could be hard most of the time because they have very little access to the actual big professional equipment.

This is just a starting idea of what our trailer and better trailers in the future could lead to. We could and have embed our rough cut on to our blogs. We can also upload it on to youtube and other sites as such, like facebook etc and see how many views it gets. Eventually, if the trailer / video is good enough, it would get results with a lot of feedback which would then relate to the trailer becoming popular although its a low budget film and globalise world wide for everyone else to see!


4.
Another way for distributing our trailer could be by advertising our title sequence as a billboard or publish them on local bus stops etc. Posters could be made so the film gets promoted to everybody on road. This would definitely be eye catching and would attract a certain audience type straight away.

They also should be presented on random websites and also we could do something such as having to watch the trailer on youtube before somebody wants to watch a video.
Regarding the fact that the trailer is aimed at teenagers + we can make special posters and put them inside college buildings and universities that are media, film and advertisement related!

Our trailer represents two very similar social groups very clearly, these are "goths" and "emos".

The audeince could clearly see this because of what our mise en scene was and the 'future teller's costume. These things are influential for people that are interested in wearing loads of chains, carless or extreme looks.

We wasnt really inspired by any other movie while producing it, it was something we came up with our self, to make something unique!

However, if i was to arrange the similarities a real goth / emo character with our future teller, i think that our future tellers room (mise en scene) and her costume was realy relating to them. Dark colours, candles, supernatural activities, curses, spells etc are all things that emos and goths are stereotypically meant to do so!
The other charater which is the victim (the girl that goes to the future teller and at the end is found dead! - She has a very careless costume which is how many original goths will be and also in dark colours.



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A couple differences from a real character and our ones could be that we didnt see enough dangerous activites, drugs etc. There is a specific reason why we didnt use these aspects. This is because we wanted to keep the sub genre as 'supernatural' and if we were to take scenes of drugs, piercings, dangerous activities, this would have changed the sub genres into many different and a range of sub genres such as action, crime and horror.



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