Thriller shoot - set

                                                                                                                                              When building the set we went to set up the day before filming - this meant that  we would have everything organised for the next day. For building the set we used white wooden boards that  we painted  grey to make it look more realistic as a war bunker. We also put down wooden floor boards and hung up the American flag and map posters; we did all this so it would look more effective as a real US war bunker. 

The set

For our set it will be based in a war bunker. We will build this in the studio the day before filming. This war bunker will be thought of as underground somewhere in the USA.

We will also use a hallway for one of the scenes that is not in the bunker where the assassin is being chased by a security guard. This hallway will be thought of as outside of the war bunker.

Cast email

Here is an email that we sent out to all of our cast, telling them all of the details about our shoot. By sending this out we made sure that we knew as soon as possible who could and who couldn't be in our thriller. Email was a good way of getting  information quickly to our cast. 


To:

Mike Timson‎; Simon Wood‎; Ted Jackson‎; Hendrik.Speelmans‎; Michael.Lazarenko‎;Taymour.WILLIAMS


Cc:

Charlie.Farish‎; Holly.Kelsey

22 January 2013 14:28

Dear all, we are doing a thriller for our AS project and we were wondering if you could take part in our thriller on the 29th of january?

Please let us know if you are avaliable on this date as soon as possible.

Thank you from, Oli, Charlie and Holly.


All apart from one replied saying that they were available and wanted to be in our thriller. However because we got the quick reply from .... saying he was unable to take part in our thriller we were able to replace him with someone who was available at very short notice.

Target Audience Facebook page

This is a Facebook profile of an example of our target audience. This shows that our primary target audience member is male, in his early twenties. Our target audience age range is specifically in early twenties as it involves government policies and violence. His profile also says that he likes a lot of films that are spy film this shows that he will enjoy our thriller because our film is to do with government and possible spy issues. He also likes the 'BBC', 'The Times' magazine and 'History Weekly' this shows that he is well informerd in issues in the new and is interested in the british history and culture. It will also show that he might know about the issues the West have with the middle East which indicates that he could enjoy our thriller.

Who would distribute our film

Warp Productions would make our film because they haven't filmed a political thriller although  they have done other kinds of thrillers before. They also have helped make films for first time directors. Warp Productions have made films by first time directors including Paddy Considine's 'Tyrannosaur' and  Richard Ayaode's 'Submarine'. They have also made short films (such as 'My Wrongs'). 

Warp would market and make money out of our film by doing deals with companies such as BBC and Film 4.  They cannot work entirely on their own as they don't have the budgets and therefore look to co-fund their films. The advantage of this is that if the film premiere was set on Film 4 it would make money through adverts which would help to offset costs.Warp has a deal with Optimum Release so they can distribute their films well  - another reason  we chose Warp Productions. Warp has also succeeded in getting  their films in cinemas for example  'Submarine' and 'This is England'. This shows that they can have success on limited budgets and attempt to compete in some small way with Hollywood's dominance of the film industry. Nine out of ten films distributed in English film cinemas are American. The English and European films that do make it into  the cinemas are usually shown in independent film cinemas. Warp specialise in getting films  such as 'This is England' into independent cinemas. Warp would then sell the distribution rights for our film; they would struggle to finance the film considering its complete lack of stars and actors of any repute. however because Warp have a good reputation they could sell European distribution rights in advance. This would help raise the finance for the budget and help us make it. They could also make money out of merchandise and DVD sales. We see DVD and TV as the main ways they would make money out of our film, so by creating a release window between cinema release and DVD release they can keep the public interest in the film going.

similar thriller films

 

There are a range of films that are similar to our opening sequence of a thriller. They all involve an assassination or conspiracy against the US government or president.

The film JFK is similar to our thriller

as it involves the assassination of

JFK, the American President. It also

 involves conspiracies.

 

 

 

The film 'Death of a President' is a

fictional film about the death of an American

president which is similar to our film. It

explores involves international conspiracies

which involves groups such as Al-Qaeda.

 

 

 

The film 'Enemy of the State' is similar to our film

because it is a conspiracy involving the US

government. It is also an action thriller like

our thriller.

title sequences

Catch me if you can

0.26 Leonardo DiCaprio                 Actor
0.31 Tom Hank
0.52 Christopher Walken
0.56 Martin Sheen
1.01 Nathalie Baye
1.08 Amy Adams
1.19 Jame Brolin
        Frank John Hughes
        Brian Howe
1.23 Steve Eastin
        Chris Elis
        John Finn
1.35 Debra Zane                             Casting
        Terri Taylor                             Casting Associate
1.38 Devorah Mooshankin              Co-producer
1.42 Frank W. Abagnale                 Book Writer
        Stan Hedding
1.45 Kuntzel Deyaas                       Titles
1.51 John Williams                          Music
1.56 Mary Zophres                          Costume Designer
2.00 Michael Kahn                          Film Editor
2.04 Jeannine Oppewall                  Production Designer
2.09 Janusz Kaminski                      Photography Director
2.13 Daniel Lupi                              Co-executive Producer
2.20 Barry Kemp                             Executive Producer
        Laurie MacDonald
2.23 Michel Shane
        Tony Romano
2.28 Steven Speilberg                       Producer
        Walter F. Parkes            
2.32 Jeff Nathson                              Screen Play
2.37 Steven Speilberg                       Director


Mad Men

0.04 John Hamm                                 Actor
0.05 Elizabeth Moss
0.06 Vincent Kartheiser
0.07 January Jones
0.08 Christina Hendricks
0.09 Byran Batt
0.10 Michael Gladis
0.11 Aaron Staton
0.12 Rich Sommer
0.13 Robert Morse
0.16 John Slattery
0.18 Jared Hans Kiernan Shipka         Guest Stars
       Alison Brie
0.19 Frank Pierson                               Consulting Producer
0.20 Marti Nixon
0.22 Andre Jaquematton
        Maria Jaquematton
0.23 Lisa Albert                                   Supervising Producer
0.24 Mathew Weiner                           Creator and Writer
0.34 Phil Abraham                               Director

What I've understood

The first thing you see in the title sequences is the main stars names (this is probably because they are the stars of the show and the audience will probably watching these shows because of the stars). The director and producers name are a long way after the main stars names (this is perhaps because the main stars of the films are more important).