Setting

According to our questionnaire feedback and audience opinions we decided to film indoor. Buildings are always good place to set the horror/thriller movies because of many elements, objects that someone could hide behind and strike the fear-paralyzed victim.
Very often exploited scene used to present the killer is his appearance in the mirror or behind the door. This is the best way to scary the viewers as killer appear unexpected and gains advantage with it. We also planned to use such technique and only way we could only accomplish that in the kitchen when victim will be preparing her dish. While killer appearance, shocked victim drops everything she held in her hand (glass and egg) spoiling it on the floor. We firstly wanted to place this scene in the living room however it has a carpet on the floor, while in the kitchen glass would crash easier because of tiles and more open space. Moreover, the kitchen was better place because it's position allowed us to obtain the better camera shots and angles like view through the window.

Title of film

In the second half of our opening scene we are going to focus on the killer preparing to leave his house to kill his first victim. The first shot that we see of this section is going to be an alarm clock. Since we want to focus on the clock to show he is getting up at an unsocially early time in the morning to catch the victim off-gaurd as soon as she gets up. So we wanted to link the film title to the time shown on the clock, to further emphasise the killers mental instability. The film names we came up with were:

• 2:34
• Half Past Death
• The Time Has Come
• Death Time

Our first idea was tojust call the film 2:34 and have that as the time on the clock. However we finally decided to use Half Past Death as none of the other titles didn't flow proplerly and didn't really tell us anything about what the film could entail.

Chosen film title: Half Past Death

Movie Questionnaire

In order to find out about the audience's expectations we had to conduct the research asking them about the main factors that would establish our ideas about the project.
We for example wanted to make sure that people especially young generation still wants to watch the traditional films. We were satisfied with the respond as most people chose thriller as their preferred genre, moreover almost all of people asked stated that gory horrors are rather disgusting than scary for them. We wanted to create the thriller film therefore the positive research results ensured us that our movie can be successful.
Our questionnaire has been answered by 20 people, in most questions their answers were dominating, other, less relevant and depending on personal taste were more even.
We also found out that people like to involve in the action and solve the secrets in the plot. Most gory movies does not include very mysterious elements, usually, the villain is presented straight away, unlike to our movie where the killer is only shown shortly in the critical moment.


Media Production Questionnaire
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Also change the number [20] by adding 1, this will let us know how many people answered our questions.

1. Which of the following genre would you prefer more?

a) traditional horror ✓✓✓✓
b) thriller ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
c) gory horror ✓✓
d) mix of genres ✓✓✓✓

2. What movie setting do you prefer more?

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b) shops ✓✓
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c) forest ✓✓✓✓
d) graveyard ✓

3. What type of villain do you prefer ?

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d) animal ✓
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4. Do you like mysterious plot that isn't clear at the beginning?

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b) NO ✓✓✓✓✓

5. Do think that modern, bloody and gory horrors are more disgusting than scary?

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6. What type of victim do you think is the best one?
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c) middle age woman ✓✓✓✓
d) middle age man ✓✓✓✓

7. Do you like when movie requires you to focus and concentrate on the plot, in order to reveal the secrets along with the characters?
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b) NO ✓✓✓

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Target audience

In order to find out about the audience's expectations we had to conduct the research asking them about the main factors that would establish our ideas about the project.
We for example wanted to make sure that people especially young generation still wants to watch the traditional films. We were satisfied with the responses we got as most people chose thriller as their preferred genre, moreover almost all of people we questioned stated that gory horrors are rather to crude to be scary to them. We wanted to create the thriller film therefore the positive research results ensured us that our movie can be successful.
Our questionnaire has been answered by 20 people, in most questions their answers were resounding. Other, less relevant and depending on personal taste were more even.
We also found out that people like to involve in the action and solve the secrets in the plot. Most gory movies does not include very mysterious elements, usually, the villain is presented straight away, unlike in our movie where the killer is only shown shortly in the critical moment.
Other ways of finding out about the audience's expectations was research and viewing the existing movies like Tormented that have the similar, young target audience. We found out that teenagers prefer to see people of their own age in the movies as this helps them to familiarize and empathise with the characters. In our movie we will also have the teenager casts and props. Teenage thrillers/horrors usually appear as gory and bloody scenes of people death. We also wanted to create the teenage movie but with bit more serious content, plot and situations. We wanted to keep the traditional theme mixed with the modern and fresh ideas. Therefore even though our target audience are teenagers, older people will also find it interesting.

Ideas for plot- Characters

The victim in our film is a teenage girl as teenage girls are traditionally portrayed as being more vulnerable and a good target for a killer. The fact that she is home alone also adds to the victims susceptibility. This is similar to the female victim in Cloverfields, Deja Vu and Psycho.
Our killer is a slightly older teenage boy, who has a particular motive in killing this defenseless teenage girl. His motive is to take revenge on his younger sister's killers of the same age.

Ideas for Plot line

Our plot is based around a death that happens in a time before the film is set. The death is of a young girl who was murdered by a group of friends, who got away without any punishment as the death was deemed an accident. But now the older brother of the girl who was killed is set on getting his revenge against this friendship group. This is supposed to be the first time he has murdered somebody as he is still only a teenager, but the audience will want to find out whether he goes on to kill again, whether he gets caught and find out why he is committing these acts of murder on young girls.

Ideas for plot- Setting

We used the setting as being indoors because it is claustrophobic, and victim cannot escape it so easily. Seems like they are in the comfort of their own home. Setting will be divided between the bedroom and the kitchen. We decided to place the killing scene in the kitchen as the victim was undertaking a normal, every day activity, this makes everything seem normal and secure. The appearance of the killer dramatically changes this situation.
Another place where our action takes place is a bedroom of the killer. In the flashback his activities also seem rather trivial, but we know from the previous flashbacks that he is in some way disturbed. The trivial events show hi normal nature- which makes him seem even more dangerous as you never know how dangerous a normal person could be.