Production Report

Planning

At the beginning of our Foundation Production, we were given four scenarios which we could do; they were a Thriller Movie, a Children’s Television Programme, A magazine or a Radio Advert. After looking at them carefully, I decided to produce an opening sequence of a Thriller Movie. The sequence had to be at least two minutes long. For this I had to Analysis three existing Media Texts, make a storyboard for my movie, a script for the story, planning a schedule, making the actual production, etc. when I was thinking of the filming, I had to think of a thriller movie that would be spine chilling and is not predictable when it comes to the audience watching it.

To help me with my production, I had to analysis three existing media texts. The three that I choose to do were Phonebooth, Final Destination and Identity. By analysing these, I hoped to produce a successful opening of my thriller movie. The first movie I analysed was Phonebooth. This movie wasn’t like any other thriller movie beginning, as it didn’t have the right shots or music to create tension and suspense like other thriller movies do. It was more relaxing than under pressure. The second movie that I analysed was Final Destination 2. This movie had a more “original” thriller movie, by this I mean a thriller beginning that has been used in other thriller movie beginnings, e.g. chilling music, signs of death, slow camera movement, etc. The last movie I analysed was Identity. This movie had a good beginning which was built up by the amount of tension rising, as the music started to speed up. This is done in most films to keep the audiences watching. (Look at the analysis of my existing media texts for more information).

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The three media texts that I have analysed all had one thing in common, and that was that they all were building tension as the film went on, this could have been done by music getting louder or speeding up, or it could have been done by other sound effects or dialogues which were leading to something. This is what I kept in mind when I began to make my thriller movie. I then went on to use this in my production.

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