Task 5 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Mark, 20, is a Psychology student in his second year of university. His favourite movies are thriller films such as the Saw series and Orphan, but he also enjoys a wide range of other genres.

Mark listens to all different kinds of music, however his favourite genre is metal. He listens to bands such as Bullet For my Valentine and Killswitch Engage on his iPhone. He attends gigs and concerts with his friends as often as he can.

Mark buys his clothes from Uniqlo and H&M. He also shops in HMV, Game, and Waterstones.

EVALUATION- Q5 Typical Target Audience Member for "Goodnight Sleep Tight"

James, 19, a student from University of Westminster- studies psychology, enjoys watching films on his computer and visits cinemas often as he gets student discount, also buys DVDs such as Arlington Road, The Sixth Sense,The Matrix,casual dress, shops at Top man and Burton, has a picture of him with his mates on a day out to The London Dungeon inside his wallet, communicates with friends via facebook,enjoys playing board games such as Chess, Operation and also charades with his parents and younger sister every Sunday,favourite colour is black,is a good listener,reads the Metro newspaper when on the tube to get to University, loves drinking Coco Cola, keeps his HSBC debit card along with small amounts of cash,friendly and sociable, sensible and focused, is preparing for his driving test, owns the Blackberry, cuts his hair monthly at Regis, all time favourite films- Collateral and The Unusual Suspects and inspired by Tom Cruise and Martin Scorsese.

'Goodnight, Sleep Tight' soundtrack

This is our soundtrack for our thriller opening. We have chosen to use very strong sounds that resonate tension and suspense. We have used the sound of a heart beat because this sound denotes a sense of anxiety and waiting; we hope that this will contribute to not only making the audience wonder what it is going to come next in the opening, but what is going to happen in the rest of our would-be thriller movie. Our soundtrack ends in a sharp, strong climax that will be incorporated with the revelation of the title of our film.

By Sabrina Chowdhury

Location shots

These are some of the location shots for our thriller opening. Initially, we had shots that were filmed in a group member's living room, but we have now decided not to include these shots in our opening. We have now decided to use our group member's bedroom as the main area of filming as this is where our main character experiences his suspenseful nightmare, which is the main part of our opening. Other locations include our media studies' classroom and a street pavement in Waterloo.

By Sabrina Chowdhury and Shopna Begum

Rough Cut Analysis

So far, we have created a rough cut of our final opening. However, it isn't upto the exact standard that we are intending to do as the final one. Some time in this week, we will need to do a little more filming of the shots of the boy sleeping in his bed, i.e. close-up shots of him blinking to get the real feel of sleep/bedtime and also to relate to the title 'Goodnight Sleep Tight'. We also need to add the special effects because we have only put the shots into final cut pro but have not edited it fully with the special effects to add suspense. We started on the soundtrack in Soundtrack Pro which includes erie music and heartbeats to make the mood tense and we will add some sound effects wherever necessary. As from now, we will be meeting up regularly three to four times this week to get the finishing opening ready.

Rough Cut

This is the rough cut version of our thriller opening. This is not the finished piece, of course, and so it is not as good as what we intend our final piece to be. The rough cut does not contain any special effects, nor does it contain a properly finished sound track. We intend to add these effects and complete our sound track in time for the final deadline. Our rough cut contains about fifteen shots that show our main character sitting in his house, watching television etc., but we have been advised to not include these shots as they do not really do much for the opening, nor would they have much f an impact on the audience. I was reluctant to cut the shots out at first because they had taken up a lot of our time and energy to film, but have now decided that the opening would seem a lot more effective if the shots were cut out. In light of this, we have decided to start the opening from the point where our character is getting ready for bed.
It was very difficult for us to get our rough cut ready in time for the deadline. We pushed very hard and managed to get it done in time but the end piece was not up to our standards. As this is the rough cut version, we were fine with it being a little bit, well, 'rough', but we intend to make our final cut the best we possibly can. In order to do this, we will be spending a lot of time editing our opening, adding in effects and titles, making it as appealing as we possibly can to our target audience. We will also be editing our soundtrack to make sure that it is suspenseful, as well as sounding professional. We hope that the final piece will be something that we are all very proud of.

By Sabrina Chowdhury

Storyboard Animatic and PITCH for the opening of our thriller, 'Goodnight, Sleep Tight'

Storyboard animatic for 'Goodnight Sleep Tight'

This is our storyboard. This took us roughly an hour to do with two members of the group working on it. We have attempted to include a range of different shots that will make our opening look as thriller-y as we can. The first fifteen or so shots see to the main character of our film just watching television and going to close an open window. There are many shots that are required to make this look effective - long shots, wide shots, over the shoulder shots, shot-reverse-shots, close ups, medium close-ups, etc. We tried to include as many different ones as we could. One of the shots that I really looked forward to filming was a low angle shot from a high window that included a woman looking up at the main character. The next fifteen or so shots were of a dream sequence that we wanted to include in our opening - this was the main part of it. When we presented our storyboard to our teachers, they really liked it but they did suggest a few things that would improve it, which we tried to then implement.

By Sabrina Chowdhury

PICTH for 'Goodnight Sleep Tight'

'Goodnight Sleep Tight' is a psychological thriller where a young boy is being stalked in his mind by a woman. This may have been a cause of past events when he was a child. We tried to include all of the relevant information in our pitch about the props and location. We presented this pitch to our media class and in front of our teachers. The feedback which we got about our pitch was quite positive as our teachers liked the whole plot of a boy being stalked by an elderly woman against the conventional idea of a girl/woman being stalked by a man; they also like that we chose the sub-genre of psychological thrillers. In our storyboard, as part of our dream shots, we wanted to shoot a shot where there is blood (red paint) dripping from the table, and the camera would be set from a low angle to add suspense. However, our teachers pointed out that thriller films hardly use blood and ding this would make the opening look to much like a horror film and for us to stick to the genre of psychological thrillers, we had to remove this idea. Our teachers also told us to add as much suspense as we possibly can to engage the audience, for example, when our character is watching television, instead of him getting up to shut the window as he is feeling cold, to have the window shut on its own to create suspense.

By Shopna Begum, Sabrina Chowdhury, Nathan Toms and Saadi Rashid