Planning- Storyboard

This is our storyboard, which shows different scene's that will appear in our two minute opening introduction. Overall, we have created 21 different scenes that show a range of different angles, shots and effects. We made some of our photos black and white to show that it was from the past and was a figure of the main characters (Danika's) imagination. We also created a lot of pictures in the present, which was shown through the use of colour. We are really happy with our overall storyboard progress and it has made us feel a lot more confident about making the real opening film scenes. We believe that we have portray each characters emotions in a successful way.

Planning - Script

The following is the script for our two minute opening introduction of our psychological thriller. The working title is "Danika", which we chose as a group because this is the name of the girl who seeks revenge on her ex best friends. In our script we included transitions, characters, types of shots and acting expressions.

Planning- Concept Art

This is our Blue Sky Productions poster. We have created this poster to advertise our two minute introduction into out psychological thriller. We have named our poster Danika because this is the name of the psycho girl who aims to destroy and end all of her ex best friends lives. The girl who is displayed in the poster is the first of the three friend who is brutally murdered, this occurs in the opening two minutes. She has large masses of blood on her face as she is throttled and treated aggressively.  This poster represents her death.

Planning- Draft Work

Psychological Thriller Plot:

The beginning of our Thriller begins in a bedroom, with a girl sitting on her bed looking at a photo of her and her friends. There is a flashback of the girl arguing with her ex best friends. They are fighting about Danika being a back stabber and she is left standing alone and angry. This is shown through the clip being black and white to show the past. After this event, the camera goes back to the present, in colour, and the girl is now standing in front of the picture circling, with a red pen, the three girls heads.  The photo of Jane turns into a present event where she is walking in the park with her dog. The dog ends up escaping from it's lead and the girl is left in the park alone. The antagonist takes this opportunity to jump out on the girl and pull her into the bush. There is a cut away looking up at the sky, whilst you can hear the girl screaming as she is being brutally murdered. There is another fade away at this point leading to the antagonist's bedroom, where she crosses out the face of the first victim, Jane. There is a non diagetic sound of Jane screaming in Danika's head. The shot goes back to the present moment where we see the first girl hanging out of the bush, dead, with her phone close by her side, ringing. There is then another shot of the other two girls ringing the dead girl from their house. Jane does not pick up the phone, Mia and Lily are very worried. It ends with the antagonist outside the window, looking in on the two girls. The remaining of the film is left to the audiences imagination of the other two girls being killed, as the two minute introduction ends here.  

Planning- Initial Ideas

Planning- Mind Mapping

Here are our three mind maps that we created in advance of our two minute thriller introduction. By creating these mind maps we were able to brainstorm the many different ideas that we came up with as a group, which overly helped us to think more about what our thriller was going to achieve. Whilst planning for our filming process, these spider diagrams really helped as we were able to look back on them as an excellent check list. This made sure that we included all of our initial ideas to making the filming process as effective as it could be. We are very happy with the outcome of these spider diagrams.

Planning- Target Audience Research

A target audience is who you are trying to sell your product to, this helps the media industry to expand and make profit from knowing the type of people that are interested in their products. In addition, demographics are a specific group of people that the product is aimed at. Media companies attract their audiences through marketing, which is how they inform the target audience of their product. This can be done through the media, for example the internet, billboards and TV adverts. In media we have been looking into different types of thrillers. Thrillers receive different audience and we are now going to explain what types of audiences they attract.

 This pie chart shows the percentage(%) of the general public who view horror films. As shown, more women prefer to watch horror films over men. The reasons for this is that women tend to go in large groups of women because they feel more safe in a group environment. Men go less than women because they do not tend to go in large groups, they only go when a woman is going with them.





Furthermore, this is a different type of graph showing the age range of people who view horrors. From the graph we can see that people between the age of 18-24 are the majority who watch horrors. This is because they have just turned the legal age that they can view horrors. The general populations who watch movies in general are people who are 50+. The reason for this is because these people have more times on their hand because they are no longer all working.

On the other hand, action films are viewed mainly by men compared to women. The reason for this is because men enjoy comparing themselves to the antagonist, which relates to the ideal I. Men also enjoy the thrill of violence which is used in action films. Women do not watch action movies as much because they do not go out of their way to see it because it is views as less interesting.

Finally, this graph again is showing the different age ranges that went to view action adventure movies. The main percentage of people who view action adventure films are between the age of 18-24. The reason for this is because people of this age have spare time because they are mainly university students. The general population who watch films are people who are again 50+. This relates to the previous comments on the horror genre.


Overall, this helps media productions to see who they need to advertise their film to. From these graphs the majority of people who watch horrors and action adventure movies are aged between 18-24. The overall population who view movies in general are people age 50+.