Location

I organised the location of a film as it was vital to the appearance you want to achieve. The majority of are thriller was shot in a studio which was provided by our school. We accomplished a mysterious and sinister atmosphere by having a small dark room which had minimal – dim lighting and muddy blood stained walls. The room had a arrangement of props such as the box full of meat, a clever and other parts of animal for example piigs heart and lungs.
We also needed the exterior of a butchers shop and the inside of a walk in freezer so we acquired a location in Godalming which had all of these things. This location was perfect as it had a back entrance for our main character to walk through, which supports his mysterious nature. The inside of the abattoir was larger but appeared smaller than it was due the hanging meat around the room.

Props and Costumes

• Meat
• Syringes
• Rusty knifes
- Kitchen knife
- Pocket knife
• Cardboard Box
• Fake blood
• Cleaver
• Apron covered in blood stains
• Pair of big black boots
• Dirty work top- wooden
• White van

Target Audience

A target audience is a primary group of people that something is aimed at appealing to. A target audience can be people of a certain age group, gender, marital status.

Our thriller's target audience is between the ages of 18 - 40. This is because of the film being lurid and horrible. Although it would be aimed at a middle aged audience as well, the teenage age group would be the thrillers main audience as the teenage age group would be interested in the horror factor of the thriller. Furthermore the fact that it could apply to them, as a food scare is quite a universal problem. This is also how an older generation can relate to the movie as a there are constantly concerns in the media of food scares e.g. salmonella, foot and mouth and bird flu. This gives this phenomenon a twist as the meat farmer is deliberately trying to infect the meat as opposed to it being a virus “accidentally” passed through meat. In addition there is not a restriction on which gender this movie is aimed to as it can apply to all meat eaters. However, it could appeal more toward men as it is full of gore, arteries and blood.

Account of Research

When researching for food scares we found that this was a serious problem. This was beneficial to our thriller idea as it helped us understand that there would be a wide audience for our thriller due to it being a universal problem. We found images such as this which emphasize the problems with meat diseases.

We also had some ideas for our credits in the title sequence as we thought it would add to the gore having the credits dripping with blood. Using paint we made a mock up of what this would look like.

We also made a design for the company “Farm fresh best quality organic meat”. We wanted to put this design onto the box which is full of the poisoned meat helping the audience to make the connection that this butcher is corrupt and out to inflict pain on others. We made this design in paint using an image from the internet and word art, to create the writing. We then put these two images together to compose the logo:

Who would produce my thiller

Due to our film being very British a British distributor would produce it, such as the UK film council. “The UK film Council is the Government –backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects are effectively represented at home and abroad.” Other financers that would help fund our thriller would be TV channels such as Film4 as this would help inform the audience on what our film is about and help spread the word to gain a greater audience to view and pay to watch the film.
The production company we invented it is called “Pineapple Productions” and we have a logo:

Storyboarding

This is showing the inside of a normal shop as the man is walking through. He then walks through the walkin freezer, this is where the credits will be placed on the meat.

These shot are of the man opening the door and leaving a blood stain on the handle this exagerates the fact of how unsanitary he is and aslo gives him a sense of manace and death.

















These are shots of the rusty knives and equipment, also the dirty workshop. Setting the scene for where the meat is going to be diseased.

















These shots show the mystery man chopping up the meat, which will be sold, with dirty bloody hands and rusty knives also exagerating the very unsanitary workplace.
















Close up of dirty boot walking across the floor and messing up the title. This also shows the camera follow his feet, and pan up the body to the hands injecting the meat.
Side shot close up of meat being injected by dirty syringe and hand.


















Wide shot of hand throwing the syringe backwards with a wide Shot of the syringe landing on a worktop with lots of other syringes, blood, knives.














The Shot list then continues on to show the meat being packaged and driven away to a supermarket to be sold.

Finalisation of Thriller idea

After consulting with my group we decided that one idea was no better than the other, after discovering this we decided to combine parts of thriller ideas together. When doing this we also made are thriller more universal as our idea could happen close to anywhere in the world.
The key theme of what our thriller idea is based upon is that not everything you are told are true. We developed this by creating the idea that an infection is being spread by meat through Britain, as food poisoning is a common fear among people. Instead of the disease being spread by a suspected suspect such as fast food restaurants and factory farmed meat, the disease is being spread by a “farm fresh best quality organic meat”.
This is a contrast to who you would expect as it is someone who claims to be “organic best quality meat”, it highlights the fear that just because something claims to be what it is doesn’t mean it is.

Our opening sequence begins with a man walking through a butcher. He will then enter a walk in freezer with hanging meat. On the meat is where we will put are credits when editing, the names of directors and such will be scratched into the meat to give them a look of menace.

The man will then go onto a room full with rusty knives, blood and a box of meat. He then goes onto to inject the meat with a suspicious looking formula which is actually the disease which has been killing people. When cutting and handling the meat, he will use very unsanitary items and handle the meat carelessly maybe even drop the meat on the floor and then pick it back up and continue using it.
The man then packages the meat and on the box it will have a label saying “ Farm fresh best quality organic meat”. The meat will then be taken in a van towards a leading supermarket. Supporting the idea that you shouldn’t believe everything you see.