Journal - audience feedback 2

We have put the video up on facebook to be given feedback from and so far we have had some likes but no responses, we will repost at a later date if no comments are made and I will be uploading it to tumblr and vimeo for more audience feedback.

Ideas for Distributor

sony are quite an interesting choice of distributor that we are looking into. Films they have produced that could be seen as slightly similar to ours are:

a film that very much relates to our idea.

Possible Distributors

Lionsgate is a possible distributor that we are looking at from it's previous films such as 'saw' and other films that have some of the same themes as our thriller has.

Ideas

We were talking about typography last week and I had the idea of having the words of Enigma disappearing or appearing one by one to go in with the missing element of the film. One of our group members has done exactly this and is working on making the rest of the titles to suit our title sequence well.

Sony Pictures

In our group meeting today we decided to use Sony Pictures for our film because they are a very well known film company, though while being well known they offer the chance to make lower budget films that still make a lot of money. They have produced films of a similar genre such as the girl with the dragon tattoo (a thriller that also involves the police to a certain extent and is also about a missing child and a mystery). We feel that Sony Pictures will offer us the chance to make an excellent thriller that will draw in a large audience and make a lot of money.

Typography Ideas

This is a certain kind of typography I am very interested in using, I feel that it suits our film very well and links into the plot. The writing is in a style of a typewriter which connotes the police force. Also the way the words are rubbed out looks almost as if they're disappearing, which would link into the whole idea behind the film. 

This was an idea specifically for all the t's in the title sequence as it looks like a cross and involves the religion in the film with the title sequence. Though if we were to use this we would have to think carefully about the typography used for the rest and to make sure it wouldn't clash or look terrible together. So this could possibly limit our primary choice of typography.

In researching the typical codes and conventions of a thriller title sequence, I decided to look at some of the most well known thrillers. The title sequence to sixth sense I found particularly interesting and have even developed some great ideas from. I like the idea of this title sequence being very simple with the music being the main point of tension, however I don't think our title sequence would be quite as simple as this. I was very open to the idea of using music similar to this, I didn't want anything too heavy because our film is all about enigma's and this particular type of music is quite mysterious whilst still telling the audience it will be a tense film to watch.

My group was also very interested in the idea of blacking out part of the shots like they have done in this title sequence, it seems to fit not only our idea well but also the codes and conventions to a thriller. Thrillers usually encourage the audience to think very carefully about the film and engage their minds with a film more than they usually would, by blacking out part of the shot our title sequence would do just that and it would set up yet another enigma. What is blacked out? Is there something that is being purposely hidden from us? 

All in all using the sixth sense as part of my research was very useful and helped me to come up with some good ideas and suggestions to take to the group.