Examples of Questionnaires.

Questions that can be involved in a Thriller Movie Questionnaire?

• What do you think thriller movies mostly involve?
• What props are usually involved in a thriller movie?
• How do you feel when you watch thriller movies?
• What sort of colours do you usually expect to see in a thriller movie?
• Do you think thriller movies involve death/love/violence or any other uses of film?
• What age limit do you think thriller movies usually have in the film?
• What sort of human group do thriller movies usually fit into best? Adult, Children, Old people, any other human group? 

Vox pops.

Vox Pop Review.

After we done the survey that involved 15 different people, one of us in the group then had to make Vox pops of some of these students. A Vox pop is when a student(s) has to be recorded when the people ask them the questions. The people that have been given the questions have to obviously answer the questions they have been given and this time they can answer them in their own way. They can even involve fillers in their answers just to help them out a bit more. The questions that the people give to the audience are not multiple choice and therefore is not a questionnaire.

Our task in the group was to ask at least 3 different students questions that relate to thriller movies. We can ask them the questions that our group typed up for our questionnaire. The task also did not have to involve all the questions on the questionnaire but can also involve questions that were not on the questionnaire. We done this task by simply getting a camera recorder and filming the people that were answering the questions.

The spiderwick chronicles.

The spiderwick chronicles is a science fiction film that was set in the 1920s by very suspicious and very strange scientists.

The Mise en Scene used in the opening sequence for the spiderwick chronicles seemed very old fashioned. For example, the costume was not modern so that the audience can tell that it was set in the early days. The costume that the scientist was wearing looked like a jacket. This is another example of the male character showing that he is a scientist. Not only the jacket was a give away, but also his magnifing glasses gives away his role. Mostly scientists tend to wear magnifing glasses or goggles when doing scientific experiments. The colour in the opening sequence seemed mixed up. The reason I say this is because we see at the beginning of the opening sequence just darkness. All we see in that bit is the titles pop up. But when it came to the end of the opening sequence, the lights came on and then we started to see a variety of different colours.

Sound was used very effectly throughout the opening sequence. For example, the music that was being played throughout the clip seemed rather magical. This gives away that the film is a science fiction film. The music starts of very piecefully but then sometimes it makes this very magical sparkly sound that makes the audience think 'Why is that sound being played in this opening sequence. I would say music directors would use this sound to show someone using a magic wond to see if anything appears.

I would say that editing was used to perfection throughout the opening sequence of the spiderwick chronicles. For example, we see the shot durations used very slowly at the beginning of the opening sequence. This is used to show how slow paced the film is at this point. However when it reaches near the end of the opening sequence, we see a number of different shots take place very fast. This time its rushing by as if something is going to happen in the clip when the tension is building up. It also gets the audiences attention more and makes them feel more interested in the opening sequence. The titles that were used in the clip were also used to perfection to reveal a science fiction film taking place. The title where it says 'The Spiderwick Chronicles' seems very costume. We can see this because some of the letters look like they have twigs and twists around the others letters to give it that extra scene of a science fiction film. The titling is also gold to show glory, power and wealthiness so its rich. 

The camerawork was used very well throughout the opening sequence. We see different types of camera shots showing different numbers of animals and objects. For example, we see extreme close ups of different animals in science tubes. Again, this is to show an experiment taking place in a labatory and also to show that something out of the ordinary might happen. At the beginning of the film, we see only a few long shots of the room in pitch black. 

Plot Synopsis.

Our opening sequence is taken place in an abandoned village full of scrap, and horrible landscapes. We see a car crash take place on the road as well. The car is recked and can no longer be driven from anyone. This village is no ordinary village, its a village that is completely and utterly different full of dangerous areas that no human will dare to come across.

We see a character coming out of the scraped car looking very suspicious, worried and confused. He seems lonely, no where to go and no one around him. He then explores around the village looking for somewhere to go so he feels safe. After a few minutes worth of exploring, he then sees this building, a rather creepy looking one. 

He went inside this building looking around to see what was inside and trying to find a place to sit down in. He looked downstairs for a moment and nothing was there. After a few minutes or so, he then walked upstairs looking very nervous. He then found a bedroom that looked surprisely fine in a weird place. There was a bed for him to sit down in so that he can feel relaxed and calm down a bit. But then he decided to carry on looking around upstairs and he found a bathroom. He went inside. He seems rather relaxed when he saw the bathroom until somewhere SCARY and HORRIFIC caught his eye. It was a dead body in the bath. Once he saw the dead body, he ran out the bathroom down the stairs and went straight out of the building. He looked terrified. Like I said, this village is no ordinary village. This was the hunters cabin's village.

Thriller genre review.

This blog will explain what people thought about thriller movies.

My task on Tuesday was to go around the school asking different people questions that is relevant to thriller movies. Instead of me going around the school asking people questions myself, I decided to type the questions up on a word document and print out numbers of copies for different students in order to make multiple amount of students answering the questions at the same time. This was a brilliant idea because I didn't waste time asking one person at a time the questions. 

In my survey, I had to ask at least 15 students questions that relate to thriller movies. I done this very quickly by going around the 6th form common room and giving one sheet of paper around to 15 students. 

When the survey was finished and I got my answers back, I realized the answers I was given were different and some of which were the same as others. Maybe its because the students have a similar interest in thriller movies if they had the same answers or they might of just copied somebody elses answers.

Once I got the results back from the students, I then decided to make pie charts on PowerPoint showing different questions and the responses to those questions. I thought this was a brilliant way to show evidence on the results because it is fully detailed and it makes it feel more precise on the results. 

Order of the titles.

The four decided films that I decided to talk about are The Sixth Sense, Memento, 21 Jump Street and The Avemgers.

Overview on chosen genres.