Expected Work on your blog

By the first week back, the following should be on your blog:

• Thriller film pitch individual outline of plot of the whole film (3 ideas posted in total from the group) 
• Continuity editing in the first 2 minutes of Thriller films 
• Preliminary task progress 
•  Preliminary task script/storyboard/shotlist 
•  Preliminary task plans 
• Production company profile - What your 'company' makes and why 
• Your ident
• Results of interviews - what you found and why 
• Interviews with potential target audience
• Target audience identification. This must be tagged and present 
• Results of your internet survey with charts and pictures
• An internet survey looking at target audience
• At least three internet research posts looking into target audience of individual films
• technical conventions of a film opening group mind-map/ notes/ initial thoughts on what a film opening should establish 
• establishing narrative in opening 5 mins of a film individual detailed CEMS analysis of one film opening (any genre) 
• character types within Thrillers and micro-elements used in their portrayal individual detailed description of one character type from Thriller + egs from existing films (could make links to Propp) 
• genre-specific conventions of a Thriller opening group prezi/ mind-map, research notes + egs 
• detailed group CEMS analysis of ‘Seven’, ‘Da Vinci Code’, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ – how are they established as Thriller films? 
• themes and symbols used in Thriller films individual research notes + egs + illustrations 
• cross-sub genres used alongside Thriller film individual research notes + egs 
• credits ordering, timings and style individual detailed anlysis of 3 opening credits sequences (2 must be Thriller) 
• narrative structure of Thrillers individual research notes + egs of one of the following: Levi-Strauss - binary oppositions Propp – functions/ character types Barthes – enigma code 
• implications in the first 2 mins of a Thriller film 
• Welcome post