For our thriller we need to consider the way our regional identity will affect the way the thriller is interpreted by others with a different regional identity. Although we are unable to change this we can still ensure that our thriller is clear to others.
Below I have briefly identified a range of different regional identities.

• 'londoners' 
• for this region there are two main stereotypes, one is that they are portrayed as being wealthy, posh, snobby and upper class from central or West London. However, there is also people that live in North East or South London and these people are portrayed as being poor common, lower class, criminals and violent. 
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•  Manchester / Newcastle / Liverpool – Oftenshown as being “chavs”, wearing fake designer labels, or tracksuits, drinking a lot, being aggressive, uneducated, criminals
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• Yorkshire – Often shown as living in rural countryside, with rolling hills and cobbled streets, being quite old fashioned
• South England – often shown as being the centre of culture, modern, classy, clever, sunny, richer,doing middle class jobs such as managers etc
• North England – often shown as beingpoorer, bad weather, lower class, aggressive, lessculture, less clever, doing working class jobs suchas builders etc
•  Irish – often shown as living in the countryside,working in rural areas such as farms, being veryreligious, being good at dancing and singing, veryfriendly but less intelligent

Tips and Tricks to improve my editing skills!

After today's lesson I thought i would try and improve my editing skills in my own time so I can contribute to our thriller as much as possible during post production! Here is what I watched, it has helped me have a better understanding on how to edit, as well as making me feel better and more confident for when it comes to editing our thriller!

Whats a screenplay?

Before me and my group write a screenplay I thought that I would write a post about what information I have found on screen plays, and what I learnt during a lesson on a screenplay form Jaws.
What is a screenplay? 
A screenplay or a script is the written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program. These screen plays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing, for example, a book being made into a film. In screenplays the movement, actions, expressions, and dialogues of the characters are narrated in great detail.
what makes a good screen writer?
One thing that makes a good screen writer is speed, most common screenplays are one page per minuet which could mean over 100 pages in detail and this could take a long time. So it is important that you are able to produce good quality work at a face pace, thankfully the film me and my group will be making will be around two minuets long so this wont be a big issue. Another thing that makes a good screenwriter is endurance, it is essential that you keep trying no matter how many times you may get it wrong or you may never succeed.

Jaws
During a lesson we looked at a screenplay of a section of the Jaws and looked at how the screen play matched the short part of the movie we watch, we also looked into all the different things that were included on the script, like how the movement was written on the screenplay giving us a better idea of how to word ours and what we will need to include on our screenplay.

after doing some research on screenplays, and focusing on a specific one (Jaws) and identifying what was wrote in that screenplay. I think I have a better idea on how to write one myself which will hopefully come in handy when me and my group decide to write ours.

One page pitch

Working Title: Missing 

Film genre: Mystery thriller  

Length: 90 minuets

Target audience: 15-34 both genders 

Tagline: Can you escape the darkness? 

What if you were left alone in the woods with your worst nightmare? 

The story synopsis: The story begins with a girl coming home from a friend’s house, she decides to take the short cut home through the woods due to being late for dinner. She gets kidnapped by an unknown character, where he keeps her hostage and taunts her until he receives money from her family through a series of clues. In the end she frees herself by murdering the man. 

Statement of intent: Theme is based around a missing person and the strong determination between the family to get her home. We’re telling this story because we want it to have a good mystery storyline to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. It’s a film rather than a TV drama series because we didn’t feel that a long-winded series would work for this idea as this way it’s faster pace rather than having intervals until the next episode. Our film differs from other thriller films because rather than just intentions to scare the audience it has a gripping storyline. This is a film that we would enjoy watching as it has a lot of background story. 

Visual realisation: A mixture between long lasting shots to build up tension for the climax and fast cuts to show the fast pace struggle between the antagonist and protagonist.  We don’t know of any films similar to this type of film/ 

Audience appeal: This film will appeal to our target audience (15-34) because adults and teenagers both generally enjoy mysteries, also the protagonist will be a teenager so everyone can relate to being this age.  

Initial Thriller Ideas