Research For our Thriller

At the very beginning of our project we came up with two vague ideas that we could base our thriller around. They were 'A part situation' or 'A sports situation'. We also focused on our ideal age group, deciding that 15-20 year olds were ideal targets for cosumption. From these decisions we created a questionaire which we distributed to people of that age group.

Sample Questionaire

The Questionaire contained a combination of open ended, closed ended and multiple choice questions. The questions focused on themes and genres enjoyed by the participant in adition to the type of characters and senerios they relate to and enjoy.

The Results

In our planning and in our final product we tried to include many of the elements enjoyed by those who filled out our questionaire. This included romance, murder mystery and surrealist qualities. It of course was not possible to include all ideas given by the participants but those we choose really helped to enhance the film.

The Boxing Pitch

The results concluded that a large percentage of the people we asked would enjoy a sports themed thriller. We began to work out an idea which centred around boxing. We began to map out a storyline in which our central character would be murdered just before he enters the ring to fight.

In theory this was a good idea, in practice however it had unseen complications. Our first problem was finding the ideal location. We used websites to find suitable boxing rings in which to film, for example: http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/whatson/boxing-gyms-in-london-recommended-london-499.html.

We made several visits to Boxing clubs in a bid to find a suitable location however two factors made this job impossible.

1. The price of hiring a boxing ring for an hour was incredibly expensive, many costed as much as £300 per hour which was out of our bugdet

2. The locations in which the boxing clubs were situated meant that getting there with the equiptment would have been a near impossible task

The Party Pitch

Having failed to find a suitable location for the boxing idea we moved our thoughts to the party idea however we faced similar problems when finding a location. Another problem that arose was the amount of extra actors needed for a party. We would need a minimum of twenty 16-18 year olds, which was simply not possible.

The Pub Pitch

Filmining in a pub seemed like the perfect choice. We combined many of the ideas that we had brainstormed when considering our first two pitches into the pub situation and found that the idea worked perfectly.