Final Project Preparation

We have begun making mind maps for our final movie, Sweet Vengeance. Since we will be doing Opening Titles, we have decided that we want to make a thriller/slasher film. We have mapped out the following considerations: audience, narrative and institutions to help us approach our filmmaking in a more considered way. These mind maps will help us to improve our movie and to make it more interesting for the people who will be watching it. We have also been researching the kind of institutions that produce the kind of film we are making. This genre would be Hollywood (although you know Hollywood has copied the grudge from some other country- so you should write about that- and how other countries also produce slasher films but Hollywood dominates because they have money and because English is so commonly understood), and we hope it will be successful at the box office. We also plan to use a questionnaire so we can find out more from a potential audience and to try and get an idea of what the statistics say about people watching thriller or slasher films. We also plan to conduct a Focus Group as a way to get additional information about what an audience thinks of our film once we have completed it and our media teacher has suggested that we change one thing in our films e.g. our ending or introduction so we can find out what works better, and I believe this is a good way to have a backup just in case our audience does not like one of the things in our movie. The institutions that I think is most relevant to the film we are making are either Universal Pictures or Columbia Pictures, as these institutions have produced some of the most famous slasher movies. We are making progress and what is left now for us to work on is the costumes or props, the place where we will shoot and the final cast. We also have completed the script. Once these tasks are completed, we will begin all the technical work of our movie i.e. the shooting and editing and the rest.