Film Title

To decide what the title to the film will be, I decided to have a focus group between 10 people. I had 12 suggestions of which I got the people in the focus group to rate the name out of 10 (1 being worst and 10 being best). I then took the average number out of 10 for each suggestion.

These were the raw results from the survey:

Title	Average Rating
Surveillance	5.7
The Tail	3.3
Shadows	6.7
The Scheme	6
The Shadow Enterprise	6
The Enterprise	6.7
The Arrangement	5.3
The Operation	4.5
The Scheme	6.2
The Architect	6
Blueprint	8
Pursuit	6

From the results you can see that 'Blueprint' is the most favored idea for the title of the film.

This bar chart makes it clear what the result of the focus group was:

The focus group has been a good process as it has helped me in deciding what my title should be. When deciding on the title of my film I will take into account market research (focus group), and research into the genre. I will update the blog on my decision in the coming days over what the title of the film will be.

List of Thriller Poster Conventions

Having looked at a selection of Thriller posters, I have compiled a list of conventions found in a thriller poster.

• Side Lighting on characters. This can be used to suggest two sides to someone's personality.

• Muted colour scheme.

• Characters usually chasing / running.

• Tagline directly addressing the audience often implying threat.

• Setting in an urban environment

• Mise-en-scene associated with the genre. e.g. use of guns

• The tagline is sometimes a red colour

• Characters often have an indirect mode of address.

• Canted framing is often used, to create a sense of unease.

• Actors that are associated with the genre are used.

• There is often formal attire.

• Bold font is used for the title and tagline.

• High angles to show vulnerability and weakness on certain characters.

This list will help me when creating my poster as I will refer back to it throughout my project.

Thriller Poster Conventions

The final poster I looked at representing genre is "Unknown". This uses many conventions that the other posters have used and is very useful to me as I can refer back to this research when making my own poster.

Thriller Poster Conventions

'Phone Booth' and 'The Town' are two more thrillers that I looked at and more similarities appear when looking at them. The canted framing appears again, along with red font and mise-en-scene used to reflect genre.

Thriller Poster Conventions

The next poster I have looked at that is a thriller is 'The Next Three Days'. I can already see many similarities in the poster related to genre such as the canted angle.

Thriller Poster Conventions

Having decided that the genre of my film would be a thriller, my next task is to looks the conventions of thriller's posters. The first one i have looked at is the Adjustment Bureau

Magazine Actual Layout Sketches

Next I drew up actual potential magazine covers with representation of images and actual text on the page. These are my ideas: