Nearly there with the main bulk of research and planning, just a few more vital things to post... With this being one of them! Ok, so this is our risk assessment. As you can see a few of the risks may be a little over dramatic to say the least, but I guess its better to be safe than sorry! Its no as if a bear is going to be appear in my back garden (touch wood). Anyway back on track, these are our risks and how we would attempt to make them less 'risky'.
Ok, so today we watched a few past AS thriller openings and attempted to mark them based on what we thought was appropriate. Generally the trend was that we tended to give the piece a lower mark than what they actually got. So I don't know whether this was because we're just harsh or is actually a lot harder than it looks.
Many of the pieces to me, lacked a lot of continuity between shots, the editing and the sound, and so made it look jerky and unfinished. Roughly, we tended to give a whole level less than the examiner gave them. However, we didn't look at the grade as a whole as we didn't see their blogs, which, of course makes a significant impact on their grade.
This is one of the examples we watched and I actually thought all aspects of this - camera work, editing, sound and mis-en scene - were really effective other than one. To me, this came across rather boring, and yes I know this is only the opening, but I think the saying about judging a book by its cover, is really rather relevant here, and think the opening is a crucial part, as the audience will decide whether to carry on watching or not. However, the bits I especially liked was the editing. The focus pulls, flickers and blurriness all added to the creepy effect, which I'm guessing was their intention. I also thought the continuity and pace made the clip as a whole look more professional and so not making it look like a school project.
1 - Silence of the Lambs is and American thriller made in 1991.
In the film, Clarice Starling a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".
2 - Seven is a 1995 American psychological thriller and stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey and Kevin Spacey. In the film, Pitt and Freeman are partnered as detectives.
3 - Psycho is a 1960 American horror-slasher, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film centers on the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), who ends up at a secluded motel after embezzling money from her employer, and the motel's disturbed owner-manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and its after math.
4 - The Sixth Sense was produced in 1999 as an American super natural horror film. The film tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him.
5 - No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western black comedy thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. It tells the story of a Texas welder and Vietnam vet to whom chance and greed deliver a fate that is neither wanted nor denied.
There are three theories based on an audience which is based around the relationship of a text and the audience:
The Effects/Hypodermic Model
The Uses and Gratifications Model
Reception Theory
The Effects/Hypodermic Model - This model suggests that the audience is passive (accepts a text without relating or questioning it), and so the media has an influence or effect on the audience, therefore will believe whatever if given to them. The hypodermic syringe part, believes the media is injected into them. This theory believes that there is a correlation between what is shown by the media and the way the audience react, for example, if violent behaviour is shown to a younger audience, that younger audience will become violent due to watching this.
The Uses and Gratifications Model - This is opposite to the effects model and believes that the audience is active (The audience can relate to the film using their own experiences, and so may question whether something is right). Therefore, the audience use the texts rather than being used by it. The theory should identify (consumer can relate to what is shown by media or create aspiration), educate, entertain or create social interaction (gives a topic of talk) through media.
Reception Theory - When a text is constructed its encoded with some type of message. This message will either be understood by the audience, misinterpreted or failed to understand at all. There is three types of audience decoding (the way they understand the message.
Dominant or preferred - The audience will decode the message as the writer wants and will agrees with it.
Negational - The audience will neither accept or reject a message, or may be disinterested in what is being said.
Oppositional - Where the message is recognised however is rejected for cultural, political or idealogical reasons
Nearly there with the main bulk of research and planning, just a few more vital things to post... With this being one of them! Ok, so this is our risk assessment. As you can see a few of the risks may be a little over dramatic to say the least, but I guess its better to be safe than sorry! Its no as if a bear is going to be appear in my back garden (touch wood). Anyway back on track, these are our risks and how we would attempt to make them less 'risky'. 
Information from filmschoolwtf.com and Wikipedia.
2 - Seven is a 1995 American psychological thriller and stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey and Kevin Spacey. In the film, Pitt and Freeman are partnered as detectives.
4 - The Sixth Sense was produced in 1999 as an American super natural horror film. The film tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him.
