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in my 1 minuet short film i will be making my story revolve around two detectives who stumble across a horrible crime as there partner discovers evidence that his partner billy is the serial killer. when i am making this film i will make sure all the budget requirements are met the place that i will be filming in is at the Chislehurst war memorial woods therefore i will be able to set up a good place to film from there it is also free of charge so it will be easier to film and no difficulties. Another thing that is important is transport costs as it is only a few stops away by bus it will cost to travel so bus costs apply so does food such as sandwiches and other snacks.

In my short film the rating of this particular film will be rated a 15 as it is not gory or splatter it also doesn't involve nudity so this will be classified by the BBFC as a 15. This makes it easier for me to get my target audience as it is lower aged the film can be viewed by more people which would make it easier to get my film rated.  

For my i minuet short film it is inspired from the thriller silence of the lambs this was one of the best films thriller wise i have ever seen i really wanted to mold my film in the same fashion as this very successful thriller film. But my short film will be different in many different ways as for one my i minuet short film does not feature a cannibal that helps fight crime but the detective is the real killer behind this nasty crime. My unique selling point is the tension between the characters and the idea that one of the good guys is actually a psychopath.

this was one of the older films that i found but i found out that thrillers don't follow as many trends as horrors do were as in horrors you always have teens that are getting killed this is your primary trend for horrors but thrillers are much more thought through and executed more thoroughly. Furthermore i decided to get a more earlier film example this example was the TV series Luther the reason this being is that TV series go for a different approach and this also helps as the main protagonist is a detective this would help a lot with my one minuet short film as the main character in my sequence is also a detective.    

When i was researching i found that the thriller genre was more popular than the horror in short films the reason this being and the way which i found this was by looking at horror and thriller short film and comparing likes and views when it came down to it thriller had already got a vast amount of views and kick horror out of the picture. my theory for this is that horror is just too predictable in this day and age so that is the main reason why I will want to make a thriller short film rather than a horror.  

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The conguring guardian review 

Here is a article based off of the conjuring which i found off of the internet reading through this i have known to understand that what makes a good horror film is the vast variety of jump scares. But seeing how my short film is going to be a thriller it could not hurt to add a few jump scares to make my short film more intense below is the article which i found from the guardian news paper describing the conjuring and what makes a good horror film but since my film is going to be thriller i will also have another article talking about thriller.   

There's nothing like genre junkies to cut to the chase. The glory days of drive-in-theatre critic Joe Bob Briggs may be past ("No dead bodies. One hundred seventeen breasts. Multiple aardvarking. Lap dancing. Cage dancing. Lesbo Fu. Pool cue-fu… Joe Bob says check it out"), but his spirit lives on. While movie critics have been going into raptures over The Conjuring – comparing its director James Wan to David Lynch, calling his direction "rhapsodic", finding his film "a metaphor for moviegoing itself" – horror afficionados have been getting down to basics: how many jump scares does it have? And: are they the right sort? 

1. so below and above i have gone over jump cuts but this is also important as it mentions other very successful horror movies that may be incredibly useful as base form ideas for my short film such as the shining and nightmare on elm street. This is what also give my thriller/horror some inspiration.  

You know jump scares. The moment in a horror film when the protagonist wipes the steam from a bathroom mirror and sees the psycho standing behind them. The hand coming out of the grave at the end of Carrie. The axe in the back of Scatman Crothers in The Shining. The bed-swallowing in Nightmare on Elm Street. According to The Verge:

1. below is a comment on the strong effect of jump scares that make you fly out of your chair i highlighted this specifically because his could help me tremendously so i can make my film as cringe as i can to have more effect 

"A well-done jump scare breaks down the same way Michael Caine describes illusions in The Prestige, with three distinct steps. First there's the pledge: a character is introduced into a situation where danger is present. They hear a rattling in the kitchen, or voices when they're home alone. Then comes the turn, where the character finds a reasonable explanation, or the immediate threat is somehow removed.

Everything seems all right, and the audience lets its guard down. That's when the filmmakers execute the prestige, hitting an unsuspecting audience with the actual scare – usually accompanied by a shrieking music cue or sound effect."

The only trouble being that finding an unsuspecting audience these days is like looking for a virgin at summer camp. We're so well versed in the shot rhythm of the jump scare that audiences get them ahead of the beat: all you need do is cut to a closeup of your heroine, and the audience is tensing it's abdominal s in preparation.

So as my short film is going to be based off of the silence of the lambs i did more research to find more articles on thrillers and other thriller film articles  

Silence of the Lambs the guardian review 

There is not much more in Jonathan Demme's The Silence Of the Lambs than meets the eye. But that is to praise the film rather than belittle it, since what meets the eye is an exceptionally good film, perhaps this fine director's best, in which the horror genre is elevated into the kind of cinema that can at least be argued about as a treatise for its unsettling times.

Thomas Harris' novel could also be talked about on that level. But Demme and his screenwriter, Ted Tally, take a view of the book that doesn't preclude some grisly humour, ending the whole thing on a black joke and constructing it around the premise that the relief of laughter is often as essential as the creation of tension and fear.In other words, you can take The Silence Of The Lambs as you like. There is little pretension in it, and a lot of mind-boggling entertainment. What has been heaped upon it by way of intellectual argument is not, one feels, its chief concern

1. Above shows why he the silence of the lambs can be eerie from this review which which had tones more info than what the conjuring had it in this it describes what gives it tension and fear this is very important as my film is going based more primarily on thriller this is very helpful because this gives me key ingredients on making a very impact thriller which i hope to achieve.  

Most film-goers have fixed, quite rightly, upon the extraordinary performance of Anthony Hopkins as Dr Hannibal Lecter, the profoundly mad yet seemingly sane psychiatrist to whom Jodie Foster's ingenue FBI agent is sent in order to prise clues about another serial murderer who skins rather than eats his victims.

She is sent by Scott Glenn's senior agency official precisely because she is vulnerable, in order that Lecter can think that he will, metaphorically at least, eat her for breakfast. But, though forced to confront her own childhood fears and to play along with the monster's charm and intelligence as well, she hangs on like a terrier until he imparts a vital clue.

Hopkins' steely-eyed psychopath, who wears even his prison uniform as if it were a suit that binds him, is both
Dracula and the most civilised of men - a giant among the curiously weasel-faced non-entities who guard him. This is a performance it is impossible not to watch, carefully graded to push the audience this way and that between admiration, fear and loathing. But performance it is for all that, and you can almost sense the actor relishing it.

1. Above shows off there idea which is very genuine and original this film also made so much money on the release because of how good it was. When this film got released it made 13,000,000 in the US this was on the first week of release.  

When Lecter disappears from the film, after a daring (and none too believable) escape, something substantial goes with it, and even Foster's gutsy, obstinately credible acting and Demme's clever orchestration of the discovery of the skin tailor can't find a substitute. In a real sense, he is the film.
Otherwise, what we have is a completely different kind of adaptation to Michael Mann's possibly exploitative but certainly underrated Manhunter, also based on Thomas Harris, but occupying totally contrasting territory. It is jokey, thrilling and almost obsessively detailed as the screw turns and the puzzle of the second serial killer is slowly unravelled.

It is not the film's fault that so many commentators have filleted it for portentous meaning in the attempt to elevate it beyond its proper place. True, its central idea that an innocent, and an innocent woman at that, can be sent out to trap the masculine reincarnation of evil is a fetching concept. And few could fail to notice that it is a psychiatrist rather than a
diabolical priest who is the
personification of evil in the film.

It is also true that, just by being there, the movie has something to say about our curiously decaying sense of ideals and the violence that underlies that decay. But its importance lies much more in Demme's persistent sense of almost Gothic and occasionally Grand Guignol absurdity, and his eye-catching brilliance as a film-maker, than in its themes and sub-texts.
When we get films as well done as this, with a central performance as spectacular as that of Hopkins, the cinema can be said to be far from done with yet. The Silence Of The Lambs has an edge to it that's quite exceptional, but its central core is more memorable not for what it says but for how it says it. And here Demme's almost spiteful humour is at least as important as Harris' balefully brilliant seriousness.

Here is a review from the same people from earlier reviewing the conjuring as you can see the reason why i would want to make a thriller/horror is that you can relate with horrors that reality might face and also have the chills and spills that horrors can make you feel. 

Luther – review: still an incredibly stupid programme – but that’s always been its appeal

Idris Elba is back and as good as he’s ever been in a two-part special Luther … this time it’s slow, deliberate, and camper than ever

 Idris Elba: a masterpiece of a performance. Photograph: Steffan Hill/BBC

Stuart Heritage

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Wednesday 16 December 2015 07.30 GMT

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Luther (BBC1) was last seen in 2013, standing on Southwark Bridge and contemplating an uncertain future. And that seemed like a fitting place to leave him, really; especially since Idris Elba had bigger things on his horizon, such as a future of relentlessly denying that he ever wanted to be James Bond.

However, he’s back. And since his wife and best friend have now both been murdered – and the rest of his existence has generally been a miserable whirlwind of shootings, botched suicide attempts and being stabbed through the hand by Ma Larkin – it only seems fitting that our first new glimpse of Luther should take place on a crumbling cliff.

This is where Luther lives now, in a rundown shack perpetually threatened by coastal erosion. “Pretty close to the edge,” exclaimed a character during last night’s episode, in such an unnecessarily literal moment of symbolic exposition that you briefly wondered if we’d then see Luther skating on thin ice or tripping over a loose cannon or getting called away to investigate some cattle that had been trespassing on a nearby Royal Doulton concession.

1. When it will come to making my short film areas are going to be very important for a number of different reasons the reason this being depending on area this has a very specific artistic meaning for the viewers to find out it also tells you about the character without actually being told. 

But that’s always been Luther’s appeal, hasn’t it? It is, in its heart, an incredibly stupid television programme. The whole thing constantly teeters on the brink of full-blown camp. Last night was peppered with this sort of borderline self-parody; from Dermot Crowley continuing to float around like Marley’s Ghost watching a sad kitten video on YouTube, to the introduction of a ludicrous new mob boss played by Patrick Malahide, who somehow managed to hit the exact sweet spot between Roy Hodgson, Len Goodman and Private Walker from Dad’s Army.

For a stretch of the episode, however, Luther found himself relegated to the background. Yes, there was a new murderer on the loose – admittedly a blandly anonymous cookie-cutter murderer, a second-division monster by Luther standards, whose primary motivation seemed to involve having once watched a few episodes of Hannibal on catch-up – but that was largely being taken care of by Darren Boyd’s DCI Theo Bloom, while Luther occupied himself with thoughts of his old pal Alice Morgan.

scenery-chewing sexy polymath fruitcake Alice. Luther is never better than when Ruth Wilson storms in, elaborately murders someone and then performs a spot-on impression of a Lambrini-blitzed Hannibal Lecter directly into Luther’s ear. 

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4. in the high lighted section it talks about hannibal lector which is what i am inspiring my film on the reason that i have chosen this article on luthor is that i can get the detective feel of things seeing as my program already features two detectives it couldn't hurt to understand the character side of things 

Which is unfortunate, because she’s apparently dead now. We were shown a photo of her – or part of her, or part of someone that looks a bit like her if you squint – face-down in a river to prove it. Her absence is, of course, down to Ruth Wilson’s success in the infinitely more annoying The Affair. If Wilson’s schedule opens up enough to accommodate a return to Luther, Neil Cross would resurrect Alice in a heartbeat.

Without her around, Luther – both show and character – languished in a torpor that was less fun to watch. So thank God for the explosion that came along to shake the episode back to life. And thank God that Luther reacted to it by heading to his version of the Batcave (a clothing rail with some identically tatty coats on it). This, in particular, was an incredible moment of peak stupidity; one that provided enough momentum to allow Luther to return to what he does best, which usually involves walking through sex dens in slow motion and massively overusing peoples’ names in conversation.

But half the episode was over by this point, which felt like a waste. We’ve waited two years for more Luther, and we’re only getting a two-part special this time, so the pedal should have been welded firmly to the metal right from the outset. Perhaps this was the deliberately slow, world-building half of the story, and next week’s conclusion will be a greatest hits joyride of superhero swagger and horror-movie tension. But if it isn’t, and last night set the tone for the whole thing, we might be in trouble.

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because almost everyone involved was desperate to play a blinder. Boyd managed to emit a sort of formal exhaustion that seeped from his bones. Luther’s new partner, played by Game of Thrones’s Rose Leslie, has the promise to be at least the equal of Warren Brown’s DS Ripley, even if it might be expecting too much for her to yell “You know nothing John Luther!” during a climactic moment.

1. in this section it mentions Netflix this is important because if my film ever became interesting to my target audience which will be teens if was shown on Netflix it may get a vast amount of more views. the way in which this system works is straight forward firstly to get the independent film onto netflix i will have submit my film onto the database from there if lucky my film will get picked. another reason i chose this luthor article is because it shares its Netflix rating which is 4 stars as this being a thriller TV series this raises quite high above the bars.  

And in the middle of everything, Idris Elba was as good as he’s ever been. Despite everything that’s happened to him lately – despite Marvel andMandela and Beasts of No Nation – I’d argue that Luther still represents Elba at his absolute best. It’s a masterpiece of a performance, heavy and soulful and littered with all kinds of unexpected choices. As Luther, Elba is able to lift quotidian material into something special. Let’s just hope he won’t have to do so much heavy lifting next time around.

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My 1 minuet short film is based off of the film silence of the lambs i wanted to take this psycho thriller/horror and create one of my own ideas from this successful film. another reason is if i based a one minute short film of silence of the lambs is it would pack a lot of punch in other ways it would be incredibly suspenseful. Another reason my short film is based off of silence of the lambs is because of how successful this film was and also how eerie. This film was really successful as it won 5 Oscars and received tons of good reviews this was one of the best thrillers that was ever made and this is one reason why i would like to base my 1 minute short film on this incredible film.

This film was very good but the budget was incredibly high it reached to about 19 million but they were able to make lots of profit from this as its popularity blew through the roof. This is when the film made all of its money.

$13,766,814 (USA) (15 February 1991) (1,497 Screens)
£292,592 (UK) (6 June 1991) (1 Screen)
ARS 688,839 (Argentina) (13 June 1991) (4 Screens)
AUD 3,735,383 (Australia) (16 May 1991) (85 Screens)
DEM 153,261 (Germany) (8 April 1992) (150 Screens)
DEM 2,026,540 (Germany) (18 April 1991) (205 Screens)

As you can see from above this is all of the profit in total they made back and in the first week of the films release in the US they made $13,766,814 which is the majority of the profit which they made back in the first week of release. They also made another 5,800,000 in Australia and in Germany this is why silence of the lambs is such an important task for me to reach for. Views are also very important as this gives the creators and directors more inspiration to make more films.

For classification this film was classed as an 18 in most country's due to the disturbing content only strictly should be viewed by much younger audiences. In some country's in particular this film

 

When this film was first distributed it was mainly distributed to a large amount of cinemas all over the world. Then this changed and was released for DVD but later became available for blue ray this film also found itself to online distribution such as youtube and other various streaming sites it even found itself on amazon instant video. but online distribution wasn't the only way this film was bought electronically but also became available for IOS and samsung phone products even I Pads.

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the research i gathered on the silence of the lambs was very interesting because a lot of the views that this had received were from older teens and grown ups and it states that this film was also very successful for this reason as this film was an 18 rated its target audience was aimed at adults.

Website format	Link	Conclusion
Internet Movie, rating etc. this is a website which is accessible through the internet	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355683/	This is a very helpful website when it comes to searching through film. IMBD. It is helpful as you can look at the films rating and the linked example is a black mass thriller which was released in 2015. This also help me to understand the conventions of thriller in much more depth. This is what I hope to achieve in my short film. I also know what to expect more from thrillers.
Internet Distribution of various films to social streaming networks (Netflix)	https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/get-your-independent-movie-on-netflix/	This helps students learn and understand how to try to distribute your films or series through Netflix, so that it can be viewed by the world. This can give your thriller a chance to be successful and you can also get reviews on how to make your film better the next time and you also know that Netflix is one good source for all of your work.
Internet BBFC helps film makers understand the age guidelines to protect the psychological state of younger people	http://www.bbfc.co.uk/	The BBFC are responsible for certifying films all over the country in the UK, to make sure that the age group aren't watching something they shouldn’t. As my short film only features blood and violence it will need to be certified as 12a. This is also very serious as if I was to make another short film in the future I would have to make sure that the film isn’t too graphic as it would be banned entirely. This means that all the money spent making it would have been made for nothing.
Video/internet	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u6Tt3PqIfQ	As I am making a short thriller film I was looking at the different thrillers that might help my idea. This idea in particular was the best route for me to go as it would help me understand the various camera conventions and how to edit the piece to add an elegant rhythm in my film. The other reason I did this was because these were students making a film I thought it would be better to look at a student’s piece of work.
Book	http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/03/best-crime-and-thriller-books-of-2015	As my short film is going to be a moving image production I also wanted research books, as they offer better inspiration and more detailed knowledge. The book I researched was of a detective story this will be very beneficial for me not only will I be able to make my detective in my 1 minute short film look professional I will also be able to get a good idea of props like murder weapons and costume design
Internet	http://shortfilms.org.uk/lsff13/awards	This link takes you to the London short film festival website page, as I am making a short film it wouldn’t be a bad idea to look up previous winners and see what they have done.
Website	http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/introduction/what-makes-a-good-short	This is a step by step guide on creating a good short film and how to make it effective. This had many benefits though bother than making your footage good this also helped me understand how to make a good script which will benefit me when it comes to pre-production.

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Pre Production Report 1 minuet short film Re-submission

For my pre production report i will be talking about areas ideas costume and costing. My idea for a 1 minuet short film i will be inspiring it off by the film Silence of the Lams this film matches the same similar theme which i will be inspiring my work off of The story features two detectives a serial killer and a murdered victim this will be important as he story takes place right into the horror were the detectives find the victims body butchered. After this scene the other detective invites the other detective over for dinner were he finds that his partner he has known so long has been killing these victims and that his partner has an alter ego of horror.

locations are very important one location would be free as it is shot in the woods the other would be more expensive as it would be filmed in a large castle or a building but the location for this can also be up in London this way i can film a sort of grown up themed lifestyle. Costumes, costumes which i could use such as suits and Fedoras this is the main clothing which i would use were the serial killer would were a suit and the detectives only really need suits and fedoras the reason i will be basing the detectives like this so they look like old style 60s themed detectives.

through this short film I will use one camera the reason this being is its easier to record scenes and shots. When recording the short film i will use static shots with the camera as it will look a lot better and detailed this way there are no complications and also there will be no zooms as this can also break the idea of a static camera.  

as i have done research on the different websites i have also used various sources to help me make a strong i minuet thriller sequence i have also chosen a TV series to help me as well the show which i will be using to help me as is called Luther seeing as my short thriller sequence will be involving detectives Luther is a show loved by many due to suspense thriller which it uses. this is also a more modern example due to trends people in 2016 tend to watch a lot of TV series as this makes the story or plot line easier to follow this is one of the main reasons which i chose luthor because this is a very modern thriller TV series that also relates to my short film as it also features detectives.

Themes are very strong in my short film as i will making this short film in the old style of say the 60s the reason this being is its more interesting because its in the past and its a lot more interesting to see what detectives were like dealing with ghoulish cases. My USP is the idea of the past and the detectives finding such a horrible murder this is not as good as had wanted it to be but the short film i am making is only 1 minuet long so the will not have time to add in any more details. one of the other USP in my short film was actually based of an article in 2001 about the murder of Chandra Levy. This murder was serious this is because they found her body eight years later after the disappearance. but in my one minuet short film there is a plot twist were the detective who found the body in my story. His best friend had committed the murder were it goes back to a flash back. of the piece of evidence that links his friend in the murder.

Finding out distribution is very important because this is how i am going to get my film viewed.and the way in which i am going to do this through is Netflix the reason being is that it is very simple to set up and how it works is you put forward your film to Netflix and it then gets put on a waiting list and if the film is good enough then it gets picked. this is also very effective for my short film as there are many films that get put on Netflix and a lot of people own it. Because of this very reason if more people watch it then. another more minor option was YouTube and this was for a very particular reason this is because on YouTube this is a great opportunity for your short film to get lots of views and to get likes this way it makes it very easy to put your short film through say Netflix. This is my pre production report this should include everything covered about the costs and budget for my short film.


    

Task 2 audience research

The short film which i will be making will be based at a certain target audience the audience age gap will be 15-18 and it is a thriller the thriller will consist of a variety of characters such as a slasher a detective a victim and other side characters possibly 2 detectives. below are a number of different pictures that show what my ideas will be based upon. the most popular short thriller was the smiling man. and there were also other thrillers.
Here is the number of views which the smiling man got this shows people liked it as it was very impact this also had lots of suspense. this is why people are liking thrillers.


This is why i will be making a thriller for this reason. more people will watch it so it will gain more and more popularity. in the comments people have mentioned how they feel about this short film.

another thing which made this video really popular was the amount of likes which it received this shows to us that thrillers are highly approved by a number of different
audiences. This also shows the amount of subscribers which the creator got for creating the video. as you are able to tell on the left hand side it got 21 126 subscribers in total.

Horrors are popular but they are not as popular as thrillers such as this which can make you feel uneasy but there are a number of different short horror film.

as you can see for this short film which is porcelain rising we can see it has no were near the amount of views which the smiling man has. in fact this film only has 1,200,000 views were as the smiling has around 3,700,000 views which is almost half it also has lot more dislikes.