Vox Pops Planning

How can you find opinions from an audience?

Questionnaires, interviews

Shot 1

• Direct address/gaze
• Informing audience

Shot 2

• Talk/chat show
• Interview

Shot 3

• Outside broadcast
• Factual information live
• Direct gaze

Shot 4

• Asking people questions in public
• Indirect gaze, looking off screen
• AKA Vox pop

 

What are the conventions of a Vox Pops?

Latin- voice of the people. Vox pops is used to learn opinions, we will be using it to understand what our audience knows and thinks about thrillers.

What makes up a Vox Pop?

• Superimpose the question at the beginning do not ask the question.
• Each person who answers superimpose their name, age and occupation at the bottom.
• Set in a busy area
• Medium close up of each respondent
• Respondent holds and indirect gaze
• Respondent tends to be on the right hand side looking left off screen
• Each person is on screen for a max. of 3 seconds

 

Questions

What is your favourite thriller film?

What makes it effective?

What is your favourite sub- genre of thriller?

What conventions would you expect in a thriller?

What conventions would make your ideal thriller?

What makes a thriller thrilling?

 

Task	Person
Organise questions	All
Film the Vox Pops	Alex Price
Interviewer	Matt Allan
Casting	Grace Ilett
editor	Georgia Saddington

 

Production Company

Thriller Conventions Trailer: The Conjuring

Thriller Sub-Genres

Thriller Conventions- Trailer

Thriller Sub-Genre Table

There are numerous sub genres for thrillers with I the film industry, these are some example:

• Espionage
• Psychological
• Fantasy
• Conspiracy
• Political
• Forensic
• Sci-Fi
• Legal
• Horror

What are the conventions of an opening title?

What is the purpose of titles in a film opening?

• Used in TV and film they acknowledge the work of the
  Institution, cast and crew
• Foreshadow a characters personality
• Shows who’s involved in the production team
• Introduces the film and the actor
• Sets the scene of the opening sequence
• Sets the theme and the tone of the plot.

Opening titles are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They usually shown as text super imposed on a blank screen or static pictures or sometimes on top of the action in the show.

 

Captain America

What titles do they use?

• Director, screenplay, (co) (executive) producer, editors, costume designer, music supervisor, director of photography (camera operator), Production Company, casting and actors.
• Film title at the end

How are they different?

• World War propaganda
• Match on action

What effect/theme does it create?

• Patriotic, action genre

What type of opening is it?

• super imposed

Domino

What titles do they use?

• (executive)Producer. Film in the middle, title, actors, casting music, editor, production designer

How are they different?

• Colours, boxes, voice clips of characters

What effect/theme does it create?

• Crime genre

What type of opening is it?

• Super imposed, linked dominos

Napoleon Dynamite 

What titles do they use?

• Production Company, actors, casting music editor director of photography, (executive) producer, screenplay, writer, director.

How are they different?

• Each name is a different everyday object (e.g. food, drawing,)

What effect/theme does it create?

• Normal person’s life

What type of opening is it?

• Thematic, used through props, graphic match