Research Own Film Habits

We decided our group genre by discussing types of films we all enjoy and agreed could be possible to create based upon restricted facilities and equipment. We concluded that a Crime Thriller would be the genre we chose to base our trailer on. Therefore we spent several days researching and watching crime thriller trailers, clips and films. These include;

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"The novel is a psychological thriller about a woman suffering from    .She wakes up every day with no knowledge of who she is and the novel follows her as she tries to reconstruct her memories from a journal she has been keeping." - Wikipedia 
We decided to use this film for ideas that will show our main characters deterioration, as the struggle of main character in Before I Go To Sleep is shown to effect her emotional state we have used key ideas from this as part of our main characters psychological state. These include different shots of her panic, emotion, and fear. 






Suspects, Criminals and Crimes make Gone Girl fit the classic definition of a mystery novel. "On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble." -IMBD 
As this is a big blockbuster we decided we watch the film as a group a analysise the trailer for different clip ideas, camera angles and movements, costume ideas, body movements, facial expressions etc. 






"In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree." - IMDB Our group analysed parts of this this film and trailer to be able to identify with our detective role for a scene in our trailer. Further in the film the main character develops a obscure obsession with working out the mystery. We want to portray this in our trailer as the mother becomes obsessed with researching and trying to find her missing daughter. 





Some of our ideas were also developed from crime books and novels different group members have previously read.  

"A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body" -IMBD
As I have previously read this book instantly ideas began to form from similar conventions of the film. As the storyline follows a young girl it was interesting to compare other films to how we plan to portray a young girl in our trailer. 



"This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), as he investigates the disappearance of a wealthy patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara)." - IMDB
This was another book that was brought up during our group discussion of films and books similar to our genre. The missing persons plot line is useful to analyse as we were able to establish mise en scene conventions we could include in our production. 



"A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life." - IMDB
This book written by Paula Hawkins (later directed by Tate Taylor in a Hollywood blockbuster) reveals a twisted mystery of a missing person and the effects in has on people around her. As 3/4 members of our group have read this book with was another than stood out during discussion of other crime thrillers.