HGL PRODUCTIONS- Codes and conventions

Codes And Conventions Of A Thriller Movie

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Marketing Our Thriller

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Twitter Poll

To understand our audience more, we introduced a Twitter poll to give the audience a chance to have control and feel involved in the making of our thriller. We directly asked our audience to chose what title they preferred that best fit our thriller including Exitus, Insanis and Captum.

As evident from the results it is clear that Exitus was the most popular chosen title. We believe this as it has connotations of a thriller through the title as the wording ends in 'us'.The pronunciation and repetition of the 's' word uses sibilance and partners with the thriller connotations of a dark tone and danger, alongside the conventions.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Our Social Media

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Review on prelim draft

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Final Logo

This is our final logo we have decided for our production company. We have chosen and produced this particular logo as it has a professional look and feel it represents a movie making company like ourselves well. It displays our production company name clear and bold in large text, allowing it to be easily recognized and known.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Influences towards our thriller

Influences towards our thriller from HGL Productions

HGL PRODUCTIONS- More logo designs

Logo Designs

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Script for prelim draft

Script For Prelim Draft

We have decided to document and discuss the problems faced when filming our prelim through a podcast format, this is our draft for what we will be discussing towards the 180 degree angle and it being broken. What it is and what we did the change this so it would not occur again in our final prelim.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Risk assessment

This is a prezi explaining some of the risks that could come up whilst filming for our thriller film.
We need to consider all the possible risks that could come up, as if we dont we would be in a bad situation and not know what to do. This way we have planned what could come up and how we would reduce any risks in the future.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- First ideas for storyboard

First Ideas Of Storyboard For Thriller Opening

These are some of our first ideas for the storyboard of the film. At the moment, the only ideas we have is that we open the film with a view of a landscape through a train window as its moving, followed by the title sequence appearing subtly on screen, also the view will hopefully be dull, rainy or really foggy and white. This will then slowly cut to a girl seen in a forest who is lost and doesn't understand where she is but also in possession of  'someone'. This will then rapidly cut to another scene which will be a flashback of the girl in a mental home. The audience still won't know what is going on or why she was in these two places. There will be many cuts going backwards and forwards from the forest to the mental home to show the confusion of the girl and why she is now in this forest.


At the moment, these are rough ideas of the Thriller film and we will soon adapt on these ideas to improve the Thriller film to make it look good and to make more sense.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Final prelim

This was our final prelim video as because last time we broke the 180 degree rule so it needed to be re done and re filmed. It wasn't a hard process as we done it all within a day, but we managed to fix the problem which was the main focus.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Results to questionnaire

Results To Questionnaire

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Title Sequence

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Props&costumes mindmap

Props And Costumes Mindmap

These are some ideas we came up with that could be included into the thriller film based on the genre we are focusing on; horror/psychological thriller.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Questionnaire on thrillers

Questionnaire On Thrillers

These are some questions that I asked people to fill out, so we can use the answers as guidelines for our thriller. The answers will be made into a graph to see the results.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- BBFC Research

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Words associated to thrillers

Words Associated To Thrillers

These are some words that we all believe that associates with a thriller. This gives us more of an understanding and idea on what to surround our thriller on.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Idea mind map

Idea Spider Diagram

This a mind map of all of our ideas to do with thrillers in general and some of our ideas we may do for our own thriller.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Psychological thriller mood board x3

Psychological Thriller Mood Board

This mood board focuses on Psychological Thrillers. I chose images that were scenes in Psychological thriller films, some films included are Cube, Kill List, Das Experiment and Gone Girl. Some of the costumes and props were inspiration towards our Thriller, such as the black dripping down the face, blood stained dress, wet look hair and small weapons. By making mood boards, this helped our group focus on small details that would overall make the Thriller successful.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Codes and Conventions

This is a powerpoint of some codes and conventions of a thriller, explaining what thrillers contains and what they focus around.

HGL RPODUCTIONS- Thriller crime mood board x2

Thriller Mood Board Crime 2

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HGL PRODUCTIONS- Logo design idea

Logo Design

HGL PRODUCITONS- Thriller mood board x1

Thriller Mood Board

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HGL PRODUCTIONS- The Woman in Black analysis

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Se7en Analysis

Analysis of se7en from HGL Productions

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Cape fear Analysis

Cape Fear Analysis

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Year 13 talk

Year 13 talk notes.

On the 5th of January 2017 we had a talk with year 13's media class. This was where they gave us advice and tips from their own experienced.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Prelim Draft

This was our first draft of our prelim, the thing we found that we struggled with was match on action. Making sure the door used finish in the next shot where it opened, we altered this by re-filming and will be noted for future filming. Also, this was our first go at doing the prelim and we broke the 180 degree rule. We can see this clearly as we start from the right side and then start filming from the left afterwards.

HGL PRODUCTIONS- Meet the team!!!

Meet the team! From left to right is Honor, Georgia and Lucy and we are HGL Productions.