Character Profile: Harry

Name: Harry

Portrayed By: Timothy John Jumawan

Age: 18

Place of Birth: Manila, Philippines

Occupation: Student

Relationship Status: Unknown

Personal Profile

Harry is a unique and mysterious person. He is highly gifted and smart, which makes him different and could easily play mind tricks with other people. With his high intelligence he is studying Psychology in University which means he could interpret other's people emotions quite easily.

Why I chose this Character

I chose this type of character because from the past few years, the types of thrillers that have been released has gone away from these type of characters who are mysterious and not having any knowledge of them whatsoever.

Texts that has influenced this character

There is only one text that has influenced Harry, which is The Third Man, the scene where his character was introduced because at first it was claimed that he was dead but it turns out he wasn't and within that film his character had enigma because it felt as if they didn't know the whole story about him, which is what I wanted with my opening, leave the audience hanging on and make them watch the Thriller Opening.

Results of Questionnaires

I did a questionnaire for my potential target audience of young adults aged 16-25, to see if I was aiming the Thriller Opening to the correct audience. The screenshots above show that the majority of them liked the Thriller Opening, and that most of them understood the narrative of the film while a small percentage of them didn't understand it.

Opening Credits Research

In Class, we looked at how Thriller Films have laid out their Titles at their Opening Credits. The example we looked at, was the opening credits of Se7en.



Se7en is a feature film and therefore has the time to create a good opening credits. We looked at where in the shot have they put they'te Titles.

We looked at how the mostly put the left or in the right so the titles, don't affect the action of the film.

The titles in this opening sequence, has inspired me with my Titles in my opening sequence, because it doesn't use any graphics or CGI, it only uses basic fonts and size, which makes it unique and different to other thriller films released.

Target Audience Feedback

This is one of the ways I collected feedback for my film

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Another way I have collected data is by having the questionnaire on paper while a variety of people watched the film.

Research into Potential Target Audience

Research Into Potential Target Audience

The Third Man - Opening Sequence

I am going to analyse how the Opening Credits of The Third Man establishes the Thriller genre



The opening credits of the film, uses Non-Diagetic Sound in the beginning, when the Zither was playing when the credits was rolling. Then as the opening scene went on, the film uses Diagetic Sound, by using a voice over with the soundtrack playing along, throughout the opening sequence.

The film uses Non-Ambient lighting throughout the whole scene which of course creates shadows which shows that there is another presence within the scene.

The camera angles used in this opening scene are mostly tilt shots and close up shots, the purpose of the use of these shots is to illustrate disorientation and confusion, making the film look weird and different.

The opening sequence also follows traditional conventions of a Thriller film. It uses big open Train stations and also big isolated buildings, in which Harry Lime's apartment was located.

Another generic convention the film uses is enigma. When it was said in the beginning that Harry Lime is dead, there was a bit of enigma to it, as Martins had suspected, like something wasn't right. Another thing that made the language barrier of Holly Martins and the people of Vienna because he couldn't understand what they're saying, makes it much more difficult for him to know what the people are saying to each other.

Come Walk with Me - Final Cut

This is my Final Cut of my Thriller Opening "Come Walk with Me"