Daniel Rayson

Task 4The film magazine IFQ is one of the fastest growing

Film/Art and Society magazines around. I t features alot of

exclusive in depth Q&A interviews with a wide variety of

iconic figures within film, music and pop culture. It has a

tight focus on a wide range of independent pieces of

media, much like my psychological thriller ‘THE

FORGOTTEN WITNESS’. This well known and very

successful magazine uses its power of a strong and loyal

customer base along with the popularity factor to promote

and advertise up and coming inde films and other media

productions. It gives these low budget independent films a

massive boost towards become well known and successful.

My film would slot perfectly into this magazine as it is a low

budget, individual British psychological thriller. My film

relies on intrigue and red herrings alongside some mystery

to attract audiences, rather than using expensive high

budget CGI, or special effects etc. The film I have created

is conventional to other low budget, independent films that

IFQ advertises and promotes within its magazines and also

at the film festivals that IFQ host. Because of this

magazine’s reputation and success it has a very large loyal

audience that enjoy the product. This would mean that my

film ‘THE FORGOTTEN WITNESS’ would be seen and

looked at by this large audience which would also be

beneficiary as our target audience which is anyone over the

age of 15 that enjoy individual, low budgeted films. The

thriller genre is a largely popular genre within the film

industry therefore allowing those whom do enjoy thrillers to

read about and possibly convince them to go and see the

movie, whereas those who do not overly enjoy the thriller

genre can at least read about it and learn the storylines and

get a feel for ‘THE FORGOTTEN WITNESS’ and then

advertisement can be passed on through mouth to mouth.

Overall the widespread knowledge and reputation of the

magazine should help to advertise my film well to a ranging

and varied audience.

Daniel Rayson

Film review:

The Forgotten Witness is a mind fiddling thriller, leading false paths and untold truths.

It captures the audience with layer upon layer of twists and turns until they themselves

cannot see a way out of the ensnarement of the horrors this film presents for them to

decipher. The human brain is the most complex of structures known to man and this

films certainly proves this as one man sets off to try and place shattered fragments of

a boys fragile mind back together, the only problem is his brain has activated a safety

mechanism and cocooned away the horrific memories, so that they may not cause

harm to young Nate. The audience will be thrilled to the edge of their seat watching

the lengths Lucas will take to retrieve this memory, whilst asking themselves at the

same time ‘Why is this man going to such effort?’. The Forgotten Witness is full of

enigmas and red herrings leading the audience to question their own beliefs and

perceptions of what is happening, and what is finally the truth. The combination of

camera work, sound, lighting and effects within this film really tie it together making it

the mind blowing intense psychological thriller it has turned into. The writers Daniel

Rayson and Nathan Boothroyd have been inventively creative pushing the limits to

their own minds to create such complex questions for the viewer to have to

unscramble. Overall if you are looking for a film that you will be thinking about long

after watching it and still questioning with your own mind if what you saw really made

sense then this is the film for you. Never have I been so impressed with an

independent low budget, psychological thriller. This film is going to be big and I would

recommend it to anyone willing to take the challenges of solving the riddles set as

traps by Rayson & Boothroyd, soon to be household known names.

Film release date: 16th April 2012