1. Daniel Rayson
Task 4
The 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.

2. 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