Thriller filming pitch

Daniella Benson

Short list and ideas

IDEAS TITLES

#darkness#codes and conventions of the thriller ?

#sub genres- mystery and psychology #shadows

#special effects #murder suspense

#cliff hanger- audience don’t know what's going on, going to make them want to watch more

#Psychological thriller- nuns and graveyards

#Night time, spooky effects

#Thriller sounds.. Slow tensions to build suspense

#mysterious “kidnapper/murder guy comes through garden door”

#actors: desire, tochi,ausca,samuel to play parts

#house for location: ponders end, brims down and Enfield island village

In coming to our final decision on what our film should contain and what we should reconsider, we thought about the practicality of our ideas. In trying to find a story that is also reasonable, in terms of resources and accessibility, we had to compromise to reach our final narrative….

Narrative• There isn’t a clear narrative in our opening as we’ve decided to follow the James bond “sky fall” opening

where its clear, but gives a sense of ideas of where the rest of the film is headed to without giving too much away.

• Its starts of with establishing shots of the houses, cars and surroundings. It then moves unto news reports about a murderer/kidnapper on the loose and then we pan into two children, brushing there teeth and getting ready for bed.

• From then onwards moves to the mother , shouting for them to get them bed ad tucking them in.

• The next scene reveals the murderer/ kidnapper sneaking into the house and making his way upstairs. The camera the zooms in to ausca’s face( little boy) indicating that the murderer/kidnapper has got him. The opening then abruptly ends with the thriller poster title coming up saying “LIGHTS” .

• We like our opening as it leaves the audience wanting more and wanting to find out what else is going to happen . by leaving on a cliff hanger this adds to the suspense and thrill which ultimately conforms to thriller generic conventions.

• The enigma

• Sense of mystery

• Challenges, conforms and develops the genre conventions

storyboard

script*tochi and ausca both brush their teeth and reach for the

mouthwash.Then they argue and squabble over it *

tochi:give me the mouthwash

ausca:no, I want it!

Tochi: give it here!

Desire: children,stop messing about and get to bed now!

Tochi and ausca: yes mum

(end sene)

(walks towards bedroom)

Tochi; its always your fault, we get sent to bed

Ausca; no its always you!

Tochi; no its not its you

*Ausca slams door*

(end scene)

Ausca:mummy, mumm help!Desire:whats wrong what wrong ??…desire;: there there, its okay. Go back to bed okay

Soundtrack and planning

We decided to use a website where we could legally make our own music and listen to other peoples music to use for our thriller. This is a recommended site sued my windows movie maker (the software we used to create our thriller).

We also used youtube and sound cloud to listen to different thriller openings to inspire ours.

Pictures of scenes

LocationsWe have decided as a team that our filming

location will be in Enfield island village, Brimsdown and Ponders end in my house. This is because my team members live there and we can base ourselves. The characters also lived 5 minuet car/bus journey away from each of these locations. Therefore it as easily accessible each the cast members and my director and I. These areas were therefore familiar to all of us, and therefore we know exactly which locations within the village will be necessary to us. For instance big houses and busy road for establishing shots

Costume and proppAntagonist(Samuel benson)The antagonists face will be concealed in a balaclava and the hoodie will be tied up. This is so no facial expression is exposed, in order to add enigma and mystery to the fearful character. This means nothing can be distinguished of his face, which is very common within the thriller genre in order to keep the audience in suspense. The colour will be black to represent darkness and evil, yet the eye and mouth holes symbolise he is watching and his human capabilities. He will be dressed in a black hoody, with black jeans and shoes to conform to the stereotypical thriller genre, of the antagonist being in dark clothing to symbolise evil and mystery. This will allow the audience to feel included and have acknowledgement of the good and bad characters within the film.

Costume and prop Protagonist (Ausca anunobi)

The victim protagonist auscawill be dressed in pyjamas, in order to reflect his childish innocence and to forewarn the audience that this could cause him to fall into unhelp able danger.

The other victim protagonist Tochi, will be dressed in pyjamas and a white housecoat, to produce a contrast between the dark and evil figure and the two victims. The white will symbolise to the audience her happiness, innocence and naivety to the day, allowing them to understand that she will be an extremely easy target-as well as her brother- to the antagonist. She’s also wearing pyjamas to represent her laid back approach to the night, as she is unaware that danger is headed her way. It will put the audience into suspense, as the pyjamas symbolise the normality of the day she is enduring, and that this could happen to anyone adding thrill to the film

Props

We decided to use a lam that was lit up in the dark to use for the title poster. This gave agreat affect to the picture quality as it gave the sense that the movie was HD- giving it a cinematic sort of style

We also used old newspapers to indicate that a child had recently been missing. This prop as great as it added to the realism of the thriller and made it seem every realistic and professional.

Cast list and crew