Our thriller props

We only really had one prop which was the set of files containing pictures on the murder victim and the two detectives assigned to the task. This was made from two folders of subject work at school, and are the only real props obviously seen, we do not use a knife or any other typical thriller conventions in our opening.

Narrative Script

Phone Call
Hayley (police): Hello, British Police department, how may I help you?
Jack (the killer): I did it again, bet you can't find me..
*Jack hangs up leaving the beeps..*
Detectives
D1: Who was she?
D2: Don't you remember?
*Pause and hands D1 the file*
D2: Laura Robinson, three suicide attempts last month
D1 : I doubt that was the case here though
*Passes file back to D1*
D2: What are we working with?
*D1 holds up bag with the girls phone in*
D1: The murder took place around 4, due to a message she received on her phone
D2: Which would explain why she was out here alone
*D1 and D2 look at each other*
D1: Do you think it was him?
*D1 hands file to D2*
D2: It looks like his work
*D2 hand file back to D1*

Our thriller shooting script

1. Black screen - phone call taking place
2. Mid shot of the detectives looking over the dead girls body
3 Close up of a file opening - over the shoulder shot
(at the this point the credits will be shown with pictures of the character)
4. Extreme close up of the girls phone - receiving a text message  'You're dumped'
5. Pan shot of the girl walking round the corner
6. Mid shot of the girl walking passed the building
7. Close up of the girls phone in a bag 
(detectives speech 'what are we working with here?'
8. Mid shot of the girl walking down the path
(the camera zooms into the girl so she's centre of the screen)
9. Mid shot of the masked man grabbing the girl
(girl screams and gets pulled to the ground)
10. Close up of more files as Detective Freebury hands Detective Coley the file
(shows their pictures for then more credits to fit in) - another over the shoulder shot
11. Close up of the girls reaction
(the masked mans POV shot)
12. Close up of the masked man coming towards the girl
(the girls POV shot)
13. Ends as a black screen.

This shooting script is how it will take place, we are planning to have flashbacks from the next day of the murder to the night of the murder, one after the other, this is how we are planning to map it out, so there is an even amount of one and then the other. This is our plan of the shots we are going to use for every part of the opening.

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Acting and directing roles for our thriller opening

Acting
Murder scene: 

• I (Jack) will be the villain - the masked man. 
• Hayley will be the teenager that gets murdered.

Investigation scene:

• I (Jack) will be the first detective investigating the murder
• Toni will be the second detective

Directing

Murder scene:

• Toni will be the camera-man for this scene because she is not involved in it.

Investigation scene:

• Hayley will be working the camera because she has been killed out of the story.

Costumes for our thriller opening

Our thriller opening required four different characters, and because there were only three members in the group I had to wear two different costumes. 



This was the first of our costumes, it was me dressed up in all black with a white mask with two eye holes and a mouth hole cut out. Because it will be filmed at night, the white will stick out and contrast the subtlety of the all-black costume. The film is called pestilence, which specifically means a danger or disruption to society, and generally a community will have two different sides to it - this costume has two opposite colours; reflecting that this character should be a disruption to all of society. In the darkness, this costume will not show anything behind the front of the mask, meaning any identity is completely concealed, a popular convention for villains in the thriller genre.

This is my second costume, on the second period of filming I will be acting as a detective, a vital figure of any community when villainous crimes are committed. I will be wearing black and white in this scene again, however with much more white this time, being completely opposed to the murderer in terms of both dress and allegiance. The smart clothing also acts as an important signifier that this is an important character to the audience. 


















Toni's costume is also relatively smart - this is because she is the second detective and an important character. Almost everything applies from my costume to her's because we are playing similar roles - however it twists the idea that influential and federal characters should be males and not females, by doing this we are reversing conventional gender stereotyping.




















Hayley is playing the role of the victim in our thriller opening, and as such she is wearing casual clothes that show what her character is like - in the sequence she will be conventionally murdered so there is no particular dress code. She is wearing several layers because it will be a cold night, this is logical.

Storyboards for our ideas

Each member of our group came up with one idea for a thriller opening, and in the end we merged two of them together to create the best one. Below are the storyboards for every idea.


This is Hayley's idea, named Persona. A part idea of this was taken, of a man in a mask following a young lady, to form the thriller idea.


Idea two is entitled "Peril of the night", this idea was dropped when we thought of some different ideas which we could merge together to make our thriller.


Our final idea was made by me, and it was called Pestilence. This idea features two detectives discussing a killer - this idea went with Idea 1 to make our final idea.


This was our final idea and was combined from ideas Persona and Pestilence, in the end we went with Pestilence because it sums up what the evil character is.

Thriller Location

Our thriller will be set in Morton Fen. This is because there are few people going past meaning we wouldn't have any interruption in filming, and there is very little going on around the old abandoned building, which adds to the thriller film.