Costume

We borrowed the hooded robe from a small local costume company and they were all to happy to help us. We have used this for the priest as it was quite mysterious and made my family jump when i walked in my house with it on with it on.

This is the jumper we chose to use in our thriller because it isn't as in your face as the other jumpers and we new the opening would be in grey scale and this was better aesthetically than the other ones with this affect.

This was a good jumper, we thought, if our opening wasn't going to be black and white because it was a nice jumper to look at.

We didn't think this jumper was suitable as it reminded us of a golfing jumper and that isn't the look that we wanted. Also in grey scale the black was way to dark and it looked strange.

 

Preliminary Shot list

Scene #	Shot	Location	Shot Description	Framing	Action	Dialogue	Actors	Props	Notes
#1	A	F block tunnel	Long shot, straight on of Vince coming through fire doors with Ryan behind him	Vince in middle of shot showing both doors	Vince walking through doors	None	Vince, Ryan	None
#1	B	F block tunnel	Looking up at him from behind, low angle shot	Vince taking up about 1/3 of the shot	Vince walking down corridor	None	Vince	None
#1	C	F block tunnel	Mid-shot of Vince from right side at body level	Body and upwards, missing out legs	Vince walking down corridor	None	Vince	None
#1	D	F block tunnel	Security camera view from top corner of corridor	Showing whole section of corridor	Vince walking down corridor	None	Vince, Ryan	None
#1	E	F block tunnel	Long shot down corridor of Vince approaching C112 door	Whole of C block upper corridor show C110 and toilet doors	Vince walking down corridor	None	Vince	None
#1	F	F block tunnel	Close up of Vince grabbing the door handle	Door handle and hand taking up 90% of the shot space	Vince opening door of C112	None	Vince	None
#1	G	C112	Close up of other side of the door handle being pushed down	Full shot of the door handle, no background	Vince opening door of C112	None		None
#1	H	C112	Close up of walking legs	Legs, mainly lower taking up most of shot, background of floor	Vince walking through C112 to seat	None	Vince	None
#1	I	C112	High angle shot looking down upon scene	Showing whole room, including door	Vince walking through C112 to seat	None	Vince, Callum	None
#1	J	C112	Low angle shot of Vince sitting down	Chair taking up majority of shot and just lower body and legs of Vince	Vince beginning to sit down on seat	None	Vince	None
#1	K	C112	Over the shoulder shot to see Vince’s expression	1/3 of Cullum’s head and the rest of Vince	Vince looking surprised	You come to me on the day of your daughter’s wedding	Vince, Callum	None
#1	L	C112	Over the shoulder shot of Vince	1/3 of Vince’s head and the rest of Callum	Seeing Callum talking to Vince	Asking for help	Vince, Callum	None
#1	M	C112	Over the shoulder shot to see Vince speaking	1/3 of Cullum’s head and the rest of Vince	Vince speaking to Callum	Meet my little friend	Vince, Callum	None
#1	N	C112	Mid shot of door flying open, not being able to see character	Door in middle of frame, showing door frame and walls	Door opening	None		None
#1	O	C112	Close ups and extreme close ups of expressions of all characters faces	Full shots of faces and no background or any other objects	Showing surprised expressions on character’s faces	None	Vince, Callum, Ryan	Gun
#1	P	C112	Mid shot of whole scene seeing shooting panning right	Scene taking up approx. 1/3 of shot with surroundings taking the rest	Callum walking away unharmed	None	Vince, Callum, Ryan	Gun
#1	Q	C112 moving to F block tunnel	Side shot of victim on floor, moving backwards and zooming out	Victim originally taking up 1/3 of shot but being reduced further as shot zooms out	Victims laying on floor	None	Vince, Callum, Ryan	None

Influential and Potential Music

This is a very good soundtrack for a thriller. It adds tension when being played and completely changes the atmosphere at other times. This is why we want to make a theme song very similar to this and we may use bits from this theme to gives us that extra bit of quality to our work. This is a very influential song which taught us a lot about how good music can make a film better.

Script

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

Props

These are our crosses that we used in the opening scene as our credits. We first made the crosses but we felt they looked to clean and new. So we burnt them to give them a old and battered look. This worked very well because it completley changed the aesthetics of it making it have an old look about it. These worked very well in the begining of the opening scene and they are a good way to show the credits and add tension.

Location and lighting

 

The lighting inside the church was surprisingly light and worked very well for most of the shots. We did not take any stage lighting in when we filmed because we went before the day of filming to see if we need any lighting.

When we filmed outside it was quite gloomy which added perfectly to the tention. We did not need any stage lighting beacuse it wa light enough outside. 

Location for Thriller

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) - Art Of The Title

 

Bass’ titles for It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World come in at just over four minutes — his longest sequence, second only to West Side Story in 1961. He directed it in 1963, the same year that he designed the iconic poster for Hitchcock’sThe Birds. The animation techniques used by Bass in Mad World were heavily influenced by a new movement in the cartoon industry that favored a modern, stylized aesthetic over the then-dominant school of Disney hyper-realism.

Psycho (1960) - Art Of The Title

  It’s safe to say that after half a century of critical writing about Psycho, there are few stones left unturned. The same can also be said of Bass’ now infamous opening title sequence. Designed on a $21k budget, it is likely his most significant and familiar accomplishment in the eyes of cinephiles and laymen alike. Admittedly, Bass does not give his audience much to work with.

Cape Fear (1991) - Art Of The Title

The titles for Cape Fear are full of different symbols and metaphors that are within the film. these are:

1. Liquid: a physical setting and it is also a moral quicksand
2. Eyes and eye- lines: this is used to show surveillance and the judgement that is going to happen, it also shows the human connection
3. Blood, or the colour red: sacrifice, anger, rage and damage
4. Predatory behavior: This is shown as a hawk in the titles, but is Cady in the film - Links

The Thriller Genre As Images

Inspiring Shots

Although it's quite hard to see, but this is a shot of a priest coming towards a man who he is chasing after. This is similar to the scenario we are using so maybe we could take shots from this opening and put it in ours.

Although it's not really that clear on this screen shot, we get the idea that this man is in some kind of distress from the priest chasing him. So we could also use this in our scenario from when the priest follows the boy.

Through out all of this opening sequence we see very stereotypical conventions of a thriller film... mainly that the villain isn't revealed until right at the end of the opening sequence and that we are only given clues... Resulting in the audience having to think about what/who it may be. This could also be something to consider for our opening sequence.

Terms And Conditions For using The Church Given By The Vicar

To get permission for using the church, we had to agree to some term and conditions.

These conditions are to follow:

• We must show all respects for the church
• We must keep quiet and there must be no diagetic dialogue
• We must keep to peoples privacy and not get any of the general publics faces in the shots.
• We must be out of the church by 5:00pm
• We are not allowed into the church until 9:00am
• If people are to come over and talk to us about what is going on we must stop our work and tell them what's going.

These are subject to change on the shot taking day.

The Results From Our Questionaire

Evaluated questions

The top rated sub-genre is psychological thriller. We have made our thriller with this in mind having a rather scary priest who is creepy and he plays with peoples heads as will be seen in the opening.

The best thing people liked about a thriller is suspended we are using suspense in the way that the audience know the priest is there but the boy doesn't this makes the audience more tense we believe.

The largest chosen director was Steven Spielberg we couldn't really link this to our price because we are directing it ourselves.

Surprising twists came in at number one on what appeals to our target audience and we don't really have this but it could unfold in the later part of the film which we aren't focusing on.

Most people think props costume and make up are important we have taken this on bored and made our main focus to be on props and costume in our opening.

Our questionnaire says that the plot is the most important element of a thriller film so this is the reason we spent a lot of time writing the plot out and matching it to the shot list.

Music is the main thing that builds suspense according to our target audience this is why we aim to use it as effectively as we can we have looked into ideas of what should be cool and have a good idea in our heads.

In our two minutes of the film we do have the action unfolding quite quickly because this is what our audience want.

It is set in the present because that is what the audience want it is also better because it makes it closer to home for the viewer.

In our piece we have as little plot reviled as we can we want the audience to question what this man is doing and why.