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.

Our Questionnaire

Films That’s Inspired Us

Da Vinci Code

A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

This film is a great inspiration for us and gave us the idea of doing a religious thriller. The character Silas is the inspiration for our main character.

 
Angles and Demons

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.

We these two films we have gathered lots of information which will help us when we come to film.  

Satans symbols which we might use in the movie

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene

The Actors

In our opening for our thriller we do not have many actors because we do not want to over crowd the scene. This in mind, we are only having two actors in the whole of the extract. The two characters are going to be a young adult and a priest. The young adult will be played Joe. And the priest will be played by my dad. We think that age is important as if we had a teenager playing the priest, well it just wouldn’t be realistic. This is why we have decided to get an older person to play the part.

Location

We also take location just as seriously. As a group we researched on different places to have the scenario. Obviously, with a priest, you would want a church. So we all looked into different churches in Spalding in which we could get permissions to film in. Eventually, we got the permissions to film in St Mary’s church in Spalding providing there was no dialogue in the church and that we kept to people’s privacy as it is a public church.

Make-up and Costumes

The young adult won’t need any make up and would only need to wear everyday clothing. However, with the priest, we want a look to make him look like he’s already been up to no good. We want him to look pale and ‘scary’in a way. We are dressing the priest in a large robe with a dog collar. We were thinking about a scar that runs down his face. We may be able to get hold of a make-up designer to help us out.

Props

During this extract we only use a minimal amount of props. We are going to use 4/5 crosses to put the credits on, outside by the church. We think this will be effective as it gives the audience a sense of death before the action starts so they know what they’re in for. The cross wil be similar to this but we are carving our names onto the cross in a rough scratched in look.

 

Timetable for filming

Time	What we’re doing/Who is needed
8:30-9:00	Arrive to church and setup with equipment and credits
9:00-10:30	Take all outside shots of the church. Get various shots of around the church and different credit shots.
10:30-11:00	Pack everything away and move inside the church itself and setup.
11:00-12:30	Get lots of shots of the church itself capturing lots of distinctive features of the church
12:30-1:00	Pack away and lock cameras away
1:00-2:15	Lunch
2:15-2:30	Setup equipment in the church (Julian playing the priest arrive at 2:15)
2:30-4:00	Take all shots of the storyline using shot list as well as other ideas we may have on the day.
4:00-4:15	Pack equipment away

Shot List

Scene #

Shot #

location

Shot description

framing

action

Dialogue

actors

Props

notes

1

1

Outside the church (graveyard)

Panning shot of crosses stuck in the ground with our names on (opening credits)

Cross in ground and graveyard and church in the background no people!!

Recognising the setting and looking at the credits

N/a

N/a

Crosses

Vinces idea fade to black/white if is too difficult.

1

1a

Outside the church (graveyard)

Low angle of church and boy

The church a little bit of the sky and the boys feet

Boy walks down path towards the church

N/a

The boy

Clothes Bible

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1

2

Outside the church (graveyard)

Him walking into a church

The boy and the door

The boy opening the door and walking in

N/a

The boy

Clothes Bible

1

3

Inside the church (looking at the door)

Match on action of boy walking into the church

The door and the boy

Boy walking into the church

N/a

The boy

Clothes bible

1

4 5 6

porch area

Mid shot on Different sides of boy With room for priest to run past

The Boy the porch and the priest

The boy turns as he hears footsteps and priest comes past the camera as he is looking away

N/a But sound of quick footsteps

The boy The priest

Clothes Bible Priest robe

1

7

In the church (down the aisle)

Mid shot Moving at the same speed of the boy behind him

Pews and the church things and the boy

Boy walking down the aisle and then going to sit down

N/a

The boy

Clothes Bible

1

8

On the pew in the church

The front of the boy a profile shot with little background in sight

Boys face and little bits of the background

Boy sits down puts his head down as if he is praying puts his head up because he heard something then put his head back down the priest is simultaneously moving forwards as he puts his head down

N/a Ringing like in your ears after a loud concert

The boy The priest

Clothes Priest clothes

1

9

In the pew as he gets up

High angle of the boy as he gets up from the pew to walk back

A lot of the floor in which the boy will be walking on

The boy will be walking as if he is leaving the church and we see him go down to do up his shoe

N/a

The boy

Bible Clothes Shoes (with laces)

1

10

In the aisle walking towards the door

Long shot of the boy taking up the lower 2/3rds of the shot and the priest face taking up 1/3

The boy with his shoes and the priest and a stain glass window behind them

The boy will do up his shoe lace and the priest will be standing like a statue at the stain glass window. the boy will look around as he stands up and the priest will disappeared the boy will walk towards the door and put his head down to do up his coat and the priest will be closer behind him. Then the boy will bring his head up mouth some sort of prayer before he leaves. the priest will move his head so the audience can see half of his face he will then lift his bloody hand onto the boys shoulder

N/a

The boy Priest

Bible Clothes (coat) Priest outfit Contact lenses Bloody hand

Should the priest have a bloody face too? Maybe the mouth or something just an idea.