Storyboard

This is our storyboard with our initial idea of what we want our thriller to be, we will base our scenes on the different scenes in the storyboard. We will keep refering back to our storyboard when we are filming our thriller.

Costumes

Beth:
A white coat- this is because the colour white represets innocence and purity.

Tom- He will be wearing mainly black because he is the opposite to innocent and pure. This is mysterious because he is creeping around al the time in the dark.

Locations List

The location of the whole thriller sequence is a small lonely village in the countryside called Coton. We have decided to chose to use a location like this because it is very empty and calm which will make it easy to create the right atmosphere for our thriller- eery. This adds to the idea of the stalker in the sequence to being strange.

A Church will be used in one shot- This is a religious place which is ironic because such a strange act as 'stalking' can actually be taking place within a calm, content, religious setting.

A House( The character Beth who is being staked home)- This is to make it realistic and shows the audience that the stalker is watching Beth from the comfort and safety of her own home.

A Park- To represent youth, young people spend times in park.

Our Idea

We came up with a couple of ideas for the name of our thriller such as; The Stalker, Follower, Beth, a date for example 12th September, Obsession, Desire, Within Temptation, An Number Adress ie. 56.

We decided to base our thriller around a stalker, this is because we feel that this an issue which is a typical scary/thriller film will be based on. We have come up with the idea of using two main actors who the thriller opening sequence will be based on- Beth and Tom. We are going to use clips of photos. we are going to use clips of Beth being stalked in public. And props such as a computer, MSN Messenger and Facebook. Tom is going to be pretending to be a youngster and talk to Beth. We are going to be using MSN and Facebook because almost every teenager uses it to connect.


Cast line: project, also we all can actually edit, because we will all be around the computer, where as we cannot all film and act at the same time.

Analysis of 'Usual Suspects'

We watched the opening sequence of usual suspects which is a classic thriller, this gave us some insights into what a good thriller needs to include. It included many of the classic thriller conventions such as; Weapons, fire and darkness. A man had been shot in his legs and had then lost all feeling in them, this led the film onto the first element of crime, which is a main theme of a thriller. There was a man who had a gun, and a victim which is very typical of a thriller as one of the main character types is good and evil. The opening sequence's music automatically creates suspense and is eery music. Although our thriller will not have a similar story line the main conventions used will give us some good ideas and help us to film and edit our thriller.