Main conventions

Main conventions of a thriller:

-Extordinary events which happen in ordinary settings

-A Crime in which the thriller is based around

-Redherrings

-A Protangist with a flaw

-Narrative patten which the views expect to be resolved

-Violence



We wanted to include some of these conventions to make our thriller as much like an actuall good thriller as possible. We analysed scenes from the thriller 'Bourne Identity'. This gave us a true insight into what we should include to make a successful thriller opening sequence. We also watched a lot of thriller opening sequences on youtube to give us some ideas of what other thriller opening sequences include to give us some ideas.

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas;
-Serial Rapist
-Stalker
- Hidden Identify

My first initial idea was to have some sort of hidden identify behind one of the main characters, this was because I am familiar with the 'Born Identity' thriller films, as I had watched them recently I knew the storyline well and thought that we could use some of the ideas and conventions of the 'Born Identity' thrillers. One of the main conventions of a thriller usualy involves a hidden identify too and I thought it was important to use some main conventions in orfer to make a successful thriller opening sequence. However we decided not to use this idea in the end because we felt that too many thrillers use this convention so it would be hard to actually compete with the original good thrillers and it would show ours up.

Another idea was the idea of a serial rapist. It was immedietly decided that this idea would be too dificult and it would be too dramatised, it would be very hard to come up with a storyline which we could fit in to a short 1-2 minute opening sequence witout giving the story away too soon. We thought that it would be too graphic and fake, which would make it unrealistic. In conclusion this idea would be too dramatised and wouldn't be like a thriller.

Our final idea was the idea of a stalker which we agreed was the idea that we were going to use. This is because we came up with many ideas that would give us a range of shots, a variation of shots is something we all wanted to inculde as we were explained this was needed in order to gain a good mark. We also came up with the idea of using our original idea of 'hidden identify' throughout our thriller based around the stalker as the stalker would have a hidden identify; this meant we could include a main convention.

The obsessive "Beth Beth Beth" scene.

This scene was quite hard to actually get right, and it took many takes. This is because as we were filming an over the shoulder shot, hand-holding the camera we kept getting Tom's shadow in the way, making it hard to read what he was writing. What he was writing was the whole importance of the scene. We chose to have "Beth" written over again to illustrate the stalkers thoughts that Beth is always on her mind and that he is obsessed with her.

Analysis of the facebook scene

This scene could easily be filmed at college because asitwas just a close-up of a computer; it did not matter about the scenery around, we chose to have a close-up of the facebook friend request because then it is able to be read by the audience easily. Facebook is used in our thriller because it is a typical website which teenagers use, therefore it is connecting to the audience that our thriller is aimed for.

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.