Shot list

Shot list:

Shot 1: Close-up shot- Pin board- Photos of girl, pans across different photos.
Shot 2: Cut-in shot- Rapists hands- Fondling with girls knickers.
Shot 3: Mid-shot- Rapist writing on paper- Camera looking over the shoulder.
Shot 4: Close up- Rapist hand- Placing paper with titles onto the pinboard
Shot 5: Close-up shot- Rapists hand running over pictures- slowly zooms in to one picture.
Shot 6: Extreme long shot- Girl walking down lamp lit street- rapist lurking near a wall.
Shot 7: Long shot- Girl walking down another street- Rapist crosses road and follows.
Shot 8: Long shot- Girl walking on street towards and past camera- Rapist follows.
Shot 9: Long shot- Girl walking up driveway- Camera behind the girl.
Shot 10: Long shot- Girl walking up driveway- Camera in front of the girl.
Shot 11: Medium close-up- Girl unlocking the door and walking through.
Shot 12: Long shot- Girl entering through the door- Knock at the door- Turns and opens door.
Shot 13: Low angle shot- Girl looking through the door into the darkness.
Shot 14: Medium close-up- Girl shutting door, rapist pushes door open.
Shot 15: Medium close-up- Rapist writing on paper- Camera looking over the shoulder.
Shot 16: Close-up- Rapist hand placing paper with titles onto the pinboard.
Shot 17: Medium close-up/Over the shoulder- Girl slamming door on rapist, rapist stops it.
Shot 18: High angle shot- Girl running upstairs, rapist slowly follows.
Shot 19: Mid-tracking shot- Girl running into room.
Shot 20: Mid-tracking shot- Rapist storms into room.
Shot 21: Long shot/Tracking shot- Girl tries to get past rapist, pushes her onto the bed.
Shot 22: Medium close-up- Girl struggling with rapist.
Shot 23: Close-up- Girl struggling with rapist.
Shot 24: Long shot- Outside the bedroom, shadows seen of girl and rapist.
Shot 25: Medium close-up- Rapist writing on paper- Camera looking over the shoulder.
Shot 26: Close-up- Rapist hand placing paper with film name onto the pinboard
Shot 27: Close-up- Phone receiving message.
Shot 28: Close-up- Phone receiving message.

Costume

We wanted to make them seem as normal and casual as possible. Our rapist however was donned in all black clothes, with as little skin showing as possible, just showing his eyes. We wanted to keep his identity completely under raps as that contributes to what the rest of the film would be about; trying to discover who did it.

The main girls costume consisted of just casual clothes e.g. jeans and a jumper. We wanted to portray her as being a normal teenage girl.

Props

Our prop list was rather small, consisting of a mobile phone to receive a text and a coat for the girl to take off when entering the house.

For our filming we didn't need much in terms of props. One of our main props was a pinboard which had various photos of the girl pinned to it.

 We came to the decision that the way in which we used our shots and the performance of the actors would be more effective than having tonnes of props to mess around with.

Location

The location of our filming was changed many times due to many different reasons, accessibility, convenience, space and surroundings. In our animatics it initially started off being filmed at megan's parents house, as it had the perfect scenery and plenty of space to allow for different camera shots, however we soon changed it as it was hard to get to the house without relying on someone to take us there, so we decided it'd be for the best to have a location more local.

 We then decided to film at a friends house which was local to us, however we found it difficult to schedule times where we were able to use the house, and once again decided to change it as it was inconvenient. In the end we settled on filming at Marthas house as it was easy to access, there was plenty of space and had the right layout to fit with our thriller genre .

Filming schedule

Filming schedule:

Whilst shooting our opening, our filming schedule was rather hard to keep on top of. For a lot of our shots it was essential that we filmed them at night, however due to nights getting lighter we found that we only had a couple of hours of darkness before we had to stop filming for the night. Because of this, we decided to have three nights in a row where we would try to complete our night-time filming, allowing us plenty of dark hours. We were worried about weather forecasts and how it would effect our filming if it were to rain, so we kept an eye on the weather forecasts, swapping one of our days due to the chance of heavy rain.

Monday: 5pm- Photoboard scenes, underwear scene

Wednesday: 8pm- Street scenes

Thursday: 8pm- All inside scenes involving rapist and girl

Saturday: 10am- Mobile scene

Opening of other thrillers: Gothika

The opening to the thriller film Gothika starts with a shot that is completely dark, With the diegetic sound of a women talking, we know nothing about the women and have no visual image of her at this point. As it gets lighter you gradually start to make out a image of the women's face, it is a close up shot. This could of been used to make the audience feel like they have a instant connection with her and that she is talking directly to them.

.Lots of the shots are shot from the other side of a cage, this could have several affects on the audience.

One being that they are worried for the women that she is in danger and has been captured. However it may also make them think the women is dangerous and the cage affect makes them feel safer.

The woman who is interviewing the clearly insane women, looks beautiful with make-up used to enhance her beauty and features. 

Where as the mental women looks tired, run down and dirty. This is to show the contrast between her mental and physical state, as oppose to the woman who is interviewing her.

This relates to Halo Effect where you perceive good looking people as having good personalities.

Mise en scene

Lighting and colours:

Different levels of low key lighting creates an eerie and mysterious atmosphere. By using low level lighting, it creates shadows, allowing the shot to create fear and tension for the audience. By using a black and white effect it intensifies the effectiveness of shadows within a shot. The colouring of titles is important when creating a film. Colour is a direct link to emotions and thought, for example, blacks and greys would portray confusion and uncertainty.







Sound:
Thrillers often start with a slow tempo and relatively quiet pitch. The music is often eerie to create suspense, keeping the audience guessing to what could potentially happen later on. During the film there are often long pauses of dramatic silence, this creates tension and panic.

Costume and make-up:
Thriller films often use naturalistic costumes and make-up, making the characters more believable to the audience. By having little or no make-up at all allows the characters to seem more natural and similar to an everyday person. However make-up can be used to show fear for example, smudged eye make-up on a woman gives the audience the sense that she's been crying. Make-up is also used to create special effects for example, if there is a fight scene, fake blood can be applied to give the effect of an open wound.

Setting and props:
Typical thriller conventions would be a dark eerie house or an alleyway. Objects can help determine the  narrative and identity of characters and genre. Guns are often a key object used in thrillers, often used when there is a showdown between the hero and the villain. Use of space is important in creating an effective thriller. By using claustrophobic spaces it can portray the 'entrapment' in the characters mind.

Animatics

Animatics:

A main part of the media coursework is to create the animatics of your thriller plan. When we first started working on our animatics we had misunderstood that we were meant to involve every camera angle and change in each section, we had previously thought it was just showing the different scenes.

After learning of our mistake we started our animatics again, being sure to involve each different camera shot. We found that by doing this it really helped us to evaluate our plans of where our camera would be positioned to allow us to have a clear and professional looking shot.

When adding colour to our animatics we decided that our first section would be done in black and white to create an eerie and tense atmosphere, it also compliments the action going on, we'd decided that having bright bold colours would look out of place in a scene where someones getting chased. We instead added colour in when it flashes back to 6 months earlier, showing the contrast of the times and how different they were.

Creating animatics for our opening really helped as we were able to get a small glimpse of what our opening would look like. It allowed us to pick certain things out that we may not have thought looked so good as we had imagined and change them. For example we struggled with how we were going to get the rapist into the house effectively, we tried many different things but there was always something that would prevent us from being able to use the footage e.g reflections in the windows when trying to get a point of view shot through the window. Because of this we decided to change the scene slightly allowing us to have usable footage.

Thriller moodboard

Discussion of other film openings

Before creating our film opening we watched a number of different films and television series to get inspiration for our opening.

We had previously watched "Memento" when studying different thriller openings. Although the film was confusing and hard to understand, we were able to understand the different time periods.





When the film was in black and white it represented a flashback of the protagonist's life. Where as when it flashed back to picture in colour, it represented his life in the present time.

We took inspiration from this, and so involved the technique in our opening. However, we differed ours in the sense that our black and white represented current time, where as when the motion becomes colourful it represents 6 months earlier.


We had also watched the opening title sequence of "Dexter". We really enjoyed the fact that the credits were involved in the action.