Today my group and I started to finalise ideas, put together our contact sheet, and start on a rough script of how we want the thriller to play out. We also put together a step-by-step page of what happens. ...
Today we sat down with Matt to talk about our idea and get approval to take it forward.We told him our idea and he said that it would work well, and gave us some suggestions on how to improve it, such as the setting and the reason for the attack. He suggested that because normal English hotels don't normally have spaces under the...
To prepare for the test shoot we wrote up the shots we wanted, decided on a rough storyline and a location - a bedroom in a boarding house. This test shoot is important because we can actually see if our idea would work well or not, and it also gives us the chance to play around with shots and camera angles before doing...
As a group we re-told each of our 3 ideas and discussed possible thriller intros that would include elements of all of ours. We really liked Myles' original idea, and decided to expand on that with part of other ideas included. We likes his because it had a good narrative, and could be effectively filmed, and would look original. The initial plot decision...
This week we were put into groups with the people who we'd be working with on our thriller intro. In my group is me, Myles, Elena and Emma. Here are some pictures of us on the test shoot: ...
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1. Intro outline: A man sets up a sniper on top of a building or out of a window. We see what he sees through the gun's scope , with cross hairs on the screen. He's looking at a football match (for example) focusing on different people as if searching for his target. Whilst doing this, he's making sarcastic and sadistic comments about...
As obvious as it sounds, a 'thriller' film is meant to thrill its viewers, hence the name. The dictionary definition is 'a film with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage.' and is said to give viewers 'heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Alfred Hitchcock is an example of a director well known for his successful thrillers such as...
