test shoot

This is our thriller test shoot. Obviously it is very rough and the real thing will be a lot more professional and detailed but this was just to get an outline idea of the sort of thing we will be doing. This also gave us a chance to, as a group, look around the car park and double check it was the right sort of setting we were looking for.

Storyboard for our thriller

Location

LOCATION

When looking for a location I had to take into account all of the aspects of our thriller. We knew it had to involve a car but we were unsure of where the setting should actually be. Georgia and I searched around the school looking for places that could be appropriate to film our thriller sequence in. We debated using the upper car park, but soon realised it would be far too busy and people and cars would be coming in and out almost constantly.

This is a picture of the upper car park in school however we feel as though it is not the sort of background we would want in our thriller and we don’t want it to look like the attacker is attacking her from her home, which by using this location we would definitely risk.

This is the location we have decided on as there is no way somebody could mistake this for her home and I think an ordinary location like this will not distract from the fight scene or anything going on in the sequence.

developed idea

New Opening Sequence Idea

When pitching our ideas to Matt and Luke with our original idea they gave us some pointers in the right direction. They didn’t like the idea of the women being perceived as weak or helpless so we decided to come up with a whole new idea based around one woman being strong and able to look after herself. We decided to keep the main character female and make her appear a lot more threatening. To do this we decided to make her able to protect herself, for example, in a fight.

 Our thriller begins with the main character stepping out of her car and walking away, she is clutching some important looking files, and these files will be made prominent in the way that we shoot this, as we want the audience to take note. As she walks away a parking attendant shouts to her “Excuse me love, you can’t park there.” After saying this, the woman then turns around to find him standing right behind her, extremely close, holding a gun. The woman sees him, and smirks. At this point she begins to fight him and it becomes apparent to the audience that the man is after her important looking files. The two have a brutal fight, at which point the woman will appear to be winning, and the man losing. Eventually the woman does win, and walks away with her files safely in her hands.  As she walks away, the man is left on the ground, possibly passed out and covered in blood. The woman then gets out her phone and says “I’ve left another present for you in the car park.” We added this key word "another" so it seems as if this has happened before, this is not the first time the woman has had to protect herself. The other reason we added this at the end is so that as the opening sequence ends, it illustrates that there is more to the story than what we see in the opening sequence, as it could be easy to assume the rest of the movie would be boring after this one beginning scene.