A Few brainstormed ideas of the first shot in the opening sequence for our thriller

This are some shot types and ideas in which we came up with for the opening of our thriller, we used the hand in water to get an idea of what it would look like as if she was in water and it was a eyeline match, as you can see we used a puddle for our initial idea as we could get an idea of what it would look like.

Characters

Character Profiles

Amy Martin

Amy will play the character that is a victim of a murder. During the beginning of the film we don’t know much about her and why she has died, but as the film progresses we pick up on key information that explains why someone has gone to this extreme. Amy a young adult who looks like she was going somewhere nice, we suggest this as she is wearing dress and high heals, but ends her night with something that she didn’t expect.

Charlotte Hannah

Charlotte is the murderer of Amy. Charlotte is also a young adult, who has gone to some effort to commit murder. During the opening sequence we don’t know why she killed Amy, but as time moves on we find out that it is because of jealously.

Jack Devonport

Jack doesn’t appear much through the opening sequence, but understand that he has something to do with the murder. Charlotte kills Amy because she is jealous of him and Amy, but as the film goes on Jack kills Charlotte as he cant take the stress.

shot schedule

SHOT SCDULE

Storyboard

We have created a storyboard in order to guide us through the filming process helping us to stay organised and ensure we waste no time remembering which shot or part of the plot comes next. Also by laying it out separately with each angle and shot type noted down, with all the sound camera movement and dialogue within that specific shot, it will help prevent missing any crucial elements which will make our film as good as possible. The small drawings will also indicate to us a composition we may consider using for example where each character is standing or placed in comparison to another. Through the planning process so far our ideas have changed continuously after realising something may not be appropriate or unaccessibleCAJ 1 CAJ3 caj4

My Character,Charlotte and Jack's

These are what my character will be wearing in the opening sequence of the thriller. I have used a black dress to show death and no life as black suggest death, it is also is quiet a wavy dress so when laying in the water it would flow through the stream and this could suggest that her life is flowing away with the water, the purse suggest identity and gives the audience information on the girl and what she had in her life.We're planning on dirtying her body by putting mud and dirt in her hair and on her skin. This will show the torturous events she's gone through before this point which the audience see. Without actually allowing the audience to see what has happened to her before the first shot it gives them a good indication about what could have happened.

This is Charlotte she will be playing the first killer, she is killing her best friend as she found her and her boyfriend were getting close, she suffers from paranoia and decided to kill her best friend and burn the pictures in which they have been through great memories together, she kills her best friend at a park in the river, she leaves her laying in the river with her money and purse scattered around her, she is covered in blood and walks off casually.

This is Jack and I who are going to be the killers in the thriller. This will not be our costumes so this is just the character identification of who will be who. I am the character who kills amy- the victim, and jack is the serial killer who ends up killing me- his own girlfriend.

The results from the questionaire

After my we asked the questionnaire to 10 people from our target audience we collected our results and put the most important questions into bar graphs to make people's responses clearer. This way we could decide on details we were going to include in the film quicker and with less hassle, for example someone suggested to have a female as the killer which we liked so now we have a female murderer to challenge the stereotype.

What gender would you prefer to be the KILLER?

These show the results of what people of the general public would prefer in the opening of the sequence to our Thriller film. by going out to the general public we got a great understanding of what people really think and how they think differently to other peoples opinions and also taking into consideration that there were other answers they could have chosen but did not, also for example much more people chose "park with a river" for the death scene were the girl gets killed, we asked the general public why they chose this scene and not the other and one of the answers was because it is your average scene that people would use but you can do a lot more and play around with the scene as were in "brighton pier" you have to stay on the pier and would have to set yourself around the pier, also it would be easier to work in a park with a river because you can got all different settings for example the woods or actually in the river in what we have chosen to do, finally by asking the general public about what they prefer, has made me more confident in filming as we now have a good understanding in what people do prefer and would actually like to watch in a opening sequence of a Thriller.

Silient Witness

This is was a series on bbc 1 throughout a couple of days a week it showed 3 murder cases which were based over 2-3 days for 3 weeks, this gave me the idea to blog it as has refence to thriller and gives me the impression that it may help me with ideas for my opening sequence of a thriller film. I have uploaded a couple of photos to help the ideas for my thriller.
These shots are both beautifully composed and they all show the rule of three.

This gave me the idea of uploading it to blog as our thriller is based on murder, and this would help us to create idea around it and get a brainstorm of what we could use and the outline base for our thriller, by seeing this series on BBC made me think about our thriller and how we could improve it and use the body underground or something like that by doing this it encourages the audience to think about why this has happened and who did it, this would be a good idea/use in our thriller as we have a girl on girl kill, we could show after she was killed when she was buried and go back on what happened throughout the opening of the sequence, these are just some idea which may help with the opening of our sequence

Wallander

The shots for the opening show a event which has just taken place the second shot shows the girl leaving the event with there costumes looking drag and almost like they have been up all night and had no sleep this could suggest to the audience that they have been partying and something has happened and they are leaving early in the morning or they are the last ones to leave. The girls walk past a car and shows a man in a car dead, the audience may think the girls have done this or they have been taken by this man and thye have escaped, this gives the impression to the audience that it is a thriller.

Also it suggests that it is a thriller and drills the audience in by showing to extreme close ups of the man in the car the first one being his face smashed onto the stearing wheel and the second being his finers covered in blood hanging over the dashboard, this makes the aduience feel uneasy and on edge as they would like to no why this has happerned and how he got there is there any resembalnce through the girls and him.

The setting gves the impression that its a out of the way place and someone would not normally come across of it. Also the Title of the film does not give much away as it does not claify anything that has happened in the opening of the film. This suggests that there is much more to come and may be flashbacks through the whole of the film to show how the man got there and are the two girls guilty or complety innncent.


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Kiss Me Deadly

The opening sequence of "Kiss Me Deadly" throws the audience straight into action and has them on edge as it shows a women sprinting down the road and this gives the impression that she is being chased or is running away from someone or something also it cuts to a close up shot of her feet to show the audience that she has no shoes on and then cuts to a long shot to show that she is wearing a long coat in which suggests she has nothing underneath, this gives the impression that she has been assaulted or has done something and had to get rid of her belongs. Her feet show that their clean and also the rest of her body this could suggest that she has been inside as if she was outside her feet would be muddy/dirty. A car pulls up and the lady gets into it this makes the audience suggest she does not no this man but wants a lift to get away from what has happened, this could also make the audience feel anxious and nervous as she does not no who this man is and she may be getting herself more into trouble.

Some of the shots show images over and over again being a repeated shots for example when she is running towards the car and trying to get the mans attention this is repeated a couple of times over to show that she is very determined to get his attention and wants to get away from what has happened or what could happen. There is a mid shot when she is standing in the middle of the road this suggest the director of "Kiss Me Deadly" is trying to keep the audience on edge as it is dark at night and the car may swerve and hit her. This gives the impression to the audience that it is a thriller.

Brick Opening Sequence

The Title is White on a black background this shows the contrast of colours and could also represent the contrast between the girl and the boy in the opening of the film. This gets the audience thinking why have the black on white and a girl and a boy with the opening image of a tunnel heading to darkness and a small stream parting the girl who is murdered and the boy on the other side looking in deverstation and thinking on what to do. This gets the veiwers thinking on what has happened and why are they there in daylight should they not be there at night?.. When it skips back onto to days previous this helps the audience to understand on what is going on and how it starts to flow into a thriller as it captures the audience into thinking what the film is about and how did she end up in the tunnel after 2 days wearing the same clothes.

There is a long shot when he is in the pay phone and then the shot changes to show his facial expression to show his anxiousness as he is talking on the phone and the black car drives past and throughs out a "fag" with a arrow on it pointing to another pay phone this convices the audience something else is about to happen. Match on action is used here to show were he is looking and how he is feeling. the style of the film comes across at a normal thriller and gets and puts the veiwers on edge to make then feel involved in the film.

Analysis of Double Indemnity

Cinematography:
The first thing the audience see on the opening of the film is the title of the film and a man slowly progressing closer and closer to the screen on crutchtes. The title is in the middle of the shot this is called a mid angle shot and is composed the also cover the man in the background to get the audience thinking on why he is limping and how he got his injury. Also it is a old black and white film so it makes it harder for the audience to see his face and blocks out the colours to also make the audience think in what colours he is wearing and so on. There is a long shot of the car racing down the main street and missing the stop sign. This shows he is in a hurry but no one understands why he is in a hurry inwhich makes the audience think why he is racing down the road and not taking into consideration what may happen if he hit the worker and what not. The man steps out onto a office block and another man appears this is shown in a mid/close angled shot, we still do not see the man face butt we see the old small mans face inwhich gets the audience re thinking why have we not seen this mans face yet. He then takes the unkonown man into the lift and still we see no sign of what the man looks like and why he is in this buliding. It then becomes clear to the audience that it is infact insurance company and we see a close up shot of the mans face and to fine out his name is Mr Neath.

Mise-En-Scene
the film is set in Los Angeles we can see this because at the begging of the film it clearly shows a sign of it saying Los Angeles. The unknown man Mr Neath his costume is a suit and this reinforces that he is a bussiness man and then reminds the audience by showing on the door Insurance. the facial expressions shown by Mr Neath is confused and showing missunderstanding judgement expessions,on what is going on and looks worried about a certain thing inwhich may be occouring at the moment he stepped into the office or why he was hurring down the street at a high speed to sort something out.

Editing
There is not much editing in the opening of this film. It just shows shot to shot action an match on action. which slows the pace of the film down.

Sound
There is a lot of non-diegetic sounds in this film as we only hear music for the opening sequence which sets the mood and gets the audience thinking why have music running through instead of people talking and cars driving.

Why is it a good opening sequence for a thriller
It gets you thinking why do you have a car speeding down a road and missing the stop sign and also why do we not see his face until a short while into the film this makes the audience think why and how, does he have the rights to not be seen just yet and who is he and what does he do for a living all mounts up to thinking about what the film is about and how the story line will progess as we move much more deeper into the film

A couple of random photos taken out of curiosity

I added these photos with a clue that it wold help me with the opening of my Thriller, also the football in the snow that is deflated this was a idea that t would have something to do with teenagers the second photo that I have uploaded is a picture of tree branches this to me looked as if the tree was coming and grabbing someone, this to me has helped my give me more significant idea into which my thriller will be based around and how it may happen.