Shooting Shedule

Filming Shedule on Prezi

My Thriller

AS Thriller on Prezi

Thriller Planning Storyboards + CARPARK floorplan

Here are the storyboards that I drew before shooting the film.

Here is the floorplan that I drew of the carpark before shooting, that most of our film was shot in.

Thriller Title Ideas

This is how I wrote my ideas for my films possible titles and how I arranged and chose them.

Thinking about ideas of what to have as our thriller title, the top half of the page has real thriller film names and the bottom half are my ideas.  Most of there fitted in with my thriller but I chose 'Revenge' because it linked in most with the storyline and it sounds serious and realistic in terms of a potential motive for what happens in the opening.  It suggests a substantial plot without sounding too corny or horrific.



Treatment Edit

We have discussed and evolved our ideas from our original treatment.

In all, shots will show the city streets (sped up) while credits appear.  Next the film will cut to Tom sitting alone, looking sad to induce sympathy from the audience.  The film cuts to various shots of the characters walking towards eachother. Tom mainly walking left to right and George walking from right to left.  This hints to the viewer that they will meet as shots cut between them walking. They will then meet in the carpark where Tom tries to explain that he has not got what George is after and he is then beaten up.  To create a cliff hanger, a man enters on a motorbike at the end of the film who then walks towards Tom (who is on the floor beaten up). The film fades to white and then to black showing the title 'Revenge'.

I have decided to change the soundtrack to a rock style band backing track instead of piano.  This is because a sinnister atmosphere can still be produced and the instruments and sounds are more modern (linking to the mise-en-scene of the city) and this style of music will also be much easier for the audience to relate to.  This is also more similar to what my target audience might listen to by choice.

Thriller Character Profiles

Tom Reeve

Tom is a lonely male in his late teens who has had an unfortunate childhood and a troubled up bringing. He has become involved with a gang of drug dealers who he went to for drugs.  Tom struggles with a balance between providing for him and his girlfriend and trying to cope with his addiction.

George Stronge

George is a hardened drug dealer who makes a living from taking advantage of vulnerable and/or nieve people. 

My Thriller target audience

Gender – This film would be aimed relatively specifically at an all male audience aged between 16 and 24  This is simply because of the all male cast and general masculine interest in punch ups and motorbikes. 

The audience will be able to relate to the characters as they are of young ages.  Also, the idealistic adrenaline fuelled excitement of a classic ‘boys toy’ would increase interest mainly of a young, male audience.

Character dress

The main character (with the most screen time) in my film opening is dressed to look simple, plain and inexpensive. This is because we are showing his background and that he is not in complete poverty but at the same time he is definitely not well off.  The plain and boring colours represent his unhappy and pessimistic outlook on his own situation.  We chose his shoes to be big, stylish and purple.  This is to give our character some obvious identity (considering our film is mostly set in the dark). This makes the film less confusing for the viewer.

The second character (Thug) has a hoody under a leather jacket.  The hoody is typical of modern, young, thuggish type teenagers/young adults who are discreet about their identity.  The leather jacket over the hoody represents a gangster type thug.

Social class

My thriller would intrigue both a working and middle social class because of the unfortunate young character Tom.  He has a poor background that people could relate to and he is young, also intriguing a younger audience.

Shotlist

1) Birds eye view of traffic, it will be sped up.
2) Side view of the traffic, medium shot, still sped up.
3) Long shot to medium shot of character one walking towards the camera.
4) Extreme close up of the characters face whilst smoking.
5) Close up of character two walking down stairs, there is a fence in the foreground.
6)Long birds eye view of character walking.
7) Long shot of character two walking past a pond.
8) Close up of the pond & character twos reflection.
To be completed...

My Thriller Treatment

 

The first shot is a wide long shot of car traffic of which we intend to get about half an hours footage which we would then speed it up so you see the progression from day to night. The next couple of shots would be long shots to mid shots of some dark, urban areas around the city. We would then cut to a long shot going up a ramp of a multi-story car park which looks out on the sky. Our main character is situated on the top of the multi-story car park being beaten up by a gang which revolves around drugs. He owes this gang money because they had given him some drugs but he never actually payed them back, so they came looking for him. The next shot would be extreme close ups of the man who has just been beaten up. The victim owes money to the gang. After the gang leave there would be a birds eye view of the man leaning against the wall and on the other side of the wall there would be the night time city traffic. This shot would be good because it makes us feel that the man is separate from everyone else and that he is exposed to the night and that he is vulnerable and alone
You would hear the background music which would consist of atmospheric piano, this sets the scene because it creates an atmosphere which cannot be made by any other instrument. It relays a sense of mystery. There would be a conversation between the leader of the people that beat up the man and the man himself, they would be talking about what the man has to do in order to pay off the debt he owes them. Whilst they were talking there would only be extreme close ups of the mens faces in order to keep a sense of mystery and darkness. After-wards the gang would leave and then the only thing you would hear would be the man crying.  I will aim to use conventions of thrillers such as a spiral staircase i will use in one of the car parks.  Also chiaroscuro lighting and key lighting as the film is set in the evening, this will be essenitial in the creation of the atmosphere. This concept i have learnt about from 'The Third Man' which uses extreme lighting techniques throughout.  According to some research i have carried out, people of the target demographic I am aiming my film at prefer action films to thrillers and therefore in order to appeal more to my target daomgraphic I will aim to make my thriller relate more towards the sub-genre of Action Thrillers.

Thriller Location Shots

                                    1.
We thought using a spiral staircase in  the thriller was a good idea because it is one of the most used conventions.

2.

We decided to try and use this shot in this location because it shows the divide between the character and the rest of the city.

3.

This one is the same as above but just at a slightly different angle.

4.

We want to use this shot because it is something different. Because we aren't seeing the person normally, we are seeing their reflection walking and how the windows are positioned help give it an extra effect.

5.

This is the spiral staircase but from a different angle, this angle i think works better because you are able to see more and you're able to see further down.

6.

We want to use this shot in the film because you get a close up of the character but he is looking over a lot of the city, in my opinion i think this is a good shot.

7.

We're going to use this shot because the blind type window gives a very good effect whilst you're watching the person walk down the bridge.

8.

This is where most of the filming will be done. This is an underground carpark and during the night, it gets really dark and the lighting in there is bright on one side and very dark on the other.

9.

This is the car park from a different angle, this angle shows where the light would seperate from the dark during the night.

10.

This shot shows most of the car park, the lighting in here is perfect for a thriller.