Camera angle inspirational shots which I want to achieve within our opening
Plot • Chapter 1: series of shots taken of the girl walking around the city, on her phone, busy and deserted locations for instance the underpass on St Stephens, alley ways, walking beside the river. • Chapter 2: girl walks over isolated bridge ( over the river) where Charlie is hiding, the girl is then followed by Charlie. Girl is on the phone, then begins to release that she's being followed so starts to speed up her walking/running. • Chapter 3: while the girl notices that she’s being followed as she starts to speed up, a flash back starts to when the girl is Synopsis: typing on a laptop on her bed, then cuts to a clip of anther girl lying dead with a phone in her hand, Charlie then runs in on her looking shocked. Chloe, a 16 year old girl, is sick of being constantly cyber bullied by an old friend, Harriet. Chloe becomes very depressed and isolates herself from the world before finally deciding that life is too much for her to handle. Instead of reaching out for help she decides to end her life through overdosing on drugs. Charley, Chloe’s best friend, is aware of Chloe’s state and after finding out about her death she decides it’s time for payback. Charley goes on the hunt for Harriet and after finding her she begins to follow and chase her. What will happen when Charley gets her hands on Harriet?
Girl= Harriet Charlie= Charley Girl 2= Chloe
( Chapter 1) establishing possible locations • Shot#1; Walking along the underpass: a shot of her walking from behind, only showing her silhouette, this creates a sense of mystery to the audience as her face identity is unknown, making the audience hocked and interested into who she is. The under path is a suitable location for our opening scene because it relates well to the idea of filming in a city location, in which an under pass fits into this category perfectly, also relates to idea of violence as the setting is associated to gangs/ thugs. • Shot#2; as the under path is filled with vibrant pieces of artwork presented evenly along the wall, an idea came to mind which was inspired by this clip from the “secret life of Walter Mitty” Shown below, Although this film is not a thriller, the scene is an iconic, powerful successful shot which is recognised within film.
These photographs were taken by myself around locations in Norwich.
The life posters referring to the art work on the walls in the under path. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9viQG63_6hc St Stephen’s underpass, filled with artistic spray painted art, often busy and creates a sense of violence, relating to the theme of thriller.
Along by riverside river, A thriller convention as it’s a isolated, alone area.
Chapter 1 Shot#3; walking up through an alleyway, taken again from behind to convey a sense of mystery to who the character is, and where she’s going. Also making her look slightly vulnerable to the audience, as her identity is unrevealed. Isolated, hidden alleyway near chapel filed shopping centre, creates a sense of aloneness, again a classic thriller convention. Narrow alleyways suggests the labyrinth of narrow dark streets in Vienna from The Third Man.
Shot#4; Walking parallel along the river/pavement. A isolated location as their usually aren’t any people about, making it seem abandoned featuring nearby water is a thriller convention as it’s the potential idea that something could dangerous could happen. Bridges also indicate danger as someone could be thrown of a bridge into the river, also there is no escape once you are on a bridge creating a sense of terror. The location reminds me of the in marshes Essex Boys, because of the deserted, alone area.
Camera angle inspirational shots which I want to achieve within our opening( Chapter 2)
• Shot 1#; Girl walks onto the bridge with this is when Charlie is spotted lurking behind, the camera cuts between Charlie following and the girl on the phone, with the girls pace speeding up. • Shot 2#; As the girl turns around a few times ands begins to realise that she's being followed, this is the first time that the audience see her face. Sudden, quick, sharp cuts between the two characters these camera shots are made this is to build up tension and suspense to the audience.
Camera angle inspirational shots which I want to achieve within our opening( Chapter 3) Shot1#; Flashback scene, girl sitting on bed, with back towards the camera, typing onto a laptop screen. Shot2#; Flashback scene, another girl dead laying on a bed with a note/phone in her hand, Charlie comes running into the bedroom to find her, looking terrified and shocked. Shot 3#; While flashback are going on short, snappy cuts are made between the two characters running. Shot 4#; Goes back to the present scene when girl runs into a cornered area in which she hides behind an object, for instance a bin, wall, paying machine. Charlie is still following behind, when the girl is hidden behind the object Charlie is one the other side of it, the final scene is then Charlie coming round the corner with a dangerous object in her hand, ( a knife, a hammer) holding it towards the girl. This is the final shot as it’s a cliff hanger to the opening, making the audience ask questions and want to continue watching the film. Inspirational shots that I
took: this would be ideally the types of shots that I would like to include in our thriller, for shot1# chapter 3, It creates a sense of tension and mystery to the audience as the characters identity is unrelieved, However her hair gives an identity to the audience, as the other characters presented both have shorter blonde hair.