Thriller Planning Initial ideas
Locations/ ideas • Idea 1) House, with road straight outside/ in front, so car can drop girl off? Then she enters into house? A garden out of the back of the house, for easy access. • Idea 2) key city locations which are industrialised, but also busy crowded locations which create a fast paste and feeling to the audience. But also isolated areas to convey loneliness and danger. Both these key ideas are easy to locate/ create within our boundaries/time scale/ But are also typical thriller conventions used within thriller.
Prop ideas For the drugs: crushed sweets in clear sachets, Alcohol: water in shot glasses, apple juice referring to cider.
St Stephens under pass & alleyway leading up to chapel filed.
mind map of ideas •
Idea 1) Teenage house party, the idea of the drugs, mysterious violence, typical teenage house scene party- drink, up beat music, bold, vibrant outfits and dancing. Neon paint dress code?
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Idea 2) city location, under street lights, under paths, alley ways. Gangs? Violence? Drug use?
Inspiration taken from E4 series “skins”
Skins is a TV series about the lives of teenagers, the program involves a lot of house party's, for instance this clip shown below. This type of neon lighting and outfits would work well for idea 2, as its related to the stereotypical view/role of teenagers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV6aYXH2r34
Clothing/costumes Idea 1) party extras neon outfits, to stand in the UV Light, this would Make the main character easily visible to the audience. The hit men/ drug dealers could then be in black as the UV light wont pick this up, making them fade into the background, making them seem unnoticeable, desecrate and surspoius. Idea 2) drug dealer: hoodie, jeans, trainers, rough, baseball hat/beanie to hind identity. Girl: normal clothing, to convey innocents, teenager, jeans, top, dungarees. Hit man: smart? black suit? glasses to hide identity.
Plot
Costumes: Chapter 1: series of shots taken Girl: Normal clothing, to convey innocents, of the girl walking around the city, teenager, jeans, top, dungarees. on her phone, busy and deserted Charlie: dark clothing so she's not noticeable, locations for instance the underpass hoddie/beanie to hide her identity. on St Stephens, alley ways, walking beside the river. 2nd girl: normal, typical teenage style of clothing, Chapter 2: girl walks over isolated bridge ( over jeans, top etc. 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 As a group we decided to develop and look further into idea 2, as we being followed as she starts to speed up, a flash back starts to when the girl is typing on a believed that it would perhaps be more suitable and appropriate for the time limit we have but also the excess that we have. laptop on her bed, then cuts to a clip of anther girl lying dead with a phone in her hand, Charlie Props then runs in on her looking shocked. Sound: shooting schedule - Ambient sound people talking - Mobile phone • Wednesday 3rd February, first chapter ( main shooting) for girl when in the streets, dogs barking, • Tuesday 9th February, second chapter ( charley's scene) being stalked. & cars driving/ engines. The • Wednesday 10th shooting the third chapter ( typing different one for wind blowing. Ambient sound scene & character dying) the second girl used to make a natural Lighting who plays dead. sounding background, making Chapter 1: natural daylight/ late afternoon lighting, the plot seem realistic to the - Packet of pills in making the surrounding look as real and natural as a clear sachet to possible, as we want the clip to seem believable and audience. almost as if its an ordinary everyday situation. As this look like drugs. - Lack of dialogue, creates a is a thriller convention, extraordinary events certain tension between happening to ordinary people.
Idea 2 planning
characters and again mystery.
Types of camera shots - Obscure shots, adding a sense of mystery to the audience, creating enigma. - Low angle showing power and authority over girl character. - Over the shoulder, when following to create tension from the characters. - Birdseye, to show that the girl is weak and alone. - Panning of feet walking, again to add a sense of mystery to the audience.
Costume inspiration Teenage costume inspiration taken from teenage themed TV show “skins”. Ideas for the two teenage girls.
Normal innocent clothing, which ordinary teenage girls would wear.
“Attack the block” film based on teenage violence and gangs. Characters are violent and associated to be rough 7 dangerous. Charley's character inspiration.