Research for our thriller

The article below talks about a man who was an M16 agent being killed in his London flat. This is where we got inspiration for making the man who gets killed in our thriller a target, as if they had been planning to kill him for a while. We wanted the audience to see that the whole thing was a plan and the woman is a sort of 'femme fatale' who goes around killing important or targeted men.

"On the one hand, of course you need to respect national security and on the other hand, of course you need to do a penetrating and thorough investigation.''

We wanted the woman to be portaryed as this because it makes it more scary knowing that the woman is involved in a more powerful force with a group of people, thereore we thought this would make our thriller scarier. We also used real life examples to make it more realistic for the audience.




















You can read the full BBC article here
and the Telegraph article is here

Timeline

Sound in thriller

We decided not to include any dialogue in our thriller, as we wanted suspense to be created and tension to build up.
When the man and woman are in the car together, we wanted a song to be playing on the radio in the car. We realised that we needed to have original music, we couldn't use songs which we didn't have copyright for, so fortunately our teacher gave us permission to use one of his bands songs, as he has permission because he wrote it. We decided to use the song, The beautiful loser by the Dakota Stars. We wanted to have this song playing on the radio in the car, and then we wanted a sound bridge so this digetic sound turned into non digetic music as the woman left the car and the tension started building.

Shooting Schedule

9.30- Arrive at location.
10.30- Ready to shot, everything set up. Actors in costume and make up.
11.00- Shot scene in car with man and woman.
11.45- Shot various shots of mysterious man entering car park and, opening briefcase to reveal gun, close up shots of mysterious man.
12.45-3 Lunch break and no shooting as we wish to film other shots in darkness.
3- Film woman getting into other car and driving away
4- Film the man getting killed and the mysterious man shooting him (we decided to do this last as the blood would go over the car and costumes)
5- Leave set

Location

The location of our thriller is going to be in a multi-story car park, therefore we are going to film in a car park in a town local to us, in guildford. To use the gun in the car park and hire a section of the car park out so it is empty and therefore looks deserted, we have to get our teacher to ask permission of the county council.
We would prefer to be inside the car park rather then on an outdoors floor, as it would make it look more mysterious.
We also needed to use a stairwell in the car park to film the mysterious man entering and the woman leaving.
Locations which are isolated and desterted makes the thriller seem more scary due to the smallness of the character such as the man who gets killed being emphasised.
We also think that the empytness of the car park make create a nice echoing sound which would add tension to the thriller.

Shot by Shot list 2

Due to the changes that we made in our thriller, we needed to revise our shot by shot list. This is our new shot by shot list:

•       Shot by shot list.

•        Two shot of the couple in the car preparing to leave

•        Close up of woman checking her watch

•        Panning shot of woman getting out the car

•        Cut back to man sitting in the car alone

•        Close up of mystery  man holding brief case and close up on watch on his wrist.

•        Over the shoulder shot of woman checking her phone (shows she lies about not having her phone).

•        Dutch angle of man moving up stairs

•        High angle shot over man in car (venerable).

•        Wide/establishing shot of mysterious man entering top floor of car park

•        Panning shot of woman walking out of the car park.

•        Panning shot of the man entering top floor of car park.

•        Various close ups of mysterious man undoing the brief case and pulling out a gun.

•        Over the shoulder shot of gun pointing at the man in the car.

•        Close up of the man’s head falling onto the steering wheel and hitting the horn .

•        Match on action/Medium close up shot of woman getting into a car at the bottom of the car park as the sound of the horn echos.

•        Two shot showing the man in the car passing her a letter.

•        Medium wide shot of the car driving away.

Prop List

 

The props which we need for our thriller are;
A gun - which we are going to get to get from the drama department at our school.

A iPhone - one memeber of our group is going to let their iphone be used for this.

Two cars - we will use the car of the media teacher who is coming to the shooting with us at the car
park, and the car of the male teacher who is acting the victim.

A black briefcase - which we will also get from our drama department at the school.

A watch (for the killer) - we will borrow one of the male teachers or actors actual watch

Cast List 2

We decided to change the actors in our thriller as we decided that we didn't feel that they looked old enough. We chose a drama teacher at our school for the woman who sets up the man who is being killed. We chose this woman because she looked in her late twenties/early thirties, and we thought this was more appropriate so it doesn't look like two teenagers in the car. We also changed the actor for the man getting shot to another teacher at our school. We changed this actor because we felt the new one looked older but at the same time quite innocent, therefore it will create more sympathy for him when he gets killed, and therefore set the tone of the woman being a 'femme fatal' by killing this man who appears innocent. We also felt that they looked good together and would appear as a believable couple as they look similar ages. We also felt that they nmay appeal to an older target audience. We would still have them wearing the same outfits and with the same make up seen in my previous post.