Storyboards

This is our storyboard, where you can see when our main character "Emily" is having flashbacks and when she is actually being interviewed.

Inspiration: The Usual Suspects

We were greatly influenced by this film due to the last few shots at the end of the film when The main police officer looks at the noticeboard and realises the murdered has been sat in front of him and the noticeboard all this time.
We were influenced by this because it had been very cleverly thought out. It also helped us look at the way we would like to shoot our opening for out credit titles where we also look over a noticeboard.
When looking at the clip (posted below) this is the type of shot we would like to portray in our opening of our Thriller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_6SenP4DDg

In the Cut

After a class task on researching different sub thriller genres, we came about finding "In The Cut".
"In the Cut" is actually an erotic thriller film. Dispite our intentions to be more towards the "Psychological" sub genre of thriller, after reading this synopsis of "In the Cut" it seems to resemble and influence our ideas for our own thriller.

"In the Cut" is written and directed by Jane Campion, starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jenniser Jason Leigh. Frannie (Meg Ryan) is a lonely New York City high school English teacher, who is compiling a dictionary of urban slang with the help of one of her students. Frannie discovers the darker side of passion after becoming involved with a tough homicide detective investigating a series of murders in her neighborhood. As the plot develops, she begins to wonder if the detective (Mark Ruffalo) might be the murderer, but remains curious and passionately interested in him. When Frannie's younger half-sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is decapitated by the murderer, her doubts about the detective increase, despite her inability to distance herself from him. Finally convinced of his guilt, Frannie runs away from the detective, only to fall deeper into the web of the murderer.

The two major similarities from only having read about "In the Cut" and not having watched it (yet!) shows, firstly that perhaps the detective is actually the murderer. Which is also what we hope to portray in our Thriller. Secondly it seems that Frannie's younger half sister may in fact have been killed also by the detective. We plan on having our characters boyfriend killed. This shows how both "In the Cut" and our Thriller will be involving a murder of a character that is close to the main character.

changing of script and cast list.

A last minute change to parts of the script during today's media lesson to help finalise the details of the plot and future events within the story, as not very part was as clear as it needed to be. As of this the cast list on which we had intended to use has now had to change to fit this problem that we had.

The part which has changed is the witnesses best friend to her boy friend.

cast list.

Witness - Sarah Hall.

Boy friend - Louis Perry.

Police/detective - Colin Frost.

Script

The script has finally been finished. :) Sarah is typing it up for the two leading parts which that now means we can start filming soon :)

Location Shots - The Office

These are some pictures of the office were we intend to film the opening credits.

Test Camera Shots

Here we have taken some pictures to test some camera shots we might/ would like to use.

Props List

Here is our Props list for our Thriller. We are pretty sure its complete so here it is. :)

-Watch
-Gun
-Tapecorder
-Map
-Pictures (progressing age)
-Plain Cards
-Letters (Hand Written)
-Fake Blood ?
-Shoulder Bag 2x
-Office items (Staples, Pens, Phone, etc.)
-Keys (Car keys)

Blog Created

Blogspot page has been created for Sarah, Danni and Louis and now we can get to work on keeping you updated on our Thriller opening. :)