Pre - Production, Thriller Opening

A brief synopsis of the plot

Young girl named Jessica previously lived in the city and her and her parents moved to the country a year ago. They bought a house in countryside at a low price. In the year they have been there, there has been many weird occurrence, such as; things going missing etc.

The reason these are happening is that the land has been sacred for many years and was used for rituals. The house was then built and has been haunted ever since.

Jessica then finally gets chased by the cult and find the object that they worship, and then the cult die or move on.

Pre - Production, Thriller Opening

Brain storming

Type of film: Horror thriller
Setting: Corpusty, graveyard, abandon area, light from the bottle bins (in Corpusty) the ford, Marriots way, Thurning, tower.
Props of the villain character: knife or a weapon of choice
Similar to, I Am Legend and Vacancy
Shots of killer watching a young innocent girl
Multiple killers?
Killer has a weakness, and a symbol such as a tattoo which will be viewed when running.
Title = Black Crow

Ideas from other media students – you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSaTaIvMTQ

Piano music, also birds but then turns into tense music
Panning of the landscape
Use of computer typing and close up of computer screen words
Mixture of black and white and colour
Camera going through grass to find a phone
Goes dark with only a lighter lite – blown out in slow motion

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

Different shots of two guys walking
Typical villain – black hoodie
Dialogue music is tense
Twist being right at the start
The title is very interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3cQeRG_xL4

Starts with a chase and continually goes back to his memory of it
Goes to dialogue
Looking out through windows
Tense music
Slow motion
Black and white
Feeling of being watched
Freezes with title at the end.

Pre - Production, Thriller Opening.

Kim Brenchley, Chris Ashwell, Alex Frost and Tyler Davidson
Questionaire

Question 1
What do you think a thriller is?
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Question 2
What type of thriller do you prefer? (Circle one)
Horror
Gangster
Sci-fi
Western
Comedy
Other, please ________________

Question 3
What is your favourite aspect of a thriller (circle)?
Characters
Setting
Costumes and Props
Narrative
Music
Other please state ________________


Question 4
Watch the opening to Vacancy that we have just shown you.
What is it about the opening of thriller that gets you interested and makes you carry on watching?


Question 5
In the clip you have just seen how do you know what type of thriller it is?


Question 6
what do you think a character or a buliding that is has a low camera angle shot would be??
E.g. picture to the right
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Question 7

What character would you associate with these colours?
Black ________
Red _________
White ________
Green _______


Question 8
What wouldn’t you want to see in a horror thriller opening?
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Question 9
how do you find out about the recent releases of thrillers?
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Question 10
whats the best thriller film you have seen and why?
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