PLANNING THE THRILLER""

RESEARCH:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxcdGgy9i_I - We looked at The Blair Witch Project, and from this we got the idea of never seeing the face of the Femme Fatale. In this thriller you never see the actual Blair Witch. This creates tension and the audience will be kept wondering, even after the film has finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW97dS7_h54 - This thriller is by Hitchcock, and it's fully in black and white. We have decided that we might put the camera shots of all the rooms in the house in black and white to emphasize their importance. Also it gives the snap shots an old fashioned camera effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHvvVTXDBI - In this trailer we found that they used simple objects at the beginning to set the scene. they use a spinning top, so we have decided we are going to have an extreme close up of some door bolts opening. This will contrast with the name of our thriller; 'Hidden', as opening bolts symbolises the truth coming out and the opening of a disaster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4uaYxiV8X4 - This clip showed us many different thriller openings, and gave us many ideas;

• Filming through trees/ looking at a scene through trees. this is a good idea as it gives the audience a sense that they are looking in on something they shouldn't be,along with the tension it creates.
• Repetitive shots - This gave us the idea to use these to film the doll and the missing poster. We are going to flick from shot to shot to create tension and a build us to a climax.
• Filming shadows to create a sense of not knowing who they are of. We are not going to show the Femme Fatale's face and this clip helped us make that decision.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ2RofOEAEU - this clip has the place and the time appear in the edits on a black screen, we decided that we could use this idea, because it gives the audience some background information, and causes some tension. there is also an eerie non diegetic sound in the background that we could use to cause suspense.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OYBEquZ_j0 - We liked the editing in this clip from The Dark Night, especially where the wings are faded out, therefore we wanted to use the idea of fading the missing posters in and out in our own film. We felt this way of editing was very appropriate for a thriller, as it makes the clip seem a little spooky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRw9vx3WZBE - We decided that in our film we might do a low angle shot of the blond female looking out of a window, as if she's searching for the person whose been in her house. This would be a quick shot just to show the females expression.


Film decisions we made:

• We are going to have a Femme Fatale - an intelligent woman, that is mysterious. We feel that including this type of character in our thriller, will introduce a weird atmosphere.
• To contrast with this character we are going to use the famous Hitchcock blond. We think that this dumb, naive character will contrast well with Femme Fatale.
• We also had the idea of giving the thriller a missing person theme, as this creates mystery and keeps the audience guessing.
• We are using cross cutting as a main device, because this will create tension, and suspense.
• We thought hard about what we wanted to do our thriller on, and though we could use a voodoo doll as the main prop. We are going to have the voodoo doll looking the same as the blond, because this will give the audience a clue to what's going on, but not the actual answers

Editing Ideas:

• Red writing on a black screen for the credits.
• Writing in upper and lower case, to show the blonde's messed up mind.
• Fading into and out of clips.
• Having the clips of the rooms in the blonde's house in black and white, this would make them look like old photographs.