In this post you will find all of the Thriller initial Planning and ideas ranging from Location to Costume. Please note due to the shear amount of information and the lack of being able to correctly display it will make it appear in a slight mess..
Brief Synopsis of plot
Shots Outlined
Characters
Victims
Villains
Extras
Casting
Location
Sound
Props / Objects
Equipment List
The plot entails 2 female characters exchanging a pill, which the audience presumes is a drug, and thereby having the female victim take the drug and being kidnapped and put into a boot of a car. This is then followed with a speedy drive away.
Shots Outlined
You will notice there are more here than on the storyboards, this is to provide more detailed information on how we plan to do the shots due to my lack of ability of drawing anything better than a stick men.
Opening Scene consisting of a blurred long shot of 2 female characters.
Followed with a zooming in shot of the two characters.
We then have a close up of the characters exchanging the drug itself.
We then have a close up of the female victim before she takes the drug, as though thinking about it.
The female victim then takes the drug, and we have a quick following of close ups / extreme closes up along with some fade to black transitions to add to the confusion.
We then have a slow motion of the victim slowly falling to the ground.
This follows with an extreme close up of the other female character crying out for help from her male associate
A quick switch shot to the male character open the boot of his car and walking over to help pick up the victim
We then track the characters carrying the victim and putting her into the boot of the car. All the while with the same music track playing.
We suddenly switch to the victims point of view with her in the car boot looking around in a confused state, this includes some heavy breathing via diagetic sound.
The villains are then shown to be having a conversation before separating to either side of the screen.
The male villain is then shown getting in the car and slamming the door shut.
This then follows with some clever camera work using the car rear view mirror showing the two villains looking at each other.
After shaking his head in disgust the male villain then drives starts to drive away after having an outside of the car shot via a tilt to add to the feeling of confusion.
The car is then tracked and zoomed in upon to get a better view of the license plate along.
Finally the car turns around a corner and we can no longer follow it allowing us to fade to black leaving the audience with the question in their head asking "What happened to Grace?"
Characters
Within the Thriller Opening there are 3 characters, 2 villains and a single victim. The opening is dominated by the 2 female characters and half way through we then see the only male character, also a villain.
Victims
Grace – Leading Female Role – 17 years old – Clothes are a grey hoodie, white trainers and genes
Grace is displayed as a rather unaware girl, not expecting to be kidnapped since she freely takes the drug infront of the other female character. As thought she may be a friend, someone to be trusted.
Villains
Tom – 28 years old – Clothes are a thick coat with linen trousers, dark shoes, displaying money.
Mary – 17 years old – Clothes are the same as Grace's, grey hoodie and genes with trainers.
Casting
Grace – Emily Mullenderr
Tom – Andy Drane
Mary – Lauren Jordan
LocationWe have decided to set the thriller opening in a out of the way car park within Norwich during the early hours of a winter evening. This provides the thriller generics such as unglamorous, remote and threatening location mainly influenced by the thriller 'This is England' by Shane Meadows and the gritting feeling it inspires.
The majority of the sound within the opening scene will consist of a unsigned / uncopyrighted music track called the "Nu Piano Project"
However we also use diagetic sound of Grace's heavy breathing to add to the feeling of entrapment.
Props / Objects
The props include the Car as well as some harmless pills to look like drugs.
Equipment List
Camera, Camera Stand etc. Nothing else was used.
Title
In the end after discussing as a group we settled with the title Snatched against the common names such as Kidnapped, Abdcuted etc.
2 comments:
Matthew you describe costume and props but do not explain the connotations of these aspects of mise-en-scene; also you need to give reasons for names of characters - do the names suggest something about these characters or have a deeper symbolic meaning?
Until you analyse connotations of aspects of mise-en-scene your marks will remain at Level 2 - basic understanding.
"This is England" is NOT a thriller film!!! If you wish to emulate the unglamorous locations in this film then you must say why? For example, do the locations reflect corruption? The moral landscape of the characters?
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