Our new shot list

After rethinking our idea again, we decided to make a few ajustments so therefor needed to update our 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.

 

 

Our filming timeline

Music in our thriller

 We decided not to include dialogue in our thriller to create suspense and tension building up.
At the begining when the man and woman are in the car, we wanted a song to be playing on the radio as diegetic sound. We wanted a popular, mainstream song that you would find on the radio to create realism. However we realised that we needed to have original music that we could have permistion to use, so fortunately our teacher gave us permission to use one of his bands songs, as he owns the copyright because he wrote it. We decided to use the song, The beautiful loser by the Dakota Stars.

When the shot moves to outside the car we still wanted the song to play making it non diegetic, as a sound bridge as the woman leaves the car and the tension starts building.

Schedule

 9.30- Arrive at location.

10.30- Ready to shoot, everything set up. Actors in costume and make up.

11.00- Shot scene in car with man and woman of close ups, over shoulder shots etc.

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 - 3.00 Lunch break and no shooting as we wish to film other shots in darkness.

3.00- Film woman getting into other car and driving away, lots of fast shots, increasing pace

4.00- 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)

5.00- Leave set

Location and set for our thriller

The location of our thriller is going to be in a multi-story car park, we will use the one closest to us, in guildford. We realised that to use a 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 by sending an email.

We thought this was a good thriller location as it is eery and often empty and echoy. We chose this location as it looked effective and suited our thriller with wide empty spaces  

Research for our thriller

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17922388
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9175962/Was-MI6-spy-in-a-bag-Gareth-Williams-killed-by-secret-service-dark-arts.html

I researched into similar stories to our thriller for inspiration and to get realistic ideas for our action-thriller film. I looked at recent news stories from the BBC news and the Telegraph and came across these articles. They talk about a man who was an M16 agent being killed in his London flat. This has helped and inspired us 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 sets up the killing of important, 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 portrayed negatively in this way because it makes the storyline more scary, knowing that the woman is involved in a more powerful force with a group of people, therefore we thought this would make our thriller more thrilling and engaging. We also used real life examples to make it more realistic for the audience.

Props 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.

An 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 car with blacked out windows is often used as a connotation for gangsters, assasins in thriller films. This links to our film as it is about international conspiracies and violence. Our target audience would recognise this convention and hopefully it would attract them to our product.

 

 

A black briefcase - which we will also get from our drama department at the school. A black brief case can look suspicious and therefore ties in to the thriller genre it is a symbol used in thrillers usch as The International which is a conspiracy/spy thriller similar to ours.

 

A watch (for the killer) - we will borrow one of the male teachers or actors actual watch. This will suit our male actor as this is the kind of Bond lifestyle we have given him.

 

 

 

A cargo container is often used in thriller films and juxtaposing the calmness of the sea with the metallic dirty cargo container often used for transferring illegal produce/people/drugs/guns across countries and continents. An example of this is the tv programme The Killing where a girl was held for ransom in a cargo container in season 3. Prison break season 4 also used  a warehouse and cargo container as a hangout for the cons on the run. Therefore this is not an unusual occurance in thriller films and the squalid, dirty, slightly rusty location would perfectly suit our film which is about intrigue and double crossing.

 



Changing the cast

After rethinking our cast we decided our actors might look too young and make the opening look unprofesional as they would not suit the thriller.

We looked at teachers at our school and decided on the drama teacher to play the woman as she looks in her mid twenties and is blonde. For our male role we chose a carears teacher who looks innocent and older than our previous role. Their age will also now appeal to a wider target audience, not only teenagers and young adults.

Cast

We chose this girl for the woman killer as she looks innocent and beautiful. She also looks like a typical English 'rose' and this was the look we wanted to create the illusion at the beginning of the thriller that she was innocent.

We want the woman to be wearing black jeans, a cream sheer blouse and a grey blazer.

We wold also like the woman to have similar make up to the woman in this picture

For the man in the car with the girl who gets killed, we chose someone who also looks quite innocent in order to not make it obvious that he has commited a crime.

 

We want him wearing black jeans, and a pale blue shirt, with black shoes.