Reece photos of possible locations.

This photo shows a dark ally way which is quite a well known feature that appears in the thriller genre. The entrance at the end of the ally way is seen and could help add enigma to the story and thriller opening. You can also see how enclosed the area looks, it gives a dark feel and you can imagine a hooded character to be in this type of area which would add mystery.

Like the other ally way photo this one could also be used to help add enigma to the opening of our thriller, however this one is a lot more open and not as enclosed as the other photo, meaning the scene wouldn't be as dark because of how bright the area is and the colours surrounding the area.

This location would be a great spot for the end scene of the opening thriller, the enclosed area and open space at the end of the walk way fit well and would be a great place to film.

This location is easy to get to because it is one of our group members houses and we will need to use a house in the thriller opening. This is a perfect location because it contains many rooms to film in and is accessible to everyone in the group. 

UPDATE: We have chosen our final locations they are the "House" and "Wem, Town Hall, Surrounding Street". These choices are both inspired by the reece photos we took. 

Shot List for Chosen Locations

Location: House

Shot:

1. Mid Shot
2. Mid Shot
3. Mid Shot
4. Close Up
5. Mid Shot
6. Mid Shot
7. Mid Shot
8. Mid Shot
9. Mid Shot
10. Mid Shot
11. Close Up -> Mid Shot
12. Mid Shot
13. Mid Shot
14. Mid Shot
15. Close Up
16. Mid Shot

Location: Wem, Town Hall, Surrounding Street

Shot:

1. Mid Shot
2. Mid Shot -> Long Shot
3. Long Shot
4. Long Shot
5. Long Shot
6. Mid Shot
7. Close Up
8. Close Up
9. Extreme Close Up 
10. Mid Shot

Chosen Locations - Shot List.

Location: Sam Graves' House

Shot:

1. Mid Shot
2. Mid Shot
3. Mid Shot
4. Close Up
5. Mid Shot
6. Mid Shot
7. Mid Shot
8. Mid Shot
9. Mid Shot
10. Mid Shot
11. Close Up -> Mid Shot
12. Mid Shot
13. Mid Shot
14. Mid Shot
15. Close Up
16. Mid Shot

Location: Wem, Town Hall, Surrounding Street

Shot:

1. Mid Shot
2. Mid Shot -> Long Shot
3. Long Shot
4. Long Shot
5. Long Shot
6. Mid Shot
7. Close Up
8. Close Up
9. Extreme Close Up 
10. Mid Shot

Group Idea - Final Choice of Storyline

• Man comes home saying: "Darling, I'm home!"
• (Titles are appearing as the action unfolds, overlaid on the film) 
• He puts his keys on the shoe cupboard
• He looks around the house as he searches more the tension picks up, including the music.  
• Several shots are seen of the man searching his child's and wife's bedroom and around the house, kitchen and living room etc. 
• Eventually the man see's a spot of blood on the kitchen floor and says: "No...no no no."
• He eyes start the go wild until he sees a note reading: "Come to the back of The Wem Town Hall if you want to see them again....you should of paid your debts Harry."
• Match on action shot of the door handle
• Harry runs through Wem lots of action like shots are shown.
• Harry finally comes to a bag behind the Town Hall and opens it, a picture of his wife and child is shown.
• A note is seen saying: "To get them back you are going to have to work for us for a while"
• Harry begins to breakdown into tears but then is knocked out by a mysterious thug.
• The main title appears on a black background.

Shot Ordering Exercise.

This was a group project which we got given the shots in a random order and we had to put them in order of how they go in the film. It was helpful to see what shots go where and when, we did good to start but with a few mistakes but then got it right in the end. Also helps for practising when editing so you know what shots go where.

Thriller Definition.

Thriller is a genre of film and television which uses suspense, enigma, mystery and tension as some of the main elements in a thriller genre film or program. There are thriller sub-genres including action, horror and crime. Some thrillers use allot of red herrings and cliffhangers to throw you of course and take you in a new direction of the film and also use plot twists to change the course of storyline.

Audience Research

I went on to the website Box Office Mojo and looked at the overall popularity and grossing of thriller films. Here are the results.

The sub genera 'On the Run' has the highest popularity and grossing, followed by 'Political' both are popular genres as seen from the amount of money made from each of the different sub genres.

Films such as 'Skyfall' which is a thriller grossed allot of popularity and money for example on the opening weekend it grossed $88,364,714. Thriller films seem to be one of the bigger genres from the amount of money made from allot of the thriller films out especially at the moment another example is Alfred Hitchcocks 'North by Northwest' which grossed $13,275,000.

On the IMDb website, you can see the two top films grossing the most amount of money are both thriller films. IMDb is a website which is a database for films and people can vote and give them a sore out of 10. It seems that thriller films are allot of the time, especially at this point in the year, are allot of the time the top grossing films compared to other films out at the same time. This shows that allot of the time the thriller genre is preferred to other genres.

On IMDb's top rated 250, the top three films are of the thriller genre, they all have 9.0 or over. Also IMDb is from the public voting for what films they like and what they would like the rating to be, this means thriller films are the most popular within IMDb's website.

Ideas for thriller opening.

• A vigilante.
• Wears dark clothing like a trench coat and suit trousers.
• Smart shoes.
• The opening starts with the man sitting at a table, the room he is in is dark and the outside weather is raining.
• He has a map in front of him with a small circle drawn on it.
• He then gets up looks out of his window and walks over to a board.
• On the board there are about 10 (or more) small photos of people's faces, 3 or 4 are crossed out.
• 2 of the photos have circles drawn around them (to show significance)
• He picks up the photos and puts them in his pocket.
• The shot then changes to a man sitting in a room reading a newspaper with a girl tied up in the corner, she has her head down and not really moving.
• Another man then enters the room, walks past the girl and sits down.
• Cut to the vigilante who is leaving his house, as he closes the door behind him he takes one last look at the 2 photos, before putting them back in his pocket.
• He is then seen leaving the house on foot.
• You see him walk towards the house and moves to the garage door where he listens in.
• He opens the garage door and runs in.
• The door shuts behind him.
• As the door shuts the screen goes black. 
• You can hear smashing and movement coming from the room.
• Then there is silence and the title fades in.