Planning for thriller :

We looked at the film "Phone Booth" which is a thriller that entails a similar idea of a phone call being received by the antagonist threatening the protagonist, below is an embedded clip of the trailer for this film.



We thought this would be a good basis for an opening to our thriller, many other films have used this same idea of a phone call introducing the characters/enigma and have done this successfully. So the narrative in our film will be a reference to this film which we looked at.

For the titles in our opening scene we're going to have the credits of each person involved in the film appear around the protagonist's head as her train of thought follows looking around the lift, which is the location for the first sequence. The credits will be animated and will have special effects (transitions); furthermore text will be in the same font we used for our ident which has a spooky effect and represents the thriller genre. With the help of music we believe that it will enhance the film and make it look more professional.

Music is a very important factor that we wish to use to our advantage in our film, we have experimented on garage band in a previous lesson and successfully created our own music for a film called "Identity" which was very successful. So we are planning on creating a soundtrack that will enhance our clip and create suspense for the audience of what is going to happen next in the film.

Shots we are going to use a variation of shots for example: over-shoulder shot to create mystery of who the characters are and what their roles are; mid-shots and close-up shots of the protagonist in the lift; a tracking shot for the opening scene where the protagonist is walking through the Grand Arcade (location) walking towards the lift; a panning shot at the end of the film for when the person who is tied up is being spoken to by a voice (non-diagetic) of the antagonist and then a panning shot will be used to finally introduce the antagonist to the audience, this will create more of a sinister feel to the clip. With the use of both music and shots in variation will help the film be suited to the genre of thriller.

Certification of the film will be done at 15




We believe that this certificate should be used to rate our film as
- A strong threat is being used but not in a sadistic or sexualised way
- There may be use of strong language later on in the film
- Violence may be strong later in the film but would not show loads of infliction of pain or injury but nothing more than that will be used.