Location

The location for a film is very important considering it is a thriller. When we was considering all the places for our thriller to be filmed we had to make sure that it was quiet so that there was no interruptions, was dark and quite spooky or scary for the audience's sake it seem scary, also had to think about the mystery part of it to make sure that it looks like a place were people would not expect things to happen like they will in our film. When we came to a conclusion of where to film our thriller we decided to do it in Ryan Honey's shed. This was because it was at the back of his garden out the way of everything like the distractions etc, we chose Ryan's shed because the lighting was dark and not open so it was quite dark and spooky in there so it was perfect for the lighting side of the filming.

Cast, Props, and Costumes

Cast

The cast that we have selected for our film is basically the people in our media group are in the film. Also in our film you never actually see the actors face only the back of their head and their ear so using different actors would have been pointless so we just used the people in our group. It will also be easier for the people in our group get what is happening in our film and act it out better than just any random person so using people in our group will be a lot easier for us. So Mike Jones is the one in our group that will be doing the acting.

Props

In one of our shots we have about five tools leaned up against a table so that the audience can clearly see what the weapons are. They are a sledge hammer, screw driver, stanley knife blade, a flip up knife, a smaller sledge hammer, and a chain. We also used dust sheets to cover the area that we are filming in because we did not want to give anything away about the setting. We were using the stanley knife blades to cut out the letters and images from a newspaper to show what is happening before the film even starts to try and draw the audience in.

Costumes

The actor, Mike Jones, will be wearing shirt and tie with trousers and shoes. This is so that the audience will think that he is a normal working man so they should not suspect him of anything.

Shutter Island-2010-Martin Scorsese

I recently went to see the new thriller out called Shutter Island. It was directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a psychological mystery thriller, and is set in 1954 around a US Marshall Teddy Daniel's, played by Leonardo Di Caprio, and his partner Chuck Aule, who is played by Mark Ruffalo. The film is based on a best selling 2003 novel by writer Dennis Lehane. The film starts with Teddy Daniel's with his partner on a boat on there way to Asahecliff Hospital on Shutter Island, which is a hospital and prison for the criminally insane. They are called to the island because of the disappearance of a woman called Rachel Solando, who suspiciously disappeared from a locked room.

When Daniel's and Chuck begin the search with the guards of Shutter Island they soon start to uncover certain things about the disappearance. There are certain things that are said and done within the hospital that makes everyone of certain suspicion to Daniel's and Chuck, like how she escaped from a door that was locked fro the outside and can only ever be opened from the outside, and how a note was left which seemed to be directed at Daniel's and Chuck, they are also suspicious of how nobody knows how she left with no shoes no sign of breaking out or anything. When Daniel's asks to see the personal files of all of the people who have ever been at Shutter Island he refuses, then we meet a man who brings even more suspicion into the frame of the film. His name is Dr. Jeremiah Naehring, and is a German man who tries to cover up his accent but with Daniel's being ex military who fought the German's spotted it straight away.

In the morning, they interview patients from Rachel’s group therapy sessions, one of whom passes Teddy a warning to run. Teddy explains to Chuck the real reason he took the case: after being transferred to Ashecliff, Andrew Laeddis disappeared. When Teddy investigated, he met a former patient who claimed that the facility was performing human experiments. Rachel is finally found near the lighthouse but she is unresponsive to Teddy’s questioning. He eventually finds George Noyce, the man who told him about the experiments. George says that the whole situation is a game for Teddy’s benefit and that he is afraid of being taken to the lighthouse.

Teddy tries to reach the lighthouse and discovers a cave where the real Rachel Solando is hiding. She was a doctor at Ashecliff until she found out about the experiments and was committed as a patient. She explains that the hospital is using psychotropic mediaction in an attempt to master mind control, with the goal of creating sleeper agents for use in the Cold War. She says that Teddy has been similarly drugged since he arrived on the island.
Teddy finally makes it to the lighthouse and finds Cawley waiting at the top. The doctor reveals that Teddy is actually Andrew Laeddis. He murdered his manic depressive wife after she drowned their three children, and then created a fantasy where he was a hero to cope with the pain. He invented Rachel Solando as part of his delusion. He has been under the care of Dr. Sheehan, the man he thought was Chuck, for two years. Sheehan and Cawley decided to try a role play experiment, allowing Andrew to live out his delusions in an attempt to bring him back to reality.

Andrew’s memory comes back and he makes peace with his past, but later he appears to have a relapse and Cawley is forced to lobotomize him. Before the surgery is performed, Andrew asks Dr. Sheehan if he thinks it would be worse to live as a monster or die as a good man, leaving it unclear whether he had a relapse or is feigning delusion in order to have a permanent escape from reality. The film ends with an ambiguous shot of the lighthouse.

Our Groups Animatic

This was my groups animatic of what our thriller will consist of. We had to make a storyboard with different pictures and other things that will show what will be in our media thriller when we start filming soon. The animatic consits of everything that will be going into our thriller opening sequence. The sort of stuff that will be in the animatic will be things like the people walking across the screen, the camera panning across the room and a lot more stuff to do with the 2 minute opening of our thriller.

Preliminary Exercise Video

Me and the people in my group made a preliminary video for a media coursework before we go off and film our thriller. it was the first time that we had used a camera and tried a variety of different shots and other things that we have been learning in class to try and show that we was ready for the task of creating a thriller opening. In our video i was using the camera to watch and observe a conversation between Mike and Ryan whilst Andrew said what would look good in different shots by observing the conversation with me, there was a number of different shots, the consists of close ups, long shots, extreme close ups, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot and a couple more. We then had to upload the video into iMovie HD and edit and capture a final video. we had to do different types of cuts from shot to shot, like a jump cut from Mike walking to Ryan to then leaning on him and looking over his shoulder at the work. another cut was a fade out from the end where Mike is walking away and then it fades out into a black screen for the finish. These different types of cuts showed many different things that we needed for our video.

Target Audiences of A Thriller

When creating a thriller movie the director and everyone to do with the film will have to come up with ideas about who they want this film to interest and who they want to come see it. This would mean doing things like research into what people would want to see. Another target would be age. This would be important when selecting a target audience because of if you was to select the wrong type of film for the wrong sort of age then it will not be good for the film. Selecting the age would be important because looking at the age ratings of U, PG, 12A, 15, and 18 you should only usually select to do thrillers for the ages of 12A and above, with the 12A thriller it should not be confusing or like gory/gruesome in any way because that may get a bad review and put people off coming to see that sort of film by a certain director. When selecting the age range of 15 the thriller can be a more of a gruesome and harder because of the age that will be watching it. It can also then spread out a wide range of possibilities of the different things that could be included into the thriller film. Finally, when selecting the 18 age there are some any different things that can be included in this age range of thriller. There could be any type of thriller like, psychological thriller, conspiracy thriller, there can also be a lot more scary parts, that would possibly widen the range of people that would come and see it because they might like that sort of film. So when selecting target audiences of a thriller there are many different things that you should think about when doing all of this.

Seven-1995

I watched the opening title sequence and was using this to use for the opening title sequence of my thriller. The opening sequence was one of very weird and disturbing openings. It starts with the flicking through of pages and then some weird pictures of what seems to be deceased people. It then goes to what appears to be a man cutting or slicing off his fingertips, which is a weird thing to have in an opening sequence because it shows us not in depth but give the audience an insight of what the mind of both the protagonist and antagonist will be like in there mental state. The opening sequence then goes to what appears to be the man cutting out snip lets out of a Bible, a magazine, a newspaper, and what appears to being cut out is the seven deadly sins, like wrath, avarice, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. then there is some highlighting of different words, the use of distorted/scary music and sounds makes all of this work together and make it a better opening and will get the audience sucked in to make them want to watch more of it after the opening is finished.