Ideas and planning for Filming 2

The next part of our filming we will be doing after the halfterm when we are allowed the camera's again. The final part we will be filming is our opening part of approximately 40 seconds which will primarily show the 'Stalker board'.

Our thriller will begin with a long shot/establishing shot of an isolated room that appears empty and will give the impression that it is unused. The camera will very steadily and slowly to zoom into the room in order to reveal more to the audience. Around the corner of the room there will be bare wall that has our 'Stalker board' displayed on it. Lewis will be standing beside the wall looking at the photos, he will be dressed in his suit to ensure that there is continuity onto the next scene. As a glimpse of Lewis's character appears on screen and before the audience can fully identify what is on the wall, the camera will do a sudden jump cut to another viewpoint of the wall to fully reveal the images etc. that is on the wall and then will slowly zoom in likewise to before. This will immediately allow the audience to identify with the themes and narrative involved in our thriller.

There will be non-diegetic sound played throughout this part that will start as soon as the fooage appears on screen. The music we aim to be instrumental that is fairly quiet and becomes gradually louder to build suspense. There will be a sudden jump cut to a medium shot of the photos on the Stalker board. We will make the camera vary its shot distances to show both close-up and far away shots of images on the stalker board. At this point, the tension will become more intense and the pace of the camera movement will speed up to give a sense of uncertainity. As the camera then slows down it will then focus entirely on one photo - the camera will then return to the steady movement as it was at the beginning and zoom into this photo until it is a close-up of the image. As the camera is zooming in Lewis's hand will appear on the screen and he will aggressively pull the image away from the wall to emphasise to the audience that the person in the photo is significant in the narrative. A close-up of Lewis's wallet will appear on screen and he will fastly and nervously put the photo into the wallet.

How is this part of our opening conventional to a thriller?
Mise-en-scene
The mise-en-scene will appear dark and the colours apparent will be fairly neutral, except for the red pen markings on the photos that will be red, symbolising danger, death, blood etc.
Sound
The main purpose of the sound is to appear eerie, creepy that will add suspense and build tension in the opening which follows the conventions of a thriller
Location
To follow the conventions of a thriller the location is deserted, quiet and empty which emphasises the creepy approach
Characters
In this part of the opening, only on of the main characters is shown - he appears isolated, mysterious and dark which makes audience unable to relate to him.
Props
The props used are to gives hints to the themes that occur in our thriller, therefore making it relate to thriller conventions
Camera shots/movement
There is a lot of variation in the camera shots/movement and in particular close-ups mean that the audience are unable to see elsewhere in the frame as they focus on one area, which adds mystery and a sense of the unknown

Props that will be needed for this part:

• Pins to hold images together
• Stalker board - photos, map, drawn images, newspaper article titles
• suit
• wallet
• paint
• string
  

Following our first filming session for the thriller task, we have analysed our problems, therefore in the hope of minimising the occurrance of similar problems.