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The location was at a girl called courtney's house which was half an hour way from hurtwood, so not too far to drive to which was helpful as it meant we would have more time shooting then traveling.

The shot above shows where we filmed the swimmers farther entering, the side we took the photo is where we set up the tracks for the spider-dolly so we could follow his movement. This worked well as we had enough space to set up everything that was needed for this shot.

the pool was the perfect length and depth for our shoot giving us a chance to get all the shots we wanted and needed.

We even had outside space on location that we could place our stalker behind, to get the effect of someone watching her. the windows were perfect as there wasn't too much condensation covering the glass so we could see in and out of them.

Cast List

Name: Bethany Quinn

Age: 16

Sex: Female

Role: Female Olympic swimmer

Reasons for casting: She has a swimmers physique as she was on the swimming team of her old school. She has experience in swimming and acting. She is fit enough to do continuous swimming as she does dance AS. She is comfortable with being filmed in a swim suit. She fits the age we are looking for.

Name: Adam Grant 

Age: In early 30’s

Sex: Male

Role: Father of swimmer

Reasons for Casting: As the daughter is sporty the father may have had a sporty past. Adam has the appearance of someone sporty. He is suitable of age to be a young father. He is also willing to act and has been in previous media videos and therefore has had experience acting.

Final idea pitch for Thriller

We had to present our final idea as a group to the class and what are final plot would be. They liked the idea of using a swimming pool and doing some underwater shots, it would make it intresting and different to other peoples thrillers or horrors as we would use different films ideas.

Plot

-       Girl alone in swimming pool, swimming along.

-       Cuts from different shots e.g. underwater shots or close ups of her breathing as she is swimming.

-       Cuts to POV shot of a hand slams against a window outside the pool.

-       Cut straight back to her catching her breath as she continues swimming, short shot of her feet kicking (doesn’t notice hand against window.)

-       Cut back to hand sliding down glass making a noise.

-       Cut back to girl swimming

-       She reaches the end of the pool to check timer, see how fast she has done a number of laps.

-       Puts timer down, starts swimming again.

-       Door opens, someone comes in

-       Shot of feet walking towards end of pool.

-       Girl about to reach the end again, where man is standing (she hasn’t noticed)

-       Man reaches end of pool standing there waiting.

-       See reflection of man through the water.

-       Shot of her come out of the water towards edge of the pool, she gets a fright.

-       See man for the first time, her dad telling her its dinner.

-       She responds. ‘I’ll be there in 5 minutes dad…thanks’

-       Dad walks out.

-       She gets out of pool, puts towel on.

-       Walks out of pool room (POV shot form outside, someone still watching her.)   



Target audience for Thriller

Our target audience for our thriller would have to be a mature teenage audience roughly 15 and older but we focused more on the young teenagers rather then children or adults, it would not be suitable for children under the age of 15 as the contents of the film may become too violently graphic for young children.

We created an opening sequence that would continue into something dark and twisted, we looked at going a bit further then just your typical Hollywood blockbuster like ‘The strangers and Prom night’  but it still has your ‘typical’ elements of a young boy gone mad and is now stalking a young girl due to jealousy. You don’t have to relate to the characters in the film to feel the uncomfortable and awkward sensation you will feel as you watch the young girl being watched by someone, the fact that she is a swim gives the audience a sense of isolation just to add to that uncomfortable feeling. Our Target audience would have the thrill of being on the edge of their seat as they watch this twisted story line unfold in front of them, this would make our audience want to stay gripped to our thriller to find out what happens.    

My thriller ideas

1.      It would open on a black screen with sound in the back ground of a girl crying and a women asking what happened (like an interview is going on) it then opens on a teenage girl walking down a deserted road with music in the background and heavy breathing over the top. There will no houses, woods or cars just a long road. She is wearing a dress with blood and mud on it and her dress is ripped like there has been a struggle she is still crying with make-up smudged down her face. As she is walking down this road, there will be flash backs of where she has come from but really short shots. She eventually sees this house ahead of her, when she reaches the house she knocks and you hear footsteps coming to the door when the door opens she screams. That will then cut to a blackout and the title of the movie will come up.  THIS WAS OUR SECOND CHOICE, IF OUR FIRST IDEA GOT REJECTED.

2.      There will be an old big house where a young girl will be babysitting two children, both young girls. As she is watching TV she can hear noises, like whispering and crying so she goes up stairs to check the children who are fast asleep, she then goes back downstairs and carries on washing up when she hears it again she then goes back up stairs to check again and both children are gone. When she turns around it blackout and all you hear is a scream. You then have images of one of the young girls on a swing, singing but it keeps changing between the child being happy and then to her with bloody on all over her but she still singing and looks happy. At this point there will be music playing and the main title will come

3.      It will open on a crying girl who’s lying on a wooden floor she has a cut on her head and she’s waking up from being knocked out. We then see a hand with a knife in it with blood all over the knife and his hand; she is crying out for help and trying to get the man to stop. We then focus on her eyes for a while, as she is crying. It then cuts to the title. 

4.      It will open on a man sitting in a rundown flat on a table with loads of pictures of random people walking along the street, coming out of houses and getting on with their lives. He’s sorting through all the pictures and looking through books; hi hands are dirty and are cut. He gets to a certain picture and stops too look at it for a long time, he then picks up a pen and digs into her face like he has something agents her, he then gets a lighter and burns it, he puts it on the table and gets up and walks out we are still focusing on the burning picture on the table and we here him walking out and slamming the door.         

Mood board Thriller/Horror

We had to look at what we felt was Horror or Thriller by using a mood board to show are ideas on the themes.

Mood bored thriller/horror

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Thriller/Horror introduction

When we started talking about thriller and horror films we got shown opening clips from a few different films to get us started, it also got us thinking about our course work projects later on in the term. For horror we looked at holloween, friday 13th and blair witch project. We talked about why this is classifid in our eyes at Horror, we felt that they were all quite gory but also psychological making us jump out of our seats at times. We also looked at some Thriller opening scenes, unusual suspect, seven, dead mans shoes and Don't look now. We classed these as Thriller as we felt there was less gory but gave us a wierd and awkward sensation when we were watching them. We looked closly at Don't look now and how the opening scene try to hint something bad is about to happen by using red as a danger colour we picked up on the ending of the opening scene.