Thrillers

My blog has been neglected recently due to a mountain of media filming work and drama performances, however, now they are safely out the way i can comment on the hard work and effort that has gone into the making of our thriller scene in the past 4 months.
It was not an easy ride, to start with we contemplated and toyed with dark creepy car parks, an anonymous victim and a cold blooded killer. But we soon realised that the location of this would make filming in our free time very difficult.

We then spent the odd few of our lessons researching and watching clips of horror movies online to give us some ideas, What Lies Beneath, The Strangers, Nightmare On Elm Street and Creep we focused on the way these films had been shot especially What Lies Beneath and Creep to see how they created atmospheric tension and suspense. Unfocused and distorted shots form Creep created a spooky uncertainty which would fit well into the horror genre that we strive to achieve. What Lies Beneath heavily relies on the music to create an atmosphere as the scene that we looked at was set in a well lit bathroom.

It was this clip that gave us the basic idea to set our Thriller scene in a bathroom, it was a different idea to many of the other media groups, it also would enable us to film whenever we please as the location was at my house. We played around with the idea of filming in dark woods as well but realised that the amount of natural light would be a problem.

We then created our Storyboard and the plot for the film. I was to be the helpless victim and Tom was to be the unseen mysterious womanising knife bearing killer. Mr Van Straten filmed us speaking to the class about the ideas behind our film and this is on youtube but currently being on a school computer i am unable to get hold of it but weill put it up later.

http://issuu.com/svanstraten/docs/danni_film_plan_final_260109

this is our film plan containing everything that there really is to know about the ideas of our film.