Characters, casting, responsibilities and type.

The man in the car (Paul) - smooth, quiet, erind.
Woman (Eve) - Femme fatale, devient, powerful, glamourous, demanding and careless.
Approaching man (Derick) - Innocent, buissness man, good appearence, well postured.

Casting: vague ideas.

• Man in the car - Paul - (Ed Brown)?
• Femme fatale - Eve - (Daisy Grundy)?
• - Eve - (Kirsten Pacey)?
• - Eve - (Molly Clifford)?
• Approaching man - Derick - (Matt Shields)?

Responsibilities:

• Alice - Camera, Directing
• Dan - Camera, Directing
• Elodie - Camera, Directing

Type of thriller - Crime

Setting

The cathedral

• Femme fatale standing alone.
• She lights a cigarette and her telephone rings.
• She tells the other person on the phone "I'll be there in two minutes".
• The woman starts to walk through the cathedral grounds.
• Eventually she approaches a man who is waiting for her.
  
• There is a briefcase exchange.
• The man walks in the opposite direction to her and she walks in the opposite direction to him.
• The camera shows a point of view shot of somebody following the woman towards the river.
  
• A man is behind her with a gun.
• The man shoots her and she falls to the ground.
• The man who shot her takes the briefcase and walks away from her body.
• Close up shot of her eye as she wakes up and the audience realise she is not dead...
  

Ideas for thriller opening

Settings:

• The civil service
• the city
• cow tower
• parks
• flats
• car parks
• cathedral

The civil service -

• someone getting chased towards it.
• someone getting pulled into it.
• someone walking their dog.

The cathedral -

• briefcase exchange
• violence.

thriller research "the beach"

The Beach
Directed by Danny Boyle. An adventure, drama and thriller.
Thriller Clip:
The main character 'Richard' meets a strange Scotsman who goes by the name of 'Daffy Duck'. The next morning Richard finds a hand drawn map, pinned to his door of a hidden island in the Gulf of Thailand which they briefly spoke about the night before. After he recieves the map he finds Daffy has commited suicide.

Danny Boyle uses many signifiers in this film.
He uses dull grey-ish colours throughout the beginning of the film which lead to the idea that throughout the dull greyish colour this is when Richards agenda and outlook on life is at the worst. This is at the pivotal moment when Richard finds suicidal Daffy dead in his room. Danny Boyle creates tension by using cross-cutting and a series of close-up shots to create emotion. As soon as Richard walks through the door into Daffy's room he immediatley shuts the door behind him, this creates claustrophobia signifying an enclosed space. However, During the time Richard stays on the tropical island the lighting is more brighter and colourful which can then tell us that this is when Richards outlook on life is at its best. When the three characters swim to the island it shows Richard swimming infront of the other two characters to show that he is the leader and that he is leading the characters into trouble.
When Richard travels to Koh Phangan with Sal. Richard's experiences of The 'perfect' life on the exotic island are soon to be gone. Richard finds that this is the moment his life on the island changes. We understand this with the camera techniques as it follows him with a hand held camera to shows distortion. The lighting is permanently dark within the mise en scene.
Like in the more traditional thrillers an ironic character would normally be carrying a briefcase, in this case Richard is carrying a rucksack which we never get to see what is in it until he gets on the island. This can signify his personallity as we dont get to see the full, real Richard until the end when he had an epiphany.


- This screenshot shows the hand drawn map given to Richard from Daffy.
Close up shot get the audience involved.









This screenshot shows the enclosed space where Richard

finds suicidal Daffy in his hostel room.


Theres a voiceover throughout the film to bring the audience into the action and make them feel apart of it.
The way it has gone down the wall can show that this is the pivotal moment where Richards life is falling to a landing spot.









Low angle shot makes Richard look like he is in control of the
situation. he is powerful.

This shot shows noir lighting with little, not so flamboyant lighting seeping through the small windows in the top of the mise en scene signify that although this action of Daffy diying can show that there can be some hope in this situation. As Richard had just found out before he found the body that Daffy had given him the only map to the tropical island.

"Essex boys"

Director - Terry Winsor

Production company - Granada film

User ratings - Highest rating - female 19-27

First shot

The dark, noir lighting suggests a creepy feeling which adds suspense to each mise en scene.
The fact that Jason Locke speaks with an essex accent makes the audience realise that he is not an upper class member of society, he is a kind of "Jack the lad" character. This links the the title "Essex Boys" which gives the sense of the characters being cocky, masculine and laddish.
The first shot shows a dark garage with cobwebs which shows claustrophobia. The voiseover is used to get the audience engaged. So it is like the character is personally talking to each person in the audience.
The shot of Jason Locke through the window of the car shows distortion of Jason Lockes reality as the window is dirty and grubby.
The shot of Billy in the front of the car with the lights across the window connotes the lights as prison bars and a sense of Billy being locked in to Jasons shifty agenda. The fact that a few of the lights on the window are red immediatley shows danger.

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"Once upon a time in America"

Director - Sergio Leone
Genre - Gangster Thriller

The first shot is of Eve - the glamorous femme fatale.
It shows Eve as a silhouette at first to show mystery. The chiascuro lighting adds to the fear.
The non diegetic sound is "God bless America" this is an ironic contrast with the plot of the film as this film can be seen as mocking America.
The next shot is a close up of the femme fatale, this involves bright lighting to bring the audience into the action and create a tense atmosphere.
The camera changes to a high angle, tilt shot of Eves bed. It shows bullet holes in the shape of a body, this is seen as a warning to Eve about what can happen to her partner noodles and what is about to happen to her. This immediatley introduces a murder within the first few minutes of the thriller film and is a great generic signifier.
The murder of Eve goes against the traditional thriller convention of the femme fatale. When Eve is shot there is shot of three men who are all framed with an arch way above them. This shot alone establishes that this film is a thriller.
The mise-en-scene suddenly cuts to more violence. Within a few minutes of the opening scene we have already seen the femme fatale get shot and a character getting beaten up. During this scene there is a continuous use of close ups to engage the audience and to create fear.
There is a low angle shot of a cop with a gun to make him look superior and powerful.
Sergio Leone also utilisers the generic lift shaft by using a worms eye view to make the lift look dangerous. The lift is producing tension.
There is a point of view shot/worms eye view shot of the character Noodles from the character who has been beaten up, this is the very first time we see this character. The purpose of this shot is to encourage the audience to emphasise with both characters the sense of confusion.