Filming

Today me and my group finished the filming for our thriller. All we have to do now is edit our film on Final Cut Express ready to be uploaded to a DVD.

Location Pictures (Night Time)

Notice the mysterious figure reflecting in the window...

Road at night

Road at night

Front of the house

Under the lampost

Under the lampost

Under the lampost

Location Pictures

This is the location where we will be filming our thriller. It is just an ordinary street in Dagenham with plenty of street lights for lighting (as we will be filming at night). The house we are using has a window facing the street which is ideal.

The window which the character of Katie will see Daniel from.

Where Katie and Daniel will have their conversation before the murder.

The street where filming will take place.

Exam Board Titles

These are the official opening titles for our thriller. These titles are purely for the exam board to establish who we are for marking.

Interviews for Audience Research

These are the interviews our group carried out to assess what our audience would look for in a thriller. We all sat down as a group and devised questions to ask selected members of our class and staff.

Treatment

Name of Film: 'Hidden'

Outline of Ideas:

Two young people are walking home from a party after a long night out. As they stop outside the girls house, they begin a short conversation. In the background, the audience can see a shadowed figure at the bottom of the street under a lampost. As they talk unaware of the figure's presence, it begins to move closer. The boy and girl say goodnight and the girl goes inside. The boy then turns around to leave but his throat is slashed and he is left outside the girl's house in a pool of blood. When the girl is inside, she places down her bag and coat and goes to the window to shut the blinds. As she glances out of the window, she sees something on the floor. As she leans closer to the window to look at what it is, the reflection of a hooded figure is in the window behind her. When she realises the thing on the floor is the body of her friend, she gasps and turns around only to be confronted with the killer. She screams.

Resources:

3 actors - one boy and one girl as the main protagonists, one killer.

Dark road that can be quite well lit by street lights.

House with windows looking onto the street.

A knife.

Fake blood. penis

How will these ideas fit the genre?:

-Silhouette of the killer creates mystery as you cannot see their face. It also creates an enigma because the audience will want to know who the killer is and question their motives.

- Shock is created when the boy gets attacked with the knife; the attack was unexpected and sudden.

- Suspense is created while the boy and girl are mid conversation and the audience can see a dark figure moving closer. Suspense is also created when the killer's reflection is in the window but the girl does not see it.

Music for our Thriller

This is the music we obtained from mobygratis.com to use in our thriller. We thought this music would be suitable for our film as is sounds creepy and eerie.