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Story Board for our production

1. The opening shots will be of the car that the main protagonist will be entering. The protagonist will be walking to the car, looking around him to make sure there is no one around him. This gives the audience an indication that he has a history behind him that arouses suspicion and also makes us feel like someone is watching him.

2. When he gets to the car we will see close ups of his hand reaching for the door, and there will also be point-of-view shots from inside of the car looking out. This emphasises the idea that he is constantly being watched by someone.

3. When the car door opens this will give us the opportunity to use match-on-action to show him entering the car. at which point he will enter take the gun out from his trousers and place in the the front compartment. Whilst this occurs the soundtrack will have reached full volume and the audience will feel like something is about to happen. The protagonist will then shut the door and silence will fall.

4. The silence will remain as he puts his seatbelt on and then reaches for the ignition of the car. As he starts the car a new soundtrack will start and will change the mood of the scene to one that is more light-hearted, but still keeping that sense of danger.

1. Then the assassin will reach over with a rope and the strangulation scene will then strangle the main protagonist. This will be whilst the new soundtrack is playing over it and will provide us with the ability to use fast-cut editing to make it far more thrilling.

2. The main protagonist will then die and there will be a huge emphasis on point-of-view shots from the perspective of the main protagonist. There will also be close-ups on his face as he dies, this will give the audience an indication that he is losing the fight.

3. When the protagonist dies there will be a shot of his body and the camera will move following the rope used to kill the man towards the back of the car this is where the film shall double up with the beginning of the film showing the titles.

4. At the end of the shot the focus will be on the titles printed on a newspaper to show the audience future events, written in French it will explain the context of the soundtrack to the film.

Most influential Thrillers of all time (in order of US release date)

50.  Vertigo (1958)

49. North by Northwest (1959)

48. Psycho (1960)

47. The French Connection (1971)

46. The Day of the Jackal (1973)

45. Chinatown (1974)

44. Marathon Man (1976)

43. Thief (1981)

44. Scarface (1983)

43. Angel heart (1987)

42. The Untouchables (1987)

41. Die Hard (1988)

40. Good Fellas (1990)

39. Misery (1990)

38. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

37. The Fugitive (1993)

36. Speed (1994)

35. Pulp Fiction (1994)

34. The Usual Suspects (1995)

33. Seven (1995)

32. Heat (1995)

31. Fargo (1996)

30. The Game (1997)

29. The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

28. Fallen (1998)

27. 8MM (1999)

26. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999)

25. The Green mile (1999)

24. Fight Club (1999)

23. Memento (2000)

22. Mulholland Drive (2001)

21. Phone Booth (2002)

20. Runaway Jury (2003)

19. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

18. The Machinist (2003)

17. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

16. Man on Fire (2004)

15. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

14. Inside Man (2006)

13. Crank (2006)

12. The Departed (2006)

13. Deja Vu (2006)

12. Shooter (2007)

11. Eastern Promises (2007)

10. American Gangster (2007)

9. Awake (2007)

8. Taken (2008)

7. The Dark Knight (2008)

6. Shutter Island (2010)

5. Inception (2010)

4. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

3. Broken Thriller (2012)

2. Captain Thrillers (2013)

1. Gravity (2013)

 

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Actors in the Film

There will be three actors in our blog. Harry Preen will be the main protagonist. We will present him to the audience as a stereotypically 'cool' character, rather than a vunerable one. This will be ironic, especially when he gets killed in his car. He will be styled like the main protagonist in the film 'Defiance'.

The two German offivers will be played by Richard Gledhill and Felix Rouch. These characters will appear mysterious and will need to look intimidating to the audience. There will be an increased sense of threat as they are a sense of authority.

 

 

 



Potential Soundtrack Ideas

This is will potentially be our soundtrack to the thriller. This is because of the chromatic sound of the piece and also the minor key. It rises and builds suspense!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWD7k6TrJ-g

Lighting in our production

This is an example of the different types of lighting we will be using in our production. The bottom left of the montage shows the idea that we are trying to portray. The protagonist has his head bowed with a hat on, hiding his face. The right of the montage shows the street lamps lighting the area surrounding the protagonist. The middle image is the high angle lighting effect that we will try and attain. We will use it to make the shadow of the character stretch out in front of him to give a sense of mystery.

The lighting in the car will be fairly bright so we can see the expression of the protagonist. We also need to be able to see the action inside the car. We are going o achieve this through the use of exterior lighting that we have attached to a building next to the car. The lighting for our thriller will be used to create an eerie effect. This is because of our need to present the film using of Film Noir. We wanted however, to avoid using black and white to present the film. This we will get around by auto-adjusting the brightness in iMovie.

These examples of lighting put emphasis on the main protagonists face. They avoid capturing focus on much else in the framing of the shots. We will use this to illustrate the protagonists expression in the strangulation sequence.

Our Media production shot list!

Shot	Location	Shot Description	Framing	Action	Dialogue	Actors	Props	Notes
A	Auster Lodge Farm	Long Shot	The protagonist is the only one in the shot	The camera is still	N/A	Felix Rouch	He will be dressed with a brown leather jacket; he will be holding a pistol to create tension.	This shot will have non-diegetic sounds in the background. The titles will appear at the top of the screen in the center
B	Stamford Rec	Mid Shot	The Protagonist is running down the hill to town	The camera pans following the protagonist	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	We will not see the protagonists face to give a sense of mystery, The titles will still be coming up at this point giving a back story to the film
C	Stamford Rec	Medium close up	The camera focuses on the protagonists’ back, the rest of the scenery will be out of focus	He is walking with his head down, his hands are in his pockets	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	The main focused will be on the protagonist’s back. (This is like the opening to ‘The Place beyond the Pines’).
D	St Georges Square	Mid Shot	The street-lit	The camera will zoom out as he walks forwards, making it seem as though it is moving with him	N/A	Felix Rouch	The clothes he wears remain the same, yet the gun will be tucked down the back of his trousers.	The protagonists’ head will be bowed to emphasize the sense of mystery; he wants to stay out of site.
E	St Georges Square	Over-the-shoulder shot	The Street with two German officers in shot	The camera follows the protagonist as a tracking shot	N/A	Felix Rouch, Richard Gledhill, Harry Preen	The two German soldiers have holstered guns. They will also be wearing dark clothing; this gives the impression that they are antagonists.	The protagonist will try to keep his head down out of site of the two officers. The two officers will be out of focus just enough so the audience can make out that they are observing him.
F	St Georges Square	Point-of-view shot	The two German officers	Camera pan as though it is the man walking	N/A	Felix Rouch, Richard Gledhill, Harry Preen	“	The two officers will be staring straight at the camera to show how they are observing the protagonist.
G	St. Georges Square	Shot-Reverse	The Protagonist	Still camera	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	The protagonist will be walking across the street with his head bowed, he will turn to observe the Germans, this will give the audience the impression that he knows he is being watched.
H	St Georges Square	Shot Reverse	The two German Officers	Camera Pan	N/A	Richard Gledhill, Harry Preen	“	The two officers will turn away from the protagonist as he walks on, this will show that he is clear from any the threat of being discovered by the two officers.
I	St. Georges Square	Mid Shot	The Protagonist	Low angle shot	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	This will be a shot of the protagonist gaining speed now as he walks away from the officers and makes way to his destination.
J	St Georges Square	Mid Shot	The Protagonist	Still Camera	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	The protagonist will now be walking to his car (Morris Traveller); this will be parked so the front of the car is just appearing in the shot.
K	St Georges Square	Medium Close Up	The Protagonist	Tracking shot of his arm	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	The shot will show the protagonist reaching for the door handle of the car,
M	St Georges Square	Close Up	The Protagonist	Still camera	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	This will be a match-on-action shot of the hand on the door handle.
N	St. Georges Square	Medium Close Up	The Protagonist	Still camera	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	The inside of the door will show the match-on-action the man entering the vehicle.
O	St Georges Square	Point-of-view shot	The Protagonist	Still camera	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	The camera is pointing at the protagonist giving the audience the impression that there is someone in the backseat watching him,
P	St Georges Square	Medium close up	The Protagonist	Following the eye of the protagonist	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	He will look to the window of the car and realizes that the window is open.
Q	St Georges Square	Medium close up	The Protagonist	The face of the protagonist	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	The face of the protagonist shows surprise at the window. Then an assassin in the backseat will throw a belt round his neck and he will struggle. This will be the first time we properly see the protagonists face.
R	St Georges Square	Point-of-view shot	The Protagonist	The hands of the assassin and the back of the protagonist’s head.	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	The man will be struggling this will be fast-cut editing switching between these two shots. This shot will also be a high-angle shot to show how the man is venerable in his position.
S	St Georges Square	Medium close up	The protagonist	The Protagonists face and the hands of the killer	N/A	Felix Rouch	“	This will be the final shot of the sequence where the killer has killed the protagonist; it is a shot of his face against the steering wheel.  The horn will be sounding whilst the credits rise up the screen. He will be facing the camera so the audience sees his expression.