Music for thriller

Music:

We are going to create our music for our thriller on Garage Band. There will be music throughout most of our opening. We are trying to set the tone and atmosphere that there is something wrong and that there is danger in the school. We would start the music with a slow and calmer tone, and then will build up this tone into a more dramatic and dangerous feeling. We want to make our viewer feel the danger before they see it and feel the panic the character is feeling.

We made a soundtrack to the opening of the film 'Taking Lives', and we will follow a similar format to the one we used for this in garage band. We will add in appropriate sound effects and noises where they are needed.

By Kirsten Toye and Charlotte Bocking

Shot Types

This is going to be a variety of shot types we are considering using in our opening.

1. We are thinking of using a close up of the hostage's face, who is tied up, as this will show the viewer the sense of panic of the character and should increase the feeling of danger.

2. We could use a long shot to create isolation as the victim/hostage will be stood in a corner.

3. We might use a pan across the place where the victim is then focus on the victim as if they have only just seem them.

4.We could use a reaction shot to how the character has a sense on fear and this will pass onto the viewer.

5. Establishing shot to get the audience familiar with the location and let them realise it is set in a school.

6. We could use a high angle shot of the hostage to show them looking isolated and vulnerable.

7. We could use a canted angle to show that the hostage is injured and in trouble

8. We could use a extreme close up on the hostage to show where they have been hurt so the viewer knows that they are hurt and in trouble.

By Kirsten Toye and Charlotte Bocking

The Faculty

We have made a mood board up of images from the opening of The Faculty. We have chosen these images as you can see they are set in a school. It also shows the characters being trapped and unable to escape, which we want to make our characters look the same when we film our thriller. It builds up tension as you can see that the characters can not escape at all as there is a chain lock on the doors, and anyone is running everywhere trying to escape. We would like to build this tension up in our thriller.

By Kirsten Toye and Charlotte Bocking

The Faculty Opening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0qHnO8CWSE

We viewed this thriller, The Faculty, and we watched this as it is similar to what we are going to do. Our thriller is going to be set in a school after everyone has gone home, and this thriller opening starts in a high school after hours and this is where the story line starts. The football coach in this film is the killer and attempts to kill other members of staff in the first 8 minutes of the film. This is similar to our idea as someone discovers someone taken hostage within the first 2 minutes. In The Faculty someone also discovers the teacher who is hurt quite quickly. This builds tension as the person is still alive but could be killed and that makes you want to keep watching.

As it is set later in the evening when the school is not meant to be open to everyone there are similarities there. They are both set in the dark so both have harder visibility so you cannot 100% see what is going on, and this confuses the watcher and builds up the tension.

This is a mood board of potential ideas that relate to what our thriller will be like.
We have put the you tube image of the boy in the chair because we liked the idea of if this and are thinking about using it in our thriller.
We have put the the second image in because the actors are in a hostage situation. We like the use of back lighting to create a sense of drama.
We have entered the image of Long Road Sixth Form College, because this is where we will be filming our thriller.
We choose to put the image of Jennifer's Body as it is set in a school so it influences our thriller.
We have used a picture of a boy held hostage because we would like to add this into our thriller, because as we mentioned before the video from the first picture influences our thriller a lot.

Planning Our Thriller

Location - We are going to shoot our thriller in the school grounds as all 3 of us live too far away to meet up elsewhere. We will either be using a corridor inside the college, then into one of the classrooms which will have the lights off, or we will be using the main hall and the back of the stage. Tomorrow we will be looking at each location to choose which one will fit our storyline the best.

Storyline - The start of the thriller will be a student at the college is in college late at night, so out of school hours, doing some extra work. There are not many people in the college which will add to the eeriness and the tension. They feel as if they are being followed, so make a fast walk/run towards either the classroom or the main hall. If they enter the classroom, they will find the lights off, tables turned at pushed to the side and someone tied up in the corner. If they enter the main hall they will go behind the stage and discover someone tied up hidden behind the stage. As it is dark the person tied up will not be visible straight away and the camera will be moving fast to give the effect of the student panicking and looking around quickly. It will the quickly flick to the credits which are pictures on a board and newspapers which the credits written on these images. They writing will flicker and the title will be slightly transparent to give a spooky effect. The genre of our thriller is a psychological thriller as you would not know why someone is tied up and who put them there. Also there will be noises when the student is in the dark which would build up the suspense as you would not know who or what is there.

long road influence

This video has certain aspects we are going to use as a influence for our thriller trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/longroadmediastudies#p/c/AA38FF5975A95FB3/52/qwmepUMmtr4