Opening to a thriller

Plan by Natalia Compa

Introduction

• I quite like the idea of some sort of scheme in a thriller or where something is happening on screen but the audience, however due to this only being the opening to a thriller there is a limit to how much my group and I can film in terms of the actual storyline.

Plot

• With only little discussion about the opening, I’ve been thinking about what my group and I could produce. I like psychological aspects to films, whereby characters have been emotionally and physically scarred by certain situations, with flashbacks to what happened to them in the past. Perhaps they encountered conflict and are now trying to resolve it.

Plot

• I also like the idea of a teen drama, in this case a group of teenagers get into some trouble involving a serious crime, at a certain point the group of teenagers begin to encounter drug problems and are now trying to get away from the police and other suspicious characters. During their journey they meet some good people and some bad people

Location

• The best location I would think would be in Central London for some action packed scenes, or anywhere with busy road with some police cars and lights, this would be perfect in order to create some intense scenes where a group of teenagers may be trying to get away from someone.

• This location would also be effective in creating a tense atmosphere.

Location

• Another good location for filming would be a place that is popular for teens to spend their time, maybe at a shopping centre or a party where the group of teenagers encounter their first issue or perhaps when these teenagers first meet each other or a bad character. Locations like these would attract a younger demographic as they could relate to these locations and events.

Characters

• Characters who would be a part of this opening to a thriller would be a group of around four or five teenagers, depending on location we may need somebody playing the character of a parent or guardian, someone older and responsible.

Costumes

• Costumes could vary quite widely if this thriller was hugely based upon some teenagers.

• It would definitely need to be fashionable and popular at this current time so that it is not outdated and that teenagers watching this opening would become more immersed in the film.

Costumes

• However costumes of the other characters, whether this character is a responsible adult or a bad character (a drug dealer of some sort) would dress obviously differently to represent their authority

• An adult may be dressed more smartly e.g. A blazer, while the others are very casual e.g. A pair of tracksuits.

Make up

• If the characters are female and young they could have normal makeup e.g. Eye shadow, lipstick etc. An older woman may use less makeup and darker makeup like for example a darker red lipstick which could represent a sophisticated woman.

• Other makeup could be special effects makeup for example if one of the characters was to be wounded, special FX makeup could be used to emphasise the injury.

Props

• Depending on what we decide to do for our opening to a thriller, there could be any types of props used to show significance of a certain situation, for example if the group of teenagers are in serious trouble a gun could be used to show how severe the issue is so that it is easier for the audience to understand.