Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Thriller planning and ideas

Characters:

Connor Pink - Role: Killer, Character name: Michael
Tom Cutmore - Role: Main victim, Character name: - Mason
Rajumnd Kis - Szabo - Role: Victim who is featured at the start of the film, Character name: Jeffery

Character features/profiles

Michael - played by Connor Pink - Twitchy and jealous charismatic killer
Mason - played by Tom Cutmore - Casual, happy but yet paranoid of what is around him
Jeffery - played by Rajmund Kis- Szabo - (As when alive) - Friendly but cautious to who he meets

Locations (possible)

-Bridge near Wairose
-Old loading Dock at Anglia Square
-CNS - Use of lifts

Plot

Hitman Michael (Connor) is jealous of Mason (Tom) and his girlfriend, and becomes more and more possessed by the idea of Mason being with his girlfriend and not him.  After his first killing of Jeffery (Rajmund), he gets startled by the blood all over his hands, which he sees as Mason's and with this, he begins to slowly turn more and more psychotic about the idea, and starts to constantly rub his hands together as if he was still washing the blood off of them and keeps having flashbacks and looking at photos of the couple together that he took.  This then drives him over the edge and then sets out to find Mason.  He eventually does find him in CNS and starts to follow him on the way to meet his girlfriend.  In the final scene, Mason enters the lift and presses the third floor, and as the doors start to close and almost reached shutting, Michael manages to stop the doors and gets in, pressing the second floor button, and then standing behind Mason.  When the doors close, Michael makes his attack, stabbing Mason and then leaving him on the floor to bleed and die.  The lift then stops on the second floor and Michael gets out, leaving Mason dead in the lift to go to the third floor.  When it reaches the third floor where Mason's girlfriend is waiting, the doors open and she sees Mason dead on the floor looking back up at her, she then screams/panics and then the film ends on a cliff - hanger

Objects and Props used

Toy knife
Baseball bat
(Possibly a Zippo lighter)

Costumes

Michael (Connor) - Military coat and hat
Jeffery (Rajmund) - Full black; - Jeans, hoodie or top and shoes
Mason (Tom) - Everyday casual wear; - Jeans, casual top and a hoodie

Shot list
  • Over the shoulder
  • Close up + extreme close up
  • Panning shot
  • Tracking shot
  • Tilt shot
  • Low angle shot
  • Worm's eye
  • Bird's eye
  • Medium zoom shot
Lighting techniques
  • Chiaroscuro lighting
  • Ambient and non ambient

1 comment:

  1. An enthusiastic start to your planning. Your storyline sounds quite complicated - and is perhaps too complicated for a 2 minute opening to a thriller film.

    I suggest you do a shot list and story board and think of the film visually.

    ..shot of Michael (over the shoulder shot) watching a couple walking in front of him.

    ...flash back of Michael and the girl in monochrome.
    ...Cut to real time with tilt low angle shot of Michael rubbing blood off his hands.
    .....flash back (monochrome) of girl trying to get in lift...
    ..... cut to real time of .....

    Think of strong visuals with flashbacks cutting between past events and real time....you don't give away too much in the opening because there is in reality 2 more hours of the film to play!!!!

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