The document outlines a group's proposal for a thriller film opening involving a stalker. It discusses initially rejected ideas, such as having a female stalker or starting with a murder. Inspiration was drawn from films like Prom Night that feature stalking. The group decided Lauren would play the main character and auditioned friends to play the stalker. They plan to include suspenseful music and draw on thriller conventions to create tension and unease for the audience. The final idea involves a girl having nightmares of being stalked by a man in a white hoodie that turn out to be real.
4. When a stranger calls When a stranger calls isn’t exactly based around a stalker but it has parts which inspire us such as the telephone ringing with an unknown caller. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY06922dL2s
5. Below are pictures that we found inspiring as when we came across them we thought they would work well within a thriller or horror film because they’re hidden away in places that look and seem mysterious. The road looks like a place a stalker would wait around at and the spy hole always makes thrillers more exciting!
9. Casting For our thriller opening we have decided that Lauren will be in the video herself because we auditioned people to play the role for the character but we didn’t think they were good enough, we could not find the right people to play the role of the character. Lauren will play a key character in the film and so therefore will be acting in the thriller opening. As our film is based on a stalker, we need someone (particularly a boy) to play the role of the stalker. Kerry’s friend Ben has volunteered to play the role of the stalker so we have decided to film him acting to see if will be the best person to act as our stalker.
10. Our Group have decided that we will play music throughout the whole opening so it creates a suspense atmosphere . We have decided that we will create our own music but we have been looking at a few thriller themes and openings that interest and give us a few ideas for our music. We will be playing music at the point where the opening is getting quite dramatic and scary so we want to create music that sounds dramatic, creates tension and suspense and is a little bit scary. Jaws - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4 Psycho - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tek8QmKRODw Mimic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtyuc2Rz2mQ Possible Music
11. In most thriller films there is usually a crime or mystery. They often use suspense tension and excitement to make the thriller more scary and etc. Thrillers are mostly pictured by an atmosphere of menace, violence, crime and murder and are often has a dark, corrupt setting .Thriller films also create moods such as high levels of anticipation, adrenaline rush, uncertainty, anixiety and sometimes terror. Thriller films also have a protagonist who is symatically dis-empowered and extraordinary events happeing in ordinary situations. Our thriller opening meets the thriller conventions because it contains most of the elements a thriller is made up of. It will create uncertainty and anxiety for the audience and it will have a dark and mysterious setting. Also we will have a protagonist who is a victim in the thriller. Our opening is actually a psychological thriller as it is about a stalker , it will contain menace, murder and violence . Thriller Conventions
12. Final idea: Our final idea for our thriller opening is; A nor mal teenage girl having nightmares about an unknown man in a white hoodie, you can see the girl having nightmares and then you can suddenly see what she is dreaming about and then it flashes back to her tossing and turning in her bed from her nightmares. It will then turn into reality where you can see that this man in a white hoodie is actually real and the audience will be able to see that he is stalking the girl and she does not know it yet. Tagline: The known is unknown.
![Ideas Rejected: In our interview, we asked our audience what they thought of some of our ideas. Keeley, who is a 14 year old teenager which is the age of our target audience told us some ideas which she thought wouldn’t work: ,[object Object]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)