2. The first shot is an establishing shot of a dark road with
houses either side. The Title of the film appears in this frame.
It is the first frame the audience would see so establishing the
film name here was a conventional approach to take. I felt
that it was only right to do so however in order to establish
the film straight away and give the audience an indication of
what they are about to view.
The font used for the title is minian pro bold font . We chose
this font as it is easy to read to for the viewers and is very
plain, in contrast to the storyline of the film. We felt as if the
title shouldn’t be too complex as our target audience
wouldn’t pay too much attention to it anyway. We chose the
colour white simply because against the darkness of the shots
it stands out and forces the audience to pay attention at that
point, it was very important to keep our target audience
engaged as they are quite young so having eye catching
factors in our film is important.

3. We chose a very conventional and cliché location for our
thriller storyline to be set, that is within an eerie
menacing looking dark house.
We decided to have a shot of the house in order to get
the audience familiar with the location straight away.
The shot is film using a first person camera angle this was
done so the audience could feel like they were actually in
the film as a character. This style also gives the shot a
sense of enigma, keeping the audience observant and
wanting to know more.
All our shots are located in confined spaces this was to
keep the audience on edge at all times, keeping the
suspenseful quality of the thriller genre intact.
Having the shot of the main road allows the viewers
imagination to run wild as they try to reason as to what
will happen next, the ordinary location of the road leaves
the viewer able to think as much as they want as there is
no obvious qualities to hint at a storyline.

4. the next shot establishes a character. He is called ‘tom’
and is the main actor and protagonist. He is shown wearing
a t-shirt and pyjamas regular clothing as we wanted him to
appeal to our target audience of young adults, these are
the typical style of clothing they would wear.
He is shown with a mug/glass this is very important as it
our main prop and in accordance with the storyline is the
motive for the character moving around. He is shown
looking in the mug, there is nothing inside therefore he has
a motive.
The pyjamas represent what the character was doing and
suggest a time of day to the audience.
Our film followed the conventions of a normal media
product in a sense that we established a character within
the first few shots.
For the antagonist we used an all black costume, that hid
his entire face. Because of the storyline his face wasn’t
important. The black colour also reinforces the
stereotypical colour that a antagonist in a thriller would
wear. This is because of the negative associations the
colour black carries.
The antagonist seems much bigger that the protagonist
when in fact its only because of the over shoulder shot that
makes it seem this way. We did this to follow the idea that
all films in thriller genre have. That is the antagonist having
a sense of supremacy that allows them to commit the
negative acts.

5. Many high production value and highly funded flims can afford
to have sophisticated equipment and trained technicians . In
order to produce big complex special effects. Unfortunately
we did not have a budget like most mainstream films. This
forced us to rely on special effects coming from some of our
group acting off screen to produce a desired effect. We did not
add any effects in post-production.
This shot establishes further enigma in the storyline with the
character looking in the fridge and as he opens the fridge door
a light in the background turns on, indicating other presence in
the house that he is unaware.

6. This shot shows our protagonist searching for a
something using a flashlight. We chose tried to
find more interesting ways for the viewer to
witness the events. For this we chose to add
subtle differences in the shots we used. Such as
have low angle medium shots instead of the
conventional medium shot, to make the shot
more interesting.
In this shot we can see the outline of the
character, and the focal point of the shot is the
beam of light caused by the light. The shadows
created in this shot make for an interesting non
conventional medium shot.

7. In this shot are characters is
established clearly using a
medium close-up shot. His
mental state can be observed by
the audience just by them seeing
his facial expression

8. In this shot the character has just left his room,
we didn’t film the entire sequence of him
leaving as it would take to long so we used a
jump cut. In editing. Its not a conventional
method of film editing as it takes away from
the continuity editing aspect that tries to give
the appearance of continuous time and space
in the story-world by de-emphasizing editing.

9. ‘Scratched Car Paint‘ is the font used for
the production company we created. This
production company is all about furthering
the exposure and credibility of thriller
films. The typography represents thriller
well, resembling “anger” and fear two
major elements used in thriller genre.