2. The name of my Thriller Film is “Buried” and it is a Romantic, Gritty thriller
that is about jealousy. I chose the name Buried because the plot of the
Opening is about a mysterious and spooky character who seems to be burying
someone, it also establishes a love story between the other two characters and
one of these characters are getting buried alive!
QUESTION 1 : INTRODUCTION
3. In my thriller opening I used a mixture
of generic aspects of the Thriller genre.
I also challenged some generic aspects
to give my opening a stronger variety of
aspects, these vary from my use of
locations, characters, costumes and
props.
GENERIC ASPECTS
4. The use of locations in my Opening uses generic Aspects of Thriller films
because the majority of them are quite confined spaces, such as the alleyway
scene. This gives a claustrophobic atmosphere which can be quite spooky
and horrifying especially when a black and white effect has been applied to
the scene. An example of a Thriller that uses the same generic aspects as my
Thriller opening is The third man because it also uses quite claustrophobic
streets/alleyways such as when we first see Harry Lime, also in the scene when
the small boy is suspicious and chasing Holly Martins in the dark and confined
streets and alleyways.
LOCATION
5. LOCATION SHOTS
This is where the alleyway shots
were taken from in a long
alleyway in a city called
Norwich in Norfolk
6. LOCATION SHOTS (CONTINUED)
This is where I filmed
the burial scene in a
small wooded area called
the pit near a village
called Hethersett which
is about 5 miles away
from our other location
at Norwich.
7. The characters in my Opening also uses and develop Generic Aspects
because in a typical Thriller the main character is a male and also so is
the villain, in my thriller the villain and the main character are the same
person, also the victim is female which is also a typical Generic Aspect
of a thriller but the characters also challenge the aspects because the
feme fatal survives the attack from the male villain. Thrillers that use
the same aspects as my opening is Jackie brown and kill bill 2. The
reason these thrillers use the same aspects is because in Jackie brown,
Louis , the male villain shoots the feme fatal Melanie and this is similar
because Michael, the main villain shoots Jess the feme fatal. Kill bill 2
uses the same aspects as my opening because the female, the bride
survives being buried alive.
CHARACTERS
8. The costumes used in our opening challenge generic aspects because we do not use a costume
such a suit, shirt and ties, we chose not to do this because we did not feel like it would fit into
our opening of our thriller film because we have some scenes that have a lot of people walking
around and they would all be in modern high street fashion so we thought that it would not work
having our characters walking around in 1940’s styled clothing. Another issue would be money
our film is very low budget so we would not be able to afford 1940’s costumes and keep it low
budget.
In our Thriller opening we decided to go for a modern high street fashion costume because we
felt it fitted in with the time that our film opening is set and also helps us market our film to a
younger audience. A thriller that uses high street fashion is kill bill 2.
COSTUME
9. We didn’t use to many props in our thriller opening because we did not want
the audiences focus getting taken away by a large quantity of props keep
getting pulled out and we thought that the props we did use was powerful and
effective in the plot of our opening.
We used 3 props overall a switchback knife, a bed sheet and a shovel. The
switchback knife is small and easily concealable but deadly in the wrong hands
and shows the audience how dedicated a murder is by planning out and hiding
small objects that can do a lot of damage quickly and that can also be easily
disposable. A similar knife can be seen in Wild at Heart in the fight scene on
the stairs where the knife is flicked out quickly and easily and has the light
reflect off it to make it look more menacing.
PROPS
