The document describes three locations and three characters for a thriller film project by a student group. Location 1 is an empty hallway that will be used at the beginning to create mystery. Location 2 is a drama studio where three characters will discuss mysterious dreams. Character 1, Jess, has a premonition of a girl running in a hallway. Character 2, Ellie, has nightmares of the same and feels distressed. Character 3, Charlotte, disagrees with them until having a premonition herself at the end, leaving the audience with confusion.

1. The Location and
Characters for our
Final Task.

2. Location 1
The Hallway
This is the location we will use at the beginning of
our opening, as we find this fits the thriller
convention as the film wont identify the official
location of this hall way which creates mystery.
Also its very empty which makes it very gloomy
and creates tension as if the character isn’t similar
with this location. Also by researching other thriller
films such as ‘The Cell’ which has a scene where
there’s a chase through a hallway, which inspired
my group to proceed in developing this idea, so we
will use this location at the beginning before the
title and identifying why there is a girl running
down the hallway, to confuse the audience and
create mystery.

3. Location 2
Drama Studio
For our second location we needed something
that would use our scene in the script, which is
when the three girls are having a conversation
about certain events such as: the party and
mystery dreams. So to keep it as if they were at a
normal day of school/college we kept the
characters in a similar environment to them. We
(my group) feel this is a suitable location to fit our
thriller convention as although is not your typical
creepy gloomy place, it creates mystery into why it
has cut into this ‘normal day of college’ rather
then continuing the chase down the hall way.

4. Character - Jess
Luckily for my group we were able to have
access to A Level Drama Students, Jess is one
of these students, currently in her last year of
college. Through having this advantage we
used Jess being our Character who has
premonitions in the day of a girl running
down a hallway as if she’s being chased
(Identify the reason for the scene at the
beginning of a girl running down the hall way)
She is able to relate to another character
‘Ellie’ who has the same vision but in
nightmares. Through them both having a
discussion about this premonition/nightmare
they’re both having creates mystery and
confusion because of how they’re both
experiencing this and this also fits the thriller
convention in the emotions caused by
this, e.g. mystery and confusion.

5. Character - Ellie
Again Ellie is another A Level Drama Student
studying her last year of college who we were
able to gain access to use. Ellie is the character
who brings up first the nightmares of the girl
running down the hallway (identifying the first
scene of the girl running down the hallway) but
she feels very distressed about these
nightmares as they’re continuous. Throughout
the discussed she looks uncomfortable and
distressed until she can relate to another
character ‘Jess’ which gives the effect of relief.
We feel Ellie fits our thriller genre because she
is the typical mysterious character from the
beginning which we make clear by the editing
using close up’s of Ellie to show her emotions.

6. Character - Charlotte
Once again Charlotte is another A level Drama
Student currently in her last year in college who we
were successful in gaining access to use her.
Charlotte is the character who disagrees with the
other two characters ‘Ellie’ and ‘Jess’ about these
nightmares/premonitions they’re having and thinks
they’re going crazy. After disagreeing with them and
laughing at them, when she gets up to leave the
room she has a premonition herself which the film
ends at. We feel this fits the thriller convention as by
having a character who disagrees having emphasise
the problems this is causing the two character
although at the end she has this experience herself
which it ends at to leave mystery to the audience to
want to know what happens next. Also by Charlotte
having this premonition at the end leaves confusion
to the audience into understanding why all three
characters are having these
premonitions/nightmares?