The document outlines a pitch for a crime thriller film called Optimum Productions. It will follow a detective trying to catch a serial killer who murdered his daughter. The opening scene shows the daughter being killed after work by the killer, while the detective is working on the case. Questionnaire results found people preferred a male hero, workplace setting, and low key lighting. The film will be shot on location at a school and costumes were chosen to convey meanings about the characters. The film aims to keep audiences engaged through mystery and using genre conventions of thrillers.

1. Jay Pinches, Callum Neilson, Sam Farrington, Laura Monument
THRILLER PITCH

2. Film company
Our film company is Optimum
Productions and we strive to make
the best thriller based films
possible. We specialise in Crime
Thrillers which is a sub genre and
this will hopefully engage the
audience to watch our films.
Optimum symbolises that we are
the best independent film
company around, and what to
continue making extraordinary
films.

3. Film opening
 We decided that out film starts with a girl leaving work,
however someone suspicious is waiting for her. Her
father is a detective, however the audience don’t know
this yet. He is working on a case about a serial killer. On
his desk there is images of the murderer and the victims,
the father is trying to piece them together and find
information that links them. The murderer is known to
the characters as well as the audience. The girl gets
mugged and murdered by the strange figure, however
his face is seen, it is the same serial killer. As cross cutting
will be shown in the opening a worker will tell the
detective a body has been found. A picture is shown
which then shows the audience it is his daughter, the
opening then ends.

4. Overall Vision
 The overall vision of our thriller is that the
detective is trying to find the serial killer and
get him arrested. This will create mystery and
keep the audience on edge as they don’t
know when or if he is caught. We want our
thriller to be very mysterious and to keep the
audience engaged. We will do this by using
many genre conventions.

5. Questionnaire results
The questionnaire results show that
people would expect the hero to be
male and taken place in a work place.
We decided to use these answers and
produce our opening around them.
The majority of people answered 18
for the certificate for film opening,
however a lot of people also answered
15, therefore we decided for out film
target audience to be 15. Low key
lighting was a popular answer,
therefore we will use a lot of low key
lighting as it engages the audience as
well as creates a mysterious
atmosphere and makes them sit on
the edge of their seat.

6. Locations we use
 We will film the murder scene in a dark room
within school because it is easy to access and
this works with the idea that the girl is
murdered in the workplace. This setting also
fits in with the idea of an ordinary person
being put in a extraordinary situation. Also,
our questionnaire results show that the most
popular setting for a thriller film is in the
workplace.

7. Costumes
 The costumes have been chosen very carefully for our
opening as we want to give the correct information out to
the audience and use Mise En Scene correctly.
 Victim(girl)-Casual yet sophisticated clothes, this shows she
is leaving from work and gives the audience the impression
she is well dressed and looks after herself.
 Murderer – The murderer will be dressed in all black
clothes, with a balaclava. This shows the audience he is
dangerous and his identity doesn’t want to be seen.
 Detective-The detective will be wearing very smart clothes,
including a long coat. This suggests to the audience he has
power.
 Detectives worker-Very similar to the detective, smart
clothes.

8. Thriller Themes
 Themes that our thriller film will
communicate include murder, weapons and
crime. This is communicated by the villain
being a serial killer on the run and the hero
being a detective trying to avenge his
daughter. This also reveals the sub-genre of
our thriller which is a crime thriller.

9. Target Audience
 Our target audience are people aged 16-21,
we chose this because of our questionnaire
results. We have decided to target an older
age rather then young teenagers so we can
have more explicit behaviour which will
entertain and engage the audience to watch
the film.

10. Genre Conventions
 Ordinary person in an extraordinary situation.
 Use of weapons
 Fight scene
 Photographs
 Low key lighting
 Shadows
 Tension
 Cross cutting