List of Roles

 Directing- Tash

Camerawork & Editing- Jaimie

Camerawork- Tommy

Acting- Oli 

StoryBoard

 

Script

*Scene 1*

[HIGHT ANGLE SHOT of front door in silence for 10 seconds before a silhouette appears and sound track starts playing. The door opens frantically showing a young male with an unhealthy and unkempt appearance suggesting that his background is complicated. The character walks over the camera and then it switches to a wide shot of the kitchen, which is cluttered in appearance. Shot of them rummaging through the cupboards searching for something these are fast paced in order to convey the sense of urgency felt by the character. They pull out a shoe box with an envelope filled with ID's and passports. CLOSE UP and OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT of these before they run up the stairs and enters the bedroom, pulling out a suitcase from under the bed and throwing the fake ID's inside. Opening draws pulling out various items of clothes throwing them into the case. Taking a brown parcel tied with string from a hiding place and putting this into the case too. Phone Rings and character answers it. Although you are able to hear the caller talking, what is being said is inaudible. Character responds in short replies in order to leave the audience in further suspense about the nature of their troubles. Character hangs up phone and finishes packing suitcase before rushing out of the house slamming the door behind him.]

*Scene 2*

[WIDE SHOT looking down and sitting on a bench of a train station platform. Sound is uncomfortably silent to depict the eye of the storm again suggesting there is more to the story. Character is restless and there is a side view shot of him looking up before a train pulls into the platform and the screen goes black again.]​

Script Ideas

Final Idea

For our AS Thriller Opening Sequence we decided to do Idea 3 called 'On the Run'.
We decided to do this because we thought it would create a more suspenseful opening sequence having one character rushing around allowing the audience to follow the character's every move so that they themselves can foreshadow events and see the tension in the opening sequence.

Where did our idea come from?
We decided to take our idea from the AS Thriller Opening Sequence called 'Excemption'. We thought this because the opening sequence shows example of characters running away from something and how they feel and look as they are escaping. Although during this opening sequence we see the two main characters have escaped from something we are just involving our character in running away from something that has happened. Therefore we are creating a suspenseful thriller that allows the audience to think of a background story for the heroine of the thriller allowing the audience to see the tension in the storyline.

Lighting

Lighting throughout our AS Thriller Opening Sequence will be a mixture of dark and bright lighting. For example at the start of our thriller sequence we will have bright lighting as the heroine runs up to the door, however as the heroine steps into their house the lighting then gets darker suggesting the mood has changed and the audience are starting to get suspicious of he main character. The Lighting then will continue to be dark throughout the opening sequence until the heroine goes back outside where the lighting will go back to how it was at the beginning. This will suggest how the main character can no longer be himself and cannot look suspicious in case someone notices him outside. This allows the audience to see the suspense and tension of the character and the way he acts depending on the lighting of the thriller opening sequence.

Natasha Williams

Dark Inside

Bright Light Outside

Editing Ideas

For our opening sequence of a thriller film we decided to use different editing techniques to show the tension within the thriller and the suspense from the main character:

• Pace - throughout the thriller we decided to use a quick pace while the character was rushing around the house picking up things they would need to get away. We decided to use a quick pace for this to show the audience the chaotic nature of the thriller and how the heroine needs to get out of the house quickly to get away from what they are running from.
• Cross Cutting - we also decided to use cross cutting throughout our thriller. This was so the audience can follow every movement the heroine is making and to quickly show what the character is picking up and where is he rushing too around the house for example outside to the kitchen to the bedroom. This also shows the chaotic nature of the thriller.
• Match on action - for our thriller we also plan to use match on action also to allow the audience to follow the heroine through each room they go into. This allows the audience to follow every aspect of the story and see the tension through the fast pace of the match on action

The scene we are trying to film is of a character who enters his house in a panicked and urgent state, then collecting items from his house and packing them in a suitcase, including a mysterious package, before quickly leaving again, so we will try to resemble this in the way we edit the film. As the character is rummaging through cupboards looking for a passport, the shots will be fast paced to show the sense of urgency from the character. There will also be a use of cross cutting when the character is packing his suitcase, cutting to the passport, package and clothes, as well as the bag being taken off the top of a wardrobe. The whole scene will be fast paced as the character is looking to leave his house as quickly as possible. The whole scene will also try not to reveal anything about the character, leaving an air of mystery, as the audience is clueless as to who this person is or why they are in a rush to pack a bag and leave.