Our Final Idea

Final Idea -

After talking about our three different ideas for our thriller film; we finally decided that Option 3; with the two hitmen was the best, and we could incorporate a lot of key thriller conventions in this film. For example, we can easily use red herrings, in the sense that the audience doesn't know that the man who calls at the woman's door is a hitman and shocks and confuses the audience when they see him kill her. It keeps the idea of normality and realism up until the point he does kill her.

Also, we can use camera shots such as point of view, tracking shots and over the shoulder shots which will add to the effect of a thriller film. We will use quite a lot of dialogue as the audience will need to see the man and woman having a conversation, but the conversation will seem very normal and realistic which will lead the auidence to believe that the man means no harm.

The use of the first woman in the forest blindfolded will add suspense and tension but will not play a major part of the opening, it will last a very short amount of time which will give the audience only a glimpse of what could happen. The idea of only showing a short clip of this is so that the film can return quickly to 'normality' and the audience will be left wondering what the significance of the blindfolded woman is.

A common theme we are trying to achieve in this film is realism and how normal the plot will seem. For example, the idea of someone coming to your house to talk to you about a matter they feel strongly about or to tell you that you have won something; could happen in real life. This will hopefully make the audience feel vulnerable and make them think how easily it could happen to them. Also the setting of the film; a house, is very normal too and normally people will feel very safe in their own home, but this plot completely goes against that idea and is different to other thrillers as most people will be killed during a fight, robbery, public place etc.

The prop used (knife or gun) which will suddenly appear will shock the audience and will automatically make them think something bad is about to happen. This can represent binary opposites as the plot starts off very real and normal, an everyday situation. But very quickly changes to a completely different situation, which is the complete opposite to the previous setting.