In the production of the story board for our thriller we were able to concentrate on both the size and angle of each planned shot, which we felt was very beneficial as it gave us a clearer idea of how effective we can make the opening sequence, in the way we present each shot. We decided to consider what kinds of feelings we wanted to provoke in the audience (fear, nervousness) and the subconsious implications that we wanted to give them (the character's feelings/danger), and how the angle and size of each shot would effect these things...
- We decided to use a wide shot in order to establish the setting because this size would allow us to show the entire house and perhaps some of it's surroundings of trees and overgrown bushes. We also felt that this is the most efficient way of immediately creating an enigma as the shot will be of a house which appears to be damaged and abandonned, by choosing to shoot this as a wide shot we hope to make the audience intregued as to what has happened here or what will happen in the following sequence.
- We have included many close ups in order to place attention on certain objects/characters' actions. The things that we will shoot as close ups include a car wheel pulling up (to make the audience intregued about who is in the car and why are they there), a suitcase of objects (to provoke interest as to who it belongs to and what the objects inside are for), a trail of blood on the floor (to create a fearful, concerned atmosphere about who's blood it is and who caused it to be there), the victims face (to portray her own fear which would ideally cause the audience to fear for her) and a match (to create suspense and an enigma in the sense that the audience do not know what the outcome of lighting the match will be at the end of the sequence.
- We have included the use of a low angle shot in order to portray the powerful, confident characters of the detectives when they are in society and civilization which comes from their sterotypical gender and occupation. This will be shot as they exit the car and the person filming will kneel on the floor to achieve a low level position successfully.
- As the detectives step onto the property by walking up to the house, a high angle shot will be used in order to set the impression that they have now become vulnerable and to foreshadow danger (this is because the following sequence will portray the tragedy of what had happened in the past inside this house). In order to achieve this shot, the person filming will position themselves in one of the upstairs rooms and will film through one of the windows.
- After researching the aims and expectations of a thriller, we have decided that it is extemely important to continue creating suspense throughout. Therefore we have incorporated the use of a point of view shot to create the illusion that someone is watching the detectives and ultimately setting the impression that something dangerous is connected with the house and that the detectives are putting themselves in a vulnerable position by entering it. To achieve this shot, we will deliberately make the camera unstable and slightly shakey through a handheld movement, however we have recognized that we should be careful not to let this shot appear like a mistake and that we simply have a poor filming technique. We will also attempt to find a position where the shot can be filmed from behind a bush (to give the illusion that someone is hiding) but also so that the detectives can clearly be seen.
- We have also decided to use an extreme close up in order to portray the
victim's intense feelings of terror and helplessness. We will do this by inluding mainly her eyes in the shot which will hopefully display deep emotion so that the audience will sympathize and fear for her as her life is at risk in the storyline- we feel that this is really important because causing the audience to have feelings or emotions due to the action on screen will ultimately make our thriller successful. An example of an extreme close up which has influenced our decision to include one is the one featured in 'Cape Fear' as pictured.
Jade Smith
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