Summary Of My Ideas

Whilst planning the opening of a thriller film for our coursework, we came up with my ideas. Firstly we decided to go down the route of a psychological thriller by using a stalker theme. We got inspiration from the film ‘One hour photo’ who was written and directed by Mark Romanek during 2002. We thought about what we would need to include when producing a thriller film, and ideas we came up with were the following:

• To emphasise the 'stalker' theme we decided it would be a good idea to use social networking websites such as Facebook. We thought this would help express the stalking theme if there was shots of the stalker searching through someone's Facebook profile,pictures and reading what they were up too. We thought we could use over the shoulder shots for this, by doing this we can hide the face of the stalker too add mystery for the audience.
• We also had ideas to use the initial opening shot of the girl running and being stopped by the stalkers hand on her shoulder, however then recalling back and telling the story through the opening. We thought this would then gradually reveal why the girl was running at the beginning. We thought this would look effective and would also make the audience use their minds whilst watching.
• We also decided that we could use shots of the stalker prank calling the girl and worrying/scaring her, and making her conscious that someone is watching her. We though this would add to the suspense element of the film. We were inspired to use the type of flashing images effect for these ideas from the film 'Seven' which was directed by David Fincher during 1995.
• Another idea we came up with was to show a 'wanted' poster with the description of a stalker praying on teenage girls, and using a mug shot of the stalker, however not showing all of their features, which would leave the audience wondering.
• To end our film, we decided to use the flash of a photograph to take the screen to white and then run the opening credits. We thought the use of a flash links back to the stalker theme, as the stalker will be taking the photograph.
• We also realised that the choice of music needed to help emphasise the scene and also create an atmosphere for the film. We also realised that the music needs to be quite contrasting, because in some areas the music will need to be 'eerie' and menacing whereas in other areas it will need to be dramatic.

Overall, I think our ideas will turn into an effective and well planned film.