Pictures we took on scouting for our location

This is a photo we took when we was scouting for locations in Warley woods. We have used a person in the photo so we can see what it looks like to peoples eyes and views. We also had the person in it as this was an idea we had at first for the use of our poster.

The Swarm Sound Effects

We listened to different sound effects to create a sense of fear in our thriller opening. We knew we liked the sound effects used on the roller coaster 'The Swarm The Ride' so for inspiration we searched for different effects and found this clip which is filled with a vast majority of deep suspense sound effects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfwJ2mqgh-g
 

Our initial ideas and Storyboard

Codes and Conventions

Character influences

Our character influence for the stalker has come from Slender. The slender theme is similar to ours with the girl noticing notes on trees, and with slender appearing behind them. Our character influence was the girl from gone, as she is abducted by a complete stranger, this inspired us and with the scenery we have chosen, it relates to the film gone. Our thriller is also about about a girl being stalked, as shes is being stalked it could lead to an obduction, we were inspired by the film gone to incorporate this.

Areas being considerd for our thriller

For one of the scenery option we will be shooting in a woods, two in Brentwood or one in Doddinghurst. We chose these locations as we feel as though they add to codes and conventions of a thriller. When watching past students thrillers they mostly used locations such as; abandoned houses/buildings , however by choosing a forest it creates isolation of there being no escape for our protagonist and is also different to what people have used before. We also felt that using different parts of the forests would work well for different scenes of our opening so, as group we made sure that we discussed what would and wouldn't work for what we wanted to do.

Analysis of Snatch opening sequence

Analysis of Snatch.
Snatch is a Gangster thriller.

In the opening sequence of snatch its starts off with two characters, with it starting with these two it shows that they are most likely to be the people in most of the film, these characters are called 'Turkish' and 'Tommy', Turkish and Tommy are seated and Turkish is talking about what he does and that he doesn't know a thing about diamonds this lets the audience have a guess at to what the film is about. After Turkish and Tommy have been introduced, it moves on to a different place called 'Antwerp' this is labelled in the scene as well. With the opening sequence changing place shows that one of the places are to do with the rest of the film. The scene is in a diamond bank, this relates to what Turkish was saying before.

When the other characters enter the bank and then rob it for the diamonds and one mighty diamond stone it then goes on to introduce the rest of the people that are going to be in the film. When its showing each different character, shows scenery that you can represent to that character and get an understanding to where and what the character does. For example Franky four fingers, is in a game of poker this shows that he is a gambler and his name tells you that his lost a finger, this might mean he lost his finger in a gambling debt. Another example would be Mickey from the short shot that you get to see from his lifestyle it looks as if his in a caravan, the audience would see the way he looks and represent him with a gypsy.