Props

What we need in addition to costumes and camera:

-          A car

-          A briefcase

-          A blanket

-     A torch

Casting decisions

We need 3 actors in our thriller: The main girl, the enigmatic man in black and the girl in the boot of the car, whose hand rolls out from behind the covers. 

We asked a few friends whether they wanted to play the main girl, but we then decided to use someone from our group, as we would be more reliable and it would be more practical. We also chose Nile’s brother to play the enigmatic man in black, but again decided it would be more practical if Nile played that role himself.

One of us will also play the girl in the boot of the car. This is altogether the best idea given that we now only rely on the members of our group and we all know how the group would like the roles to be acted out.   

Quote about Soundtrack

"The music tells the audience now to feel and what to think''
- Bernard Herrman's wife

Shotlist Prelim task

- Bird’s eye view of Lynsey lying chairs sleeping

- Longshot of L lying on chairs sleeping

- Medium close up of L sleeping, book falls

- Bird’s eye view of Emily walking down corridor

- Medium close up of L waking up

- Long shot of E walking through door

- Pan while E walks towards L and sitting on a chair next to her

- Medium close up of E

- Shot reverse shot of L and E

- Medium close up of L and E sitting opposite each other

- Medium close up of E

- Medium close up/ slight tracking shot of L standing up

- Longshot of L running towards door

- Long shot of L running down corridor

- Bird’s eye view of L running down corridor

Shotlist Thriller

- long shot of girl sitting on beach

- medium close up of waves breaking

- close up of girl

- close up of waves, car headlights flash (in girl head) when waves break  

- low angle of girl

- high angle of girl, zoom to girl's shoes (barefoot on beach?) while girl stands up

- tracking close up of girl's feet walking on beach, then up stairs

- over the shoulder of girl walking up stairs

- medium close up of girl standing still opposite boot of a car (she reads the number plate)

- point of view of number plate

FLASHBACK starts:

- fade to long shot (tilt?) of same car standing in street at night.

 boot open. man standing by car. point of view of man opening boot. only a briefcase is to be seen, rest is hidden under a blanket 

- long shot of girl stumbling into street drunk. man doesn't notice girl

- close up of girl's face noticing the car

(- close up of girl's hand holding high heels, she is barefoot)

- medium close up of man outside car getting a briefcase out of the trunk

- over the shoulder close up of man getting briefcase 

- close up of hand falling from behind blanket.

- close up of girl's face noticing 

- point of view of man hiding hand behind blanket

-medium close up of man looking around (but not back) to see if anyone saw the hand. he does not notice girl. it's dark so man's face is unrecognisable.

- tracking medium close up shot of man closing boot and getting into car.

- long shot of car driving off

- close up of girl's face astonished/confused, decides she was only imagining the hand because she's drunk

- long shot of car driving off

- medium close up of number plate. FLASHBACK END.

fade to medium close up of same number plate on same car on beach.

- head and shoulder close up of girl looking doubtful/ confused/ intrigued.

scene end.

Location shots 1: The Beach

Here are some photos Isabel took of the location for the first part of our thriller:

 The beach. 

Our Thriller Outline

Our idea involves a girl in her late teens (17/18) as the main character. The scene starts with her sitting on the beach watching the waves (possible while listening to her ipod). She is wearing jeans and a hoodie. The girl is blond. While the waves wash in and out, headlights of a car keep flashing through the picture - the lights are in the girl's memory, not part of the mise-en-scene. 

After a short while, the girl stands up and walks towards a car park opposite the beach. She walks up some stairs that lead to the car park. Then, she stands still when she notices the back of an empty car parked there. We will use a point of view shot of her looking at the car's number plate. Flashback to an empty street in the city during the night. It's dark but the street is slightly illuminated by street lights. The same car is standing in the street. The boot is open. In the boot, one can only see a briefcase - the rest is covered up by a blanket. No one else is in the street excepting the car, but one can hear music and partying students/youngsters in the distance. The blond girl stumbles into that street looking scruffy after a night out. She is drunk. She is wearing a sparkly (fancy) short dress and heels (which she is probably holding in her hand, walking barefoot). Her make-up is smudged. She is unable to walk properly. She notices the car. A man is standing by the car, he takes out a briefcase from the back. One never sees his face, but he is about 30 years old. He is wearing dark/black clothes. When he moves the case out of the car, a hand falls from behind the blanket. The man quickly shoves the blanket back over the hand. A female hand (Painted nails, wearing jewellery etc). One suspects that the blanket is covering up a body, which is either dead or unconscious.

The drunk girl sees the hand and is shocked, but too drunk to take any action.

The man does not notice the girl. He closes the boot, walks to the front of the car and drives off. 

When the car drives off, we see the number plate clearly. The flashback ends by the shot fading into the original point of view medium close up of the number plate of the car parked by the beach. The girl remembers the night out. The girl is shocked. End of scene.