Animatic

Thriller films i have watched

Mission impossible II
XXX
I, Robot
Angles & Demons
The Dark knight
Hitman
The Bourne Ultimatum
Snakes on a plane.

These are just some of the thriller films i have watched, they all use different conventions that i have listed a few posts bellow.

The video clip bellow shows similar conventions to our film. The biggest similarity to our film is how in this clip there are a lot of unanswered questions which is the same in our film. When you see the man setting the house on fire you ask why he has done it. This question is asked again when you see that the villain in the film is actually a fire man, who are known as good hard working people not an assassin. This is also how we challenge the conventions in our film. The fire in this clip of The Dark Knight is also a similarity to our film as our film revolves around a house fire.  

Uniform / Props Research

This is an example of the uniform we are going to have to get for the fireman, as if our actor is wearing these clothes, it is clear to them that he works in the fire service.

Bellow are a few examples of what we wanted the villain in our film to be wearing. We wanted him to be wearing dark clothes as this is often accosiated with criminals and people who are up to no good. 

Bellow again is another example of criminals wearing dark clothes. 

we will also need to get a petroll can, and fill it full of water so that we could pretend it is petrol for the scene when the house gets set on fire, we will need to find a can that looks something like this,

Above are two pictures of our script, it includes things you will see in the film, and things you will hear. 

Treatment

 

A man sets a house on fire, which is owned by his relatives who are in line to collect a small fortune of a recent family member who has died. So he burns their house down with them inside because after them he is inline for the small fortune. Then after he sets the house on fire it cuts to him pulling up at work putting a uniform on then it cuts to you seeing him and his colleague putting out the fire and you realise that one of the fireman is the one who started the fire in the first place. If we was to carry on the story he finds out that he was actually not the next person in line and he has to go and kill them to but in a different way and towards the end the entire story comes out and he ends up accidentally killing himself by setting up a trap that he falls into accidently. 

Story Board

This is the story board for the film, it includes descriptions of the shots and scenes underneath the pictures. 

Potential Audience research

There was a few ways i went about researching who i thought would be our potential audience for the film. The most effect way i did this was by going around the class, and asking the people in it what type of film they would most prefer to watch. The Males in the class were more likely to say Thriller than the girls, this lead me to believe that my film would appeal to males more than females. All that was left was for me to find out the age range of my potential audience. 

As i had already asked people in age range i know the bottom end of the age for the target audience would be 16, as people younger than that like different genres of film. To find out the upper age bracket of the target audience i decided to ask people like my family and friends the same question as i did to those at school "what is your favorite genre of music?" By doing this i found out that after the age of about 45, generally people started getting less interested in thriller films, and started watching films with different genres. 

Location Research

Above is an image of a fire station that would be suitable for our film. However there are some bad points such as how there is no space for the engine to pull out of the station without turning straight onto the road, this would not work in our film as we want the engine to pull out of the station and then stop while the doors shut behind it.

Above is a picture of a different fire station. This is better than the first one as it has more space for the engine to pull out of the station without being on the road. However i think this station is a bit too big for what we are looking for. Ideally we would like a fire station with only one garage for as this is all we need, and bigger fire stations may be to busy to let us film.

This is a picture of the fire station in Penkridge, this would be perfect for our film as it has a single garage, and a good size driveway so we could see the engine pulling out and then waiting on the drive while the door behind it shuts. 

Shooting schedule

Above is our shooting schedule, this allowed us to keep on time with our recording. Also by giving a copy to our actors they knew where they had to be and for what time.