Finished thriller

Evaluation

Audience feedback

For our audience feedback we showed a range of people the film and asked then what it was they liked about it and what they thought we could improve we asked a range of people who we thought represented our target audience ranging from about 15-21. We sat them all down and asked them to watch the film and then asked for their opinions after.

David Mais 21- '' I really enjoyed the opening i thought the action of the scene was really high paced and made the scene move really quickly adding to the evident sense of tension and suspense. I really like the idea of the shots of the villainous character in various areas of the train station it really highlights the mystery surrounding the character as to the who they may be. I would definitely keep watching to see the storyline revealed.''


Sam Humphreys 15- ''I did really enjoy the opening and thought the lighting of the train station created a really spooky atmosphere. I liked the images of the masked figure and thought that they were really haunting and scary. I found it a bit hard to understand the storyline. My favourite bit was at the end when the female character is tapped on the shoulder and the really fast train goes past. It was so unsuspecting that it made me jump out my skin!''

Most people told us they really liked the setting of our thriller and thought the lighting of the train station created a really tense atmosphere. They also said that they like the sped up shots of the villain character and said that it created a feeling of being stalked or watched. They also said that they like the idea of a masked figure haunting dreams they said that once this was explained tot them they would have understood and that they thought if we were to make a full length film we would have to reveal the plot within this so the audience were clear.They said they thought the ending was really good and they thought the idea of the female being approached by the masked figure and immediately a train storms past created  a sense of  fear and caused them to jump as evident in a large number of successful thrillers.

They thought the titles themselves could have been a bit slower and they felt that they seemed a bit rushed. but they did like the idea of the white font standing out against the dark background and the blurred edges which they felt emphasised the dream theme of the thriller highlighting a sense of mystery.
Unfortunately a number of  people said that the storyline left them confused and they found it hard to differentiate between the dream and reality. They said that this enigma would keep them watching in order to find out the plot of the story. And obviously if made into a full length film the storyline would conclude itself.

Ella Franich 16- ''I don't really watch very many thrillers as i find them quite scary, but i really enjoyed this i like the idea of the vulnerable female character being followed by the unknown masked figure.And the idea of somebody being able to enter into another dream is brilliant! i love the idea of someone being stabbed in their dream and waking up to a real wound.''

Evaluation activity 1

Title of the film- Incubus. I think that this title suits the conventions of a thriller in that the meaning of the word incubus meaning 'an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons' the meaning of the title already conforms to conventions of a thriller by highlighting to the audience the presence of an evil minded  creature/ character/ spirit. Furthermore the fact that the title is only one suits the conventions of a thriller and as such many well known thrillers also have one worded titles in order to leave some mystery surrounding the content of the film e.g. Saw, Inception,Taken.  


Titles font ans style of the opening- The titles of the opening are in a white font chosen in order to stand out against the darkness of the station scene they fade in and out against the footage in order to keep a high speed pace and tension that should be evident throughout a conventional thriller. Similarly we chose to use the fade transition on the opening credits the keep apparent the dream theme of the thriller and elevate to the audience the sense of mystery and uncertain. Furthermore we wanted the white of the text to coincide with the white mask of the dream figure.This may challenge the conventions of a typical thriller as many we have analysed appear very rapid and bold containing large bold fonts to convey a sense of drama.

Setting/Location- At the train station is where a large quantity of action takes place within the thriller. This may go against some conventions of a thriller in that a train station is a highly public area and it is unlikely that real life action would occur there such as it does in our thriller, on the other hand the darkness of the train station and the load nice of passing trains to create a stereotypical scene for a thriller. We were really pleased with the atmosphere created by the lighting of the station we felt as if it create just the right amount of light to create a good atmosphere allowing the audience to see the characters well but allowing elements of their figures to be hidden by the darkness.

Costumes and props- During filming our main female or 'victim' was seen to be wearing a long floral dress and white buckle up shoes. We chose a costume like this to highlight to the audience how childlike and venerable the character is. Similarly we chose an ordinary everyday costume for the villain female character to make her appear normal and unsuspecting when she is infant the one who enters the victims dream in disguise. For the masked dream figure we chose an all white mask to keep the character unidentifiable and to contrast against the dark surroundings of the train station. These costumes conform to the conventions of a thriller as they often attempt to portray the victim as small and venerable by making their costume appear white a childlike such as the white blouse of the female character appearing in the opening of 'cape fear'.

How characters are introduced- When the audience is first introduced to the characters there meeting appears very fast and urgent giving the thriller a sense of pace and danger. Similarly we tried to create an enigma surrounding the female character who comes down the stairs to meet her friend the audience are supposed to question whether the female character is in fact the masked figure who appears in the victims dream.The dream figure is introduced in various areas of the train station at which the scene is taking place but is never seen together with the two female character which is supposed to suggests to the audience they are in fact the same person but in a disguise in which she uses to enter her friends dream and murder her.This may be a convention of a thriller as many character to appear to victims within dreams such a 'freddie kruger' and 'inception'. We tried to make our villain evident throughout the opening using inserts of the figure appearing around the train station to leave the audience questioning the presence of this character and the enigma of who the character may be and the fact that this character is never seen together with the female character conveys to the audience the fact that this character could infant be one of the female characters in disguise.Further more we wanted the dream character to appear masked to keep a sense of mystery and suspicion surrounding the characters identity.This may be a convention of a thriller as a lot of villains within  thrillers  appear to have masked identities such as 'scream' ,'the unborn' and 'freddy vs Jason.'

Story and how the opening sets it up-The story line of the thriller is quite  complicated, it sees a character haunt the dreams of her friend in a dream like mask disguise and she later murders this friend within the dream.We tried to highlight to the audience the idea of the characters being in a dream together by showing both characters injecting themselves and entering a dream state and by using black and white effects on most of the dream sequences to highlight the fact that the action is taking place within the dream.When the opening begins we attempted to portray the storyline by setting up these characters to meet at the atmospheric setting of the train station and also including cutaways of the dream figure the suggest the characters presence within this setting and to highlight to the audience the enigma of who this character may be. This conforms to the conventions of a thriller as often unsuspecting peripheral character appear to be the main subjects of the plot.Similarly villains appearing in dreams may be a convention of a thriller with films such as 'nightmare on elm street' containing villainous characters killing victims throughout their dreams. And also the idea of a figure being able to enter a dream can be seen in one of our inspiration for our opening 'inception' which showed characters being able to enter others dreams by using and injection device from a silver case which we tried to convey within our opening by using a silver case and tubing similar to that of the film.

Camerawork and editing-During our opening we tried to use a wide range of camera shots to convey different ideas among the action being shown.We  used a lot of long shots of the dream figure to convey to the audience a  sense of physical distance and mystery surrounding the character to make sure the audience is aware of the characters presence and importance to the storyline. Similarly we used some high angle shots to portray this character to make them appear dominant and powerful over the venerable female character. We also highlighted this sense of looking down by including some shots of trains speeding past from the bridge at the station to make it seem as if the shot was from the characters viewpoint. This is a convention of a typically thriller as often directors will attempt to make figures appear venerable by showing them being 'looked down on' and  physically smaller.

Evaluation Activity 2

We wanted to compare and use A Clockwork Orange to our thriller, we liked the dress sense of the main character and decided to use him as a key character.


Similarities

• The fake eyelashes the key character wore we decided to use because it showed similarities between our character and a clockwork orange
• Also we used the bowler hat
• The key character had quite a pale face so we decided to use a mask we wanted to use a mask so that we were more able to hide the identity of the dream character and leave the audience questioning who the character is
• We kept the characters role the same, being the villain much as Alex is in 'a clock work orange' we wanted to convey to our audience that the character is one of high dominance and power over others such as our victim female character
• In A Clockwork Orange the character is a physco, we kept the same role with our opening to a thriller by keeping our character as a thriller A clockwork orange is seen as a highly psychological  thriller so we tried to include similar image to that is similar to the film such as sudden cutaways to the dream figure and sped up shots of the dream character. Such as that seen in a clockwork orange, there is a scene which is sped up, this is where we got the idea from and decided it was a good idea to use.

Differences

• In A Clockwork Orange the key character is male, all of our group is female and we couldn't find an actor we could use that so we had to use one of our group members we actually thought this was a positive decision in the end because it made our dream character seem a lot less suspecting and we felt that it would be more realistic that a friend would leave and come back for a large amount of time and return to her old friend with a affected personality.
• He wasn't actually wearing a mask
• This character is always present in this style of attire, but for our thriller Courtney's wears 2 changes of clothes appearing in both ordinary , unsuspecting attire and this attire when present in the dream scene highlighting to the audience a sense of enigma surrounding her true identity

Evaluation Activity 3

What kind of media institution might distribute you media product and why?

What is a Production Company?

A production company is a company responsible for physical production of new media. The company may also be responsible for the funding or raising money for the production. The company may be either a small company or a larger one, selling its product to a film studio in the case of film and television, it may be the studio itself. It is common for actors to form their own production companies so that they can have more control over their own careers. 

Our production company

Our Production Company name is Engrosser INC. by having our own company we are able to make our own choices. Because we are a small company there is a possibility that we wont be able to fund the filming ourselves, but such as raising the money. 

What is a Distribution Company

A film distributor is a company or an individual that is responsible for releasing films to the public. A distributor may do this directly if the distributor owns the theatres or distribution network.

 this is an example of a film distributor they are called Arrow Films . as you can see in the picture, they have a advertisement for 'the killing' this website would be perfect for us to have our film advertised on, as it already has a lot of similar film genres to ours.

this is an example of a production company. On this website they have made the are looking for people to take them on to help in making films and such. this company is called crewscontrol.


Promotions: 
the intititio that would show our film would promote our film through, site such as facebook and twitter, and other sites that get alot of veiws by the general public 

Evaluatioin Activity 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Name: Jerry Roberts

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Favourite Shops: Top Man, Blue Inc, River Island, Fred Perry, Ben Sherman, Hollister.

Favourite Music: RnB classics, Drum and Bass, Soft Rock.

Favourite Tv Programme(s): Celebrity Juice, CSI, Being Human, NCIS,

bio: Jerry is a 17 year old boy who left school last year and is now part of a apprenticeship to become an electrician. He is extremely hardworking so at weekends he enjoys seeing friends going out and visiting his local cinema.Jerry really enjoys either watching films alone or with a small gathering of friends. His favorite genre of thriller would probably be an action thriller he enjoys the fast pace tension and high paced scenes that come with it and enjoys watching scene of crime and his favourite style thriller would be a gangster/crime genre.He does not however necessarily enjoy films that have long or complicated story lines as he often finds them confusing or hard to follow which can causes him not to enjoy the film.

Name: Rosie Smith

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Favourite Shops: Top Shop, River Island, New Look, Hollister, Urban Outfitters, Zara, Dorothy Perkins.
Favourite Music: Pop, Dance, Soft Rock, Drum and Bass, RnB,
Favourite Tv Programme(s): Glee, Celebrity Juice, Being Human, True Blood,

Bio:Rosie is a 16 year old girl who really enjoys going out especially with large groups of friends.She is currently still studying in full time school education but hopes to leave school after achieving good GCSE results and moving on to study fashion a college.Rosie like watching films by herself and with  friends and would only choose a thriller if she was to watch it will a large friendship group.Rosie's  ideal thriller would be one that is not to gory or graphic, but something that challenges her leaves her asking questions and does not have an obvious or typical thriller storyline.Her favourite genre of thriller would be a psychological thriller as she enjoys something that goes against the typical thriller and challenges her views or perception of something.

Evaluation Activity 5

Evaluation Activity 6

Music selection

http://freeplaymusic.com/search/keyword_search.php

i was unable to get an embedded code for our chosen soundtrack but it is accessible if you click on

Dark dimensions vol 2 and the 2:01 mp3 file which should be entitled 'Drones.mp3'

Editing

To edit our thriller opening we used editing software 'pinicale'. Because we had to use Katy's camera the format used was incompatible with the schools pinnacle software so we used Bart Lang's laptop.  Once we had opened pinnacle we had to press import footage  chance the format of our video from a .MOV so that it could be watched And edited using the pinnacle software. One we had imported our shots onto the software they were in order an on the timeline now we were able to run all the different shots we had taken and delete the ones that were unsuccessful, We were also able to change the length of time at which each shot would play for and cut down shots if needed this was important as we wanted to create a pace within our thriller so be able to cut down the various shots allowed us to create a sense of pace and urgency.

We were also able to change the speed at which each shot played for which was important in shots such as the establishing shot of the train going past this enabled us to create a faster speed for the train and furthermore create a sense of speed and shock as the train passes at a fast speed.

This was also important where adding the fast and rapid shots if the dream character as changing the speed allowed us to show a quick flash of the figure and elevate the feeling of mystery, creating shot similar to that of our thriller inspiration 'a clock work orange' during which fast clips of the protagonist are used to confuse the audience.


Furthermore it was important that throughout our opening that we established between the characters dream and there real life pinnacle aloud us to change the colour of some shots to black and white so the audience were able to distinguish between real life and the characters dream whilst still leaving a hint of confusion among the  thrillers story line.


Once edited we had to  add in the credits this was easy to do on pinnacle because  there was a range of different fonts to choose from that could be dragged and placed into the film and then edited so the text could be edited to included what we wanted to say. We were then able to use different transitions to make the credits appear and disappear such as fading them in and out which we felt was important to our thriller to create a further sense of mystery and to follow through with the dream theme of our opening.

Once we had done this we were able to add the final element of our thriller the music which we had search for using 'freeplaymusic.com'. We saved an uncopyrighted piece of music which we all agreed suited the theme of our thriller we were then able to save this Mp3 file and upload it in the software and play it along side the opening. Once we had finished the opening we were able to burn the opening to a disk.

BBFC Rating

The group have agreed after watching our finished product that it should be given a rating of a 15. We have decided to give it this rating because although it does not contain scenes of graphic gore or horror. We still think some of the imagery such as the dream character may be distressing for an audience any younger than 15. It also contains a lot of fast takes and flashing images that may distress an audience any younger than this.

Filming Ideas/ Inception App

The Inception App: This app is a dream machine that transforms the world around you into a dreamworld. It uses augmented sound to induce dreams through the headset of your iPhone and iPod Touch. It will change your perception of reality.

Use this app in the same way you use your iPod. Switch it on when you are out and about, at work or going to bed. The difference here is that this app mixes your acoustic reality with the soundtrack of Inception. The result is a realtime soundtrack to your life, or your dreams.

Features of the App:

• The app is based on the Inception movie concept.
• Just like the characters in the movie Inception you can enter a dreamworld by pressing a button.
• The Inception app puts the spirit of Inception the movie right into the real life of every user.
• It is a dream machine that transforms the world around you into a dreamworld using augmented sound.
• It includes pervasive gaming elements. For example new dreams are unlocked by walking, being in a quiet room, traveling faster than 30 mph, when the sun shines or it is full moon.

 Remember that the dream-space is less about the visual, but more about the feeling.

http://inceptiontheapp.com/dreams

Using the App idea in the opening:

We liked the idea of the app and how the noise from the surrounding areas around the person fit into the dream with the music and the people talking around them.

So we decided to leave some of the backgorund talking in the film because we thought it would add suspence to the opening thriller, because people will be asking what the noise is, what are the noise's saying, and who voices are they?

We did this by speeding up the random talking so it sounded like mumbling, when overlapping this mumbling with the music, it sounded alot like the app does.

Title Sequence

It is important to have a title that is short and snappy this is to grab the attention of the people walking by, and to have them questioning what may happen in the film, which will want them to find out more about the film, then they may even want to see it, not only the title of the film is important. We need to come up with a suitable title name that does not reveal to much of the plot of the film and leaves a sense of enigma among what could happen in the film. We may be able to use a single word title to do so.

In our opening we will use the titles to further convey a sense of enigma and mystery by including transitions like fades and dissolves so that the text appears to be moving in a way that coincides with the action and soundtrack of the opening.

The font has a big part to play because if the font is pink, bold, and bubbly and the film is a thriller, then no one would take the film seriously and wouldn't want want to see it because it wouldn't look scary. A better font would be a sharp, bold, black, white, or red according to the background of the photo, something that stands out and looks scary.

The Font we are thinking of using would be a bold white with a faded blurred edge that would standout against the dark background of the train station but the faded edges further convey the thrillers sense of mystery and enigma and work well with the thrillers dream style theme.

Editing the clips

Due to the problems with editing and having to use a students laptop to edit our opening for a thriller we have only had limited time to get the film edited. in three hours we managed to edit the clips so they are linked together, brightened them, sped some of the clips up, used effects on some clips to make them creepy and jumpy.

We have realised that some of the clips we took were taken quite late at night so they are particularly dark, when we brightened them they became really grainy and the light in the clip looked like it was glowing, we aren't able to retake these clips because the cut on her belly and blood on the bed sheet and pajamas can only be done once. We should of watched the clips after we filmed them to see if we needed to retake any.

Film Poster

For our film poster we include some of the key imagery from our opening such as the knife which is used as the murderer weapon from the dream. And also the dream character. We have included such imagery so we do not reveal exactly what the story line of the film and keep an enigma among the audience as the the plot of the film. Hopefully buy not revealing exactly what the story line is it will encourage a large audience to watch it in order to find out.Furthermore we have blurred the background image and font to create a sense of mystery surrounding the film and to suit the dream theme of our thriller similarly the poster reflects the action of our thriller as it appears dark and mysterious as does our opening.

Music selection

When deciding what music to have present i our thriller we needed a piece that reflected the suspense and tension of the on screen action. We also wanted a piece that portrayed the sci-fi theme so either a sci fi feel or a techno genre. We were unable to create this music ourselves so we looked for websites where we were able to download mp3 files that were copy wright free which meant they are free to use by anyone.

On freeplamusic.com we were able to request want genre and style of music we wanted which was tense/suspense of a techno genre. We were then given a list of suitable matches which we could download an sample in order to asses their suitability.

Font Choice's

I went through different types of fonts to find an appropriate one to fit, for the title of our film and the genre of it. I think the first and fourth one are to 'girly' and 'bubbly' to represent the genre of our film, i like fonts three, five and six because they are sharp, i think one of these will suit the name and the genre of our film.

problem

We seem to have met quite a big problem. The school cameras we needed to use wouldn't charge, so we decided to go to London to try to find a charger, we tried Maplins, Jessops and Sony, all three said they didn't sell that models charger as it was too old fashioned. Instead we had to use Katy's one. We used it successfully but the file type was incompatible with most editing equipment. We will have to use one of our fellow students laptops to edit it.

Incubus facebook page, Marketing

We wanted to direct the target audience, 15-21 year olds, so we wanted to think of a strategy to promote our film to them directly using media that they regularly use such as social networking e.g Facebook, Twitter, Myspace. We created a page that will hopefully promote our film to them, inform them about it and make them more likely to see it, this will hopefully lead to more people joining it and as the page collects more group members it shall get more well known and more people are likely to come and see it.

Hannah

http://www.hannahmais.com/#/portfolio/4533714455


We knew that Hannah Mais would create a believable and realistic stab wound for us because we researched her previously and looked on her website to see work she has previously carried out. She is a qualified makeup artist with a first class honours degree at the London college of fashion. So we knew we could rely on her to create a realistic wound for our thriller opening.

the process of making the stab wound

Firstly we got Becca's sister (who specialises in special effects) to make a stab wound in our characters stomach, this was made with wax and blood like goo and paint.


After making the stab wound we then cut a hole in the top that our character is wearing.

When we were then ready to film we put the blood around the stab wound and the top.

A Diary of a day Filming

Here I decided to shoot a 'behind the scenes,' section to show what we did while filming and the discussions we had to the logic of what was happening in the film and where to shoot, at what angle and how close up.

Pitch/brief

We filmed ourselves talking about our thriller opening, where we are filming and the props the actors need, and reasons why we aren't doing certain things.

Shooting Schedule

A schedule of the dates and the scenes we aim to film on those dates

Title for our thriller

INCUBUS
We have decided to call our thriller Incubus, we went through the idea of calling it 'only in your dreams' we thought that this was to long and devalued the suspense of the film's opening.

We then decided to look up the word dream and see what other synonyms there were for dream.

The words, delusion, incubus and speculation stood out to us the most, we then looked into these three words.

We didn't choose delusion because it means misconception and misbelief, and that isn't what our film is trying to portray.

We also didn't choose speculation because it means theory and guessing, and this isn't what our film is mainly about.

We decided to stick with incubus because it can mean nightmares, or devils, or demons, we thought this fitted perfectly because we have an unpleasant character, in the thriller but nobody knows who it actually is.

Setting of bedroom scene

Bed where the white bed sheets will be blood stained after the dream scene

View of mirror where the female character checks stab wound and villain appears behind her

The bedroom in which the dream scene will be shot it will show both characters going to sleep and injecting them selves using the plastic tubing and silver case as shown earlier. Then as female characters enter a sleeping state they enter together in the victims dream. Within this dream she is stabbed by the villain and just as she does she is jumped from her dream and is awoken to find her white bed sheets covered in her blood and she screams in pain she then runs to the mirror to see the wound which is when the villain is also seen behind her.

Props

We used the balloon for the female character as she welcomes home a friend at the train station. We are using this prop to emphasise the fact that the villainous character has been missing for a large amount of time and the enigma for the audience is where she has been.We have also used this balloon to emphasise the innocence and vulnerability surrounding the character.

We have used this retractable knife which when in contact with an object of person retracts into the handle.This will ensure that we can act and film a realistic stab scene without having to use a real knife and risk the any of the characters become injured.We also chose this knife as we think it looks very realistic and will create a sense of realism surrounding the stab scene

We used this case as it links with the theme of one our influence 'Inception' We wanted it to be partly silver to suit the theme of the film as characters use a silver case.We also are going to use this plastic tubing which can also be linked to inception as a similar tubing is used to connect the characters to a drug which automatically sends them into a dream state.

Filming Problems

On Sunday 13th of March, we chose to start filming our thriller, we first went to Ingatestone train station. Unfortunately when we arrived there rail works had been taking place that day and Ingatestone station was the end of the rail line, this means there were buses and security all around the place because there were buses in for trains.

As we parked the car to begin filming a security guard said we were unable to park in this area as it was needed for the replacement buses to park. As we left the car to begin filming on the platform a train stopped and a large crowd of people left the station. We tried to set up to film but there was two station workers said we weren't allowed to film there without permission from the national rail service. With this news we then decided to go to Brentwood train station to film, this worked fine but because it was a busy station, we had to wait for times when there were no people around and when there were no trains around. We often had to stop filming due to the public disrupting our shots. We were also worried about scaring the public with various props we used for the scene such as the mask and knife, we often felt ourselves rushing various scenes so we did not strike fear in the public present during filming.

Risk Assessment

Ideas for the film

We decided to completely change our mind and use a girl instead of a boy because we couldn't find any time we could all do, therefore we had to change our idea slighty by having the two girls as house mates and as if one of them (the killer) is being welcomed home by the other, (the victim). We then thought that as she got welomed home her friend hugged her and the killer would stab her as she was entering the hug.

For this we would need a welcome home balloon, a silver suitcase which looks quite old, Becca's dress for the victim, white patent shoes, green hood coat, fake eyelashes for the killer, watch for the victim as the killer is running late, doc martins for the killer as they are clumpy and will make a lot of noise.

Possible locations ingatestone station

face

We want to use 'Alex' from Clock Work Orange and make our character look like him with the bowler hat, fake eyelashes and pale face.

Filming Prop table

A table showing the props we will be needing on each day of filming.

Costume design :Female character

Costume design female character

We have chosen this dress because it creates  a childlike sense of innocence making the character appear venerable. Similarly the white shoes make the character appear young and innocent. Using white as a major stable of the costume makes the character appear untouched and virginal.

Location

We like the idea of using Ingatestone train station as one of our locations, the bridge over the railway will give it a creepy look and we thought we could have one of our characters standing on it. As we want to use the idea from Inception that has the dream inside of a dream we thought we could have it also set in a different place so when the character dies in one dream it could go down a level to another place. We thought a good place would be in a bedroom as it a lot different from the station.

Lift to the Scaffold

We watched the opening clip from Lift to the Scaffold, directed by Louis Malle in 1958. The film was the first 'French new wave' film, this meant the movies featured unprecedented methods of expression, such as long tracking shots. Many of the French New Wave films were produced on tight budgets; often shot in a friend's apartment or yard, using the director's friends as the cast and crew. Directors were also forced to improvise with equipment (for example, using a pram for tracking shots). Louis Malle asked Miles Davis, a well known Jazz musician, to watch the film and then play what he thought would go well with the scenes. This worked very well and in some places to the opening scene contra punctual sound occurs.


The first shot is a extreme close up of a woman's eyes, this questions the audience by wondering who she is talking to on the phone and why she is saying it. The shot then cuts to a man and his reply's to the woman on the phone, which then draws back to see the establishing shot of him in a building and she is in a phone box. The props used in the film, a gun, glove and rope all represent crime, meanwhile the audience is still wondering what is going to happen and who he is going to shoot. Whilst this is happening fforeshadowing occurs as the employee is sharpening pencils, you see her do this before the murder is happening and during it as it blocks out the gun shot so she doesn't suspect anything. 


A long take of the boss is used to show how much power the boss has over the man with the man with the gun and even when he draws out the gun he still shows he isn't scared, again showing he is a powerful character so the employee with the gun must have a lot of confidence to shoot him. As the tension between the boss and the employee with the gun builds up you can here the music in the background increasing which gives off the impression that as he pays attention, so do the audience. 


After this scene it cuts back to the woman who is waiting, the scene completely uses artificial light and none of the people around her or driving are actors, which makes the film more life like as it captures peoples real reactions. As she stands up to walk down the street pathetic fallacy of the thunder crashing is used to show how angry she is. Instead of a tracking shot being used for the scene, the director improvised and used a pram.


Opening clip from Lift to the Scaffold

Possible locations

our initial thriller idea contains a scene of a crowded train station at night. So as a possible location we have chosen Brentwood train station when we do so it will be dark and late at night so that our character will stand out against the darkness of the setting and the crowd.


We may encounter some problems filming in this area as it is very open and public so a lot of people will be moving through the area whilst filming  is taking place this may be a problem as much of the footage we are wanting to film is of a thriller theme so this may cause confusion and fear amongst  onlookers.So we may wish to seek permission to film in this area and make anyone in the area during filming what is taking place.


We like this locations as at night the atmosphere can become very early and scary making it a good location for a thriller to be set and conveying to the codes and conventions of a thriller.