Conventions of a crime-thriller.

Crime thrillers generally follow set conventions of heists (e.g. ‘inside Man’), Ransoms (e.g. ‘Ransom’), Revenge and Captivities (A good example of this is how ‘Taken’ integrates both these themes). Thrillers generally entwine the audience and wrap them up into the film, and although granted most films aim to achieve this thrillers generally aim to captivate and stimulate the audience via use of almost an oscillary of emotion, going to high points and low points consecutively. Thrillers are also generally villain driven as opposed to the general protagonist-driven convention of most genres.

Thrillers tend to nest themselves amongst urban and sub-urban areas, though in some cases they tend to branch out into more exotic locations such as beaches and jungles with seemingly blunt threats, though in a lot of cases the threats are sometimes much more hidden, or in some cases actually just mental, take American psycho for example and its incredible ultimatum at the end. We will be adopting the classic feature of an urban environment; London.

Although there is no antagonist per-say all our characters show a good and bad side, and are all trying to maintain possession of this memory stick, so in a way both sides of the characters are shown, and focus is only met upon one character (opening and closing scene character), therefore we establish he is either the antagonist.

In conclusion we have established we will be following many of the conventions of a crime-thriller and therefore we shall hopefully be able to keep the audience ‘thrilled’ throughout.

Costumes

This is part one of my trailer reserch powerpoint. The rest will be uploaded shortly.

shot list first draft

this is the shot list that we originally decided on.

1. Fat lazy guy(5th character) at computer (mid shot)
2. guy taking out a memory stick (close up)
3. Memory stick thrown in the air (extreme close up)
4. 1st character catches stick in different place and shows his name and throw stick (mid long shot)
5. Playing cards (mid shot)
6. Old silent movie style (title shot)
7. 2nd character catches stick, shows her name and throw stick (mid long shot)
8. Sleeping around (long shot)
9. Old silent movie style (title shot)
10. 3rd character catches stick, shows his name and throw stick (mid long shot)
11. Beating someone with a brick (low angle long shot)
12. Old silent movie style (title shot)
13. 4th character catches stick, shows his name and throw stick (mid long shot
14. On phone talking business (mid shot)
15. Old silent movie style (title shot)
16. 3rd getting into a car quickly (mid shot)
17. Sea front walking scene with 4th and 2nd (long shot)
18. Amusement park scene with 3rd and 2nd (long/follow shot)
19. Fenchurch street 1st and 3rd meet and talk
20. Fat lazy guy at computer but with someone saying “back to this guy” (mid shot)
21. Goes back to fat lazy guy (5th character). He turns round and catches stick with his name coming up. (mid long shot)
22. Then throws it into box. Closes it up and stamps it with the name of the film. (close up)

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