Planning

Throughout the planning process we went through many ideas and scripts and changed the premise of the actual final Thriller opening a number of times.

We had first planned for the Thriller to have up to 4-5 people in the opening and it was going to be last around 3 minutes we were going to have a Foot Chase which made it into the final opening all though changed. But there was also going to be an assassination scene but it would cut to some back story of why it is happening but this was cut from the final idea because it would have made the opening to long. This was the piece we planned on doing before the Thriller opening we produced.

 

Cast

• Alex Jurkiewcz - Bullock - Director
• Tom Woodward - Michael
• Aaron Mace - Frank
• Callum Woodward - Pike

Characters
Michael - An unconventional private investigator who tries to get any case solved by any means necessary. He is driven by the his hatred and injustice of the world. He is the embodiment of an anti-hero and a suppressor of wrong doings in the world which this is the element of his character that anyone has around the world. In the film is playing a game of cat and mouse with a mobster who keeps getting away every time Michael catches him.

Frank - Is the opposite the Michael the antagonist the yin of Michaels yang. He is dressed in casual clothing and speaks with a slight mocking town towards people. He is a mobster that infiltrates organisations to rise through the ranks to gain power to feed his yearning for psychologically beating and torturing his enemies. Frank is a dishonourable villain but ultimately good at it which should be the main focus of any antagonist. To the audience Frank will appear riddled with an unnerving possession of psychological power and mystery.

Pike - Pike is Franks hired assassin who is physical and a logical mind. He is a sharp shooting assassin who is the muscle behind a lot of Franks and doesn't  mind getting his hands dirty he doesn't think twice when he has to kill someone. He has an unquestionable loyalty to frank with no emotion and is an expert in hand to hand combat and a talented marksman he puts these to good use in helping Frank rise to the top of his organisations he infiltrates.

 

Props/Equipment

 

A big part of the filming process and planning is knowing what props that are needed for when you are filming on location these are the props we used.

 

Props list:

• Nexus 5
• Tripod
• Builders Flood Light
• 9mm Berretta BB gun
• BB Gun

For the camera we used a Nexus 5 this is because the camera quality on it is good with it being filming at 1080p but also has great colour reproduction with built in image stabilisation to reduce shaking and also because we didn't have enough money to buy a camera specifically for the Thriller opening.

 





We used a tripod for when the camera was stationary such as in the dialogue scenes during the interrogation this was so the camera was steady and there wasn't any shaking that the viewers would notice.

 

We used a builders flood light in the interrogation scene on Frank the person being interrogated to stretch out his shadow to make him look like a dark person but to also cliché with the bright light being shone in someone's face during an interrogation scene.