Thriller - Planning

As a group we came up with some ideas which we thought would be suitable for a Thriller genre clip. Emma's mum has produced her own business called 'Haunted Happenings' which is to do with ghosts and as paranormal thriller is a type of thriller we thought that we could take advantage of her company and use one of her venues 'Tutbery Castle' for our setting.

The mind map includes ideas on editing, actors, shots, mise en scene and sound.

Storyboard

The first shot will be of the gates of Tutbery Castle and we are going to make the camera jolt

a little to create tension. The next shot is going to cut to very fast from above (birds eye shot) of some peoples hands on a table which is supposed to interpret a table topping activity which is something which is done on the company's walks. As the room will be dark due to the way the walks are done this will manage to help our filming to look thrilling. The next shot will be again of the gates which will now be opening to give a sense of the audience entering the film. The shot will carry on with us walking through the gates and footsteps will be heard in the background. The next shot will be a mid/long shot of some gravestones which shows the audience where the potentially are. There will then be a zoom up towards the gravestones which could be significant of the film with the names of the people on the gravestones. Afterwards there will be a shot of the mansion which shows the audience where the film is going to be set and they might be able to start thinking about what the film is about.

The next shot will be a long shot which will show the mansion door and this will stay still, after this the shot should stay the same but show people walking through the doors which creates tension for the audience as they are walking into an unknown building and mansions are normally known to be full of unknown things in thriller movies. Next will be a quick shot of a Ouija board which will flash off almost instantly. Because of the fast shot this should scare the audience as they are not expecting it. The flashing images which are shown are done to show what happens later on in the film. The shot will then go back to the door and pan the first room. When the pan is about halfway through there should then be an image of a glass with two hands above it moving quickly which should be a flash shot again. Lastly, there should be an establishing shot of the castle to remind the audience of where they are again which will jolt once edited.