Costumes, characters, music and location for our thriller film.

The Characters:

The Girl;
The girl should be not too tall, so she should in a way quite weak and powerless compared to the man. She should be good at being drunk, and also have good facial expressions. She should be wearing lots of make up, and a lot of lipstick.

The Man;
The man should be quite tall, taller than the girl and also quite kind and warmly looking. But he most also be able to look extremely intimidating and mad.


The Locations:

We are going to film our first film at one of our groups houses, as it is an in club scene. WE will use darkness with in stage lighting, and about 5 supporting actors, to make it seem like there are a lot more people.
In the second scene we are going to shoot at riverside, because it is quite a lonely place at night, and the river is also a great place to film in terms of a thriller film, it is a place where things could be hidden, which send a message to the audience.


The Music:

We are going to incorporate music into our thriller. For the first scene within the club we our going to use loud dance music. We are going to find music by an unsigned band that people could dance to. Then in the second scene we aren’t going to use any music to begin with, the silence of the characters walking and just Diegetic sound will make a great contrast with the loud music, and will therefore make the second location fell a lot more lonely and in a way intimidating.


Costume:

The man in the thriller should be wearing plain trousers, a shirt and good shoes. This will make him seem like a ‘safe’ character, he doesn’t look like the stereotypical stalker murderer character of thrillers, and so when he flips on the girl it will take the audience by surprise and throw them off balance, which is what we want to achieve in our opening.

The girl in our thriller film will be wearing a costume that would be expected on a night out. So she will be wearing a dress, it should be quite short. It will be red, this will be a signifier that she is the main character, and it is also a colour that is often seen as going well with thriller films.
As the scene progresses and she becomes more drunk, her costume will become more ‘messed up’ showing she is drunk, their could even be small tears, and creases, showing her vulnerability.

By Sam Hudson