Planning

Films that encouraged us to film Walk in the Park .
Nicholas Cage's Bangkok Dangerous, the film uses many low camera angle shots to create tension and intimidation throughout the film. Our group felt this would be a good idea to implement in our opening to a thriller. We also felt that all these films had the conventions of a thriller. So we felt we had to meet certain audience expectations in the thriller opening to catch our potential audience. We felt the most important aspect was to make sure the music in the soundtrack would catch our audience.

We planned to use violins in our soundtrack because in some thrillers, they include violins in the soundtrack which can build tension when its played fast. Other preparations from our planning was made from our preliminary task. This practice helped us understand how to use the camera for certain shots such as 'shot reverse shot' and the 180 degree rule. This was very helpful as our groups editing would soon hopefully be improved by it. As our thriller trailer is called ‘Walk in the Park’, we chose to use the park across the college for our set. We chose to use the park because we wanted our set to fit in with the main title.

Costume
The props we used in our thriller opening eg. Papers, bags helped us make the thriller opening realistic. We used the mirror newspaper styled font to help to make this film look as if it has really happened. Other forms of planning was to get our actors. We used 3 people in our group to do the acting in the play. We also included four mourners towards the end of the trailer. To get our cast was not particularly difficult. The actors chose themselves to play roles in our opening sequence to a thriller.. As we want to use a conventional male killer, we used a male to play the role of a killer.

Actors





Teressa
The girl who was pushed when the man stormed out of the toilet.







Emmanuel



The killer in the trailer. He is the person who stalks dako'anne before he murders her.













Mourners

Holly
Jessica
Hillary
Gerda

Location



We used the toilets in our college. This is where the killer is seen changing clothes.











This room is where the girl was tied up to a chair. We used a dark room because we felt it would be mysterious and unsettling

Research

Before starting our thriller, our group looked into many different thrillers which were successful in the box office. For our research we checked the Pearl & Dean business website which gave us infomation about films such as their box office and the gender, age group and class who viewed the films.

Age: Gender: Male 59% Female 41%
4-6 0%
7-11 0%
12-14 0%
15-24 68%
25-34 15%
35-44 5%
45+ 0%

The first thriller we looked at was ‘Bangkok Dangerous’. The table above is a breakdown into many different demographics which established the target audience this film looked for. First of all the majority of the audience is male, 59%, where as female are 41. The age group which this film attained the most is between ages 25-44. This is a combined 79% of the 100% of people from all age groups who viewed this film. From here we were able to establish that key factors into making successful thrillers can be decided to what type of actors the production company employs. Another reason is that this film was orientated with the action genre with it. This could appeal to men as they could prefer action in thrillers.

Age: Gender: Male 63% Female 37%
4-6 0%
7-11 0%
12-14 0%
15-24 68%
25-34 15%
35-44 5%
45+ 0%

The second thriller our group looked at was ‘State of Play’. As you see from the table, we noticed that the main audience this film appealed to was mainly to men, 63%, between the ages of 15-24, 68.

A thriller we looked into was Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’. The main target audience this film attained was between the ages of 18-35. As this film contained many thriller conventions through effective camera shots it is noticed that this thriller used psychological elements such as the fear of heights

ScreenPlay

Shot 1: 20 seconds

Introduction of the thriller walk in the park.

Soundtrack : Walk in the Park

Shot 1: 6 seconds

Establishing shot of the park

Shot 2: 25 seconds

Medium shot: The man walks into the toilet to change clothes. He comes outside to find he is wanted on the local newspaper. This angers him so he storms off down the corridor pushing a woman out of the way.

Shot 3: 5 seconds

POV: The man starts watching a girl walk down the stairs. She is on the phone and is unaware that she is being followed.

Shot 4: 4 seconds

Medium shot: After following the girl into the park, he decides to start taking pictures of the girl. Close up shot.

Shot 5: 16 seconds

Long shot: The girl is walking through the park unaware she is being followed. The man continues to take pictures.

Shot 6: 3 seconds

Long shot: The man realises the girl is walking outside the park. So he follows her.

Shot 7: 7 seconds

The girl is on the phone and is unaware the man is right behind her. The man grabs her and takes her away.

[Music fades out]

Shot 8: 15 seconds

Medium shot: The man has taken the girl to a secret location. He is sorting out photos that he took earlier. He walks over to the girl where the camera Is in a low angle.

Shot 9: 3 seconds

Long shot: We see the girl tied up on the floor. We hear the girl crying.

Shot 10: 6 seconds

POV: The man is looking down at the girl and starts to kick her head. She is no longer crying and presumably dead.

Shot 11: 17 seconds

Medium shot: A few friends of the girl mourn over the death of their friend.

Shot 12: 5 seconds

Credits

Storyboard