Finding A Location For The Main Scene

Although we orginally wanted a white room to give the look of emptyness and isolation, we decided to use Megan's Dad's study. This room was entirely red and we liked this as it represented danger. We thought this was fitting as Jody would turn evil in the scene where we use this location and therefore the room would help to symbolise that danger was coming.

Finding A Location For The Car Scene

We used Megan's Dad's car to film to car crash scene and a spare room in Megan's house to film the last scene. We originally wanted to use a white room (Megan's bedroom at her Mum's) but Megan was staying at her Dad's the weekend of filming so we decided to use Megan's Dad's spare room. In the end we decided that we liked the room we used because it was red and we liked the way that red signifies danger.

Title Sequence

A good title sequence creates questions and should set the tone for the whole film. If a film is funny, the title sequence should present this by using comedic music and showing hints of what’s to come in the movie etc. In our case a thriller title sequence should use spooky or mysterious music and use dark colours or red to represent what the film is like overall. Depending on what type of thriller the title sequence is for, questions may want to be raised or stings and blood may be good to use to keep the audience engaged and interested.

The main actors and the director and producers are all usually named in the opening credits as well as the appearance of the name of the film on the screen.

The importance of a title sequence in a film is to engage the audience and create the beginning of a storyline to draw them in.

An example of a good title sequence is Cape Fear, Black Swan and A Perfect Getaway.
All of these films and influenced us in how to shape our title sequence. We decided that we will show 'Starring Jody Cook' and 'Directed and Produced by Scarlett Gladwin, Maisie McCarthy and Megan Perfect' before showing the name of the film 'Solemn'. We think this makes the opening seem more like a real thriller and gives a professional look. However we don't want to take attention away from the filming and don't want to state too many people and roles as they would usually be shown in the end credits.

Our Thriller Moodboard

This is a moodboard, made with pictures of ideas for our thriller. There is a picture of a girl with red eyes, this is for our main character- who turns evil. There is also a picture of an average family, where we had the ideas of the main character dissapearing from the photo. The pictures show the story and inspiration that we use for our thriller.

   

Title Of Our Thriller

Our final title for our thriller is: Solemn. We created a brainstorm which led to this idea. We decided that it couldn't be too long because we wanted it to be spelt using children's building blocks which related to our thriller. Therefore we decided it should be one word. After coming up with a few ideas we realised that most of our ideas for the title began with 'S' so we decided to stick with the 'S' sound for our thriller title.

Eventually we came up with the title 'Solemn'. This was chosen because Maisie used this word while recording our Storyboard and it wasn't what we rehearsed so we were slightly taken aback by the choice of words she used. We used a Dictionary and Thesaurus to check that the name was appropriate and that it meant what we thought it meant - 'serious, gloomy, sacred and grevely impressive'.

Thriller Storyboard

Pitch

Here is a video of us talking about the pitch for our thriller: