Thriller Film Planning

Story Board:

















































Plot Summary:
The thriller film is set in a small town in England, where everybody knows each other.
Faith is an innocent, pretty charity worker who lives with her housemate Imogen. These two have been best friends since childhood and Imogen is overprotective of Faith, restricting what she can do. Imogen works outside the small town where as Faith does charity work in town, she works for a man called Alistare. Alistare is represented as the creepy outcast of the town, who is hardly seen or heard from. Faith has a boyfriend named Chase; he is the stereotypical good looking, argumentative male who is always out working. Ariel is another person who lives in he town; she is a stereotypical teenager, loud and always wanting to be "different".
Over a matter of weeks, people start to die mysteriously with their bodies disappearing. Alistare is immediately blamed, but does someone else have alteria motives?
As the film comes to an end Faith goes round to Alistares to do charity work. He tries to tell her the murderer is Ariel as he saw her kill Imogen. Faith freaks out and runs into the woods, Alistare chases her to convince her, they bump into Noah and Ariel burying bodies. Faith sees the bodies and gets angry, she picks up a shovel and kills Ariel. Noah escapes.
This is our plot twist because no one expects Ariel to be the murderer.

Opening Summary:
We learn in one of the first opening frames that Faith and Chase are a couple, and that Faith and Imogen are living together. There is immediate confusion as the characters realise someone has gone missing, as an audience we find out that he has died by the use of a flash frame. Faith is seen walking to work, a cutaway then shows Ariels story.

Character Profiles:
Name: Faith
Occupation: Charity worker
Relationship status: In a relationship with Chase
Family: Parents together, only child
Personality: Innocent, shy at first
Mannerisms: Good posture, speak quietly
Distinguishing features: Naturally pretty
How does he/she dress? Casual, up to date with fashion - skinny jeans, top + cardi
Represetation: Perfect

Name: Alistare
Occupation: None
Relationship status: Single
Family: Unknown
Personality: Quiet, keeps himself to himself, the on edge all the time, jumpy
Mannerisms: Hunched
Distinguishing features: Scar on his cheek
How does he/she dress? Scruffy, casual - old tracksuit bottoms, old t-shirt
Representation: Creep

Name: Christian
Occupation: Retired
Relationship status: Divorced
Family: Parents passed away, divorced wife - don't speak, no children
Personality: Interferring, rude, blunt, snobby
Mannerisms: OCD
Distinguishing features: Beady eyes
How does he/she dress?
Representation: Old nosey neighbour

Name: Imogen
Occupation: Receptionist
Relationship status: Single
Family: Mum, dad, brother. Live in France
Personality: Forward, bold, overprotective
Maanerisms: Well spoken
Distinguishing features:
How does he/she dress? Casual, smart - work suit
Representation: Posh

Name: Chase
Occupation: Fitness instructor
Relationship status: In a relationship with Faith
Family:
Personality: Argumentative, head strong
Mannerisms: Walks with chest puffed out, flexs muscles
Distinguishing features: Good looking
How does he/she dress? Casual - trackies, hoodie - designer
Representation: Jock

Name: Ariel
Occupation: School girl
Relationship status: Single
Family: Both parents together, one older sister - dead
Personality: Hippie-like, loud, "different"
Mannerisms: Eyes dart around
Distinguishing features: Bright blue eyes
How does he/she dress? Hippie-like, clashing colours - fashion statement
Representation: Hippie, essentric

Name: Noah
Occupation: Bin man
Relationship status: Unknown
Family: Unknown
Personality: Sweet, kind, helpful
Maanerisms: Talks foreign alot on the phone but can talk enlish
Distinguishing features:
How does he/she dress? High vis, top, jacket, green trousers
Representation: Foreigner

Representation:
Representation in our thriller film is important because it keeps the plot twist going to confuse the audience as to who is the killer.
Alistares representation makes him look like the murderer. He is quiet, keeps himself to himself and creepy, like a Boo Radley character from To Kill A Mockingbird. This makes the audience suspicious of him. Faith is represented as the 'perfect' one who has a perfect life and job, this emphasises the fact that she needs help and is the victim when eerything is going wrong. Ariel is portrayed as the scatty, hippi school girl. Although she stands out as being very essentric, she isn't expected to be the pycho killer. This is also mainly because she is a female killer, which is our USP.

Location:
Beckys (my) house
Ashridge or woods by Astley

Cast:
Ariel - Ella
Noah - Robin
Christian - Lauren
Faith - Yasmin
Imogen - Kerri
Chase - Lewis
Holly - Becky
Young Holly - Holly
Young Ariel - Rosie

Script:
Beckys house.
Muffled talking by Faith and Imogen - general talk.
(outside)(breathing behind camera)
Imogen: (whisper) Faith? Where's Christian? He's always stuck to that fence, nosing around.
Faith: Oh yeah, I haven't seen him in a while actually.
Imogen: Hmm, that's weird! I wonder where he can be.
Faith: He's usually gazing out that window!

(Polaroid photo of murder scene.)

Imogen: What charity case are you going to help out now then?
Faith: You know that lonely man, Alistare is it?
Imogen: (gasp) Not that freak?! You know he's creepy Faith!
Faith: Oh, don't start Imogen, you know I can look after myself!
Imogen: I'm just warning you! I've heard stories about him!

Ashridge or woods by Astley.
Faith walks through some woods and passes a man talking foreign on the phone.
Noah: (translation) I've done what you said, the body's gone but the police have been sniffing around so lay low for a while until next time...

(Faith knocks on Alistare's door)

(Past: Young Ariel and young Holly in past playing, loud echoing laughs)

(Present: Ariel talks to Holly who's sitting on the floor not moving)

Ariel: Holly? (pause) What are you doing here? (pause) Mum and doctors said you'd never come back. (pause) Holly! (pause) Holly! (pause) Why are you here? (pause) Dead people don't come back Holly! (pause) I've got someone else now! (pause) Things are going to be better this time! (pause) I've got Faith!


Thriller Film

During lesson we done a peer assessment of our films, with the feedback we got from our peers we had to decide what we would keep and what we would change about our film.

Keep:

• Music
• Flashback
• Camera angles/positions
• Use of photos - make clearer
• Effects
• Title - Z

Change:

• Titles - add at beginning
• Steady camera
• Background noise - dialogue louder
• Clearer plot - really focus on as not everyone understood
• Editing much clearer - really focus on as not everyone understood

Action Points

From our feedback we put it into clear action points.

Photograph - get rid of the spin just have the photo flash up, add camera noise to make it clearer.

Plot - needs to be clearer.

• Add birth - death date so you understand the death.
• Voice over of Faith and Imogen - refilm and voice over the outside/car scene.
• Refilm Ellas' speech - sound more realistic, make becky look more ghostly.
• Titles - add at the beginning rather than have them at the end.