Thriller Brainstorm

 These are all the things I will need to consider when planning and producing our thriller film:

• Music

- tense quiet music or loud music

- builds up tension and creates drama

- no music in titles - silence might help create this effect
- violins, pianos are the typical thriller convention in music titles
- happy music to contrast atomsphere?

• Titles

- murder scene with flashing cameras, after 3/4 camera flashes screen goes white- introduce text

- animation in titles- something different and original

- formal font?
- women in chair, camera slowly goes up to her, cuts to face, zooms in eye- flashback

• Story lines and ideas

- murder mystery crime- clever plot
- flashback idea

• Characters

- heroic police detective- stereotypical

- male protagonist
- female antagonist

• Mise-en-scene

- high key and low key lighting used in different places- contrast
- props- gun, knife- typical thriller weapons

• Location

- canal scene

- woods (used a lot in thriller films- cliched)

- building

- one room- compacted space, dark

- house