Thriller Pitch

My thriller is based on a girl being followed by a mysterious man. I aim to build suspense and mystery through different camera angles and using the Enigma code and the non linear method. By doing this it will create suspense for the audience and an enjoyable watch. Because my thriller is aimed at 16-18 year olds i will not be trying to make it a glamourous thirller. I want to make it as dark as possible and really want the audience to think after they have watched it. I would like my film to be a Shane Meadows type film (This Is England) because he makes films that are set in really poor and deprived places but the film and the settings are so good and thats what makes the audience really think about his work and are rally interested in it. My thriller needs to look like i have made no effort in a way, but also want it to really make a huge inpact. Because it is aimed at 16-18 year olds i am going to use scenarios that apply to every teenager at that age, HOUSE PARTIES. The idea is the girl walks home from the party with a friend. the friend decides to go a different way home. So she bids her friend good night and our girl carrys on taking the shortcut through the park A man spots her and takes advantage of a good looking young girl under the influence of alcohol.

This will hopefully make a good thriller because the sound tracks that i will use will be mysterious and really make the audience be on the the edge of their seats. Then it would disappoint because nothing will happen. this will happen throughout the course of the film until obviously the man gets her. Hopefully my thriller will turn out like i hope it will and i will really be able to make it look good.

Audience research

My target audience for my thriller is teenager between the ages of 16-18. The reason i have chosen that target audience is because i am 16 and i know what i want to see out of a thriller film. It has been proven that when it comes to teenagers, suspense and mystery is the main thing that we want out of a thriller film. Films like James Bond Skyfall appeal to us purely because there is violence, suspense and a love story. The reason we appeal to this is because this is what teenagers are interested in. For some reason we find that these things create a good thriller film for us. That is why i have chosen Teenagers between the ages of 16-18.

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Picture for thriller

Unfortunately the picture has come out blury and will not rotate. This location is good because the lighting gets darker further down the track. That automatically creates suspense because the audience will want to know why it is darker further down the track. I didn't want to get an even amount of people on the platform otherwise the picture would of looked like it was taken out to look as if i had been on a day trip.

Picture for thriller

This picture has not come out well and was not edited well enough. Although saying that it is a good location because it has an eary feel to it and it is such a well known locaton, The River Thames. The boat coming out of the other end of the bridge adds good effect to the water as it ripples. I only got half of the bridge in because the full bridge wouldn't of got as much of a dark and eary effect it would of made the picture look more fun and not as mystical.

Narratives of a thriller

Omniscient - The audience knows everything about the character
Restricted- Where the audience only knows what the character knows
Linear- where there is a clear beginning, middle and end 
Non linear- When the film shows flashbacks to throw the audience off track and make them think
Enigma code- It is a form of grabbing the audiences attention. It works by gradually finding things out throughout the film which builds suspense and mystery

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