The document provides details for an individual presentation on the thriller genre, including conventions like death, tragedy, and suspense. The student chooses revenge as their theme and outlines a plot where two best friends are torn apart by a bully, until one friend is killed by a car and the other seeks vengeance. Examples of inspiring thriller films and storyboard ideas for an opening sequence focusing on enigma and revealing the hand of one friend are also presented.
2. Why have I chosen this genre?
Thriller- Because it creates suspense, tension and excitement. It stimulates the
viewers mood such as uncertainty, anxiety, suspense, excitement and terror.
Conventions of thriller:
Death- a killing of a much loved or a important character.
Tragedy- the invoking of emotional pain of main character(s) or
audience.
Suspense- where audience is gripped to the film at important
information is withheld until the end.
Intensity- fierce emotions invoked that compels audience to simplify
with main character.
Depressing- a miserable or forlorn emotion invoked through main
character and can be simplified with audience.
3. Inspiring films
• Mirrors
• Black Swan
• Insidious
• Paranormal Activity
• Teeth
These films inspired me because I like the like feeling
of getting scared. Most of the movie storylines intrigue me.
Such films can bring about a giddy sense of fear and
adrenaline that
appeals to a wide range of target audience.
4. What is your chosen theme for your
opening sequence
• My chosen theme for my opening sequences would be REVENGE.
Death
• Someone gets hit by a car
• Violent
•
Ideas •
Pain
horror
Sadness
• Crying over the person death.
• Loss
Bullying • Grief
• Physical
• Verbal
• cyber bulling
5. What happens in the movie/opening
sequence
• What will happen in the whole film? What will happen in the opening
sequence?
• Emma and Jessica were best friends, nothing • A car comes
could tear them apart. Until Jessica became • Jessica hand on the ground
Amy’s (bully) new victim. • A rose on the grave
• Jessica starts following the bully
• No one saw the car coming, but all three Amy
life's change because of it. • Amy gets scared.
• Jessica’s dead.
• Emma’s suffering.
• And Amy will suffer.
6. Who are the character and what do
they represent
• 1st Best Friend Emma 2nd Best Friend Jessica The Bully Amy
She’s friendly, warm and A mean and cruel person.
Friendly, easy going Doesn’t
protective. Always looks out for and bottles up all of Care about anyone else beside
her friends. her emotion. herself.
Costume: Very simple. Winter Costume: Wears dark Costume: Wears bright
clothing. Jeans, woolly colours. colours. Ripped light blue
top, scarf, hat, gloves and Likes to wear black a lot Jeans, sparkle top and a
converse. since she doesn’t simple cardigan with boots.
Then changes to dark colours like to be notice by the Also wears a lot of make-up.
when seeking revenge. bully.
Body language: Very relaxed
Body language: Very Body language: A know it all.
A very stereotypical content Walks like a model.
Stiff.
school girl and then her life
changes around through her This reflects a troubled mind This represents her fake and
emotions and problems. and can only expresses herself changeable persona and only
through her appearance.
Props: Car, knife and a embarrassing photo. cares for her materialistic things.
7. How are you going to create enigma in your
opening sequence?
The first scene you’ll just see a extreme close up of a hand laying on a pavement
with traces of blood pooling down which makes the audience question who owns the
hand? What happened? And what is there to come?
8. STORYBOARD
A extreme close-up shot of A mid-shot of Emma holding the rose A extreme close-up of the rose
Jessica hands (2nd best friend.) (1st best friend)
A full shot of Jessica following Amy. Extreme close-up of the knife and Amy
A close-up of Amy(bully) hand (bully) neck.
9. Target audience and feedback
Target Audience- For teens 16-19 (mostly
girls) since its based on best friends and there
loving friendship they had together.
Gender: Female
Location: School, Shopping centre
Hobbies: Watching Movies
Interests: Hanging out with friends
