Final Pitch

Influenced films -

-Shutter Island
-Fight Club
-Inception

A man having an unstable mind set by the death of his family (wife and daughter) in a car accident that was caused by him drinking. It begins with him making his way into multiple shops in london buying strange ingredients such as bleach, deodorant, wires etc. it then cuts to him in a dark room putting everything together, he has a blueprint of a particular building that he has marked out next to him while doing it. The music then becomes very tense and has a close up of of him pulling a mask over his face and loading the bombs into a bag and walking out.

Thriller Idea Collage

Research Target Audience

Inception –

8.8 Rating.  Aimed at male audience aged 17+ it has to attract people who can understand it and who like the action side to it.

Pulp Fiction –

9.0 Rating. Is aimed at a male audience aged 16-30 because it has different genres to gain higher audience.

Se7en –

8.7 Rating. Aimed at males 16+ for the action and investigations that take place.

V for Vendetta –

8.2 Rating. Aimed at the male audience and needs full concentration.

Non-Stop -
7.0 Rating. Males 18-29 for its action scenes.

Shutter Island - 

8.1 Rating. Mostly male audience 18-29 year olds for its suspenseful scenes and plot twist to make you think. 

Memento - 

8.1 Rating. Again 18-29 year old males because of the way Nolan connects with the audience and gets them to think. 

American Psycho - 

7.6 Rating. The audience is mostly round 18-29 year olds who are male and female. 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 

7.9 Rating. Most of the audience is males 18+ for its action of crime and the mystery it creates. 

Source Code - 

7.5 Rating. Male and females round about 18-25 for its use of different genres to fit everyones needs. 

Thriller Idea Mindmap MES

Thriller Ideas

The opening for the thriller will start with a male character getting ready in the morning, the face is not seen until later on. The titles will come up as flashes that will last up to 5 seconds and they will be on a blank coloured background. The soundtrack will be little green bag. After he gets ready you can see the character walking out the house, his costume will be a black suit, the camera will be a tracking shot focusing on his feet and slowly tilting upwards to show the back of his head and back, the camera will stop to show the character walking away into the distance. The title of the film would then appear.

Bruce- My idea for a thriller opening would be that it would be dark and the music would be high pitched and sincere. The images shown would be of a man cleaning his gun, the shot would be a PoV and the way he is cleaning his gun is very gentle and soft. The title slates would appear over the scene. The camera shots would only focus on the hands and the gun, the face of the man is not seen u till he points the gun at the camera and looks down the site, this would be a shallow focus which would specify on the gun and change into making the mans face more clear.

Mitchel- the sequence will start in a city during the night. The music will be calm but suspicious, the shot will be a PoV of the driver who is driving around in a black car, the music will be diabetic as if it has come from the car radio.  The title slates will be the street signs and advertisements around the buildings.

Preliminary Task