Planning: Locations

Before shooting out opening sequence for a thriller, we decided what location would suit the story best. We finally decided on my house due to the fact it seemed to fit the characters and rough plot we had so well.

Alley Way

The alley way outside my house, has a very go

thic, mysterious feel, especially the gate at the end, it's quite old so appears very haunting and gloomy. T

his suits the plot as it creates a contrast to the peaceful kitch

en inside, and foreshadows the doom of the character who has to walk up the alley.

Kitchen

The kitchen to my house has a very warm and homely mood, due to the less modern, untidy approach it has. This goes well

with the story as it

contradicts the cha

racter who owns the house, people wouldn't expect a murderer to live it a place like this, which makes it more of a shock when the audience find out that he

is actually a killer.

Living Room

This seemed like a good place for the final character who dies to die here, as there is a hall leading up to it. This is good if we wanted to shoot a medium tracking shot slowly revealing the inside of the room, then the dead body inside.

Door

On the outside of my house around the door it appears fairly scruffy, and antique, this will be useful for when one character approaches the door, it will create a sense of mystery for the audience.

Rough Storyboard

This is the first draft of our storyboard, which we jotted onto some paper after planning our plot out. The route idea of the cross cutting between the two characters has already spawned here. There is no mention of the kettle on this first page, as we had not really considered the order of things at this point.

A lot of the shots of the making of the coffee are also quite spaced out, in this early story board we found that we had a few shots of the man walking up the alley way, and then every now and again there is in a insert shot of the coffee being made. This gives the man in the alleyway more screen time, initially to make him an obviously more important character, perhaps t should be a little more ambiguous though so the audience do not know who the villain is, a code of most thrillers.

As the man making the coffee walks up to the door, there is an insert shot of the coffee being stirred, although this does make it obvious to the audience that the two things are not happening at the same time, it could be vaguer. We also planned to have a close up of his mouth as he spoke, as to make the audience concentrate on his speech.