Preliminary Task: Planning

 To plan the prelim task, we began looking at certain areas of film that we knew must be manipulated for out short movie to fit in with the thriller genre. We look at many different areas such as mise en scene, sound, editing and camera. Using our knowledge of thriller movies, in which was gained during our research stage looking at films such as Se7en, we discussed how and why these areas of film were the ones on which to focus on and manipulate. After brainstorming our ideas of a plot, we came to a final decision. The plot on which we settled was chosen as we felt that it reflected the stereotypical thriller plot more than our other ideas. We based our plot around doctor in which visits a psychopathic patient, the protagonist being the doctor and the antagonist being the patient. We planned to create a build up to our climax through a series of shots of the doctor approaching the patient. The climax of the clip becomes evident during the final scene.

Once our plot was finalised, we were then able to work out how we wanted to create a thriller feel to our clip through the areas of film. Thrillers are known to have very low key lighting so we wanted to keep our lighting as similar as possible. To do this, we removed as much light as we could when filming our scenes. We also wanted to incorporate as many shadows as possible so on main scenes we planned to use dark background lighting with a single spotlight on the main character. To take the thriller theme even further, we then planned to use editing techniques within our clip. We planned to use a technique called fast cutting, a type of editing usually associated with thriller movies. In camera, we wanted to aim to use various different techniques, one being the over the shoulder shot. We planned to use this during the final scene of our clip. Sound was the last thing in which we looked at in our planning stage. We finally decided that a slower, but heavy beated track would work better as a piece of background music for our clip as it would help build tension and suspense.