Thriller Treatment (Dan)

The thriller will start with a over the shoulder shot of someone looking over old film photos on a table. The room has very low lighting and is only a single light source such as a desk lamp. The camera moves round from the shoulder to a side few of the person sitting in the chair with his shadow in the background. We then see a close up of the person ripping up a bunch of the photos.

From here we then cut to a girl walking down the street this starts off with the camera being behind her but this camera then goes past her and shows the front of her. In the background we see a man looking “dodgy” taking photos of this women wearing a dark overcoat/jacket. As the women gets closer this person disappears into the alleyway, the women then follows goes down the same allay as the person went down. We see a small shot of the women going into the ally. From this we see he alleyway to be quite dark, the camera stops here and freezes. Seconds later we hear a scream come from the alleyway.This quickly then cuts first to a over the shoulder of a person watching the news and then a full frame of the news. In this we see a story about a girl that has gone missing, they show a photo on the tv and explain she is missing, this photo matches the girl we had earlier seen walking down the street as soon as this story finishes we go to a over the shoulder again and the tv is immediately switched off. We then have a flash effect and go straight into titles.

Establishing shot

Long shot

Mid shots

Close ups

These shots will be at different angles such as low and high angled shots. In this I would also like to include a great deal of movement this can be achieved using a dolly or even if possible a jib. This would make the film a lot more life like and make it seem more realistic.The music would be a ghostly pad to add suspense to the film. To do this I would create a ordinary pad synth and then add large amounts of reverb and delay.In my film I will use many different Diagetic sounds including ripping noises, foot steps and also screams. I using a shotgun microphone on a pistol grip or downloaded royalty free could record this. I would also be using some non-diagetic sound for the titles, this would be a “Bass shot” this can be done using sequencing software easily and would add a lot of suspense to the film. This would also sound even more realistic if played on a system that uses a subwoofer.