Treatment

Casting

• Director:Craig
• Producer:Sean
• Actors:Unknown
• Cameraman:Sean/Craig
• Sound engineer:Craig
• Mise-en-Scene manager:Sean
• Cinematography:Craig/Sean

Plot and make-up of story

1. Small room (maybe a cupboard)-Top light
2. Flashbacks of running through a busy street away from antagonist
3. Back to cupboard-hear door open and hear movement of interrogator
4. Flashback to over-coming obstacles to escape capture (jumping wall, climbing fence, under barriers...)
5. Back in room and gag is removed so he can speak (only see hands and silhouette of antagonist) and questions begin e.g. "Where is it" and "What have you done with it?"
6. Door is kicked down by a man with a gun who shoots the interrogator and then opening titles begin

Sound
Mostly diegetic in the room and non-diegetic in flashback (soundtrack-chase music)
Only dialogue when interrogation is in full swing

Strap-line and title

• Title- Hush
• Strapline-Stay calm, Keep quiet, survive!

Ideas Focus Group

Idea Focus Group

Idea One

Man A finds a bag looks inside and decides to take what ever might be inside. Man B follows him also wanting whats inside the bag. Man A realises and tries to run away from Man B by running through/around/over obstacles and in doing so drops the bag from a bridge and it floats away to a bank where the camera pans up onto who will be the main character finding the bag and puts it on his back and walks away.

Idea Two

A drug deal is under taking when a sound of police sirens spooks them both and they run away. The dealer is then chased by an under cover police officer in plan clothes. The dealer hides and eludes the police officer where then he walks away from the camera and the credits roll.

Idea Three

A shot in a small room of a man tied up to a chair being interrogated while having flash backs of running away from an unseen antagonist. He over-comes obstacles to try and escape but ends up being caught and in the situation we see him in the first place.

Thriller Openings

Thriller openings

1) Memento

Conventions: Include blood, guns, bullets, murder

Camera: Black and white, close up 

Editing: the film is being played backwards

Sound: low toned music 

Mise en scene: Broken window, abandoned warehouse, hotel room, dirty car

2) Brick

Conventions: Dead body 

Camera: Extreme close up

Editing: Dissolve, shot reverse shot, graphic match, flashback, slow zoom

Sound: Bells and guitar soundtrack, school bell.

Mise en scene:

3) Zodiac

Conventions: strange weird attitude

Camera: Tracking shot, slow motion

Editing: Non diegetic caption

Sound: Soundtrack, fireworks, car horn, screeching tires

Mise en scene: Night 4th july

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No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men

This film is set in rural texas where a welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the remains of a drug deal gone violently wrong. He leaves the crime scene with more than two million dollars in cash, rather than report the discovery to the police. because of this a psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), on his trail as he murders anyone who gets near him or in his way. Meanwhile a laconic sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) struggles to oversees the investigation and fails to thwart his crimes.

suspense and shock

Thriller Hitchcock model 

A Hitchcock film often begin with a crime and the accusation of an innocent bystander. The accused could contact the authorities where the problem would usually be solved but instead the poor bystander runs from the law which further puts him/her at risk. An example of this is in 'The 39 Steps' 1935 and 'North by Northwest' 1959. In The 39 Steps the suspense films abandon both thrills and suspense when the falsely accused character finally reaches safety.

Suspense

Suspense is when the audience knows what the characters don't, it is the anticipation of what is going to happen next. An example of this is if there is a class full of students being taught by a teacher and the camera reveals that there is a bomb under the table to the audience but the students and teacher does not. The audience will be anticipating what's going to happen, will we be saved? will the bomb go off? this is the suspense.

Shock

Shock is when the audience does not know what is going to happen. If the class full of students being taught by a teacher does not reveal the bomb under the table but just goes off without warning killing everyone present this is what we would call shock.

Conventions of a Thriller

A thriller is commonly about a hero the protagainist trying to beat the villian the antagonist. A thriller also contains fast pace editing and it uses suspence which build tension and are meant to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. All the tension which is built up through out the film with chase scenes and pursuits all lead up to the climax which is usually the villains plans being destroyed by the heroes actions, this is where the tables are turned on the villain where now the hero is on the upper hand. The sub-genres of the thriller are spy, legal, psychological, political, mystery and crime. The common thriller includes murder, menace, mystery and paranoia. The central plot o fa thriller is good vs evil, justice vs injustice it involves the characters on a dangerous mission to escape what seems an impossible situation, like in the mission impossible films, it seems impossible for the protagonist to come out on top but then there is a plot twist and the mostly troubled, multi faced, morally complex hero 'saves the day'.

A Red herring is something in a film which distracts your attention from the real issue. It is related but not identical to the real plot line.