Shots:

Eva and I decided to watch a wide selection of thriller trailers, trailers such as psychological, erotic, crime and mystery thrillers, from new releases to films released over 10 years ago. We sampled trailers such as the newly released hunger games, the conjuring and the lovely bones, along with films to be released in the coming years such as Flexx.  Although many of these trailers differ for many reasons, such as the time it was made, the type of thriller it is, the time it was made, the plot etc. Yet all trailers have one thing in common, that one thing being that the trailer is made up of lots of very quick cuts, I believe this is a great way to create tension and that’s why It fits in so well with this genre. Often the shots used to go alone with these quick cuts vary. Often beginning with a long shot, of even an establishing shot to create a scene, eventually working its way up to a close up or even an extreme close up, often used to fear on a persons face. This is also used in a bid to create more tension, and leave us holding our breath, we want to know what was chasing that girl, or infact was she ever found?  These trailers are used to act such as a cliffhanger leaving us confused wanting to know what happened next. Therefore the audience that view this trailer are left wanting to know what happens in the film so much so that they will make the effort to go to the cinema to see it or even buy the DVD. This wouldn’t happen if using all these Quick cuts didn’t create all this drama in the first place and specific shots, showing what a scary forest or abandoned house the character were in, or even show the fear on her face by a close up. 

Initial Ideas :

 Eva and I began thinking about the type of film we wanted to create. We was sure we wanted to create a thriller but unsure as to what type of thriller we wanted to create. So we decided to create a mind map, meaning we could bring all our ideas and options together:

 After drawing up this mind map we decided we wanted to create a scary psychological thriller, and base it around two main characters, which we wanted to be a young boy and girl.