For our main task we have chosen do do a Thriller. We felt this was a good one to chose because it is quite a broad genre therefore our storyline would not be too limited. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, we have chosen to do this but also have some slow paced takes to build up tension and create binary opposition between our two characters (in which one is a male the other female). We have also chosen to add a cliffhanger in at the end of our two minutes to conform to the genre.
We have had influences from some Thriller films such as Psycho. For example we have a small shower scene. In Psycho this was the film's pivotal scene, and one of the most famous scenes in cinema history. All though this is not a huge part of our film opening and is not pivotal, it still demonstrates the genre we are conforming to.
Our film also includes quite a stereotypical follwing scene which appears in many thrillers.
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Film Pitch
This is a short pitch in order to sell our film and an audience.
Pitch:
This feature length thriller, set in the streets of Oxford, tells us of Max Furtado and his wild, obsessive grieving for Claudia Jones, the woman he once loved and killed. Will he be able to face the trials of murder, or will he hide forever, planning his next victim?
Pitch:
This feature length thriller, set in the streets of Oxford, tells us of Max Furtado and his wild, obsessive grieving for Claudia Jones, the woman he once loved and killed. Will he be able to face the trials of murder, or will he hide forever, planning his next victim?
Film synopsis
Lizzy and I have chosen to do do the first two minutes of a thriller for our final task. Together we have written a synopsis on what the whole film would be if we were to make it...
Synopsis:
Max Furtado is a 31-year-old publicist living the simple life, but wishing he had more…
When Max meets uptown girl Claudia Jones he is devastated that she will not return his love. He decides if he can’t have her, no one will. So one dark December night he murders her, only to instantly find himself thrown into a mad state of denial and regret.
He finds himself walking the streets looking for anyone that looks like her, only to find this is not a cure for grieve, it makes him madder by the day and he is soon labelled Oxford’s modern day ‘Jack the Ripper’. As his psychotic murders increase, more and more police are out looking for him. Every woman is in fear of her life; no mother daughter or sister is safe.
Chief Samuel is made head of the case; if he doesn’t manage to find Max his job could be at stake. And when his wife goes missing, it gets personal. Samuel works day and night in his search for Max but he starts to struggle to look after his scared 3-year-old boy as well as juggle the case.
One night he gets a mysterious phone call. A deep voice tells him to meet him at a shadowed remote alley way a couple of miles away. Samuel jumps into the car and races down the streets at full speed, he gets there in 5 minutes and jumps out of car. He finds him self face to face with Max and, behind him, tied up to a lamppost, is his wife covered in blood.
Max demands that if he lets Samuel have his wife back then Samuel should let him go free. Chief Samuel is torn, for he wants his wife home and safe but he needs Max caught, When Samuel runs to set his wife free, Max pulls out a knife on him. They get into a rough fight full of blood and gore, but soon Max loses strength.
Samuel releases his wife and quickly drives home with her back to his son who has been left alone. He calls his fellow policemen to get to the scene of crime where Max is lying powerless. But when all the policemen get there Max is no where to be seen, but as they walk back through the grave yard they see him laid over Claudia Jones’s grave with a knife through his heart.
Synopsis:
Max Furtado is a 31-year-old publicist living the simple life, but wishing he had more…
When Max meets uptown girl Claudia Jones he is devastated that she will not return his love. He decides if he can’t have her, no one will. So one dark December night he murders her, only to instantly find himself thrown into a mad state of denial and regret.
He finds himself walking the streets looking for anyone that looks like her, only to find this is not a cure for grieve, it makes him madder by the day and he is soon labelled Oxford’s modern day ‘Jack the Ripper’. As his psychotic murders increase, more and more police are out looking for him. Every woman is in fear of her life; no mother daughter or sister is safe.
Chief Samuel is made head of the case; if he doesn’t manage to find Max his job could be at stake. And when his wife goes missing, it gets personal. Samuel works day and night in his search for Max but he starts to struggle to look after his scared 3-year-old boy as well as juggle the case.
One night he gets a mysterious phone call. A deep voice tells him to meet him at a shadowed remote alley way a couple of miles away. Samuel jumps into the car and races down the streets at full speed, he gets there in 5 minutes and jumps out of car. He finds him self face to face with Max and, behind him, tied up to a lamppost, is his wife covered in blood.
Max demands that if he lets Samuel have his wife back then Samuel should let him go free. Chief Samuel is torn, for he wants his wife home and safe but he needs Max caught, When Samuel runs to set his wife free, Max pulls out a knife on him. They get into a rough fight full of blood and gore, but soon Max loses strength.
Samuel releases his wife and quickly drives home with her back to his son who has been left alone. He calls his fellow policemen to get to the scene of crime where Max is lying powerless. But when all the policemen get there Max is no where to be seen, but as they walk back through the grave yard they see him laid over Claudia Jones’s grave with a knife through his heart.
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