Costume and prop list and shot list

A fairly simple presentation, detailing the various costumes and props that we'll be using for our thriller opening. It also contains the different shots we'll be taking advantage of and why we're using them.

 
 

Treatment

It opens on an extreme close-up of a man (John) in a suit and red tie, showing only his chest. The camera pans out wider with the credits fading in and out around him, eventually revealing he is at a poker table with two men in suits and a black tie either side of him with John in a spotlight.  The panning stops and the shot is left on the wide shot of the three men at the table. We then see a few close up shots of the dealer shuffling and dealing cards, someone taking a drink and someone pushing in some chips. It then cuts to a close up of John, he lays two aces down on the table, it then cuts back to the close up of John as his poker face slowly curves into a smirk. “Looks like the last draw,” John then says wryly and then as he stands and draws a gun it returns to a wide shot of John drawing his gun in slow motion and the screen goes black. Then, when he fires the screen lights up because of the flash. The camera will aim the light source at his gun instead of John. There's a slow motion shot of him shooting a guy then it fades to black, then he changes his pose and same again for each guy but the each one is not as slow as the last then cut to title screen. 

John Reed: Diamond Hand  

Target Audience Profile

This is the target audience profile for my media project as I'm sure you are clearly aware of by now. the target audience profile simply outlines the male and female concepts of the sort of people we predict will watch our film. Hopefully specific enough to the point where you begin to worry whether you're just like everyone else.

 

The difference between a horror and a thriller

Horrors and thrillers. Two movie genres that can be alarmingly alike, yet are entirely different. The confusion between these two genres often stems from, fear-inducing thrillers being mistaken for horror due to the fright produced from it. However, some thrillers do intend to scare the audience, it is not the main objective of a thriller. Here are the differences between a horror film and a thriller film:

INTENT

In plain terms, the purpose of a horror film alone, is to scare, meanwhile for a thriller, it isn't. A thriller usually aims to intrigue the audience with mystery, which when dark enough, can look like a horror. And this is why the two genres are sometimes mixed up. One thing to note is that thrillers are usually more story-driven than horrors.

JUMPSCARES

Once again, thrillers main focus isn't to scare the audience so features such as jumpscares would not usually appear. Horror films on the other hand frequently make use of this technique to keep the viewers on the edge of their seats.

NO HOPE

Horror films don't usually have a surprising story. Everyone usually just dies. And that is why they are different from thrillers. This lack of hope in horror films is quite the opposite in thrillers where the mystery usually continues to give the protagonists hope.

FOCUSED ON DEATH

Another difference of horrors from thrillers is its focus on death. This the reason death is nearly always included in a horror, usually because most horrors make use of death to keep the audience in the belief there is danger.

Media Proposal

This. This is it. The Proposal (No, not the film, besides, it's not even a thriller). This, is my media proposal. Containing the concept, story and many more for my group and I's media project! However, lest we not hold thou back from thine brilliant proposal, thouest you seeth it for thineselves (Don't judge me for not being able to speak Old English. I'm Nigerian.)

Amazing, right?

Planning Sheet

This presentation contains the brainstorm for our first idea for our thriller opening, before we cut it down to streamline it and make it easier to follow narratively. You're welcome to marvel at our naively optimistic, unnecessarily large-scale ideas, for our 2 minute thriller opening.