Our Thriller - Iniquity

After much planning, filming and editing, here is our final production!

The script for our Voice Over

"It wasn't the first time I've got mixed up in a deal like this. For some reason something went wrong, and the rest is kind of a blur. All I remember is those flats and being carted away in that white van. Everyday I find myself walking back there, hoping that somehow I can change what happened."

We chose to use this for our Voice Over, as it's quite simple, and we didn't want a voice over running over the whole of the introduction. We are going to separate parts of the voice over to match in the timings of certain scenes of the film. We're using a females voice as it's a female lead we are using as this goes against the typical casting of a thriller, and it's also a female we use for the shots of the character walking back to the scene of the chase.

Editing our Thriller

So far, editing our thriller has become very successful. We decided to use the colour of black and white as these looked more stylish, and we have edited the shots down to make them look slow paced in some sections, yet fast paced during the chase scene. We arranged our thriller to alternate between the chase scene and shots of our female protagonist simply walking back to the place where the chase all happened. We did this to almost confuse the audience, yet at the same time we have a voice over which help explains what goes on. At the moment we are using a combination of music and a voice over. The music is very fast paced to match the fast paced style of the film, and the music is quietened down while the voice over is running. We are also having the titles appearing in edited transitions across the bottom left of the screen as we have our female protagonist running. They appear only for a short duration each to again match the quickened pace of the film. However, at the end of the introduction we end with a gun shot and the title of the film will appear in just white and black, which we are hoping will create a stylish end to the introduction.

The Process of Filming

After the decision of me and my group to change the idea of our thriller, filming it has been more successful, and we are achieving what wanted. We've mainly been focusing on creating established shots, and concentrating on the style of our film. We changed the location to a block of the flats within the city centre, which we used for our chase scene between our two characters. We chose the block of flats as they contained a very "city" feel about them, and it was easy to imagine a chase scene happening in them.

The layout of the flats were also quite symmetrical, and looked effective with stairs leading down to the ground either side, which is where we filmed parts of the chase scene. We also used a range of thriller signifies in our thriller, such as spiral staircases, as they are a known thriller signifier, and looked very effective. We also filmed a white van as white vans are normally associated with kidnappings, and we wanted to suggest to the audience than the main female protagonist had been kidnapped.

Progress of our Thriller

Over the past few weeks of filming scenes for our thriller, it soon became apparent that having a large cast wasn't working properly, therefore we felt that it wasn't too late to change certain aspects of our thriller to make it easier. The problem we found with having a large cast was that it was always the issue that at least one actor couldn't make it on time, and when they were all together they weren't working properly.

Now, instead of having a large cast with around 6 actors, we are only having two, one boy and one girl. We are still including a chase scene, but it shall be circled around a block of flats instead. We are also going to focus more on artistic style with more focused shots, and are going to use the feature of a voice over, so we don't have to focus so much on the chase scene. Therefore this will create more mystery.