Our film concept: The girl in the white dress

We are going to create the first 2 minutes to a thriller movie, containing titles, interesting camera shots/angles and techniques as-well as some new editing ideas e.t.c. But mainly to show the conventions of a thriller and our interpretation of one.

As you can already see I have been looking at some thrillers and analyzing them for conventions and the sub genres they contain (refer to previous blog posts.) The most common and widely used thriller conventions I have found are:

• Mise-En-Scene props such as guns, knives, cars, dark colours, law e.t.c.
• The weather and time of day is different dependant on what genre of thriller the film is. For example psychological thriller or a thriller containing the sub-genre Horror would tend to have bad weather and be set at night most of the time, whereas a political thriller would tend to have good weather and be set during the day.  This is because of pathetic fallacy which changes the mood and atmosphere by changing the weather.
• Crime thrillers tend to have car chases and illegal activity such as mugging, drug smuggling, murder but many thrillers use this as a sub genre so in many cases a film doesn't need to be based around crime to include these conventions.
• In many thrillers there is tendency for them to have a conspiracy and mystery
• Music tends to be dramatic and based around action or Horror
• Conventions taken from other genre's e.g. fast rapid camerawork and editing from action, frights, blood & gore taken from horror, mystery and conspiracy taken from crime and adventure, which in my opinion makes up a thriller. 

We are hoping to use the following conventions in our film:

Car chase(in a fashion)

fast rapid camerawork in the intro

Mystery

A bathroom scene
Tense developing music
Bus/car/loudnoise that goes past and the person disappeared out of shot
Graphic novel features perhaps?
knife
Wounds(bruising on 'said girls' face)
Graphic matches

Here are some pro's and con's of our film idea

• The ideas are simple enough however the film on a whole will require some heavy editing, good camera-work and an excellent script to go by, this is to stop any 'cheesy-ness' that will prevent the film from living up to its genre.
• The criteria to create the film is in reach but will take a lot of work.
• The graphic match we hope to use will use a noise as well as the scene change e.g. she screams and then her screams transform it her shouting wait as a bus goes by.
• towards the end of the first 2 minuets of the film we will have to make sure the camera doesn't see her the whole time.
• There will be no room for continuity errors
• The make up and costume will have to be closely looked at and watched to simulate as much realism as possible.
• The titles will also require much thought and attention whether to use 'real' titles, use livetype alongside an image or to use photoshop.
• The locations are well planned out e.g. using a unisex bedroom, enough space to film, the usage (if its public use)
• Hopefully we shall be able to challenge a few conventions for example, the main protagonist also being an antagonist. The main character being a girl.

Genre: Psychological Thriller
Sub genre's: crime, mystery

Please listen to our film pitch and give us a feedback response. Any advice would be much appreciated as would criticism.