-We need:
  -Props
    -4 guns
      -Shotgun
      -MP5 rifle X3
    -Wrist tag from hospital X2
    -Fake blood
    -Fuzz light
 

For our thriller, we are going to cast Sophie Jackson. We picked Sophie as she looks the right age for our protagonist and she is a good actress and would fit in well with our narrative.








For our police man we are hopefully going to use Phil (media teacher), Adam (media teacher) & Chris (theatre teacher). We are using teachers as in most media nowadays, older characters are used to play younger characters, therefore we cannot use our peers as police officers as they would look too young, so teachers seemed the best option. We used two media teachers as they are likely to be available as they have been used in other thrillers before and as they are media teachers, they are likely to be willing to help with the thrillers.

For our detective, we are hopefully going to use Mike, we wanted to use Mike as one of our detectives, however, he has long hair, therefore, he wouldn't look like the stereotypical policeman, so we suggested that he be a police detective, as he would be able to look more causal.

Our group needs to get 5 guns for the scene. We need to get 4 police issue rifles for the police officers, this will help add to the identification of the character for the audience so that the audience will easily be able to tell that they are police men, however, we need to set the scene in England so, there will be no pistols and only the police issue rifles. The girl will have a shotgun as they are common place in England, either this or a hunting rifle, as many people in the UK go hunting.

My final storyboard for my thriller coursework. The frames were photographed on my phone, then edited together on my laptop.

Storyboarding is drawing out frames of the film before production begins. Doing a storyboard means that on the shoot day, their is a set of almost 'instructions' for the scene that they are shooting. Having a storyboard speeds up the production process as the director roughly knows which shot and the duration of the shot.

Detectives in the U.K. wear suits. Usually they are Dark blue or dark brown, We as a group want to take inspiration from the BBC television show 'Luther' (2010) which centres around a detective called Luther. His costume is a brown tweed suit, he wears jeans as well this makes him look more casual













The other piece of costume inspiration we have been thinking about is detective inspector Lestrade from another BBC television series 'Sherlock' (2010)

As a group we decided in getting a police 'wallet' that we can show in the opening scene when they arrest the girl, this way we can show the location of the filming as the badge changes from country to country and this badge represents that it is in the UK

I want to do quadrant filming for the thriller. The filming type is used to shows social anxiety and difference in character. The main character having mental illness is a perfect excuse for the filming to be used as she is different to the other characters so it will show a difference between the characters, a good example of the use of quadrant filming to show what I described is the tv show 'Mr. Robot' (2015) and the film 'Drive' (2011)

The entire film will not consist of many cuts hopefully, I intend to do a few mini 'oners' in the film, however, we will film all of the cuts even if they are unneeded as it is better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them, the 'oners' will not take too long to film
, maybe there will be a couple of takes of each and then refining them into the best in post, however, for the shots that will be static or hand held, we will need to film each one multiple times each with a different lens as for the same reason for filming the static or handheld shots, it would be better to not need them and have them than to need them and not have them. The problem with the static or handheld shots is that they will be time consuming as each shot will need to be shot multiple times with the inclusion of lens changes.

The only foreseeable problems will be weather and actors. The weather could be a problem as we are filming on-top of a multi-storey carpark out of school bounds and we are filming in January. If it snows we will not be able to get to the location, and the drone shot will be out of the question. Also if it rains there will be the problem of getting the camera equipment wet. If it snows we will not use the drone shot and use a location in school added in with the green screen to create the sense of being high up. If it rains, we will use the second to top floor of the multi-storey car park so that there is shelter from the rain and will not use a drone shot, or if the weather clears up towards the end of the shoot, we will film the drone shot last or vice versa.









The problem with actors is if they are ill on the day of shoot, which is possible as we film on the first week back from half term, which could lead to a winter cold which could make them unavailable on the shoot day, this can be avoided by having back ups. We had different actors that we considered for the role of the characters, and we could use the other actors on the shoot day, the other option is because there are 3 other groups filming at the same location as us, we can use members of the other groups in our thriller.

There is only one location for our thriller. Our thriller is set on-top of a multi-storey car park in Guilford. The setting is important as it is set somewhere high up so that there is a feeling of vertigo and makes the scene more intense which will add to the genre conventions of a thriller. Being high up also adds to the story in the film as the girl wants to kill herself after she has killed someone so creating the sense of vertigo makes this more obvious and makes what is happening on screen easier to understand.