Thriller Film Opening Pitch

 The genre my group and I have chosen for our film opening is Thriller. We particularly enjoy this genre because films falling within the Thriller generally have intriguing story lines and have the ability to influence the brains thoughts, helping our brains to think deeper and smarter. I personally chose Thriller because Unlike other genres of film, Thriller gives the audience a rush of adrenaline, keeping the audience hooked in and interested. Some famous thrillers are; 

The structure of our opening is a palindromic structure. Our sequence commences with our main character running through the woods including shots that we are to present as our film draws to an end. We then illustrate shots of our antagonist and protagonist conversing, the evil psychiatrist and the patient possessing mental illness. We decided this would be an effective structure as it would leave the audience on a cliff hanger. A cliffhanger is a plot device which features a main character in a difficult dilemma at the end of an episode. A cliffhanger is hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma.

Me and Cailin will be acting within our film opening. We chose to do this because it will ensure that effort will be put into making the opening appear interesting and effective. Both characters presented in the opening will be Female. Cailin playing the patient possessing mental illness who is a young adult, around 18-25 years old and me playing the evil psychiatrist who is slightly older in her 30s. 

The locations we will be scouting will be ones withholding an eerie atmosphere. We are looking for a particularly dark forest. Hollywood forest in Warley, Brentwood is a location that fits this description.  Another location being Thorndon Country Park. We are also searching for a location with mysterious and creepy chairs, in order to represent the psychiatrists room. withing my home I have many chesterfield chairs. For this reason, my home is a location that we will consider choosing for our opening sequence.

Conventions of the Thriller genre that wish to include in our opening scene are low key lighting,shadows, dark tones and colours, diegetic sound of breathing, and changes in the angle of shots . We have also chose for our sequence to begin in a state of disruption, a method that we believe will immediately grasp the audiences attention, and have them hooked in.