Costumes

For the first scene the main man is a successful man. In the story he is returning home from somewhere. If he was returning back from work then he could be wearing an expensive suit. Or he could be wearing other expensive garments that imply that he is a successful man. In the second scene he has to be wearing scrappy and dirty cloths. But it’s a cold winter’s evening so he will we wearing a coat of some sort. This has to be worn and dirty. Also lots of hoodies under the coat add to the idea that he is homeless. Some fingerless gloves will also be needed. For the second character he has to look smart and well dressed. So an expensive jacket will be needed, smart trousers and some smart shoes. This makes the contrast between the two characters very apparent.

1. jacket of the second man with the torch.
2. smart trousers that the man with the torch can be wearing.
3. the type of cloths the main charicter shoud be wearing after the change. (without the kife)
4. type of smart casual cloths the man would be wearing before the transformation.

Props

In our thriller we need a couple of props. In the first scene the unnamed man id a highflying family man with a good job and earning a sufficient amount of money. We thought we could have the first scene in a shop were the man is on his way home. For this we would have to have some sort of edible or drinkable item that he could be eating/ drinking on the way home. When he gets into the house we might need him to trip over some child toys or we could actually use children instead, but for the ease we might use a child’s toy to signify he has children. For the scene where he is in the bathroom we need normal bathroom props such as toothbrush, soap and hairbrush (which could suggest he has a wife, if it was a hairbrush that was feminine). The most important prop we need in the bathroom is the mirror. We also need a different mirror that dirty and maybe got a crack in it. For the man who is looking for the main man in the opening he needs to be smart and most importantly he needs a big torch that would be powerful enough to light up a warehouse. This is our main source of light in the second part of the opening. For the man looking for the main man, he could have a posh phone such as a Blackberry. A Blackberry is a businessman’s tool. This would make the man seem professional and contrasted to the scraggy, dirty man who he is pursuing.

Location

For our opening of our thriller we would like to film in two locations. The first location is a family home. We haven’t decided whose home we are going to use yet but it needs to have a white bathroom. This white bathroom connotes clean and happy, this is what we want because the white clean bathroom sharply contrasts the dirty, messy house in our second location. The second location is an old abandon farm. It has an old cottage and 2 warehouses and one stable house with a smaller warehouse inside it. The biggest warehouse is huge, the second one has a very run down roof. This looks really cool when it is sunny and it implies a sense of danger when inside because of the jagged and sharp roof. The old stable is extremely run down, in one room the roof had had collapsed in the corner (we didn’t go in that room). In the old stable there is a hole in the wall looking into another room. This hole could connote lots of things such as claustrophobia and someone watching what’s in the other room. The cottage is a 1970’s built house that is very messy. There is dust everywhere and rubble in most rooms. There is an arch in between the living and dining room. We walked up the stairs but when we got to the top the whole top floor was collapsed so we didn’t explore the top floor. The farm is situated at the top of a hill. The old farm land was used as a landfill site in the 1980’s so it cannot be built on. The farm is situated on the outskirts of the city, to the south. Just behind the farm the A47 rumbles past, and about 100m so does the busy Norwich-London train line. I like the way it’s quite isolated from civilisation but it has the fast moving traffic and trains that would not stop, so it is quite isolated. Also near the farm there are some small woods on a steep hill, a pond (which could be frozen over if it is cold enough), lots of abandoned fridges, and because its an old landfill site, the grass that is covering the festering landfill makes the rolling hills resemble something like Teletubyland. Around the grassy hills there are air outlets where the methane produced from the landfill can escape. These outlets are made out of solid iron and look basically like air vents in the middle of the field. Overall this location is perfect. It’s not to far from the city to make it rural but it’s not to urban either. It’s perfectly situated and the added things like the pond, wooded hill and the fridges add to the amount of ideas we could use.

1. the big werehouse

2. what it looks like from the bottom of the hill

3.the archway in the cottage

4.the stables

5. abandon fridges

6.the house

7.the second werehouse (with nice roof)