Thrillers we used for our own thriller

We used many thrillers to influence our thriller openings, to enable us to get a well balanced use of shots, voiceover and an interesting mise en scene. I thriller that we undoubtedly throughout our film opening was the film 'Se7en'. The use of jump shots worked well and i felt they made more of an impact than continuous camera work. There is also many close ups used in 'Se7en' to identify and establish characters and so we tried to link this into our film by using close ups on a lighter to suggest the character is a smoker for example. We used jump cuts to define between the two characters, the stalker and the victim so this would display that the two characters were linked to each other at one point and that soon they were about to meet again. In 'Se7en' they also set up many enigma's like any other thriller opening or any film opening in fact and in my thriller i attempted to set up questions about the relationship between the two characters.

Film opening of 'Se7en'.

Another thriller we used for research was 'Layer Cake'. The film was particularly interesting for its

use of a voiceover and how the voiceover enables the audience to understand the story line better

and also the plot. In the film Daniel Craig has and echo to his voice but he still seems powerful and

in control we attempted the same idea in our thriller and made our voiceover similar, however it

was more creepy and eerie and almost dark as a voiceover.

The plot was based a lot around the idea of 'Red Road' in the sense that there is a stalker involved

and the person they are stalking they have a past with or some dark history. The plot is also includes

many ideas form the two films 'Strangers On A Train' and 'L'Homme Du Train'. Both of these films

'Strangers On A Train' especially closely focuses on strangers and some sort of inclusion of a train.

Our thriller is loosely based on all of these thrillers and its intentions is to set up enigma's, questions

which make the audience think.