Playing a character in another groups Thriller Film Opening

As our group planned to do all of the filming on the weekend of Friday the 17th, I was available to help out some class mates who had one of their main characters drop out of the project.

I assisted a group of two who had a general idea of stalking within their thriller opening, I took the place of the Victim and mainly just had to walk obliviously whilst being followed.

I had fun helping out my classmates and it was interesting to see how different their ideas and plots were to my groups planning. 

In the shots I filled in for I was told to walk casually and act as though I was unaware of the guy following me (Fred Snell) and that was the majority of my role. 

I'm glad that I chose to participate in this thriller film because I think the plot is sturdy and basic, with a clear antagonist and protagonist. And I believe the final edit will come together nicely. 

Kill Bill Volume1 [Case Study]

A little about KillBill1:
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: 17th of October 2003
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Explain how Tarantino establishes  thriller conventions in the title sequence.
Tarantino uses black and white lighting for the first scene of KillBill. This lighting is also known as Chiaroscuro lighting and is classically used in film noire, which is a sub genre of thriller. The lighting could also be used to represent the clear contrast between good and bad, where good is the light and bad is the dark. Including this technique within KillBill was necessary because the main root of the franchise, is a solitude Heroin fighting off her foes.
We first see the Heroine bleeding ecstaticly and she is clearly in deep pain. The camera is completely centered on her face in a close up- showing her weeping expression. Also, the camera is looking slightly downwards onto her, representing her helplessness as this point. The next shot is of Bill, walking toward her whilst the camera pans on his feet. Bill wears shiny black leather boots- with a heel. This is a reference to 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' where the theme is of western cowboys having gunfights. It is possible that Tarantino chose to give Bill Cowboy boots to make him sound more menacing (as his footsteps sound impressive and extreme). But also because the heel gives Bill a bit more height, making him seem as though he wants to be seen as bigger and more threatening than he really is.
Tarantino makes Bill a threatening and powerful character with the use of his hankerchief which has his own name etched into it. He reaches down to Kiddo's face wearing a leather glove and wipes her cut. Exclaiming 'I could kill you if I wanted to'. The use of the Hankercheif shows Bill must be a 'big time player' who has enough money to waste on things like getting his name imprinted everywhere.
The intro scene cuts after a gun shot is heard, followed by intense screaming- this is a soundbridge, and it adds to the thriller genre because it generates fear, tension and suspense. The same effect was used in Heavenly Creatures, but for a different cause (when the girls crush their mothers head).

Final Draft of Thriller Planning

The plot for our thriller film has had to be adapted and changed many times because of our over ambitous ideas, but we have managed to settle for a simple, interesting and thrilling storyline after much debate.
Keeping all characters the same, our main girl (named Eve) will be introduced as she is running away across a dyke (long shot). To introduce Cha-Cha and Hazel (the hitmen) we cut to a low angle shot of them preparing to go on the move, for example tying up shoe laces and buttoning up coats. We decided to have Eve introduced as she is running away from something as it generates suspense, and then to have the hitmen preparing to leave because it shows they are after her, but infers she has already done something guilt worthy.
Next, the location skips to the inside of a building, where we shoot a closeup of a record player emitting classical music to add tension. Eve enters a room where a box is sitting idle, she takes something from it which is not revealed to the audience deliberately. After exiting the location is revealed to the audience as a burnt down house. This is where Eve meets Cha-Cha and Hazel and a chase scene commences.
Eve is followed to an empty barn which is where the film ends, she enters it in complete disarray at being found and caught. The final shot will be of Eve in the barn alone, talking to herself as though she has gone slighty mad before the screen cuts to black. Our cliffhanger is then 'does Eve survive? Do the hitmen get her?'