Title of our film: One of the main issues we had with our thriller was giving it a title, we all came up with different titles we felt could fit our film. At first the title Faces of Nightmares was a title we all agreed was perfect for the film, as the deranged masks would in fact be the whole reference to the title. However, we then felt the original title was a bit self explanatory and also was a lot longer than we wanted, so Harvey Young came up with Deceit which we all felt left many enigmas for the audience as it could in fact have a hidden meaning behind it, this combined with the fact its short and simple, which we felt was effective
Setting/Location: The opening few minutes of our thriller is really based around the location of our film. We chose the mountnessing windmill to first of all create an enigma for the audience to help establish the genre of our film, and also, the fact that the character is being chased towards the windmill suggests that the chaser could perhaps be related to the windmill, as it is in shot often throughout the scene. In order to establish the windmill we first had to come up with a shot that would grip the audience. After many different tries of different shots the one we liked best was a low angle which was slightly tilted, not only did this appear to be an extremely effective shot, it also helped establish the personalities of the villains, that they are perhaps slightly off and maybe even deranged.
Costume and Props: In order to keep the typical conventions of a thriller we felt it was justified to use props that would fit the category, in this case weapons like knives and even baseball bats. We felt the use of the baseball bats would help give off our own approach to the thriller genre, in an attempt to make our film a lot more different than others. In terms of costume, we took an extremely bold move by using the farmyard animals masks as initially we wanted to go for plain white masks as all of us thought they would be extremely creepy and in some ways more shocking than just a persons face, and it also kept a hidden identity for the villains in the film, to both create enigmas and also create some twists in our film. Bearing all this in mind we came up with the idea of farmyard animal masks just simply browsing websites, we felt they were extremely creepy, and once more, created many enigmas, and the bold move really paid off we felt.
Camera work and Editing: Throughout the film we were always thinking of different ways to test ourselves on camera work, as we felt this would make the film so much more interesting for the audience, for one shot we wanted to show the villains over the victim as though they have the power, we decided to do it from a point of view of the victim at a low angle to show their dominant power over him, also with the shakiness of the camera and the heavy breathing helped give off the fear and emotional trauma the victim is going through.
Title and Font style: Choosing a font style for our film was fairly tricky, the main aim we had was to make our film very unique, so in trying to find a unique font style we had to test the majority and see if it fit nicely. When we finally found a font which was both mysterious, fairly unique and that we all agreed would fit, the task of deciding how the credits will appear on screen began. After watching many different films of the thriller category like Taxi Driver we found the more effective way to make the credits appear was during the film itself, as the words can sometimes relate to the images being shown on screen, and this is exactly what we wanted to achieve. In order to make sure the attention isn't taken away from the film itself we chose and extremely neutral colour of white, which can be scene, but not enough to take the focus away from what really matters.
Story and how the opening sets it up: One of the main things as a group we wanted to create was unity between the three villains, in order to create this we used numerous three shots and two shots throughout the film to create some kind of link between them as this can help make it more intimidating for the victim and in turn, the audience itself. We also wanted to establish the power of them by using different camera angles like low angle shots, to emphasies that they are all in control.
Genre and how the opening suggests this: The genre of a film is a thriller, and what we really wanted to achieve is to thrill people, so we took the bold move of making the opening of our film extremely fast pace with a chase scene, this supported by the fast paced music ensures that our audience will be gripped in from the start. Another thing that could suggest the genre is our use of costume and props that are typical conventions of a thriller with the baseball bats and the unique masks it helps make our thriller stand out.
How characters are introduced: There are many different ways we introduced our characters in our film, and all this really depended on who the characters were, for instance when we first see the victim in detail it somewhat breaks up all the slower long shots as it is an intense close up shakey camera, with extremely heavy breathing, this is a fairly memorable shot as apose to the ones before it. Another way we introduced a character was with "The Pig", we felt as he was in control of the situation at one point, we would use a steady camera to show he has no fear at all and is not only in control of the situation, but also the shot, as the close up is used on the masks features.
By Anthony Wilson
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