Thrillers are often set in wholly or partly exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts or high seas. The heroes in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" who are used to dealing with danger, for example, policemen, spies or soldiers. However, they may also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident as was very common in Alfred Hitchcock thrillers. While such heroes have traditionally been men, women lead characters have become increasingly common; an early example of this is Sigourney Weaver's character Ripley, in the movie “Alien”, 1979.
Thrillers are often seen overlapping with mystery stories, but are more well known by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, commonly the hero must foil the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened; and while a murder mystery would be spoiled by a premature disclosure of the murderer's identity, in a thriller the identity of a murderer or other villain in typically known all along and the emphasis is put more on will they catch them. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments, for an example of this you could pick nearly any James Bond movie such as “Die Another Day” or “From Russia With Love”. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are seen in nearly every single thriller movie. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and more often then not the lives of others. In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process such as failed spies for example at the start of Hitchcock’s “The Thirty-Nine Steps”.
A further convention of a thriller is the element of suspense that is added in order to increase the excitement for the audience and to keep them interested. Alfred Hitchcock was so good adding suspense to his thrillers that it earned him the nickname “The Master of Suspense”, with his finest example of this possibly being “Vertigo”.
Responsibilities
1) Preliminary task shot list – Jack Burton
2) Preliminary task Evaluation – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
3) Preliminary task – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
4) Mind map – Jack Burton
5) Outline idea for the two minute opening sequence –
6) Kidnapped Script – Daniel Lawrence
7) Kidnapped Script – Directors cut – Daniel Lawrence
8) Kidnapped Synopsis – Jack Burton
9) Questionnaire – first questionnaire – Daniel Lawrence
10) Questionnaire results – graphs – Sean Auchombit
11) Audience review – Individually written - Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
12) Codes and conventions – Sean Auchombit
13) Genre research – Jack Burton
14) Pictures for the storyboard – Daniel Lawrence
15) Prop notes – Sean Auchombit
16) Cast notes – Jack Burton
17) Location notes – Daniel Lawrence
18) Storyboard – Sean Auchombit
19) Shooter – Thriller notes – Jack Burton
20) Batman(Dark Knight) – Thriller notes – Jack Burton
21) Bad Boys 2 – Thriller notes – Sean Auchombit
22) The Departed – Thriller notes – Daniel Lawrence
23) Score notes – Sean Auchombit
24) Shot List for the two minute Sequence - Jack Burton
25) Two minutes opening sequence – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
26) Questionnaire – second questionnaire – Jack Burton, Daniel Lawrence
27) Questionnaire results – graphs – Sean Auchombit
28) Audience Review 2nd questionnaire – Individually written – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
29) Evaluation – Individually written – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
2) Preliminary task Evaluation – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
3) Preliminary task – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
4) Mind map – Jack Burton
5) Outline idea for the two minute opening sequence –
6) Kidnapped Script – Daniel Lawrence
7) Kidnapped Script – Directors cut – Daniel Lawrence
8) Kidnapped Synopsis – Jack Burton
9) Questionnaire – first questionnaire – Daniel Lawrence
10) Questionnaire results – graphs – Sean Auchombit
11) Audience review – Individually written - Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
12) Codes and conventions – Sean Auchombit
13) Genre research – Jack Burton
14) Pictures for the storyboard – Daniel Lawrence
15) Prop notes – Sean Auchombit
16) Cast notes – Jack Burton
17) Location notes – Daniel Lawrence
18) Storyboard – Sean Auchombit
19) Shooter – Thriller notes – Jack Burton
20) Batman(Dark Knight) – Thriller notes – Jack Burton
21) Bad Boys 2 – Thriller notes – Sean Auchombit
22) The Departed – Thriller notes – Daniel Lawrence
23) Score notes – Sean Auchombit
24) Shot List for the two minute Sequence - Jack Burton
25) Two minutes opening sequence – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
26) Questionnaire – second questionnaire – Jack Burton, Daniel Lawrence
27) Questionnaire results – graphs – Sean Auchombit
28) Audience Review 2nd questionnaire – Individually written – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
29) Evaluation – Individually written – Daniel Lawrence, Sean Auchombit, Jack Burton
Storyboard
This the storyboard for our main task Kidnapped, Blogspot makes it unable for us to put them within the correct date as they would be alongside the Character, Score and Prop notes
Location Shots
These are the location shots for our main task Kidnapped, Blogspot makes it unable for us to put them within the correct date as they would be alongside the Character, Score and Prop notes