Millie Ford: Preliminary task planning

Preliminary task planning

In the planning of our preliminary task we decided early on that we wanted our short film to fit the conventions of a Thriller. Once we had made this decision we then went on to brainstorm potential storylines for the film. However our initial idea was to have an anti climax in the film, so we would build tension throughout and then have a unexpected ending, however we came to the conclusion that this would over complicate the film and not be as effective as we initially thought. With this in mind we decided to stay with the idea of building tension throughout as this is a typical Thriller convention, but we came up with the idea of one of the characters ending up being killed. Our idea was for one of the characters to hand a package to the other and the package wold be used as a distraction in order for one character to kill the other. We decided to keep the dialogue short but intriguing. Our script is as follows:

Character 1 (C1): You're late.

Character 2 (C2): I got held up.

C1: Thats not what we agreed.

C2: Do you want it or not?

We decided on this dialogue as we all agreed that it would allow the audience to think for themselves about what the characters are speaking about and we thought that it was intriguing. Whilst this dialogue is spoken we decided that the male character who is already sat down would be lit as a silhouette as this creates a mysterious and scary atmosphere. The lighting for the rest of the room will be low key and dimly lit as we thought this would help to create tension. For the props we decided that we would need; a table, a black table cloth, files (for the desk), a box and a bottle or fake gun.

A picture of our brainstorm planning: