My Pitch Table

NAME	BREIF DESCRIPTION	AGE RATING/TARGET AUDIENCE
ASYLUM	A school gets infected, by cheap meat that has been bought. However this takes a wrong turn and the students all seem to be getting some very strange side effects that make them aggressive, paranoid violent.	12: this is because it contains mainly young teenagers and the audience would be able to relate to some of the characters.
CADGED	In a warehouse in the middle of nowhere, 6 people are trapped inside a small cage and they are on top of each other. They do not know what is in store for them or who is watching them.	12: This is a 12 because there are no mature themes and it is very psychological.
LIGITAMATE	A school girl works for a firm that has some secret government for in a locked away room. Somehow they got stolen and framed the girl. She knows who did it but has been forced to keep quiet, because of this she goes on the run in the hope that she can clear her name.	This would be a 12: because again it would relate to teenagers and they would be able to relate to the character.

For us to get ideas for a thriller movie and to be able to use something as a back up in case our chosen idea does not go to plan we all created separate pitch tables that we could make storylines and treatments off of. the table allows us to make breif notes on oour movie ideas.

Opening sequences

As we are just focusing on the visuals we need to look at ways in which some openings use there credits effectively.back in the earlier years of film the credits were a very important part of the movie. they would do all of the credits at the beginning of the film which would take a very long while for the actual scenes and action to start. then as decades moved on the credits would include the producers, directors, main actors and production companies that were included in the film as well as the name. now though it seems that the audience would rather go straight into the film without fussing over minutes worth of credits. which is why you see the credits only including the production companies and the name of the film.

SECRET WINDOW - uses white font and then turns it to red. this is interesting as it could connotate and imply certain meanings to the audience.the opening consists of the esatblishing shot being a close up of a man in a car staring into camera meaning he is looking at us (us being the audience).This is effective because it puts the audience on edge right from the begging of the film as they feel too close to character that they know nothing about who also looks very suspiciuos.it is not clear wether it is dawn or dusk and looks like there is some type of grey atmosphere meaning again the audience are confused and constantly trying to awnser questions of which they do not know the awnser to.(This particular grey effect engeadged me as , its something that could be achived in my groups opening with the right materials like using light filters on the camera.) After some driving aroung by this unknown charcter we fade to a river/lake that is infront of a large wood that seems to contain one single house in the middle of it. This creates suspense as the audience would want to know what tpe of person would live there.

PELHAM 123-   For the opening the credits flash onto screen like a train would move. they are white against everyday scenery. some of them are white against a black background but all of them have the same effective way of coming in. I particularly like this way of introducing the film credits as its striking and gets the audiences attention and they are gripped right form the start.then we go to the establishing shot which is a birds eye view of the busy city we are set in.This lets us know that it is a crime/action thriller right away. (This is something we will have to take into consideration as we have to make sure that right from the beggingn of our film it is clear to the audience that they are watching a thriller.)

SHUTTER ISLAND- The opening credits start against a black screen with bold white writing all in capital letters.the name of the film fades in from bottom to top as if it is revealing itself again connotating meanings within the rest of the film.we then have an establishing shot of the sea and one single boat in the ocean. this seems to be a recuuring image in thrillers(an object that is much bigger then we can imagine that we place ourselves in for inastance the forrests or woods or the ocean.) this is effective as we as the audience want to know where the destination of the boat is. And the we see a frame of a distorted looking island that craetes tension and suspense for the audience as we want to know why exactly two siuted men looking very prim and proper are goignt o this scary looking dark island.

DISTURBIA- For the majority of the opening there are no credits which can be a good thing as it allows the audience to really focus on the beginning.then the name of the films slowly fades in and has a shadow effect against black screen. that is all that you see.i know that they say less is more but personally i think that there needed to be more credits. maybe a mention of the director and actors.as for the eastablishing shot we see two men( man and child) fishing in the sunset. this draws the audience in to a bonded relatioship making them feel at ease and making them feel safe as if they already know evrything about these two charcters.But then when we see the two endure a tragic car accident and the dad die we as the audience not only feel sad but feel un easy as we then know that this film is going to be full of unpleasent suprises. this particular opening interested me because it was very unique and different from the other openings discussed as it started on a good atmosphere and then shocked the audience almost as if they were tricking them.

so from the examples that Ive seen it seems that the credits are very short in terms of length but stand out in design and effects. i think for my thriller the font would be all in capitals as the bolder the letters are the more important they seem. i think i Will use deep dark colours as well to give a misty sinister atmosphere. the credits will run throughout the whole opening and then at the end of the opening the name will appear on screen.Also researching openings has allowed me and the group to now think about how we want our audience to feel and how we are going to entertain them as well as keeping the conventions of a thriller continuously in the short screening time we have.

contemporary thriller- SECRET WINDOW

The secret window starts of with the sound of window wipers going back and fourth creating tension as we cannot see anything but a black screen meaning we are anticipating whats to come.The establishing shot is a mid shot of a mans face behind the window screen.This creates a wall between the audience and the character as we are not on the inside of the window, foreshadowing that we will not know allot about this character straight away creating a mystery to who he is.

To add to the conventions of a thriller there is rain on the windows creating the mood for the opening and there are misty skies. this connotates the darkness of the character and the darkness of the even that could have just occurred or is about to.then instead of the character speaking there is a voice played over the scene which we take to be the characters thoughts. this is an innovative an sinister way to display dialogue and is something that i could use in my thriller as dialogue can tend to take away from the thrilleresque atmosphere.then when the character starts to drive away the outside of the car is blurry and we cannot See where he is going, again creating a mystery.

Throughout the driving of the car the character looks angry but we do not know why and as he pulls up we then get a view from inside the car while he is outside as we are clearly not meant to get very close to this character.then the suspense is created as we hear a loud chord and a melody (sinister) starts playing. then we fade to the waves of a sea that could create fear as there are connotations of drowning.and the camera pan upwards and we see what seems to be a wood that looks deserted with nothing but one house in sight. this is sinister and creepy as we do not know who lives there or why anyone would want to live there. then as the name of the film appears it slowly turns to a blood red again creating fear in the audience.

i think that this thriller has a really good opening as there is no opening and the audience focus on just the visual which is what we are going to try and do with out group piece.(not have any dialogue to create fear in the audience as dialogue will give the audience a sense of immediacy with the characters and make them feel safe.

Throughout the film there are may shots that gave me some inspiration for thriller ideas here are just a few of the and i think that they create a really good thrilleresque atmosphere.