Thriller Pitch

For our initial idea, we are thinking to make our thriller an action thriller. Action thrillers contain more violence than the other sub-genres, it also has an obvious protagonist (Chris) and antagonist (Jamie). There are generally quit a few locations in action thrillers, our opening includes a number of different locations as it is a chase scene. Our actors will be Chris and Jamie and they will be playing characters who's names aren't mentioned which gives a bit of mystery to the plot. Jamie's character will be chasing Chris' character through the woods and then into a car park where they will be hiding between cars. This will be filmed mainly with hand held camera making the scene more tense.

The Genre will be mainly represented a race against time, Chris' character (the protagonist) will be racing to get to the car whilst Jamie's character (the antagonist) will be chasing Chris. Another way the genre will be represented is that there is an obvious antagonist (Jamie) and an obvious protagonist and this also shows binary opposites.

One suggested location is the Long road car park. This helps because it is on site so we wont waste any of our filming time going to an off site location. There is also a shipping container and trees that can also be used in our opening.

Shots and sounds will be used to keep the tension and pace of the opening clip at a thriller standard, these sounds will be fast paced at times to shot the tension. Shots that show characters in positions of power and weakness will be used during the progress of the clip, showing any changes, if any, during the chase scene. Hand held camera shots will be used frequently during the chase, to provide a more point of view perspective and increase the confusion of the thriller that will give the audience an increasing number of questions being made.

The opening sequence will include, to start with, the ident of the group. Then, just before the ident has faded, heavy breathing will come on. the chase scene will then start and, towards the end, the protagonist will get away just in time, then catching his breath. Narrative will be over the top of the protagonist catching his breath. This leads on to the titles where it will then fade out.

The titles and credits will be handwritten and at a fast past to go with the rest of the opening and then near the climax of the credits, the music and writing slows down. The title for our product will be Anonymous.