Done Deal

Evaluation


Our aim was to create an opening to a thriller from scrath including thinking of an idea, creating a story board, finding a cast (if needed), filming and editing.
Our opening had the conventions of a thriller with the sub genre of crime and our antagonists had a mindset. We had a stalker following behind a girl on her way to an interview in the first scene.
The conventions of a thriller used in this sequence were the isolation in the first frame where a girl is shown walking on her own in a big empty place. Her phone then rings and the camera switches to a voyerism over the shoulder shot of our antagonist standing behind the girl. We had an eerie breeze playing when the antagonist stalker was on camera which is also a convention of a thriller. This was also an enigma code as it would make the spectators question who it is following this girl and why their doing it. It is also simulatious action as the camera switches between the conversation the girl is having on the phone stating she is on her way and the stalker watching and waiting for her.
The simultanious action continues as the girl finishes her phone conversation and begins to walk. The camera switches back to the stalker that starts to walk as she does. This is a conventional narrative devices often used in thrillers.
The antagonist proceeds to follow the girl and pulls her back as she turns a corner. He throws her on the floor as her body appears to be lifeless. This is theatre of the mind as the spectators are left to use their imagination as to why she's not moving. He then steals her belongings and a point of view shot is used to show him going through her purse to get her personal details from her credit card.

He then takes some of her accessories and gives them to someone whose gender can't clearly be specified (This person will be reffered to as the accomplace). He then walks in an opposite direction looking criminal. This shows the spectators that he was probably working for the accomplace he handed the clothes to. The person then puts on the clothes and walks into a building and states that they are "Ms Chang" when asked. The spectators know from the first scene that this person is not Ms Chang because the girl in the beginning said the was Ms Chang. The interviewer then passes the accomplace a package which is passed across a table. As this is done the accomplace looks up at the interviewer in an evil way. The scene ends and fades out. This transition is conventional in thrillers as it shows that time has passed and it leaves our scene on a cliff-hanger with an open narrative which is when the story is left open for the plot to continue.