Storyboard

Kevin Alexi Storyboard

Locations

These are the pictures of the scene we set part of are opening sequence in. As you can see, the garden is poorly maintained to convey a sense of eeriness and discomfort amongst the audience, thus boosting the idea that our film is a thriller in which the audience will be able to relate to. This location was filmed for part of our sequence when the main character was running in a suit in the dark perhaps giving away a theme of espionage-thriller. This part of the sequence was essential in promoting a sense of tension amongst the audience.

Script

Sequence opens with a non-diegetic score in which the camera shows the main character "Milan" in a medium shot where it quickly slides to a close up of Milan’s phone, where he receives a call from a "mystery character". He answers...

Milan:

Hello? How come? Get ready?

Scene then cuts to a point-of-view shot whilst Milan says...

Milan:

I’ll be on my way

As he gets up, the non-diegetic score then becomes more upbeat to get the audience engaged with the fast-paced action. In a medium-long shot, the scene slides to Milan running through a garden, in what we then see a montage of cuts of him, then the camera cuts to a medium shot of him jumping over a wall.
In the following scene after Milan reaches his destination the audience see’s a close up shot of him opening the door. In going inside the house, we see the mystery character played by Nikhil, dressed in a karate costume. As he reveals his character he says...

Nikhil:

I’ve been expecting you

Milan:

Likewise

As soon as another upbeat non- diegetic score is played, the action begins where we see a fight sequence where diegetic, contrapuntal sound effcts are used .

Shooting Schedule

We will meet at Wood Lane Station in Shepherds Bush at 4 pm on the 18 December and film until the light runs out.

If it does we will meet up at the same time in the same place on the 19^th.

We have each other’s phone numbers so getting in contact should not be a problem.

Also  I have received permission from Milan’s parents to use their house for the two days and use their back garden as well.

James Bond from Russia with love

The scene starts of in a dark garden with a male dressed in a smart suit walking slowly over a bridge as the camera pans along side him with the diegetic ambient sound of nature with owls howling and the wind swaying the trees. we then see the face of the character and identify him as James Bond.
the camera then moves to another character however we see a close up of his feet as he moves emphasising the fact that he is stealthy and silently moving although as yet we cannot identify the person.
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The camera then moves back to James Bond and we see a close up of his face, we see in his facial expressions that he knows that he is either being followed or someone is out to kill him.
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We then see another shot of the unknown male once again only seeing a close up shot of the persons feet walking up a fight of stairs, which also adds tension to the scene as the audience at this moment in time do not know who this is. After this shot we finally see a long shot of the unknown male agent on the bridge that James Bond had crossed. the audience can now identify the new agent as a tall short blond hair male.
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We then see the blonde male load his gun and the sound then echos through the garden making James Bond aware of the fact that someone has now got a loaded gun. we then see a medium shot of James Bond handling his gun out of his suit pocket whislt being tracked by the camera as he lurks in and out of the low lighted area, this keeps the audience at the edge of there seats as it adds tension to the scene. We then see another medium shot as James Bond shoots into thin air with his hand gun which seems out of the ordiary as the audience know James Bond as a silent killer. At this exact time the James Bond theme tuned is played which adds alot of suspence as it is played just after the gunshot is herd.
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We then see a over the shoulder shot of the blonde agent and in the background we can see James Bond, we see a medium shot of the blonde agent getting a long piece of wire from what seems like his watch and carefully hide in the the low lighted bush area.We see a medium shot of James Bond lurking into the bushes and as the camera pans around to folow James Bond he gets violent strangled at this presice time the score increases in volume as suspence is at an all time high in the clip. 
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We then see a dozen spot lights turn on and light up the whole set it is clear to the audience now that this was all set in a country mansion house garden. the camera tilts over the two agents and the large mansion can be seen light up by the light with about fifty agents dressed in black guarding the house from all sides making the audience intrested in what is going on.
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A man dressed in a smart suit then walks upto the blonde agent and we see a medium shot of the new smartly dressed man tell the blonde agent that he done well and only took one minute and fifty seconds.The camera then tilts as the new man pulls of qa mask off what the audience thought was Jmaes Bond, giving the audience a sigh of relief that there hero has not really died. the camera then tilts back up to the courtyard and we see all the agents walk sharply back into the house as the dead body just lifelessly lays on the floor.
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The tittle then start to role which seems weird as normally the tittle is right at the beggning of the film along side the director, main characters, and producers.This was a good way to begin a thriller genre film mainly because of the fact the film has pulled the audience into it already right from the very start and makes the audience want to find out what is going to happen in the film.

History of Thrillers

The thriller genre can be dated back many years ago early in the 20th century where filming was first invented. The First thriller film ever to make it big was in 1923 as Harold Lloyd’s “Safety last” was to be a huge influence to the modern day thriller film. This film was about an American boy performing stunts on the skyscraper. Edward Sutherland’s crime/horror thriller of “murders in the zoo” set in 1933 by Paramount productions which starred Lionel Atwill and a dangerous Zoologist. And perhaps one of the most famous horror/thrillers of the 20th century was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) staring Fredric March.

In the contemporary film world, there have been major changes in the production of thrillers from the “Hitchcock era” to the modern day use of thrillers. There are many elements in the modern day thriller that share many similarities and differences towards the classical thriller, when the thriller genre was invented. Some classical thrillers are more influential than others which some elements from that film may exist in the contemporary thriller genre.  For example the dolly zoom, seen “vertigo” is often seen in thriller film’s today, which disorientates the audience, which is typical for a thriller. However, some elements of a classical thriller may not be used in modern day as it may be dated and old fashioned, or perhaps weren’t able to be produced in the 20th century when camera’s or camera movement weren’t as advanced. For example, the extreme blood and goriness in some modern day thrillers was less common in early films in part due to regulatory guidelines. Such as “scream”, the bloodiness used in special effects weren’t used in the early ages of thriller, seen in films like “psycho” where the stabbing scene was hard to film compared to today.  

Hitchcock, (a British-American) was one of the many directors/producers that took the thriller genre up to another level, pioneering the many techniques in suspense in films, having influencing many modern day filmmakers. His first film was “the lodger” (1926) a silent-thriller film followed by Blackmail (1929). Innocent victims were usually placed in strange life threatening situations, a unique technique used by Hitchcock, this is evident in (e.g in The 39 Steps (1935), The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock was also notorious for his unique stylistic traits within the film industry. He used various cinematic techniques where in Notorious, the extreme zoom shot of the key, proved to be an influence on modern day camera movement in 1946, and Vertigo, he mastered the dolly shot and this has been essential in modern day films.

Synopsis

Jack is a young man with a weird past. He had a loving family and life was good, but then everything went wrong and he ended up in a war with his brother. After an initial fight with him things escalate and they begin to get paranoid. This begins a flat out war between the two where no-one can be trusted. Who will come out on top? Why are they fighting? Find out by watching Brotherly Hate...

All these questions are what makes our film a thriller. These questions confuse the audience and cause them to fall off the story line so that you can shock them with a big unexpected ending. The espionage elements of our film will lie deeply in the score. Whenever we hear the guitar riff of the James Bond theme tune we assume the connotation to be spies saving the world. Also the mysterious past that Jack has provides not only a back story but a hook. The Thriller elements and techniques cause discomfort for the audience resulting in a satisfied audience.

After conducting some market research we were able to see that many people from various demographics were interested in a film based on this synopsis, but the one potential audience that was very interested was the 18-25 year old males. The film appealed to them because the said they could relate to it in a less violent way. While the film was popular with women we will target it more towards boys because it seems like they were more willing to pay to see it.

New York City. Home to 7,000,000 people, they work, play, and have fun by day. But at night the city is run by ruthless street gangs such as; The Furies, The Boppers, The Hi-Hats, The Lizzies, The Turnbull AC's, The Gramercy Riffs and The Warriors. One night at an all gangs meeting, the leader of the Riffs, Cyrus, makes a speech and creates a plan to unite all the gangs of the city. One gang strong enough to overpower the police. But suddenly he is shot and a gang called The Warriors are framed by Luther, leader of the Rogues. Now they have to return to Coney Island, escaping from 20,000 policemen and 100,000 sworn enemies. They got one way out. They got one chance. They've got one night. THE WARRIORS

 This synopsis is for The Warriors, a 1979 film directed by Walter Hill. The synopsis sets the scene by stating the location and the population of one of the busiest cities in the world. This makes the audience understand the scale and “epic-ness” of the movie. The diverse list of gangs makes the audience think about which gang they would belong to in the world of the film which is good because after the film is over, they can discuss it after which is free publicity. The thought of a united gang, 20,000 strong, is a scary idea to anyone and is possible, so this causes discomfort for people, which is exactly what a thriller should do.

A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them

The word powerful makes us think that the story and filmmaking will be really good, this is a cheap way of publicising the film. The fact that it is set and filmed in Britain will attract lots of people and the recent outbreaks of SARs Bird Flu and Swine Flu make this film very relevant to people nowadays. The synopsis also lets you know that there is more to the story than just a virus which will draw people in.