Composing the Initial Shot Sequence for a Potential Story Board & WHAT IS A THRILLER?

After sever creative discussions that resulted in the complete finalization of our sequence, we took rough notes on the shot sequence, and added further input into the development and improvement of our concept. Once we had sustained our final line-up that conveyed the majority of our original demands of the sequence we added the necessity of the titles, therefore we embarked on creating original ideas to compliment our sequence for title placement.

The final sequence is intended as followed;


What is a Thriller?
A thriller is a genre of film production that plays on the emotional investment of the audience to become uneasy, uncomfortable and to feel fear. Thrillers rely deeply on the success of suspence in order to make the thrill come alive. Thrill stems from the early word "pierce" - This suggests that a thriller is created in order to pierce ones comfort zone and ensure they are in uncomfortable position whilst observing a thriller.

There are various subgenres of Thrillers:
Phycological Thrillers are those that toy with the mind of the audience, and generally suggest a mental abnormality in the protaganist or antagonist of the plot. They ensure that we become intellectually invested in uncovering the plot, however sustain fear at the same time.
Horror Thrillers usually involve great entertainment in regard to the blood and gore of a scene. The audience is welcomed to be replused and thoroughly shocked about the occurances of the sequence.
Supernatural Thrillers play on the unnatural, unknown things about our wider world. This revolves around the audeiences fear of the paranormal, and suggests concepts such a ghosts and spirits.

A key theme in the success of thrillers is sustained theme of voyeurism. The word voyeurism derives from the French word 'voyeur' which translates as 'someone who watches.' This suggests that a character is watching or stalking thier "pray" in order to torture or kill them. This plays neatly into the hands of a successful film technique - dramatic irony. Dramatic Irony is when the knowledge of the audience is greater than the knowledge of the on screen characters. This undoubtably hightens the thrill and suspense within a film. Another charactaristic of thrillers is the concept of the audience becoming sadomastic, this means that the audience takes pleasure in the horrific misfortune of those within the sequence. If the audeience sustains sympathy for the character before they are tortured or murdererd, the plot usually because more emotionally investable and therefore, creates more thrill.