Prop and equipment

For our final film, 'Vanished', few props were necessary. However, in order to make certain scenes more believable, props were required. For example:

 

Police station

In order to make the police station scene legitimate, we incorporated official posters found in police stations into our set. Seeing as we were unable to shoot in an actual police station, we had to make do and create the scene to be as realistic as possible. Although these posters are relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of the film, subconsciously an audience would notice them, and therefore not feel urged to question the specific location of the scene.

Thriller Research

THRILLER FILMS

there has always been a market for films which intend to scare and thrill the audience. Thrillers originally started out as horrors, including gore and scary themes. Nowadays thrillers have many different sub genres:

• Psychological Thrillers i.e. Gone Girl, Girl on the Train and The Hole (2011) These type of thrillers are supposed to mislead the audience and create a false conception of what is going on.
• Horror Thrillers i.e. The Ring, Sinister and The Shining. These films are created to scare the audience, they do this by creating tension and making the audience jump. They usually involve gore and blood and have a creepy theme.
• Adventure Thriller i.e. The Hunger Games, Divergent and Pirates of the Caribbean. These films are created to excite the audience and entertain, there is an element of tension and fear involved, but are usually more light-hearted.
• Crime Thriller i.e. Sherlock, The Missing and Thirteen. Usually has a mystery element to the plot and is focused around detective work or the police force.

Our thriller film was the sub genre of Psychological thriller because we didn't want to make a film which was scary or tacky with a large excess of special effects, instead we wanted to create something which manipulated the audiences' minds but had a thrilling sort of theme to the plot.

The audience like to be challenged and mislead, predictable storylines make a film not worth watching. Whereas the idea of surprise and bewilderment is an intriguing concept to the audience therefore draws people in to solve the mystery themselves.


Because we were aiming to make an independently produced English film, we are involving the crime related theme as well as it being a psychological thriller, as that is a popular genre for the British public to watch.

Bibliography for music

Backing music bibliography

Ossuary 1 - A Beginning Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Lost Frontier Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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We chose "Come Play With Me" as our background score for our psychological thriller. This is due to its eerie and creepy nature which sounds like a childern's song that's been distorted and manipulated. This links well with the plot and theme of our narrative as it focuses around a small child and her disappearance. This music gives the clip a darker tone which was necessary to make it feel like thriller.