Mood Board for our Thriller

Character Profile

An image of John

Character Name: John
Age: 16-18 years old
Character Type: Protagonist

John is an Afro-Caribbean adolescent who is caught up in devious acts. He appears to be a fearful character, whose job is simply to carry the mysterious content in a black bag. He is young, so is vulnerable to the dangers of carrying such content, but still appear alarming to others. He is a character who lacks emotion, maybe because he has been through a lot of difficult situations which goes on to him being a youth which lacks morality.

He is based upon characters which live in similar locations to that of Anglia Square, the character Sam from 'Kidulthood' and the squeal 'Adulthood' is a perfect example of someone similar to John. Sam is from an ethnic minority, like John, who lives a troubled life in London who lives in a block of council flats. His name, John, can be seen as ironic because it's such a simple name for a character with so much mystery to him.

Sam from 'Kidulthood' with council estates in the background

An image of Hanna

Character Name: Hanna
Age:16-18 years old
Character Type: Antagonist

Hanna is a white female between the ages of 16 and 18, similar to John's age. She is there to receive what John is delivering, the black bag with mysterious content. She is young and as well John being vulnerable, so is Hanna, the fact that shes a lone female in such a vulnerable location waiting for Johns visiting. The location make her vulnerable because it is so open and complex, a location where everywhere inside looks very similar. She is also waiting on the top floor of the car park, making her even more vulnerable because her only way to escape, would be to go down, she doesn't have the option of going up. Also being on the top floor means that it is furthest from the bottom another disadvantage. However there place is hidden from the outside world due to it being empty and dark.

Hanna is based on the protagonist from the action thriller 'Hanna' who is a skillful assassin which suggests Hanna is able to defend herself, but that may not be the case in such a place. 

Shot List for Thriller opening

Shot list:

- High angle shot of Jon walking up the stairs with the rucksack.

- Close-up/ Tracking shot of a leaf falling down and landing on the windscreen of the white van.

- Shot from within the van, camera focused on the leaf and windscreen, shift in focus to Jon at the top of the stairs walking around to the right.

- Extreme close-up of Bill's eyes (angry or emotionless expression), diegetic sound of the van starting up.

- Mid-tilt of Jon entering the car park stairwell.

- Tracking shot of the van going round the corner.

- Long shot through broken window of the van going into the car park (test shot on previous post).

- High-angle of Jon walking up stairs.

- Mid-shot of the third person checking their watch, Match on Action close up of the watch (Maybe pan to white van in the background).

- Close-up of Jon's feet as he turns the stairwell.

- Low angle/ Tilt of Jon walking up the final set of stairs.

- Mid-shot to Close-up of Jon walking through the door.

- Point of view, Jon looking around (Spots van, shot holds for a second).

- Long shot of Jon looking around.

- Over the Shoulder/ Tracking of Jon walking up to the van with one door open, gets to the van see's third persons watch on the floor.

- Close-up of the watch getting picked up by Jon, has a smashed clock face.

- Close-up of Jon's worried face.

- Mid-shot/Tracking shot of Jon running towards stairwell doors and throwing them open, camera movement shaking to symbolize running/ add to the action.

- Mid-shot from other side of the doors of Jon busting through and getting to the lift.

- Extreme close-up of Jon's finger repeatedly pressing the down button.

- Medium close-up of Jon impatiently waiting for lift.

- Point of view shot of lift doors opening, third person slumped dead on the lift floor with a business card placed on her.

- Worms-eye shot from third person's perspective of Jon walking in an crouching down in front of her.

- Close-up on the business card whilst Jon picks it up.

- Diegetic sound of lift doors closing, shot from the back of the lift of Jon turning around.

- Just before the lift doors close, close-up of a foot stopping the door from shutting.

Introduction

Hi, I'm Sol Goss and this is my AS media blog.