Thriller Opening Treatment - Hannah

The scene opens with the establishing shot of the school bathrooms. There is music playing quietly and softly in the background. There are opening credits and the title. There is a body covered in blood lying on the floor. There are close-ups of the persons' battered face and body. Suddenly one of the bathroom doors flies open with a crash and someone runs out with a backpack on. All that you can see of the mysterious person is a black shaddow against the wall which soon escapes out of the bathrooms. The camera chases the person and follows them down the corridors of the school. After a couple of minutes the person is chased into a dead-end, they bang the door and shake it in anger trying to get out. There is a long-shot of the corridor and the person, there back is facing the camera. There is then a mid-shot of the person slowly turning around, until you can se their full face clearly facing the camera. They press themself up against the door. There is then a close-up of their eyes and they say, "Im sorry, i didn't mean to". The title is then shown again.

Thriller Opening Treatment - Dan

The base story for the 'film' revolves around a detective trying to solve a chain of murders committed by killer. Unknown to said Detective, he is stalked by the killer various times and, had it not been for a friend requesting his assistance, he may have died.

OPENING SCENE ::

A man is in his house, reading a newspaper with reading glasses. He hears the crack of a branch in his garden, getting up and opening the door to investigate. He finds nothing. He turns back, closing the door behind him, and as something is swung at his head from behind, the scene ends.

Cue titles.

SETTING: A House.

CAST
Man. (Wears a shirt and tie and also makes use of reading glasses. Middle-aged?)


SHOT LIST:

- Establishing shot of the room the man is in.
- Panning shot of the man reading the newspaper while adjusting his glasses.
- Zoom shot on the man's face as he hears the branch crack.
- Mid-shot as he turns to go to the door.
- Match-En-Action of him opening the door.
- Over-The-Shoulder shot of him looking at the garden, seeing nothing.
- Long shot from outside of him turning and closing the door.
- Close Up of his face as he heads back to his chair and is attacked.

Thriller Opening Treatment Ryan Moffitt

due to technical dificulteis my treatment had to be uploaded at a later date

Media film

Story:

Start: attack on woodland ramblers titles

Middle: reporter reports on the attacks meets a priest who has some information

End: reporter solves the crimes and defeats the beast with the priests help

Start: two characters are walking through the woods enjoying each others company and some refreshments then a unknown person attacks. Violently. Credits roll. Reporter at her/his desk reading a paper (title of paper reads “FOREST ATTACK”) paper gets slammed down credits roll background is of paper headlines

Shot 1 Extreme close up of bike wheels turning fast cut to chains of the bike then fast cut to close up of the wheel braking and skidding on dirt, long shot of person getting off bike and dropping it on the floor.

Shot 2 P.O.V shot of the stalker looking at the person (blurred around the edges and black and white) panning through the undergrowth.

Shot 3 music builds up with a tempo that is getting faster, person2 (person’s mate4) jumps from around the tree music ends and the person1 jumps back toppling on to the floor and yells abuse at his mate.

Shot 4 P.O.V shot of the stalker looking at the scene bellow (blurred edges and b&w) panning through the undergrowth.

Shot 5 OTS shot over (person2 looking down at person1) lends a hand to person1 both are laughing now cam cuts to a close up of there hands clasped together cam cuts to a high angle shot of them walking around person1 pushing his bike

Shot 6 P.O.V shot of the stalker watching them and stalking them (blurred edges and b&w) tracking through the undergrowth slowly music start to build up very dramatic and scary building tension.

Shot 7 low angle of the two people conversing and walking over the camera music building up

Shot 8 the two hear a sound and look around fast cut to-

Shot 9 P.O.V shot stalker running towards the two from behind person 2 turns and the stalker jupms onto him breaking his neck camera cuts to a mid shot and person 1 turns goes to run away and trips over his bike

Shot 10 P.O.V stalker seizes its opportunity and leaps onto person1 slashing his flesh stalker hears sound and runs away cut to long shot of the massacrer. Fade to black

Shot 11 mid shot of reporter reading headlines then slaming down paper onto camera credits roll

Continuity Exercise - Info

Today we have been working on our Continuity Exercise, Editing and cutting it to the final, presentable version that will be uploaded by Ryan later.

In the making of the film, we were two members down, making us improvise with only 3 members and an extra. We filmed the whole film in the space of an hour, with about a minute of footage total being used in the final cut. While editing, we felt that some of the film did not make sense, and also discovered a large continuity error, but this was found too late and had to be included in the final cut.

If you can spot this, we'll be totally amazed. Not.

In our opinion, this came out very well, especially considering almost 50 minutes of the tape is what would be considered out-takes. We think that we managed to use Match-En-Action effectively in the film, adding to the experience.

Personally, I(and also Ryan) think we disregarded the 180 rule a few times, but it's all for the greater good of the film.

We have managed to stick very close to the final storyboard, though in watching you'll notice an extra part in the film that isn't in the storyboard. This was added mostly by chance - Normally people's laptop bags do not decide to kill themselves while you're filming. It couldn't be helped however, and as it looked good, it went into the final film.

inspiration for my film treatment

as inspiration for my film i watched films such as: silence of the lambs, se7en, psycho and many others. I wanted in my treatment for their to be a beast stalking two people but this was to far into the realms of horror. so i have changed it to a stalker/killer who will follow two people into the woods and eventually kill them, then i would have a fade into black then into the next scene of a reporter reading a rival paper and then slamming it down to start the credits.

Presentation-ryan moffitt

For my class presentation on thriller opening titles i chose to use Se7en. 

during my presentation i stopped and started the video: commenting on the editing techniques, sounds and the style of the sequence.

Presentation - Dan

I did Reservoir Dogs for my thriller opening presentation.

I referenced the lines in the opening, names of characters, the plot, and various other specifics.