Locations for Thriller

We could possibly utilise this old warehouse/farmhouse for a scene in our thriller to add to the tension of the killing scene.

Our group had the idea to use these big iron gates to add to the tension and mystery of the thriller. The direct contrast between the large gates and the small girl could represent the male dominance in society and the male dominance in our thriller as the man is appearing to stalk the girl.

This shot would be used when the girl is in the pick-up truck as the road is long and eerie.

We would use this shot when the girl is walking home from the café. The vanishing point towards the house shows that a dramatic moment is in the near future.

This is an eerie location and could also be used when the girl is walking home. We thought this could be used as the location for when the second girl finds the shoe of the victim.

Use of monochrome

We thought that the use of monochrome or black-and-white would be a good idea in our thriller due to the fact that the original 'noir' thrillers were in black-and-white, the term 'noir' coming from the French, meaning black. The use of black-and-white is to make the 'dark' ambiance of the more sinister and creepy, but also due to the fact that colour technology wasn’t yet invented in the 1940s when the ‘noir’ thriller was first utilised. However, I thought the use of black-and-white would add to the tension in our thriller and make the suspense more prominent if noir lighting was used also to create harsh shadows and silhouettes, meaning we can hide characters in the shadows and use light to concentrate the audience on one thing in particular.