Characters Names & Meanings

The male characters in our thriller opening is named Adrian Doyle. After researching the meanings of names on the internet, 'Adrian' means 'The Dark One'. This fits well with the character, he is anonymous at the beginning as you only see the back of his head. The name 'Doyle' means 'Stranger'. This implies that the main female character does not know Adrian or that she has never met him before and he is a stranger to her. 


The female role in our thriller is named Agnes Maplestone. 'Agnes' means 'purity' and 'innocence', this reflects her character hugely and she is very gentle. After deciding not to chose a fancy name or a name that would be unbelievable via the characters habits and traits. 

Intertextuality and Screen Shots in our Thriller

The introduction of Harry Lime in The Third Man

Here are some screen shots of the footage we recorded for the opening to a thriller film.We tried to make a few inter-textual references within our opening to other thrillers such as The Third Man. By taking influence from classic thrillers like The Third Man, it helped structure our shot list. We took influence from other thrillers as well, for example The scene in The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo where Blomkvist is pinning up photos to a big wall full of photos. From this we have decided to incorporate a wall of photos into our thriller at the end, ultimately ending in a double cliffhanger.
The name of our Cafe is quite ironic and fits well with the story line of the opening. 'Angel Cafe' contradicts Adrien, the main male lead in our Thrilller opening.

Bill's feet in Kill Bill vol.1

The shot either side of this text was influenced by watching the opening scene of Kill Bill 1, when the camera tracks Bill's feet walking toward the Bride. However, in contrast to this, we have filmed a shot of the character Agnes' feet, and intend to put it in the edit before the tracking shot of Adrien's feet, which hopefully should provoke thought and debate about who the victim really is. Despite this, at the end of the opening 2 minutes, it should give a clear idea of who it is.

The next shot, we tried to achieve this shot but with Agnes in the foreground, oblivious to Adrien's presence there. We tried this effect in two shots that we filmed. It is effective in our thriller because it sits on the idea of deception. Adrien is hiding from Agnes after locking them into the cafe together. She does not know he is still in there. Harry Lime in The Third Man is trying to deceive his best friend, Holly, he succeeds in faking his own death, also by being anonymously chased around the sewers of Venice.

Location Shots

These are some pictures of our location where we will be shooting our thriller film. I think it is a great location and it is small unique and original which hopefully should show in our thriller.

The Third Man Analysis

The Third Man is a Noir, Mystery Thriller directed by Carol Reed was released in 1949, it is an original British film. 
Immediately the title sequence suggests cultural signifyers, it establishes location and character traits. The music is called 'the Harry Lime' which is the main character of the film although he is not introduced until at least an hour into the film. The chiemious and the Zither suggest that he pulls strings to get people to do what he wants them to do and won't stop until he does. 


At first, the beautiful statues located in Vienna suggest that the film will have a beautiful outcome, however the film instantaneously                not all of clip shown
introduces the theme of the black market, the
 fractured ice implies that society or Vienna is broken, the corpse floating in the water represents all those who were killed or died. The footage shown is real footage, highlighting that Vienna really is corrupt. 
The boat has been bombed, embedding that Vienna is a dangerous place. The low angle of the train shot implies that something will come back to bite him, or surprise him. This could be to do with the main character Harry Limes. The character then walks underneath a ladder, typically associated with bad luck, foreshadowing that he will have bad luck throughout the film. However in contrast to this, it could be the opposite and that the character has really good luck even though he  walks underneath the ladder. 
The high angle shot of Holly portrays his venerability to others in the film. It could also signify that as Holly is on a lower platform that he is in hell, and the other character