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 

The Shooting of Beaumont

6.00 - 7.43 (The killing of Beaumont)
The killing of Beaumont starts with one of the main characters sat in the car, a generic thriller convention, it is a confined space, slightly claustrophobic spaces with no escape if it is locked. It is a close up shot of him in the car. The character looks at his gun and polishes it a bit as if it is his child, saved his whole life for that moment. There is a ray of light shining off his face, probably non-ambient lighting unless a well-positioned street light. There is no music just the sound of him twiddling his gun about. It is a close up shot of him in the car.

It cuts to a shot of the front of a car with the headlights beaming, another generic thriller convention. As the car turns in the road the light bounces off it and shines into the lense of the camera. The car races off down the road which we think is the vanishing point. However while this is happening tghe camera is panning out from the low angle shot of the car, to a high angle long shot of a small park. In a way it is also like a tracking shot of the car as it follows it around as it travels. As the shot becomes a high angle long shot, the car enters the park, in it is has a love level lighted building, which it is not clear as to what it is. The car pulls up beside it and the killing takes place.

The camera does not zoom into this scene, it leaves it to the audience's imagination as to what really went on in that car in the amount of time it took them to drive round to the park and what motivated the man to kill him.

Even when the man gets out of the car to kill the guy in the trunk, he still leaves his headlights on, this could represent the man in the trunks life, and as the car drives off you see the red lights fade out into the distance, eventually they disappear alltogether possibly representing Beaumont's life disappearing too.

Jackie Brown Title Sequence

Jackie Brown was directed by Tarantino in 1997. It is about a Black middle aged air hostess who gets involved in the police and an arms dealer. Jackie's role as the Femme Fatal is a generic convention of a thriller film. For the first one minute and fifty seconds of this opening sequence, the camera simply tracks the character along a moving carpet, typically found in airports. It shoots a profile view of Jackie Brown and follows her all the way to the end of the conveyor. The lighting looks natural however it could well have been studio lighting creating the extra light rays so it could be non-abient lighting. We watch Jackie travel along this conveyor in a medium close up, with the non-diegetic sound laid over the top of the clip, '110th Street'.

The music then speeds up into a high tempo stacato moment of the song, it reaches a climax and the changes the shot to the scanning proceedure of the bags they have to carry out in the airports. It is showing high security proceedures that everyone had to partake in, and the character Jmackie Brown simply walks behind the security desk and carrys on. This could suggest that later on in the film, no one suspects her of committing the crime or helping the criminal and so she does not have to go through the s ecurity proceedures.

It then cuts so a low angle tracking shot of her walking through the airport, however she is walking the opposite way to everyone ele. This could foreshadow that she will be turning against society in order to do what is right, maybe what is wrong. She also does not make eye contact witgh anyone in particular and therefore is inconspicuous to many. This may reflect that no one would suspect her of doing what she does for her boss.

It cuts to a medium close up of Jackie walking towards the camera and the camera tracks her going forwards.The focus of the camera is on her, everyone else is blurred out suggesting that she is the most crucial and vital part of this film.

Soon it cuts to a side on view again highlighting her profile, foreshadowing that she has to look out for herself and only herself as everyone else is still blirred into the background.

It then cuts to a low angle long/medium shot of her continuing to walk through the airport, however this time she is walking faster than everyone else, suggesting that she is one step ahead of everyone in the film and that she knows their next move.

It cuts to a side on medium close up again yet she is standing in the shadows, possibly suggesting that she will become involved in crime and she may be wanted by the police of some other form of felonic person. During this shot she alsdo starts to run, implying that she will be running from someone or trying to hide from someone at point in this film.

Eventually in the clip Jackie reaches the gate, this could suggest that in the end, she comes out on top and the truth outs reaching her safety barrier.

FINAL shotlist

1. Over the shoulder shot of a man walking into the cafe.
2. CUT TO, tracking shot of girl walking towards the man sat at a table. 
3. CUT TO, over the shoulder shot of the girl approaching the man sat at the table. 
4. CUT TO, high angle close up shot if girl picking up the cup and saucer and turning away.
5. CUT TO, close up and pan out to high angle shot of girl walking away.
6. CUT TO, point of view shot of girl walking away.
7. CUT TO , shot reverse shot between the man and the girl walking away.
8. CUT TO, tracking shot of mans feet getting up and starting to walk.
9. CUT TO, low angle shot of man approaching the door.
10. CUT TO, close up shot of man bolting the door shut.
11. CUT TO, panning shot of man standing in the shadows/hiding behind the counter. 
12. CUT TO, point of view shot of girl walking towards the door.
13. CUT TO, medium close up shot of girl trying to find her keys with the man stepping into the shot just behind her in the shadows un-noticed.
14. CUT TO, black screen with the title on and fade into a medium close up shot of a wall of photos of the girl.