Film Synopsis

The film opens with our main character Alex, a nomal student walking home, his usual route goes past the phone box, but today is far from usual, the phone box rings, hesitant at first he walks over and cautiously answers, all he can hear is brething from the other end. He gives up andputs the phone donw. For the rest of the night e doent giveit a second tought, assuming its just some kids prank calling. It's a gloomy night. As alex walks home he listens to his music, oblivious to the fact that he's big watched.

As he walks home the night becomes darker until it's pitch blck, but he gets gome to find the door open.This doesn't phase Alex as he realises his parents have probably just left the door open so he thinks nothing of it. He takes is coat and shoes off and walks upstairs at the precise moment a masked figure appears at the window. He goes upstairs to pour himself a glass of water, leaving the tap running he walks across the landing, the light flickers quickly on and off bringing thr masked figure into view. he climbs into bed and goes to sleep. He is then woken up later by his phone ringing, again he thinks nothing of no-one being on the other end. He goes back to sleep only to be woken up by he light rapidly flickering on and off and standing opposite him the masked character wielding an axe. (This is our three minute thriller opening, and now this is  vague outline fo the rest ofthe movie)

Alex is captured after a struggle in his house, he has a broken leg. He is bound and gagged and trown into the back of a truck. He travels for hours and finally comes to a stop. He is thrown into a small cell like room. He is questioned for days. None of the questions ever make sense. They are in the same lnguage but mean nothing to him. After a few days there is noise. He is grabbed again, leg still broken he is dragged across the floor and outside into the burning sunlight. He blacks out.

He wakes up to a nurse standing over him. After a few days of recovery he is sat down in front of the police. They need his help to raid the main base of the people who captured him, the are people known as the resistance Alex, is told to compare this to the antagonists in Fight Club. The reason they need Alex is because he should know the layout of the base. He claims to know nothing but the people say they can access his subconcious to find any thoughts. As he agrees they take him to a room and strap him in the chair, they anesthatise him.

He wakes up to the seemingly startled faces of the scientists. "Did you find anything?" Alex asks."Yes, but not what we were hoping for" he replies. "Oh?" "Yes, it would seem that we found out the leader of the group, which may help us just as much" "And?" "It's you..."

Location update:

Location:

We plan on having two major locations for our filming. One will be a setting with a phone box, and this will be set in the village of Drayton. The other will be the house scene, and we have chosen Ben Shaw’s house ion Drayton, as we are hoping it will create the effect of filming we are hoping for.

Phone Box Scene: we have chosen this scene to hopefully create a sense of isolation, and it features a phone box which is pivotal to our thriller opening.

Picture:  

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House scene: we are hoping that this location will allow suspense to feature throughout as we can use multiple shots in his house. Around bens house there is also a lot of lampposts, and so this also made the location desirable as it is a typical thriller convention.

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Soundtrack

We have added a new piece of music to be included in our soundtrack, it is called 'piano suspense', and we are hoping it will keep the audience on the edge of their seat because it creates an element of suspense - as it is slow in tempo and eery. This piece of music will appear just after Alex closes the house door, and will finish just before he picks up his mobile phone. 

Transition

Opening scene


Alex walking, alone, past the telephone box. (Approx. 15 seconds long)

Phone ringing (Approx. 5 seconds long)

Phone answered by Alex (Approx 10 seconds long)

Hanging up, Ed seen in background (Approx 10 seconds long)

Entering the house


Alex walking towards the house (Approx. 15 seconds long)

Alex entering the house, Ed seen in background (Approx. 10 seconds long)

Alex walking inside into the living room (Approx. 10 seconds long)

Final scene


Alex walking upstairs and into the bathroom, Tom seen in background (approx. 15 seconds long)

Alex entering bedroom, and going into bed (Approx. 10 seconds long)

Phone ringing, and then answered (Approx. 10 seconds long)

Phone hung up, Tom seen in background by light flickering (Approx. 15 seconds long)


Total Approx 120 seconds long

Location - Phone Box

My group of Me, Ed, Tom and Ben have each been assigned a task to write about. My task is location. We have chosen to film in Thorpe Marriott as it is fairly local, especially for Me, Alex and Ben. We know the area well and we know that we can make the most of the surroundings.

Our opening will be filmed in Thorpe Marriott, and we will be using the telephone box located next to the local park. Our main character will be seen inside the telephone box and the evil character will be seen in the background, across the road standing next to a tree.

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If you follow this link then you will see the location of the phone box. We are planning to have Ed standing on the left side of the road, which will mean that he will be in the background of the shot. The location of the phone box is perfect as it is on a long road, so we can film Alex walking down towards the phone box, and this will make the audience feel isolated as there will be little people around.

Our character will then be filmed walking towards his house and we will film some parts of his journey. Some of the places which our character will be seen walking is down Marriots Way, Pendlesham Rise and Kingswood Avenue, all in Thorpe Marriott.

Our character will then approach his house. The house we are using is Ben Shaws house, which is located in Drayton. Our character will then enter the house and we will shoot some footage of him in some of the rooms of the house. The final scene of our film will be in Ben's house.

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