My original ideas behind my Thriller

From my persepective, there are three ways to make a great thriller, these three things are not what makes a thriller but personally what should be included to make a thriller successful.

1) Dialogue:

Dialogue is by far one of the best features of any extraordinary film due to its effect on the audience and ability to create tension and suspense between characters. For example, Pulp Fiction is a long stream of perfectly written dialogue. The script is written in such a way that throughout the film that the dialogue does not give the effect of being informative, instead the film is portrayed to the audience as being a sequence of events. The very idea that watching a film should be like watching extracts from potentially real events, is what most films miss out on having, I believe that most modern thrillers are instead seen more as being a story which leads from A to B. This simple story technique does not allow the audience to truly emerse themselves within the plot-line and therefore does not allow the audience to see any form of tension of suspense.

2) The Camera Angles:

A film of course work with a well written script, but without a visual aspect, I doubt many people would watch or appreciate the film. And so came about the unintentional invention of camera angles and shots. The visual side to films sadly dominates the audio side, and therefore films like Avatar can entertain an audience with beautiful scenes whilst having a script and storyline equal to the conversations shared between children and toys at a lonely teddy bare tea party.

Certain shots are what create amazing films, within Animal Kingdom, there is one scene were the Josh (the main character) is standing in a hallway, he has a blank emotionless look on his face and slowly looks behind him to see the police run from one side to the other of the hallway. This shot stuck with me because it not only uses an amazing angle but it also utilised the characters facial expressions to adapt the imagery of the shot.

Another amazing shot is in fact Quinten Tarantino's commonly used 'Car boot shot' which is used in 'Reservoir Dogs', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Jackie Brown', 'Kill Bill' and 'Death Proof'. The angle of the camera is placed in a car boot and looks up towards one or more other characters, the camera symbolises somebody within the car and it portrays the characters above not only as being dominant but also as being deviant. This shot is also used in 'Inglorious Basterds' but from the forest floor instead of a car boot.

3) The Actors:

The largest effect on how people perceive a film is the actors playing each part. The way an actor looks and acts can change the script entirely, for example if Bill Murray was born with a less glum looking face but the same acting abilities, then groundhog say would of been seen in a less humorous way. 

All great films have had great actors flourish from them, this is because these certain actors are good at the role they played, for example Hugh Grant is not inept because he knows that his best suiting role is as a british romantic. If he were to try and star in another awful Hulk film, yes it would be funny, but he would not pull off the role successfully.

I have decided that I shall base my thriller upon some of if not all of these three rules... I shall also jazz up the name of the rules so that I may add another small glimpse of hope to the world of potential media success. The Three Filming Forms, seems like a fitting name and now I shall decide how to utilise each 'Form' within my 2 minutes of thriller filming.

1) Dialogue normally slowly builds over time, and if there is one thing we are not given it is time. To have a two minute scene of dialogue would show that we understood about the 180 degree rule, but it would show no real talent with a camera, merely scripting.

2) If we have already ruled out the idea of complex and well written dialogue then we shall add more effect upon the actors and camera angles.

3) If we are to use camera angles then we must show skill without danger, I will most likely wrack my brains for several days before concluding that in fact my mind is a barrel of hope and that I understand millions of never before shot scenes.

4) With good scenes a plot must be amazing, or at least as amazing as a plot can be within 2 minutes.

5) Actors, if we are intending on using actors that fit the roles then we would most likely need a stern looking man with a strong jawbone etc... I personally believe that this is to mainstream and that if anything we should have someone who doesn't fit the role and then adapt them so that the stereotype we are fighting is what makes this character not only fit the role well but also work better than the stern man.

6) The stereotype shall be that of a young female doing what a male character would usually do within thriller films.

7) Finally we need to link both the character and camera with the idea of suspense and tension, this is because the Three Filming Forms (I really wanted to say it again) are created to fit any film, not just thrillers, in order to create a thriller we must add in thriller features as well.

8) With the previous 7 steps followed to some level of success we should have the basic structure to our Three Filming Forms Thriller...