As a group we discussed what we'd like our thriller opening to be like, this meant we discussed locations, props, characters, shot types, mise en scene and setting. We decided to not reveal the killers identity but to have her in the opening wearing red because of the connotations that go with it, passion, lust, blood, anger and love. We decided to emphasize the red by having black and white as the only other colours. The back and white background also gave the film a gloomy dark feel which is in keeping in line with the idea of a thriller. The main way we decided to set the scene and story was to show a newspaper with "killer strikes" on the front cover. This was a good way because it is an obvious enigma that gets the people watching interested
We decided to set a few enigmas, not only did we decide to have the killer in our opening but we decided to have other characters as as well, by having extreme close up shots on parts of the face or on the back of their head we kept an enigma. We introduced the characters with multiple narratives most featured a newspaper with killer strikes on the front, we decided most of the characters should act shocked or drop something to give a sense of an uneasy town with a murderer about.
We are going to set the mise en scene through a variety of methods for the kitchen shot we will have a sink and jars of jam etc in the background, for the office in the school the character will be dressed as a teacher. We used generic conventions for a thriller such as using enigmas, using black and white, showing emotions using red to connote blood, passion, death, anger, a knife dipped in jam in the kitchen scene connoting a knife dripping in blood or a knife being dropped after a murder.
