Thriller Task: Timeline

This is our timeline for our thriller.

The first part of the opening titles are going to consist of mainly long shots of the area and abandoned building. This is where the first titles will appear.

The second part of the titles will feature slow pans through the building corridors and rooms. This will help to give a mysterious feel about the setting which  makes the audience feel uncomfortable because anything could happen around the corner.

The third bit of the titles will to introduce you to the protagonist in a room. The actors name will appear on the screen. It will then show his survival gear and then his family photo. We are only going to feature quick 1 to 3 second long, close-up shots of the items because we don't want everything to be too obvious and to be too boring.

The next section of the titles will show the man standing with his back to the wall and the vehicle driving up to the building. The soldiers will exit the car and will move up and through the building. The shots will again be close-ups of the man, soldiers and the vehicle.

The final part of the titles will show the business man entering the room and picking up the photo. A car engine will be heard in the distance and a shot will show a dead driver on the floor with the car driving off in the distance. The shots will still consist of close-ups of certain parts of the props and the business man's face. The screen will go black and show the title 'On The Run' in a torn/damaged typography.

Linking this to another film

The reason that we have chosen to do this genre (Action/Thriller) is because it shows a deserted and quite location drastically change to a loud and lively place. For example in our film we will have a hidden place with abandoned building that the man will be hiding and from out of nowhere there will be a truck pull up with men wearing all black with guns to hunt down the man. 

I would link our film opening to 'Guns of Navarone 1961' because it shows a quite abandoned temple that has been left in ruins because it has had war or a gun fight and has left the area in a bad way and now is damaged because of what has happened in the past.  It is not the same as ours but it shows how quite places can change in such a short period of time.