Vantage Point Trailer

We based our assasination of the President on the film Vantage Point in which the President is also assasinated, we decided that using a similar style would work effectively in our thriller and we also extracted the idea of shifty looks from the audience to use.

Presidents speech

For our thriller idea our Russian president is delivering a speech to audiences of Russia, we based our idea around President Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address in the layout and proceedings of the speech.

Although the speech would be in Russian with English subtitles we researched previous Presidents speeches and created the dialouge for the President to deliver and created enough dialouge to last through our opening. We will be using short cuts from the speech so we will not need much of the speech but we have created the whole one. The film is is about the threat of nuclear war between USA and the Soviet Union and much of the speech was taken from JFK's actual speech of the internet.

'My people of Russia, I speak today not of peace, but of the threat of the new face of war. In an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. In an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all of the allied air forces in the Second World War. In sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by the wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations unborn. Today, good people, I fear that Russia is threatened by the age of these forces, and I am not prepared to give in to this fear, so I propose we stand up to the countries suppressing us, we stand up to those who impose on our dominance, and we strike back to regain our rightful place as the leading country of the new age. Russia, will be great again.'

Set design

For our idea we need to create a set which looks like an official presidents podeum on which he would give speeches from. We created a prop list of what we would need and created an image of the set design:





We also made a props list on powerpoint so we could easily see what we would need to get to create the authentic look for the president:

Our groups StoryBoard and Pre-planning

Shutter Island Opening

We watched Shutter Island in media class today to get a good example of the opening two minutes of a thriller. The opening was informative and a good characteristic of a thriller as it incorporated crime, guns, danger and a sense of the unknown just from the opening. It is a detective/crime film with Leonardo Di Caprio as a detective investigating the mentally challanged in a prision like facility located on an isolated island; this gives an added sense of danger as we are informed the boat is the only way on or off meaning there is no escaping and adding claustrophobia which are both common in the thriller genre. Although our thriller is not about detectives it was a good opening to extract ideas and characterists of thrillers from, which we can incorporate in ours.

New Idea for our Thriller

After discussing our initial idea with the class and teacher, we decided that the idea of the ‘Threader’ would not work effectively as an opening for a thriller and was not a good idea to continue with. We therefore had to try and create a new idea and after brain storming and discussing, we decided to try an assassination-like thriller and so tried to seek inspiration from other thrillers such as 'Day of the Jackal', and also inspiration from Kennedy’s speech as our new idea is about a president’s assassination. The new basic idea is to have the President of Russia assassinated while making a speech, by a sniper assassin who we will cross cut with the assassin, we are beginning storyboarding and planning the idea.