By Jordan Drinkwater Max Bloor Andre Heron Edward Robinson

Stock characters

-Criminals

-Characters with dark pasts

Stock narrative

-Kidnapping

-Shooting takes place

- A deal struck between characters

Iconography

-A gun

-Sunglasses

Stock setting

-Busy shopping centre

- Car park

- Secluded place

•Man in the boot of car - man shuts the boot.

• Cut to person who shut boot, receives text about his next job - needs help.

•Arrives at job, shot in back by a relative of man in the boot.

•Relative - “how could you of done this, he trusted you with his life”.

• Smoke- taken back, leads up to event.

•Finally - Steve and Mark before job that will change there lives.

•Character change – leads to event.

•characters change in ideas towards one another.

•Argument – characters go separate ways.

•Months later – Mark, told to kidnap Steve.

•Mark confronts Steve – told him how they will both die if job not done (Steve's kidnapping.)

• We are taken back in time to show the scene before the flash back.

• Mark is able to escape from Darren.

• This is then followed by a fight scene which takes place between the two and mark comes out on top.

• Mark then explains how he did not want to do what he did and how he will seek revenge for the three of them on his employer.

•Steve O’Brian

•Aged 27.

•In our opening we will show him in the trunk of a car.

• Mysterious character.

• Left unknown until later on in the film as to why he is in trunk.

• Kidnapper explains events that takes us back a year.

•Steve’s past is then revealed gradually as the film progresses.

• Mark hunter:

• Aged 29.

• Mark is the main protagonist.

• Mark carries out the kidnapping and we are able to see him shutting the trunk at the beginning.

• Throughout the film mark’s dark past is portrayed.

• He is controversially shot by Steve O’Brian’s relative.

• Darren O’Brian:

• Aged 34.

• Darren is the cousin of Steve O’Brian (the man in the trunk.)

• He is rarely shown in our film.

• Darren during the film shoots Mark and asks him “how could you have done this” which refers back to Mark kidnapping his cousin Steve.

• The average target audience for a thriller is normally around 15+. However there are

12 rated films that are also thrillers.

•Our film is going to be a 15 as it contains adult themes which are inappropriate for children such as gun usage, kidnapping and violence.

Harry brown:£7,300,000

Law Abiding Citizen: $40,000,000

Here are a few budgets of other popular thrillers..

Signs:$72,000,000

Butterfly effect:$13,000,000

High priced thrillersMedium priced thrillers

Inception:$160,000,000

The Dark night: $250,000,000Snatch:£6,000,000

Layer cake:£4,000,000

For our film :£6,500,000

•A possible production company for our film is ‘Film4 productions’.

This is because ‘Film4 productions’ mainly produce low to medium budget films and this is what we are aiming for.

Film4 have produced films such as:

•Attack The Block

•The Inbetweeners Movie

•Wuthering Heights