Account of research sources that you considered/used and what they taught you

When we began to form our thriller concept there were several sources which I considered for our idea.

One of the sources which influenced our thriller was the movie, American Psycho. American Psycho’s use of casting, and atmosphere provided a very vivid insight into the mind of a killer. These effects provided the basic concept for our ‘bad’ guy, even though our mise en scene does was not going to match at all with the urban location which American Psycho is set, we did plan that the cold, shady, and dead forest were we did set our shoot would create a grey lifeless attitude to the thriller as the city did with American Psycho.

The series, Dexter, provided wonderful resource because of their use of camera shots and how making the actors move from the right side of the shot to the left makes the audience feel uncomfortable about the sequence as usually we would have the actors on the left moving to the right.

When we began researching for music for our thriller I came across a song named “the red violin” it provided the basis for the death sequence to be sad rather than overwhelmingly chaotic and horrific. We might not use music like it for our thriller however it did provide a glimpse into the more miserable side to a thriller sequence.