Intro to production brief

Today was our first introduction to media. We were told that we would be doing a three minute clip of an opening sequence of a thriller movie, including titles, aimed at a 15 or 18 certificate audience for our final project. A thriller movie is a movie depicting crime, mystery or spying in an atmosphere or excitement and suspense. We discussed the different themes of thrillers which include: crime, spies, chase or quest, enigmas and puzzles to be solved, conspiracy, suspense, assassination, terrorism and lone figure against the system. We discussed how thrillers aren’t gory like horrors but contain some of the same elements like suspense, murder etc. Thrillers usually contain some kind of mystery, although when a mystery climaxes when the crime is solved a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the life’s of others.