Characters

On our storyboard we have portrayed our victim as a typical blind man, however now I have had the idea of making it clear our victim has suffered from a recent injury, causing him to have problems with his sight. To show this we will have to wrap a bandage around his head and eyes so the audience realise what has happened, and that he hasn't always had problems with his sight. This would make him more vulnerable as he wouldn't be use to living without his sight and more at risk to danger. This will be shown when he doesn't lock his front door properly, giving the antagonist an easier way to strike.

Antagonists are usually extremely intelligent, and have experienced a tragedy themselves which has caused he or she to become the antagonist. This means they don't always start out as killers, or evil people, telling us they will have the same everyday look everybody else has. To give our antagonist an eerie look, we are only going to film from his perspective or him from behind. By not showing his face the audience will fear him more. We want the antagonist to be portrayed in that way to create more of an atmosphere for the audience. We want to bulk out our character so he appears bigger than he actually is, and dress him in dark clothing, so he isn't distracting and is seen to be creeping about.

Props list

We have discussed a few props we would like to use, these are :

• Joe's car
• Newspaper cuttings
• Four canes (blind peoples sticks)
• A tea towel
• Scissors and glue

We have no major concerns when it comes to hazards with these particular props. However, we have decided to use a carving knife. With this, we realise it could be a risk to us and others around us if we are not extremely careful. Plus, people around us may not realise we are using it as a prop and cause them psychological harm. On various costume websites we have found butcher and mechete knives at a reasonable price. We will be looking further into this to see if we can find a suitable replacement.

Sound Plan

Diagetic sounds we are planning to use: Breathing, train pulling in, sound of the train doors opening/closing, train pulling away, a knife being sharpened, sound of a road (the blind man will be outside a doctors surgery during the day), slamming his front door, and walking towards his car.

Non-diagetic sounds we are planning to use: Tense music/minor keys - We have found a suitable track on youtube called 'Tension music", there is no copyright on it. We have also found "Three blind mice" on youtube, this also have no copyright and lasts 29 seconds.

Editing Script

The majority of cuts we have planned to do will be matched cuts. We have chosen shot number 16 to use a fade, to show the antagonists car disappearing. We are now considering credits, and have added five black screens to our storyboard, these will have titles on them.

Props List

Here is a list of props we intend to use for our opening of our thriller

• Our fellow group member joe cam drive so we will use his car for the scenes with the antagonist in. We must make sure that the car remains in the same condition with the same items in the car and also to ensure the time of day and the lighting is the same so the scenes flow correctly

• Our main weapon for this thriller opening is going to be a butchers type calving knife as its quite a brutal weapon which could indicate that violence is to come. It also links with the non diagetic music we plan to use "Three Blind Mice"

• We intend to use newspaper cuttings of blind people to show the antagonists obsession with killing blind victims, this draws the audience in as they wonder what hes planning on doing with these cut outs.

• We are using scissors to cut out the newspaper cuttings and gives a good diagetic sound.

Music idea

this is some ideal tense music for the beginning if our thriller.

Group idea

We want to incorporate the nursery rhyme 'Three Blind Mice'. So the story line is that there is a killer who is after blind people. In his house he has pictures of blind people in his house, It then switches to his victim getting off a train then back to he then fetches a carving knife from his drawer, he also has collected previous blind peoples sticks and keeps them in the corner also shows him sharpening his knife. Then it switches to another blind person getting driven home, again it switches to the killer putting his black gloves on. Finally it sees a blind person walking out of newport surgery. Lastly it shows the killer putting his shoes on getting in the car, then the song Three Blind Mice comes on his radio and the clips end...