Planning of final peice.

In the process of planning our final peice we decided to draw a story board to clearly show each scene of our final peice without going into too much detail which may get confusing. We used three A3 papers, one for thriller hybrid ideas, one for the story board and one for the overall plan, which icludes things like ideas for the setting, camera angles, acting, editing, where we got our inspiration from and the main storyline.

iMovie Editing Preliminary shots

By right clicking on the clips it brings up a list of options, doing this it will let you choose play options, cut, copy , splt, detach audio and trimming options. we did alot of detaching of audio and trimmed most of our clips, which helped the entire peice flow alot smoother once we had added our own music and sound effects over the top.


This yellow line which surrounds the selected clip appears once you have clicked and dragged
your cursor, you can change the size of this selected area and by selecting it like this it allows you to delete parts of the clip, on the screen in the right top hand corner (the video view) it will show you in a larger form what it is you are about to delete, dragging this yellow box will change what your viewing on the video view to what you have selected below.

The green lines that are shown below the small clips represends the sound that you have attached to each individual clip, imovie provides many diffrent sound effects you can choose from, we found some great ones that helped to set the mood for our clip and add tension and intensifiying the atmosphere.

When you first open the iMovie program, this is what your opening screen is, its basically just an overview of everything, it shows you all the clips you've taken. At the bottom half of the screen are all the clips we were using for our preliminary tast to create out final peice, and in the top left of the screen, and in the top right is the box which shows a preview of what the final peice would look like. The main video view helps editing because you can see clearly how each clip would look with the editing used.

Preliminary Task.

Preliminary task.

Thriller timeline

Types of thriller.

Mystery Thrillers
Mystery thrillers are a sub-genre of the more general category of crime film. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of a crime by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction.
Eg. Shutter island..

Crime Thrillers
Crime thrillers are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies. Eg. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation..

Psychological Thrillers
Psycohological thrillers are a specific sub-genre of the wide-ranging thriller genre. However, this genre often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre. Also, occasionally this genre will border into the also wide-ranging horror genre. Eg. The Confessional..

Political thriller

A political thriller is a thriller that is set against the backdrop of political power struggle. They usually involve various plots, rarely legal, designed to give political power to someone, while his opponents try to stop him from getting it. They can involve national or international political scenarios. World War II is a favorite scenario, as are US presidential elections. E.g JFK..

What is a thriller?

Thriller is a genre of literature, film and television that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenres of thrillers are: mystery, crime and psycological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the Hitchcock’s movies.