Idea development

 Initially, my first idea was to film in a woods or forest as I thought that location fitted a thriller opening scene best, as a forest gives off the feel of the conventions of a thriller e.g. Scary, mystery, anything can happen. However after my research and watching a few thriller openings I realised that filming in a woods isn't the best idea as it is quite genereic and can be difficult to film in the woods as lighting and sound is not the best. After I did my location scout I found that filming in an empty room where the lighting, sound and space would be perfect and would still suit the conventions of a thriller, especially with the props we used. We also used an antagonist character as it is key to have one in a thriller because it also fits the conventions of a thriller. We used camera shots and angles that we had seen been used in the thrillers that we analysed, this was too make sure the audience knows that the main genre was a thriller. We also needed to make sure we made a thriller opening and not a trailer , therefore we decided to leave it on a cliff hanger and make the audience think how the ending happened and what was going to happen next. My survey that I made and got answers to also helped with finding my target audience, this made it easier to film our thriller as we knew what to film that our audience would like.