The motifs of our thriller, props, actors and costumes

The motifs of our thriller, props, actors and costumes (Propps and actors clip)

Costumes-We managed to keep our costumes close to what we originally decided. Smart causal wear for leaving sixth form and party outfits for the party scene. I was originally going to wear a dress but ended up wearing a skirt, this was adapted on the script as we went along. Props and actors -We originally decided to audition a cast for our thriller but in the end this seemed to complicated as they may have not been available for the days we needed to film and also we would need them on demand as re shooting would have needed to be scheduled also. With this in mind we cast ourselves and our friends, this seemed sensible as we were always available to film and we knew the script and our idea so could make it look how we had visualised. The props used had to be placed in a location and not moved as otherwise things would look displaced if they had jumped to a different place and this would ruin the continuity of our thriller. We made sure the script was correct for the props being used as vodka and coke was originally scripted but we used Malibu and pineapple instead, so quickly adapted the script to suit. Motifs-We have two motifs in our thriller to fit in with the codes and conventions of a thriller. The dullness and darkness of the setting should empathises that something bad with happen, but or main two motifs are when Maddie walks across the road and nearly gets run over and the picture of her and Rose in which her face is cut out. The aim of these is to show the audience that something bad is going to happen to the character Maddie as we have the foreshadowing of her death being portrayed. In the end she dies because of her friend Rose, but in the film irony is created as Rose is the one saving her from the car and with her in the picture. This irony hopefully tricks the audience into thinking Rose would never harm Maddie, we mislead the audience with this and also the bloody hand (they see my bloody hands, then Maddie’s on a tree but they don’t know who’s hand it is and then back to my hands, this may lead to them believing it was my hand upon the tree), all building up to a twist and we have emphasised the closeness of the two characters with shots of them walking together.

By Jordan Gale