Props

Butchers Knife-
We are usuing a butchers knife as the murder weapon in 'The Intruder' as it is much bigger than other knives we had access to so it would show up better on the camera and would catch the light from behind the Intruder coming from the bathroom. 
The Butchers knife was also used as the murder weapon because it gives the Intruder the title of a 'butcher'. He not only kills his victims, he butchers them. This plays on the audience's mind, and leaves them thinking after the opening of Intruder has finished. It diminishes his previous and future victims as labels them animals. It shows that he really is evil and was intended for the audience to become nervous as to what else he could do in the rest of Intruder. 

The Bracelet-


An intertextual reference to the Heavenly Creatures where Pauline and Juliet kill Pauline's mother after she tries to end their obsessive relationship. The girls take her mother for a walk in the forest and place a jewel on the route so that she bends down and picks it up, making it easier for the girls to kill her. Similarly in Intruder, he places the bracelet on the floor of the flat so she sees it and bends down to pick it up, leaving her in a vulnerable position making it easier for the intruder to kill her.  

Shot Types

I want to take shots of Jo's and the Intruder's feet walking away from the camera. The camera will cut quickly from her walking to his feet building the suspense and tension up amongst the audience. This is similar to Alfred Hitchcock's 'Strangers on a Train' where the whole of the opening two minutes are shots of the two men's feet cutting from one to the other. The fact that you can only see the intruder's feet also builds tension as it is mysterious as no one knows who it is..

The shot of the Intruder's feet is the first proper shot where the audience can attempt to work out what sort of a person he is. He is wearing heavy duty boots such as those worn on a construction site. From this the audience can anticipate that he is a fairly big built, tall man who is fit.
The lighting will be from the ceiling going down towards their feet. This can be aruged to be chiaroscuro lighting as it creates a very 'moody' and dim effect. It juxtaposes the location as it is a very modern block of flats. This is ambiguous to the audience and will make them unsure as to what will happen.
I will shoot the feet usuing a low angled camera angle similar to that in Strangers on a Train. This way it shows only the feet and legs not entirely giving away the identity of the Intruder which builds supsense and fear amoungst the audience. The low camera angle also makes the audience feel vulnerable as their vision is almost floor level. The low camera angle makes the victim in Thriller films accessible. For example in Heavenly Creatures, they got Juliet's mum low to the floor by putting a jewel for her to pick up, this left her in a vulnerable position and easy for her to be targeted.  

Reference to Heavenly Creatures

The intruder is going to put down the bracelet or watch in her living room so that she sees it and picks it up, making it easier to kill her. This is an intertextual reference from Heavenly Creatures when the two girls place the precious stone on the walk that their mother was going to take so that she's pick it up and while she was crouching down, they would kill her by repeatedly hitting her in the head with a brick. 



He takes the bracelet again which suggests he is going to use it on his next victim. This is simliar to Luther (a BBC crime/thriller) as the taxi driver murderer took a necklace from his victim. It can also be compared to Thorne;Sleepyhead where the killer takes a necklace from his first victim, and uses it on his second to entice her, making her think he wanted a relationship.

Audience Profile

    The audience for my thriller film will be 18-30 year old females. They will go to university and study psychology or criminology and will aspire to become a psychologist specialising in criminal profiling or a police officer within forensics. Therefore the thriller genre is important to them as they enjoy using what they have learnt to figure out what is going to happen in the film. They enjoy the more psychological thriller films as they think that the less-obvious crimes are more interesting to work out.
   I found out that this demographic will most enjoy my thriller film from the questionnaire in which I carried out over Christmas. I also found out that these are the people most likely to watch films at independent cinemas such as CinemaCity. Picturehouse cinemas are also situated in University towns therefore there is a lot of opportunity for students to watch independent films such as my own.
   The audience for Intruder are most likely to watch television series such as Silent Witness, Luther, The Killing and Spooks. They also read crime books such as Lee Child, Patricia Cornwell and Steig Larsson helping them to build up their knowledge of cases whether fiction or not.

Demographic

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